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Thomas du Toit’s ready for Afo Fasogbon challenge

23 March 2025 0 comments

By Jon Newcombe Thomas Du Toit has taken a keen interest in the development of another player who’ll be wearing No.3 today, Gloucester’s 6ft 4ins […]

Marcus Smith will come back bouncing, says Danny Wilson

23 March 2025 0 comments

By Gary Fitzgerald Danny Wilson insists Marcus Smith will “come bouncing back” into The Stoop ready to light up the Premiership and Europe after giving […]

The future looks bright for versatile players – Danny Care

23 March 2025 0 comments

By Ben Jaycock Super sub Danny Care built a 100-cap England career off the back of impacts from the bench but says that in the […]

Jeremy Guscott’s British and Irish Lions XV – Maro Itoje has the respect to be captain

23 March 2025 0 comments

By Jeremy Guscott – Outspoken and unmissable every week This Lions selection is based on players who are in form and have stated their case […]

Newcastle Falcons 15-39 Sale Sharks: George Ford leads from the front for sharp Sale

23 March 2025 0 comments

By Luke Jarmyn Newcastle Falcons ……..15pts Tries: Neild 21, Palframan 80 Conversion: Connon 22 Penalty: Connon 32 Sale Sharks ………………… 39pts Tries: Rodd 9, R […]

Tom Curry wins my Six Nations True Grit award

23 March 2025 0 comments

By Nick Cain The “True Grit” award for the 2025 Six Nations has to go to Tom Curry. I will admit to being one […]

Christophe Ridley deserves credit for England’s scrum

23 March 2025 0 comments

The data-driven fanfare for England’s scrum after the Six Nations is overblown, especially when you consider much of it is based on how many penalties […]

British and Irrish Lions facing Pacific Island side is a terrific move that will spread the love

23 March 2025 0 comments

By Chris Hewett A few weeks ago, this column reached the startling conclusion that despite masses of evidence to the contrary, the words “rugby” and […]

United Rugby Championship: Harri Millard snatches it for Cardiff

23 March 2025 0 comments

By Roger Panting Cardiff ……………20pts Tries: Donnell 21, Millard 63 Conversions: Sheedy 21, 63 Penalties: Sheedy 31, 50 Lions………………. 17pts Tries: Ntlabakanye 11, F Horn […]

Laughton signed the best

23 March 2025 0 comments

NEVER in the once troubled conflict between the codes can anyone have made life so uncomfortably hot for the RFU and WRU than a plumbing […]

Sale maul Lions and survive a dogged fightback

23 March 2025 0 comments

■By HOLLY DAISY Leicester L …… 31 Sale FC…………..37 SALE held off a second-half fightback from the Leicester Lions to secure a bonus point victory. […]

No sympathy as Darlo crushed

23 March 2025 0 comments

■By JON MEADOWS B Moseley …………..69 Darlington MP …….14 WITH their relegation from National One confirmed, it was a depleted Darlington squad that travelled to […]

ISAAC KELLER

23 March 2025 0 comments

YOUNG GUNS NEWCASTLE FALCONS PROP Isaac Keller has a checklist of achievements he wants to make in the game over the next 12 months. Germany-born […]

British and Irish Lions will face indigenous and Pacific team on Australian tour

20 March 2025 0 comments

The British and Irish Lions will face a team with indigenous and Pacific heritage during their 2025 tour, Rugby Australia has confirmed. The match against […]

PODCAST (S4, E27): Six Nations 2025 Review and picking our British & Irish Lions XV

18 March 2025 0 comments

What a Super Saturday to close what’s been a truly fantastic edition of the Six Nations! Drama, superb tries and headlines typified what’s been two […]

Six Nations: England’s demolition crew roar like Lions

16 March 2025 0 comments

Adam Hathaway in Cardiff England head coach Steve Borthwick saw Maro Itoje lead from the front in this 68-14 demolition of Wales – then tipped […]

England’s three-card trick comes up trumps in Six Nations finale

16 March 2025 0 comments

Paul Rees England have long been advised to use their heads and how they did as they turned what was expected to be a cauldron […]

Six Nations: France in seventh heaven

16 March 2025 0 comments

By Bryn Palmer France………………. 35pts Tries: Moefana 18, 62; Bielle-Biarrey 43, Ramos 57 Conversions: Ramos 18, 44, 58 Scotland ………… 16pts Penalties: Ramos 4, 26, […]

Let me tell you a secret (…but keep it quiet)

16 March 2025 0 comments

HISTORIC! Momentous! Unique! Extraordinary! You know it’s a British and Irish Lions year when the word “extraordinary” fails to secure a place on the podium […]

No Grand Slam is good for the British and Irish Lions

16 March 2025 0 comments

No Grand Slam for anybody this year … but that might be a decent omen for the Lions. In the last 50 years there have […]

Lions take a large leap to securing survival

16 March 2025 0 comments

■By JOE SANTAMARIA Esher ……………… 15pts Tries: Vajner 15, Walters 48 Conversion: Morley 49 Penalty: Morley 38 Leicester Lions…26pts Tries: Allen 24, 33; Crowley 36, […]

Louw agrees deal with Sale

16 March 2025 0 comments

SALE Sharks have signed South African centre Marius Louw on a two-year deal from the Lions. Louw, 29, said: “It’s such a prestigious club with […]

Liam Belcher: Cardiff are heading in the right direction

16 March 2025 0 comments

By Simon Thomas By his own admission, it’s been a nightmare season for Liam Belcher so far, but now the Cardiff skipper is looking to […]

King’s rally to take the honours

16 March 2025 0 comments

by Tom Jeffreys King’s Glouc……29 King Edward’s..16 KING’S School, Gloucester staged a stunning second-half comeback to beat King Edward’s School, Birmingham and win the Vase. […]

