All posts tagged "Ulster"
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Featured
/ 8 years agoRory Best and Rob Kearney extend IRFU contracts
Grand Slam winners sign new deals with Ulster and Leinster
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoIreland hardly hit top gear and they’re only going to get better
BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT World class: Conor Murray People have short memories, even your correspondent! Two months ago at the annual Rugby...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoRUGBY SHORTS
Welsh leave for Varndell SCARLETS have signed Bristol wing Tom Varndell on a short-term deal until the end of the season...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoTuohy joins Stade Francais as medical joker
FORMER Ulster and Ireland lock Dan Tuohy has signed a short-term deal with French Top 14 club Stade Francais after being...
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Six Nations
/ 8 years agoBlues still wait to get their man…and wait…and wait
THE seasons come and go and Cardiff Blues are still to find a head coach, a fact which, if nothing else,...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoSaints job for Vesty as Boyd reshapes Warriors
NORTHAMPTON have appointed Sam Vesty as their attack coach from the start of next season. The 36-year-old former Leicester, Bath and...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoBotha playing for his future at Irish
Believer: London Irish back rower Arno Botha HIGH-impact back rower Arno Botha believes London Irish can still pull off a miracle...
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Premiership
/ 8 years ago‘Berbatov of rugby’ resigns to give Quins a boost before big Wasps re-match
By NEALE HARVEY HARLEQUINS captain Dave Ward has hailed Tim Visser’s re-signing as a “massive boost” before a match against Wasps...
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Features
/ 8 years agoKyle’s not a bad boy – he just gets emotional
KYLE Sinckler is back. Hamstring pulled in the Portugal training camp healed, ban served, the dynamic Harlequins, England and Lions tight-head...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoMunster recover poise to swamp Zebre
Munster 33 Zebre 5 By DARAGH SMALL MUNSTER kept up the pressure on runaway leaders Glasgow at the top of Conference...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoSecond half is pointless as Dragons defend heroically
By ROGER PANTING WONDERFUL defence from Dragons in a scoreless second half prevented a third consecutive league defeat at Rodney Parade....
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoKings crowned by seven-try Ulster
By RONAN O’BRIEN Ulster 59 Kings 10 CRAIG Gilroy’s hat-trick got Jono Gibbes off to a glorious start as Ulster head...
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National League One
/ 8 years agoFarrell in to help Ulster
IRELAND defence coach Andy Farrell is to help out at Ulster short-term after the Six Nations. Head coach Jono Gibbes needs...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoStockdale and Aki named in Ireland team to play France
Ireland's last trip to Paris in the Six Nations ended in a 10-9 defeat
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International Rugby
/ 8 years agoSix Nations spotlight – Ireland: Joe Schmidt must unleash his terrifying dogs of war
Ireland head coach spoilt by riches of big-name players and new dynamics brought to the table by young up-and-comers
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoWe’ll prove we’re no softies at Wasps says Gaskell
Preview Wasps v Ulster Today, Kick-off 3.15pm. Ricoh Arena JAMES Gaskell knows Wasps must sharpen their defence or forget about silverware...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoDonald puts those fishing rods away again
A FEW months back, at the end of the New Zealand season, Stephen Donald found himself out of work. The Chiefs...
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British & Irish Cup
/ 8 years agoPirates fail to repel late Ulster attack
By BILL KIELY Ulster A 25 C Pirates 14 PIRATES coach Alan Paver believes his team are still in with a...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoRUGBY SHORTS
Lydiate out for season OSPREYS and Wales flanker Dan Lydiate has been ruled out for the rest of the season after...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoLeinster and Ireland dealt injury blow as Ringrose ruled out for over a month
Centre out for remaining Champions Cup pool matches and first two Six Nations matches
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoKenya 7s up the creek after main sponsor pulls plug
Flyer: Nelson Oyoo THE Kenyan Sevens team has always been the standard bearers for the country competing in the World Series...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoRed card rules Arnold out of Euro pool finale
MUNSTER centre Sam Arnold has been banned for three weeks after being sent-off for a dangerous tackle on fly-half Christian Lealiifano...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoKennedy brings in Bok pair to fight off relegation
By SAM JACKSON NEWS EXTRA SOUTH African duo, scrum-half Piet van Zyl and back rower Arno Botha, have signed for London...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoSexton returns in Leinster shake up
PREVIEW… Leinster v Connacht Monday, January 1, Kick-off 3.15pm. Aviva Stadium JOHNNY Sexton will captain Leinster on his return to the...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoWe want to win it for Les – Piutau
PREVIEW… Ulster v Munster Monday, January 1, Kick-off 5.35pm ULSTER recall fly-half Christian Lealiifano for their derby with Munster as pressure...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoChoke-tackle must get the big Kiss-off
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email:newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk HOWI applauded Colin Boag’s condemnation...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoDark day for Dan Robson if Cipriani leaves Wasps for France
The Wasps scrum-half praises his team-mate as being 'a joy' to work alongside
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoCall to cut the subs will cull land of the giants
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The first substitution at Test level took place 50 years ago next summer...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoVisser flies in from maternity ward
By NEALE HARVEY TIM Visser has revealed how Harlequins’ crippling injury list forced him to make an emergency trip to Belfast...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoHealy gets to rest over Christmas
CIAN Healy will miss Leinster’s festive PRO14 inter-provincial derbies after being banned for three matches for the reckless use of a...
