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My inspirational man of the year is Marcus

26 December 2021 1 comment

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER EVERY December Time magazine nominates their Person of the Year and parades […]

Ten reasons why ‘oldies’ remain the gold standard

19 December 2021 0 comments

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER WILL Greenwood has been there, done it and got the T- shirt […]

Rassie Erasmus has been backed to take the fight to World Rugby in his misconduct hearing

Three months on, the game is crying out for clarity

24 October 2021 1 comment

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER SO the World Rugby Independent Judicial Panel will meet next week to consider misconduct charges against Rassie Erasmus arising from the […]

Rugby Matters: First Test success vital for a winning series

18 July 2021 0 comments

There is always a special feel to the first Test of any Lions series in South Africa, a step into the unknown for the vast […]

Sorry, Conor it’s hard to find much to smile about

4 July 2021 1 comment

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST There is something unnatural about writing the words “British and Irish Lions” and “social distancing” in the same sentence because there […]

Juggling act with Japan doesn’t cry commitment

2 May 2021 0 comments

RUGBY MATTERS SO Eddie Jones was coining it over in Japan this January helping coach Suntory, and Beauden Barrett in particular, just weeks before England’s […]

Dad’s Army given the hurry up in America

28 March 2021 0 comments

RUGBY MATTERS IS it me or is there a delicious irony over in the USA where the always innovative MLR has introduced a raft of […]

Pirates enjoy hunt for new bounty

7 February 2021 0 comments

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER IT’S BEEN a difficult time for professional rugby players everywhere but ponder […]

Rugby Matters: Almond got it wrong but he was still right

5 February 2021 2 comments

Brendan Gallagher looks at the significant role of one, Mr HH Almond, in the first meeting between England and Scotland

Refs must regain control of arm-wrestle with TMO

15 November 2020 1 comment

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points It’s 20 years to the day, would you believe, that the Video […]

Rugby Matters: Romania can flourish with Robinson’s expertise and new home stadium

12 November 2020 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher finds former Bristol Bears head coach Andy Robinson buoyant about Romanian rugby

Higgins hopeful Rosslyn Park 7s will go ahead

8 November 2020 1 comment

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points IT’S looking bleaker and bleaker out there for schools rugby this season […]

Rugby Matters: Cosmopolitan Harlequins had serious wheels

6 November 2020 0 comments

Black History Month may have ended, but Brendan Gallagher sees no reason to not highlight the speed merchants to don the Quarters

Cosmopolitan Quins had serious wheels

1 November 2020 1 comment

RUGBY MATTERS Quins favourites: Andrew Harriman, left, and Peter Mensah PICTURE: Getty Images Black History month officially ended yesterday, along with our miniseries on black […]

Rugby Matters: Olympic heavyweight John Coker was truly box office

23 October 2020 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher celebrates Black History Month by examining the multi-sport career of Harlequins wing John Coker

Sedbergh win the Rosslyn Park Sevens in 2019

Rugby Matters: Rosslyn Park Sevens will be even more prestigious

11 September 2020 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher views how the current health crisis is affecting schools rugby

Lions duo Scott Gibbs and Martin Johnson

Rugby Matters: Fine margins swung the 1997 series the Lions way

21 June 2020 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher goes deeper into the influence of Martin Johnson and Jim Telfer on the epic 1997 Lions tour

Christophe Domici is leading a consortium takeover of Beziers

Rugby Matters: Can Emirati riches pump life into fallen giant Beziers?

4 June 2020 0 comments

Glory days of Beziers gave rise to region removed from French rugby’s heartland of the south west, writes Brendan Gallagher

Rugby Matters: Expected disaster story turned into a fairytale

29 May 2020 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher recalls the doom-mongering around the 1995 Rugby World Cup, as South Africa grappled with fragile identity after Apartheid’s end

Rugby Matters: Kenny’s challenge taught me when to fold ’em!

2 April 2020 0 comments

You’re a rugby writer in a Paris hotel room at the 2007 Rugby World Cup, and you call Kenny Rogers…

Rugby Matters: Game in Spain flying high after Rugby World Cup anguish

14 February 2020 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher insists Spain shouldn’t be disappointed by their defeat to Georgia last weekend, as they close the gap in the world rankings

Rugby Matters: New Broom Galthie has the leeway to go for broke with France

23 January 2020 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher writes how a new-found desire to nurture homegrown talent in the Top 14 has allowed Fabien Galthie to rewrite the rhetoric

Rugby Matters: Macho Makis can make their mark in Sevens

27 December 2019 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher marks Madagascar as one of rugby’s growing nations who can utilise the creation of the Challenger Sevens Series

No more false starts, cull the scrum cheats

15 December 2019 1 comment

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER I suspect I’m about to hack off all front rowers past and present but hopefully they will read on because I […]

Rugby Matters: Make Pacific Islands rugby’s West Indies

17 October 2019 0 comments

The West Indies cricket team can be selected from 15 Caribbean island nations. Brendan Gallagher asks if the same can be applied to rugby and the Pacific Islands

Opportunity knocks for Ryan’s Dragons

19 May 2019 1 comment

By ROB COLE NEW Dragons boss Dean Ryan insists the talent pool in Wales is as big as England and plans to use that to […]

Eddie needs a leader who will be there at bitter end

7 January 2018 2 comments

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points IS Dylan Hartley the Mike Brearley of English Rugby? I ask […]

22 October 2017 3 comments

It’s time the RFU honoured the first black international BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points THE RFU and Premiership […]

Plymouth Albion avoid going into administration

29 January 2015 1 comment

Plymouth Albion today announced that as a result of the success of their fund raising appeal the club will not be entering administration. Over £250,000 […]