Wales - Page 66 of 161 - News, interviews, reports, analysis and opinion

Premiership

/ 4 years ago

Sarries kids can shine among stars

By PAUL REES PREVIEW... Wasps v Saracens Today. Kick-off 3pm, CBS Arena Starts at 8: Billy Vunipola MARK McCall is relishing...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Moriarty’s physicality will be vital in Dublin

SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Momentum is everything in the Six Nations and whoever comes out on top in the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Try-scorer Moriarty: I’m ready if Wales want me

By ROGER PANTING Dragons ............13pts Tries: Moriarty 44 Conversions: Davies 44 Penalties: Davies 40. 62 Benetton ..........13pts Tries: Els 22 Conversions:...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Ospreys in charge as Webb pulls the strings

By STEFFAN THOMAS Ospreys ............23pts Tries: Protheroe 45, Parry 55 Conversions: Myler 46, 57 Penalties: Myler 29, 69, 75 Edinburgh..........19pts Tries:...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Sexton and Biggar aim to break tradition

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Johnny Sexton sets out on Saturday aiming to be the first flyhalf to...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 4 years ago

The Rugby Paper’s Six Nations preview: Green giants can cast long shadow over rivals

Amid the clinking cutlery and a few chinking glasses, The Rugby Paper’s brain’s trust gathered at Jeremy Guscott‘s favourite Bath watering...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Hook: I’d give Adams shot at 13

By STEFFAN THOMAS JAMES Hook does not expect Wales to retain their Six Nations title but the former Ospreys, Perpignan, and...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 4 years ago

Trick was quick, too, Jeremy!

I AM a Falcons supporter so I read Jeremy Guscott’s column with interest last week on the progress of Adam Radwan....

By Jeremy Guscott

Features

/ 4 years ago

England’s injury crises is by-product of the pandemic

By BEN REDWOOD THE SIX NATIONS have so far been dominated by two things – coronavirus and injuries. England and Wales...

By Ben Redwood

Premiership

/ 4 years ago

Wasps’ Thomas Young discharged from hospital following head injury

Wasps and Wales flanker Thomas Young has been discharged from hospital following a head injury sustained against Munster on Sunday. Young...

By Ben Redwood

Blindside - rugby transfers

/ 4 years ago

Jamie Roberts heads down under

Jamie Roberts will leave Dragons this month to move to Australian side Waratahs for “personal reasons”. Roberts has been granted an...

By Ben Redwood

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Wales hooker Bradley Roberts signs for Dragons

Wales hooker Bradley Roberts has signed for the Dragons. Currently part of Wales’ Six Nations squad, the 26-year-old has signed a...

By Ben Redwood

Champions Cup

/ 4 years ago

Sale 49 – 10 Ospreys: Sale handsomely defeat depleted Ospreys

Sale Sharks............49 Tries: Roebuck 2, Reed, Ashman, D du Preez, Langdon, Metcalf Cons: MacGinty 4, R du Preez 3 Ospreys .................10 Try: Deaves Cons: Hawkins Pens: Hawkins A stellar...

By Ben Redwood

Blindside - rugby transfers

/ 4 years ago

Roberts wanted in Oz by Waratahs

By STEFFAN THOMAS JAMIE Roberts has emerged as a potential target for Australian Super Rugby side the Waratahs. The former Wales...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

The ‘great selector’ is causing confusion again

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE ‘Fast Eddie’ nickname first coined in this column to describe Eddie Jones...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Chris Hewett

/ 4 years ago

It’s time to rethink a British and Irish League

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST The best we can say for the United Rugby Championship is that the revamped tournament is having...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Can Crowley revive Italy’s serial losers?

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Kieran Crowley will become the eighth Italy coach...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Rivals grab the ones that got away

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER EVEN in these difficult cash-strapped times, with many redundancies and cuts at the RFU in recent years...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Chatty men Sexton and Biggar give refs earache

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The most argumentative of fly-halves to be found in Europe, or anywhere else...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 4 years ago

Such a poignant glimpse of England’s lost talent

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 4 years ago

My double Slam means more now

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Last week I wrote about the first of our back-toback Grand Slams...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 4 years ago

BEN EVANS

YOUNG GUNS EDINBURGH CENTRE/WING Last year when he was deciding what university he wanted to go to, 18-year-old Ben Evans got...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Ratti can be a big cheese for Wales – Davies

By STEFFAN THOMAS SEB Davies insists his “awesome” Cardiff teammate James Ratti can make a massive impact on the international stage....