PODCAST (S4, E26): France target Six Nations title and Wales target England scalp with Alex Cuthbert

12 March 2025 0 comments

After a cracking weekend of rugby in which the championship tilted in French favour following their stunning win in Dublin, Ollie Little, Brendan Gallagher and […]

Jack Boyle – Ireland’s future front row star

10 March 2025 0 comments

By Pete Ryan You won’t find a position quite like the prop in any sport. It is a position defined by toughness, strength, and determination. […]

Six Nations stock Risers and Fallers: Ireland the biggest losers after missing huge Grand Slam opportunity

10 March 2025 0 comments

It was another brilliant weekend of Six Nations action, in which France climbed up to pole position with one round to go, after a huge […]

Ollie Lawrence out of Six Nations finale and fearing season-ending lay-off

10 March 2025 0 comments

Ollie Lawrence will miss England‘s Guinness Six Nations finale against Wales and could struggle to play again this season after suffering an Achilles injury during […]

Six Nations: Seven try England thump Italy at Twickenham

9 March 2025 0 comments

By Ethan Bents England piled on seven tries to secure a bonus point win and beat Italy in entertaining fashion at the Allianz Stadium. Ollie […]

Fit-again Josh Hodge keen to kick on with Exeter Chiefs

9 March 2025 0 comments

By Paul Rees Josh Hodge is getting a kick out of life at Exeter as the fullback looks to put himself in contention for England’s […]

Six Nations: Wales edge closer to unwanted record

9 March 2025 0 comments

By Peter Jackson At Murrayfield 70 years ago, Wales played the role of polite guests to perfection, enabling their supposedly hopeless hosts to end the […]

Dream Team – Josh McNally

9 March 2025 0 comments

Josh McNally, the Cardiff, RAF and former England, Bath, London Irish, London Welsh & Henley lock, chooses the best XV he has played with or […]

Dr Bill Mulcahy put his college on the map

9 March 2025 0 comments

Ireland lock Dr Bill Mulcahy will be remembered for many things not least being a rumbustious Ireland lock who also won six Lions caps while […]

Mali Satala try sums up top day for Leicester Lions

9 March 2025 0 comments

By Jean Bull Leicester Lions …. 75 Darlington MP …… 0 Leicester Lions kept their survival hopes alive with a dominant display of running rugby […]

Lions ready to fight for their lives, vows Polish star

9 March 2025 0 comments

By CONOR MCLARNON LEICESTER Lions’ Jordan Tebbatt is eager to get one over on his former side as the relegation-threatened club take on Sale FC […]

Kolisi’s double guides Sharks past the Lions

9 March 2025 0 comments

■By BEN JAYCOCK Attendance: 15,165 Referee: Morne Ferreira Half Time: 12-7 SIYA Kolisi led from the front and scored two tries in a fine display […]

Gloucester bring in Venter

9 March 2025 0 comments

GLOUCESTER have signed South African back row James Venter from the Durban-based Sharks. The 28-year-old began his career at Lions in Johannesburg before moving to […]

Larkham delight as Brumbies rule

9 March 2025 0 comments

By BEN JAYCOCK Try time: Declan Meredith dives over to score for Brumbies against Blues and, inset, head coach Stephen Larkham PICTURES: Getty Images BRUMBIES […]

Six Nations: Barnstorming Tom Curry shows Ben Earl how it should be done

2 March 2025 0 comments

By Adam Hathaway Being in England camp with Tom Curry has shown Ben Earl what a world class player looks like behind the scenes. Curry […]

Keep your powder dry, Ellis

2 March 2025 0 comments

ELLIS Genge has got a love-hate relationship with the media, with “out of touch” former players in particular getting his goat. The England loosehead seems […]

Jury’s out on Galthie’s collective approach

2 March 2025 0 comments

WHEN it comes to pivotal matches, Ireland’s clash with France in Dublin on Saturday has it all. It will dictate whether Ireland retain the Six […]

URC: Jack Walsh keeps his nerve as Ospreys down Glasgow Warriors

2 March 2025 0 comments

By Luke Jarmyn Glasgow ………… 31pts Tries: Mann 20, Schickerling 34, 40; Cordero 71, McBeth 78 Conversions: Weir 21, 40+1, 79 Ospreys ………….32pts Tries: Morse […]

Park quell Lions’ charge at the Rock

2 March 2025 0 comments

■By RHYS STRATTON Rosslyn Park………. 21 Leicester Lions….. 19 ROSSLYN Park eked out a narrow victory over Leicester Lions. The hosts shot out to an […]

England hit back at Rob Baxter’s criticism of Immanuel Feyi-Waboso’s treatment

27 February 2025 0 comments

England have rejected Exeter boss Rob Baxter‘s claim that Immanuel Feyi-Waboso’s shoulder surgery was delayed because there were no Rugby Football Union medics on duty […]

George Horne – The Forgotten Spark Scotland Needs to Ignite during the Six Nations

27 February 2025 0 comments

By Pete Ryan – @PeterRyanSports Scotland is an exciting team, a canvas rich with promise, still waiting for the final strokes of destiny. Gregor Townsend […]

Opinion: Finn Russell can’t miss out on the British & Irish Lions tour

24 February 2025 0 comments

By Charlie Elliott Many have claimed that Finn Russell’s last-gasp missed conversion means that he is no longer at the top of his game and won’t get selected by […]

England 16-15 Scotland: Fin Smith has diamonds on the soles of his shoes

23 February 2025 0 comments

By Nick Cain at Twickenham England …………………………16pts Try: Freeman 9 Conversion: M Smith 9 Penalties: M Smith 56, 67; F Smith 70 Scotland ……………………….15pts Tries: […]