All posts tagged "Lions"
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoShane puts his faith in the finger of fate…
FOR more than 60 years, Red Conway stood in a class all on his own: the only international player to undergo...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoShane puts his faith in the finger of fate…
FOR more than 60 years, Red Conway stood in a class all on his own: the only international player to undergo...
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National League One
/ 2 years agoTop man Taylor is saviour for hosts
By JON MEADOWS B Moseley...............27 Leicester Lions..... 10 MOSELEY went into the Christmas break on the back of a hard-fought victory....
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National League One
/ 2 years agoTop man Taylor is saviour for hosts
By JON MEADOWS B Moseley...............27 Leicester Lions..... 10 MOSELEY went into the Christmas break on the back of a hard-fought victory....
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National League One
/ 2 years agoTop man Taylor is saviour for hosts
By JON MEADOWS B Moseley...............27 Leicester Lions..... 10 MOSELEY went into the Christmas break on the back of a hard-fought victory....
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoNot all doom and gloom at Mowden Park, insists Craggs
By BEN JAYCOCK Survival mode: DMP flanker Joe Caggs DARLINGTON Mowden Park are heading into the New Year bottom of the...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoNot all doom and gloom at Mowden Park, insists Craggs
By BEN JAYCOCK Survival mode: DMP flanker Joe Caggs DARLINGTON Mowden Park are heading into the New Year bottom of the...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoNot all doom and gloom at Mowden Park, insists Craggs
By BEN JAYCOCK Survival mode: DMP flanker Joe Caggs DARLINGTON Mowden Park are heading into the New Year bottom of the...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoBill Beaumont named interim chairman at RFU as Tom Ilube resigns amid scandal
Sir Bill Beaumont has been appointed Rugby Football Union chairman on an interim basis following the resignation of Tom Ilube. Ilube...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoPromotion still needs too much hoop-jumping
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk I’m very pleased to...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoLeinster have got the best in Barrett
FOR reasons best known to themselves, the Irish rugby cognoscenti are still arguing the toss over the whys and wherefores of...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoLions outlast Pau in 80-point thriller
The Lions got off the mark in the Challenge Cup with a win against Section Paloise in a 10-try thriller that...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoOspreys crash to earth
■ By SIMON THOMAS Montpellier ................ 59pts Tries: Martins 11, DuGuid 15, Uelese 29, Coly 37, Akrab 43, Moustin 52, Cadot...
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Dream Team
/ 2 years agoDream Team – Peter Altham
PETER ALTHAM, THE FYLDE, LANCASHIRE AND FORMER WHARFEDALE AND PRESTON GRASSHOPPERS PROP, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR...
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National League One
/ 2 years agoSloot rescues the Club from Lions
■ By GRAHAM COX Blackheath.............22 Leicester Lions..... 19 NOAH Sloot’s try with just two minutes remaining rescued Blackheath from a calamitous...
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Features
/ 2 years agoYOUNG GUNS
KEALAN FREEMAN-PRICE GLOUCESTER HOOKER Kealan Freeman-Price recently made a bold switch from back row to hooker but the Gloucester forward is...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoEngland XV to host France
An England XV will host a France XV in an uncapped match at Twickenham on Saturday June 21 as a warm-up...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoSearches continue for missing former England wing Tom Voyce
Searches are continuing for the missing former England wing Tom Voyce, who is believed to have died while driving across a...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoJack Nowell: I’m loving life on and off the pitch at La Rochelle
By Brendan McGilligan As Jack Nowell stepped off the plane to start his La Rochelle career, he was stepping into the...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoMorgan returns to boost Ospreys
Preview Ospreys v Lions By BEN JAYCOCK Today. 3.15pm WINGER Keelan Giles brings up a century of Ospreys appearances today as...
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National League One
/ 2 years agoLions savour first back-to back wins
By JAKE WILSON Leicester L..............22 Dings......................... 15 THE Lions made it back-to-back wins for the first time this season in a...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoCall to double number of Lions tours
Podcast ■By CAMERON STEPHENS AUSTRALIAN rugby commentator Sean Maloney believes the British & Irish Lions tour should shift to touring every...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoRugby’s social media moments of the week
By Charlie Elliott From emerging nations having newfound success, to the downright bizarre happening in Trinidad and everything in between, rugby social...
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British and Irish Lions
/ 2 years agoJoe Schmidt: We’ll give Lions a real test
By Brendan Gallagher Australia coach Joe Schmidt is optimistic about the Lions challenge next summer after pushing Ireland all the way...
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International Rugby
/ 2 years agoAndy Farrell: It can’t be all singing, all dancing all of the time
Head coach Andy Farrell signed off from Ireland duty with another win as he turns his attention to the British and...