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Lindsay calls it a day at 41

NEWS EXTRA By SAM JACKSON IRELAND prop Lindsay Peat has retired from internationals at the age of 41. Peat won 38...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 4 years ago

Bristol’s late try flood makes Peel despair

By STEFFAN THOMAS Scarlets ............21pts Tries: Elias 23, McNicholl 60 Conversions: Patchell 24 Penalties: Patchell 7, 30, 44 Bristol ................52pts Tries:...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership Women's Rugby

/ 4 years ago

WRU name first Wales Women retainer contracts

Nine Wales Women players have been handed retainer contracts and joined the WRU’s performance programme. Last week, the WRU announced Welsh...

By Ben Redwood

Guest Blogs

/ 4 years ago

England hot favourites to win at Murrayfield

The hotly anticipated RBS Six Nations 2022 will begin on Saturday 5th February as followers of rugby union and sports fans...

By Sam Emery

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

New captain Biggar leads squad into Six Nations

Wayne Pivac announced Dan Biggar as his new captain after he named his 2022 Six Nations squad that includes three debutants....

By Ben Jaycock

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Wales name Six Nations training squad amid injury nightmare

Wales have named a 36-man squad for the 2022 Guinness Six Nations campaign. Three uncapped players feature, with Ospreys duo Dewi...

By Ben Redwood

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Women’s contracts mean their game can take off

SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Chance to better themselves: Kelsey Jones of Wales is tackled by Ireland’s Hannah Tyrrell and...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Marcus reminds me of great King John

SHANE WILLIAMS WHAT a shame there were no fans at the Arms Park to watch that great European clash between Cardiff...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 4 years ago

Barnstorming ‘Bill’ put even the Liddells in the shade

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER I am indebted to Andrew Beattie, the archivist at Eltham College, for more ‘gen’ on AL ‘Bill’...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Women's Premier 15's

/ 4 years ago

Wales ace Carys returns to beef up pack

By SAM JACKSON PREVIEW... Worcester v Wasps Today. Kick-off 2pm WARRIORS open their 2022 account at Sixways with Wales pair Carys...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 4 years ago

Euro rugby chiefs have made a right mess of it

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME If there has been more muddled thinking by a sports governing body...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 4 years ago

Like so many schools, it took a Welshman to spur Plymouth

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools BEFORE the mid-1970s Plymouth College, although competitive enough locally, had no...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Patchell can spur Scarlets says Davies

By STEFFAN THOMAS RHYS Patchell’s return from a long-term injury can help take the Scarlets to another level says Jonathan Davies....

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Dragons try to lure fly-half Hanrahan

DRAGONS are in talks to sign Clermont Auvergne fly-half JJ Hanrahan for next season. The 29-year-old moved to France from Munster...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Welsh crowds set to return for Six Nations

Crowds are set to return in Wales from January 21st after the Welsh government announced an easing of coronavirus restrictions. All...

By Ben Redwood

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

WRU hand out first full-time Wales Women contracts

The first full-time Wales Women players have been contracted by the Welsh Rugby Union. 12 players have accepted contracts – two...

By Ben Redwood

Features

/ 4 years ago

Varsity match was all important

CAMBRIDGE, Wales and Lions wing Rowe Harding –a future High Court judge – was a wonderfully acute and pithy observer of...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 4 years ago

Elias eager to shake off the rust after Covid break

By STEFFAN THOMAS RYAN Elias has lived in the shadow of Ken Owens since breaking into the senior Scarlets squad in...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 4 years ago

Rugby needs fans

I FULLY endorse Louis Rees-Zammit’s tweet that ‘rugby is nothing without fans’, even if it means Wales play their home games...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 4 years ago

Six Nations must follow government guidelines

COLIN BOAG With the Six Nations still four weeks away, it’s already dominating the rugby headlines. First we had the storm...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeremy Guscott

/ 4 years ago

Dupont nowhere near Gareth – but he’s got time

JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK THE amount of hype surrounding France’s brilliant scrum-half Antoine Dupont raises the question whether...

By The Rugby Paper Team