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Features
/ 8 years agoRefs need to make sure justice is equal for all
COLIN BOAG Escape: Sean Maitland got away with taking out Clermont’s Isaia Toeava Les Kiss, Ulster’s director of rugby, and formerly...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoHumphreys says No to the top job with Blues
By PETER JACKSON Eye for the line: Anthony Watson breaks to score for Bath in their win over Toulon PICTURE: Getty...
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Features
/ 8 years agoOh, for the leadership of Lawrence or Johnno
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Alack of leadership was an area that Eddie Jones identified immediately as being...
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Features
/ 8 years agoKid Smith sparkles but Quins swamped after break
By RONAN O’BRIEN European Champions Cup JOHN Cooney scored 27 points as six-try Ulster punished Harlequins late on at Kingspan Stadium...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWarriors whittle it down to three
WORCESTER are believed to now have a threeman short list for their next director of rugby. Blindside understands that Jim Mallinder...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoSolomons’ attacking philosophy rubbing off on Warriors
By TOM BRADSHAW WORCESTER will attack their way to Premiership survival says Gary Gold. Director of rugby Gold says the arrival...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
Cult hero ‘Capo’ craving last hurrah with Uruguay BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points Pythonesque:...
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British & Irish Cup
/ 8 years agoBusby try ends Hartpury hopes
By ANDREW BEACHAM Hartpury 24 Ulster 29 HARTPURY’S interest in the Cup was ended by David Busby’s last minute try in...
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Features
/ 8 years agoInternational caps are all at sixes and Sevens
COLIN BOAG The recent Rugby League World Cup showed just what a joke the 13-man game’s eligibility rules are – basically...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoAsquith late winner conjured by Evans
Last gasp: Paul Asquith scores Scarlet’s fifth and winning try By ROB COLE SCARLETS head coach Wayne Pivac punched the air...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoYou could select six teams of expatriated Springboks
WHILE Allister Coetzee is fighting for his coaching life with South Africa it is impossible not to sympathise with his predicament...
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Features
/ 8 years agoPiutau could stand in way of England World Cup bid
ENGLANDwill be on a World Cup collision course with the most expensive wing in the game if Tonga succeed in repatriating...
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Features
/ 8 years agoHenson is draw card as Dragons dig deep
By STEFFAN THOMAS DRAGONS head coach Bernard Jackman hailed the character of his young side as they thrillingly shared the spoils...
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Features
/ 8 years agoScotland have an outside chance of a Grand Slam
OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK JEREMYGUSCOTT THE outright winners from the Autumn series are Scotland, especially as England and Ireland were pretty...
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Peter Jackson
/ 8 years agoJackson: North’s good for Wales but what about the region?
(Picture: Getty Images) By Peter Jackson George North arrived at Franklin’s Gardens from West Wales one year after Chris Ashton left...
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Peter Jackson
/ 8 years agoNorth ‘s good for Wales but what about the region?
George North arrived at Franklin ‘s Gardens from West Wales one year after Chris Ashton left for North London. The Welsh...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoLate Trimble try rescues victory for young Ulster
By RONAN O ‘NEILL ULSTER director of rugby Les Kiss was thrilled with the resolve his young side showed as they...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoRUGBY SHORTS
Brookes out for 6 weeks TIGHT-HEADKieran Brookes has been ruled out for six weeks after fracturing his hand in Saints ‘...
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Features
/ 8 years agoAussies offer acid test of Eddie’s back row mobility
Payback. It’s 4-0 to ‘English’ Eddie Jones on Michael Cheika’s watch, and that bashing by the Poms will be more toxic...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoWorld Rugby report recommends South Africa as 2023 host in a blow to Ireland and France
Tight vote sees South Africa the preferred bidder in close race – official decision made 15 November