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British and Irish Lions
/ 2 years agoScotland deserve fair share of British & Irish Lions
By Chris Hewett - Thinking Allowed We may be exaggerating here, but not by much: since the wonderful Tom Smith made...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years agoMunster end their losing run
By Kevin Fallon Munster........... 17 Lions................. 10 Munster captain Jack O’Donoghue hopes they can build on this win heading into the...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoA look at Liam Belcher – Wales’ future hooker?
By Peter Ryan – @PeterRyanSports Often referred to as the heartbeat of the pack, the hooker position is vital to the...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoTwelvetrees determined to drive Hartpury on
By MARK STEVENS JUST spending a few minutes in the company of Billy Twelvetrees, it’s fair to say there’s plenty of...
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National League One
/ 2 years agoCharlie celebrates happiest birthday
■By GARETH DANIELS Sale FC..................... 12 Leicester L ............. 15 LEICESTER Lions secured just their second win of the season with...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoStop messing with Marcus – Campese
By BEN JAYCOCK DAVID Campese believes England are going backwards under Steve Borthwick, who is ‘messing around’ with talisman Marcus Smith....
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Features
/ 2 years agoCoach who gave Hastings brothers their debuts
THERE was a time when the strength of rugby in the Borders was a weathervane for Scottish rugby generally. That period...
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National League One
/ 2 years agoA brace from Botterill is key to victory for Esher
■By MIKE DAVIS Leicester L ....... 31pts Tries: Romano 7, Allen 11, Sterland 24, Murdoch 47, Tebbatt 80 Conversions: Bouchier 8,...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 2 years agoLeaking 42 points at home is ‘unforgivable’ – Jamie George
By Adam Hathaway at Twickenham Deflated Jamie George declared his side were not up to scratch after they slumped to another dismal...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 2 years agoMore heartache for England as Aussies steal it at the death
By Nick Cain at Twickenham England ............................. 37pts Tries: Cunningham-South 5, 12; Sleightholme 57, 68, Itoje 78 Conversions: Smith 13, 68,...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoTownsend: We’ll have to be at our very best
■By BRYN PALMER PREVIEW... Scotland v South Africa Today. Kick-off 4.10pm, Murrayfield GREGOR Townsend may have several wins over South Africa...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoPriceless memories from across the union landscape
Masterly: Steve Bale MORE often than not, guests on this paper’s weekly podcast are subjected to a quickfire round of 15...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoThe one-man choir whose class shone like a beacon
STEVE Bale had more, far more than a voice worthy of the Albert Hall on the Last Night of the Proms...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoFarewell Baler, the dedicated driver of our gang of misfits
SO farewell then Baler – Steve Bale – a prince among men as well as a most talented versatile wordsmith mainly...
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National League One
/ 2 years agoDMP enjoy being in the winning circle at long last
■By TOM EASTWAY Darlington MP .......36 Leicester Lions ....29 IN a game that almost felt like a must-win fixture for a...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoBouchier sees only positives in local link with top-flight Tigers
■By BEN JAYCOCK Cool head: Leicester Lions fly-half Luke Bouchier LEICESTER Lions feel fortunate to be beneficiaries of their partnership with...
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Podcast
/ 2 years agoS4, E10: Alex Cuthbert joins as England drop ball against NZ + Wales set for crucial Autumn Nations Series
With an eight-point lead, England seemed in control at Twickenham, only for a New Zealand fightback and some questionable substitutions to...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoItoje full of hope for new PGP deal
■ By ADAM HATHAWAY MARO Itoje has given a snapshot of how the new PGP agreement between clubs and the RFU...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoEngland will need to tame Sua’ali’i
THE Wallabies may be stuck between a rock and a hard place, but England will still need to be wary of...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 2 years agoElliot Daly calls for another All Blacks demolition
By Adam Hathaway in Girona Elliot Daly has not had a crack at the All Blacks in five years but has...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoNow Jonny Gray harms his chance to be a Lion
By the time the British and Irish Lions head for Wallaby country next summer, it will be 32 years since a...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years agoLeinster made to dig deep
■ By KEVIN FALLON Leinster........... 24 Lions................... 6 LEINSTER maintained their winning start to the URC but they dropped a point...
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National League One
/ 2 years agoPark run rampant to tame battling Lions
By GARETH COLLINS Leicester L ..... 24 Rosslyn Park . 48 AN entertaining 11try game between two attack-minded sides went the...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoHancox joins the 200 club
AFTER 10 years of donning the red, black and yellow shirt for Bournemouth, skipper Grant Hancox made his 200th appearance this...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years agoScarlets vs Zebre Parma – United Rugby Championship Match Preview
It is another Friday night game for the Scarlets as they welcome Zebre Parma to Llanelli. We are entering the final...
Autumn Internationals
Jamie George: Henry Pollock’s self-belief is inspiring for England
International Rugby
George North signs off with a try double for Barbarians against Wales
Autumn Internationals
Anthony Watson backs Owen Farrell for an England recall ahead of 2027 Rugby World Cup
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