All posts tagged "Premium"
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoThe history of women’s rugby: Growth in wartime years
Brendan Gallagher looks at the pioneers who fired rugby past being a sport played only by men and opened the game...
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Features
/ 5 years agoQ&A – Jonathan Davies: Playing in that World Cup semi-final was worth the pain
Jonathan Davies joins Neale Harvey for a special interview reflecting on his time playing for the Lions, Wales, Scarlets and Clermont
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoFight to save Championship: Nick Cain talks to Coventry director Nick Johnston
The managing director of the Championship club fumes over the lack of collective agreement over the TEC and the absence of...
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoFrench system is set up for success – Adamson
Former Bedford Blues wing Dean Adamson is settling in well to life in the second tier of French rugby at Pro...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoBristol boy Joe Joyce done with clapping Exeter Chiefs
Spurred by a state-of-the-art training ground, lock Joyce says the squad already assembled by Bears can want for nothing in their...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoExeter and England lock Jonny finds some more hills to climb
The time for reflection isn't now for the double-winning lock eager to press his claim with England
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Dream Team
/ 5 years agoDream Team: Northampton Saints and Fiji hooker Sam Matavesi
Sam Matavesi, Northampton, Fiji and former Toulouse, Cornish Pirates, Plymouth Albion, Redruth and Camborne, hooker selects a XV based on the...
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Features
/ 5 years agoHarry Randall has been a key influencer every week for Bristol | Kyran Bracken
Kyran Bracken considers Bristol Bears to have one of the Premiership's best scrum-half departments, and it will only get better once...
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoNewcastle show the importance of the Championship, says Pirates’ O’Meara
Alex O'Meara believes Newcastle's time in the Championship has served them well for their strong return to the Premiership
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoCardiff’s defeat to St Peters brought a call from the Vatican | Peter Jackson
'The Miracle' of Cardiff Arms Parks in 1993 had a touch of the unbelievable which stretched as far as the Vatican
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British and Irish Lions
/ 5 years agoFans’ petition backs Lions tour to South Africa
The petition urging Lions organisers not to switch to a tour in the UK & Ireland has passed 5,000 signatures
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Features
/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Kevin Maggs: Connolly and Foley ruined my Bath team
The Bristol, Bath, Ulster and Ireland centre discusses his career which had plenty of twists and bends
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoDai Young must target Blues academy says Ring
Welsh rugby great Mark Ring says Dai Young's main priority in fixing Cardiff Blues lies in a revamping of the region's...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoLeave friendships in changing room, ref! | Nick Cain
Referees should feel free to have a beer with players after matches, but on the pitch the formalities should be enforced...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoMaro Itoje’s excellence shows why locks are top earners | Jeremy Guscott
Jeremy Guscott looks at how personal prosperity in rugby lies in the engine room
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoRugby Matters: Backs are turning into grunts now
HEARTFELT apologies in advance to forwards everywhere for this treacherous item because I know how incredibly hard you all work and...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoAlex Sanderson aims to turn Sale Sharks into Premiership powerhouse
Alex Sanderson answers questions on stepping into Steve Diamond's shoes, the role that awaits Paul Deacon, and his vision for rugby...
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoExclusive: Relegation scrapped in Premiership this season
Jon Newcombe reports on the increased likelihood that the Premiership will revert to a 13-team league at the end of the...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoChris Ashton could join the exodus to Japan
Neil Fissler reports on the future of Harlequins and former England wing Chris Ashton
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Premiership
/ 5 years ago‘Homesick’ Kelly Brown set for return to Saracens
TRP understands Kelly Brown could be on his way back to Saracens, following the departure of Alex Sanderson to Sale
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoHighs and lows of Will Taylor’s rollercoaster rugby career, now settled at London Welsh
Taylor is now involved with London Welsh and runs a gym in Richmond
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoWRU set for £40m bailout
THE Welsh Rugby Union are set to receive priceless financial support from the Welsh Government funding this week. The WRU believe...
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Features
/ 5 years agoBring back old guard to steady the ship | Shane Williams
A number of Dragons players can hold a big value in Wayne Pivac's Six Nations plans, writes Shane Williams
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoCoach Hogg joins Russia
FORMER Scotland flanker Carl Hogg is joining Russia’s coaching staff under Lyn Jones after parting company with Ospreys in October. Hogg,...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoNorthern leagues kick-off delayed
The Halbro North West Leagues have set new dates for a new season, pending the easing of lockdown restrictions by the...
