All posts tagged "Lions"
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoDavies relishing pressure to deliver for Wales
By ALEX BYWATER JONATHAN Davies admits it took longer than anticipated to get back to top form after injury in the...
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoWorld Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont honoured with knighthood
Doddie Weir also honoured for his contribution to rugby and the search for a cure to Motor Neurone Disease
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoInternational rugby has become the poor man
THE about-change in the commercial fortunes of club rugby and its international counterpart have been highlighted this month by the deals...
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoLions hit back to claim the bragging rights
By JAMES THOMPSON South Leics… 28 Leicester L… 37 LEICESTER Lions emerged with the spoils and local bragging rights after a...
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoSpirited Lions seal draw against leaders
By STEVE TAYLOR Hinckley… 19 P’boro L… 19 HINCKLEY remain unbeaten at home this season but were only able to draw...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoKyle is becoming the all-court prop England need – Jones
One of the best: Quins star Kyle Sinckler KYLE Sinckler’s stock is rising but mentor-in-chief Adam Jones has challenged his protégé...
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Features
/ 7 years agoWasps desperate to prevent Daly move to Sarries
Call in the lawyers: Wasps may go legal to keep Elliott Daly WASPS are making a last ditch attempt to stop...
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoLions joy as Tigers tamed by stunning fightback
■By SIMON MOYLE P’boro Lions …28 Sheff Tigers …27 AN exciting finish saw Peterborough Lions come from 27-7 down to win...
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Features
/ 7 years agoKwagga keen to join Premiership
SPRINGBOK flanker Kwagga Smith is looking for a spell in the Premiership next season and his CV is doing the rounds...
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoLeicester pile more misery on limp Lions
By ROSS BARNETT Leicester L …35pts Peterborough L 17pts IT requires guts and determination to succeed in winter and Leicester Lions...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 7 years agoHow English rugby shattered the All Blacks mystique on the same anniversary as their 2003 World Cup triumph
November 22 is a big day for some in the North West Counties...
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Features
/ 7 years agoWe’re still waiting for Lions to roar their complaint
THE silence of the Lions is deafening. We are not talking here about the former Lions players, coaches, and administrators –...
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoLate Warren-West try salvages draw
By ROSS BARNETT Leicester L……18 Sheffield T……18 A LAST-MINUTE Laurence Warren-West try salvaged Leicester Lions a draw in a hard-fought match...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 7 years agoThat Lions’ share of money is enough for All Blacks
THE idea that New Zealand should share the gate takings at Twickenham, and elsewhere in Europe, when they come north is...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoJones gets chance to state case in midfield
By JON NEWCOMBE LEWIS JONES is itching to show what he can do as Ealing look to burst Jersey’s bubble and...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoSurely Premiership fans can see what’s at stake with Lions?
WELL said, John Rowlands, in your letter last week, headed “Lions should play hard ball with PRL”. If a Lions tour...
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Features
/ 7 years agoMemorial to rugby’s fallen in the Great War
ONE of rugby’s many tributes to those who fell during World War 1 this weekend has been a special commemoration gathering...
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoJan keen for more as Chester climbing
By STEVE SMITH Chester …………….33pts Tynedale……………22pts CHESTER took advantage of their game in hand to move up to second in National...
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoCurtain call for Blues ace Jenkins
■ By STEFFAN THOMAS WALES prop star Gethin Jenkins wants to follow the path of Shaun Edwards as he takes his...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoWales record cap-holder Gethin Jenkins to retire from rugby
The prop has been suffering from a chronic knee injury
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoFranco Mostert in line for first Gloucester start after ‘touchy’ negotiations
The Lions had disputed the lock's move to Kingsholm
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoLions being sacrificed on altar of commercialism
The first post-war Lions tour of South Africa lasted for more than three months, from the middle of June until the...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoClubs chief insists there is no threat to future of Lions
■By ADAM HATHAWAY Help: Mark McCafferty PREMIERSHIP chief executive Mark McCafferty has poured cold water on fears that the British &...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoWant a holiday from rugby? There’s always August!
THE new-look domestic structure, beginning in 2019-20, will extend the next three English seasons into June but will also offer guaranteed...
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoMacc attack has Lions well-tamed
By BEN JAYCOCK Macclesfield 35 Leicester L’s …24 FOURTEEN-MAN Macclesfield got just a second win of the campaign by downing Leicester...