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Features
/ 5 years agoJAMES HARRINGTON
FRENCH COLUMN French pick squad as Six Nations gets the OK Medical joker: Gabriel Ibitoye has finally proved rumours right by...
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Features
/ 5 years agoScreech looms on the Cardiff radar
CARDIFF Blues have targeted Dragons second row Matthew Screech as they seek to strengthen their front five. Screech has impressed for...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoJones: Be like Harry Kane and stay loyal to your club
New Worcester Warriors coach Mark Jones has advice for the Premiership club's England starlets
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoCurb your language Kyle, urges Greenwood
■ By GARY FITZGERALD Old school: Greenwood TOP players have been told to remember they are rugby “ambassadors” and to avoid...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoNo backward steps from these two rugby greats of the past
ENGLISH rugby lost two hugely underrated stalwarts this past week, neither of whom really made the headlines, but whose contributions were...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoGaskell’s just loving fun side of Wasps
WASPS workhorse James Gaskell is enjoying his rugby more than at any stage of his career and aims to finish his...
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Features
/ 5 years agoLiam’s lack of remorse as bad as his offence
Human missile: Liam Williams is sent off for his head charge LIAMWilliams’ reaction to his latest red card was almost as...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoBlow early for scrum to reduce pile ups
WORLD rugby dictate how they want the game played and refereed. In their desire to make it more entertaining for spectators...
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Features
/ 5 years agoFeminist Dr Marie fought hard to make ‘rugby’ accessible for all
Pioneer: Dr Marie Houdre and her Hirondelles in 1923 ONEof the few countries to see a version of women’s rugby flourish...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoIt’s a dilemma: Kill aspiration to save great old clubs?
RUGBY is now a game of the 21st century and has evolved as such. We in England are in the hands...
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Features
/ 5 years agoWomen’s Game in Focus: Wasps fly-half Florence Williams
Sarah Rendell talks to the Premier 15s player who sparked debate around the marketing of women rugby players last year
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoDickson had duty to send Sinckler off
WHY didn’t referee Karl Dickson send off Kyle Sinckler when he swore at him? There is no answer. Dickson has done...
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Features
/ 5 years agoYOUNG GUNS
Dad’s happy for me to play where, and for who, I want LUCAS BROOKE LONDON IRISH FLANKER Lucas Brooke has a...
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Features
/ 5 years agoRefs should pay price for poor performances
COLIN BOAG Red card? Karl Dickson repremands Kyle Sinckler for swearing When a player gets cited, it means one of two...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoRingfence? Think again!
Done it! Alun Walker’s late try seals the deal for Ealing against Saracens PICTURE: PRiME Media Images EALING Trailfinders beat Saracens...
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Features
/ 5 years agoRay French devoted adult life to Cowley
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools Rosslyn Park champs in 1973: Back from left: J Curley, J...
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoEaling 27-26 Saracens: Passionate Trailfinders prove their point again
Daniel Gallan reports from Vallis Way where Ealing Trailfinders proved their were a match for the three-time champions of Europe
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoRhys Patchell is out for the entire Six Nations for Wales
Wales head coach Wayne Pivac is set to name his squad for the 2021 Six Nations
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Features
/ 5 years agoInvincibles…55 wins, a ton of tries and a triumphant tour of Oz
THE 1979-82 period were vintage years with 55 consecutive wins over the best part of three seasons, a run which started...
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Features
/ 5 years agoWe stuck with the battle as long as we could says Ward
BEN WARD had assured those who would listen that his club were proof that ring-fencing the Premiership was a bad idea....
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoHougaard’s off, so Worcester headhunt replacement at Bath
Neil Fissler reports on Worcester's plans at scrum-half, with Francois Hougaard destined to return home to South Africa
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoTreharne on mission to become true Olympian
By ROB COLE Nearly man: Luke Treharne playing for Wales WALES Sevens skipper Luke Treharne’s Olympic dreams are alive again and...
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Features
/ 5 years agoDead hand of PRL is no help to the game
THE self-importance of the Premiership, reflected in its self-serving administrative approach, is not winning it many friends. Where coaches like Pat...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoQuins fly-half Brett Herron looks across Channel
Herron has held talks over departing the Stoop at the end of the season