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoTigers prevail in battle of beasts at Sedgley
■By STEFFAN JAMES Sedgley Park 31 P’boro Lions …29 SEDGLEY Park Tigers got back to winning ways with a narrow bonus-point...
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoHigh-flying Field tame Lions easily
By SIMON MOYLE Peterborough 14 Huddersfield…43 IT WAS another disappointing day at Solstice Park for the Lions who lost convincingly to...
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Features
/ 7 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
FORMER ORRELL AND LEEDS HOOKER ROB RAWLINSON OUR celebrations lasted well into the night when we beat Bath to lift the...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoPointless? Not these streetwise stars
OLD Streetonians in London’s east end profess to having ‘a story like no other rugby club’, one formed by ‘artists and...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoSmokin’ Joe tipped to be England’s version of Sivivatu
NEALE HARVEY POWERHOUSE wing Joe Cokanasiga can enter the annals of rugby fame in the way Fijian legend Sitiveni Sivivatu once...
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Features
/ 7 years agoYOUNG GUNS
KIERAN SASSONE HARLEQUINS TIGHT-HEAD Role models play a vital part in any young player’s career and academy tight-head Kieran Sassone could...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoSexton set for a French swansong
ON THE BLIND SIDE BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter:@neilfissler JOHNNY SEXTON is looking to make a return to France for...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoSexton would welcome Autumn tours Down Under
By STEFFAN THOMAS JOHNNY Sexton believes the proposal for rugby’s new global season can take the game’s entertainment to a new...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoThomas must grab Wales chance if he gets it
IT’S NOW or never for Thomas Young as far as Wales is concerned. That might seem a bit over the top,...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoJonathan shows his class is permanent
By ALEX BYWATER JONATHAN Davies showed Wales head coach Warren Gatland he’s as good as ever as he scored two tries...
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Features
/ 7 years agoWHO IS THE BEST NO.8?
SO is Sergio Parisse the greatest specialist No 8 ever. I would argue it’s a dead heat between him and Mervyn...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoElias can’t wait to oust Owens at Scarlets – and Wales
Frustrated: Ryan Elias RYAN Elias has had enough of warming the bench and admits he hopes there will soon be a...
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoLeicester wait goes on at Field
By ANDREW SMITH Huddersfield .17 Leicester L 15 UNLUCKY Leicester Lions are still searching for their first win of the season...
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoLions in a spin as hosts’ fast start pays off
By ROSS BARNETT S Leicester .34 Peterboro’h L 27 SOUTH Leicester held off a second-half fightback from Peterborough to record their...
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Features
/ 7 years agoYOUNG GUNS
ALFIE PETCH EXETER CHIEFS PROP Alfie Petch has the credentials to become a topclass tighthead. Hailing from Bude, where former England...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoNo-contests taking fans to cleaners
TWO weeks into the new season and the Ospreys opted to leave their three biggest hitters behind in Swansea for their...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoPuma king with the most giant killings
83rd cap: Leguizamon THAT old war horse Juan Manuel Leguizamon seems to be “retired” by the Pumas selectors at the end...
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoFirst-half mauling tames the Lions
By SIMON MOYLE Peterboro L …7 Stourbridge…36 LIONS went into the game with some expectation, but after 40 minutes the reality...
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Features
/ 7 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
CHRIS STIRLING THE YORKSHIRE CARNEGIE DoR AS a player I made over 250 appearances at full-back for my local club, Tawa,...
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Features
/ 7 years agoProsser lessons put Faulkner on road to riches
Lyndon J Faulkner tells BRENDAN GALLAGHER about Ray Prosser’s lasting impression BRENDAN GALLAGHER Winner: Lyndon J Faulkner in Pooler colours RAY...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoWorld Rugby must realise less is more
COLIN BOAG is correct, there are far too many internationals played each season. The November internationals interrupt the club season and...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 7 years agoSmid’s early double sets Ealing clear by half-time
By NEALE HARVEY Cap that: Jordy Reid lands Trailfinder’s fifth try DREADLOCKED dynamo Jordy Reid produced a virtuoso display as Ealing...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoMarx can make mark in Europe
Convert: Marx SPRINGBOK hooker Malcolm Marx might be under contract to the South African Union until 2020 but his CV is...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoWarriors face loss of big three star men
Move? Ben Te’o WORCESTER Warriors are facing losing three of their best players who are all out of contracts at the...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoItoje rubbishes French talk and stays at Sarries
New deal: Maro Itoje MARO ITOJE is set to pledge his loyalty to Saracens by penning a new three-year contract with...
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