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Cherry feeling tops after shock victory

29 January 2023 0 comments

BUCS RUGBY By ELISE HAMERSLEY Nottingham started their first game of 2023 in style with a nail-biting 20-17 win over Loughborough on Friday night. Loughborough, […]

Blundell’s power through to semis

22 January 2023 0 comments

SCHOOLS RUGBY By ELISE HAMERSLEY Blundell’s have progressed to the semi-finals of the Schools Cup after beating a spirited Marlborough College 37- 22 in their […]

Inoke has a new lease of life with Hartpury

15 January 2023 0 comments

By BEN JAYCOCK Fijian-born prop Mua Inoke is enjoying a career revival at Hartpury University and says his rejections in the past have given him […]

Exeter men and women prepare for restart

15 January 2023 1 comment

By ELISE HAMERSLEY BUCS fixtures return in two weeks and preparations are ramping up in Exeter as both teams hope to continue their strong form […]

Tiffin girls beginners kick off the year in style

15 January 2023 0 comments

By ELISE HAMERSLEY School’s rugby has begun a slow return after the winter break, and with the 15s league season drawing to a close for […]

Young Guns: Cardiff Met University lock Brandon Harvey

31 December 2022 0 comments

American second row Brandon Harvey was hurt by his country of birth’s failure to qualify for the 2023 World Cup but feels the sport will […]

Met hit back to snatch a derby victory

18 December 2022 0 comments

By ELISE HAMERSLEY Cardiff Met finished 2022 in the top four and put an end to their losing streak after beating Cardiff 27-15 at the […]

Millfield squeeze through to take Shield

18 December 2022 0 comments

By ELISE HAMERSLEY Millfield lifted the World Schools Festival Shield after seeing off Cardiff and Vale 15-11 in the final. The Welsh side took the […]

Pichardie determined to get Spain back on track

11 December 2022 0 comments

By BEN JAYCOCK Mario Pichardie enjoyed a dream international debut as he was awarded player of the match in Spain’s recent 34-15 victory over Namibia, […]

Light Blues still attract a good crowd

11 December 2022 1 comment

NICK CAIN While some Premiership clubs had been struggling to draw crowds of 4,000, the annual Cambridge University v Steele-Bodger’s XV at Grange Road last […]

Trinity stay in running with Harrow win

11 December 2022 0 comments

SCHOOLS RUGBY By NICK POWELL Trinity kept their hopes of winning back-to-back National Schools Cups alive as they ended Harrow’s unbeaten start to the season […]

Cardiff Met get a lesson from Swansea

11 December 2022 0 comments

BUCS RUGBY By NICK POWELL Swansea stunned Cardiff Met at Cyncoed in their Welsh derby to re-ignite their season and move into the play-off places. […]

Flood struck down by captain’s curse

4 December 2022 0 comments

By ROB COLE Cambridge University are lining-up Jamie Benson to fill Toby Flood’s No.10 jersey for the 141st Varsity Match at Twickenham in March after […]

Hartpury get a roll on to put away the new boys

4 December 2022 1 comment

By ELISE HAMERSLEY Hartpury are knocking on the door of the top four after maintaining their perfect away record with a 39-26 win against Nottingham. […]

Cathedral claim the spoils in thriller at Arms Park

4 December 2022 1 comment

By ELISE HAMERSLEY A jam-packed week has seen Schools Vase and Cup regional finals, County Cup efforts, and games at historic club venues all completed. […]

Durham fight hard to tame battling Exeter

27 November 2022 0 comments

BUCS RUGBY By NICK POWELL Durham gained revenge for Exeter beating them in last year’s Championship final as they battled to a 20-15 victory at […]

Knockout contests starting to get serious

27 November 2022 1 comment

SCHOOLS RUGBY By NICK POWELL Tuesday saw the last eight draw for the National Schools’ tournaments with the quarter-finals of the Cup, Plate and Vase […]

156 years on, match to commemorate first in Wales

27 November 2022 1 comment

By HUW S THOMAS Featured Image credit: Michael Day via Flickr The first organised game of rugby in Wales between St David’s College, Lampeter and […]

Smith hat-trick stops Cardiff’s away run

20 November 2022 1 comment

BUCS RUGBY By BEN JAYCOCK Flanker Ben Smith scored a hat-trick as Loughborough University beat Cardiff 31-10 to return to the top of BUCS Super […]

Coverage ‘a double-edged sword’

20 November 2022 1 comment

SCHOOLSRUGBY By BEN JAYCOCK Millfield director of rugby and former Bath player John Mallett says his side have ‘overachieved’ so far this season but is […]

BUCS Super Rugby round-up: Met win at Kingsholm on epic Wednesday

3 November 2022 0 comments

Cardiff Met moved within a point of rivals Cardiff Uni at the top of the table as they edged Hartpury 26-25 in a Kingsholm classic, […]

St. Joseph’s Festival Preview: Winter aims for the top as high-stakes festival gets underway

14 October 2022 0 comments

The famous St. Joseph’s College National Schools Rugby Festival gets underway tomorrow, and the hosts’ coach Rowland Winter has high hopes that his school will […]

Champs Trinity give Dulwich a 50-point mauling

9 October 2022 1 comment

SCHOOLS RUGBY By NICK POWELL The first round of the Schools Cup is now complete, with several exciting fixtures lined up for the second round […]

England U18s fight back for epic win

23 August 2022 0 comments

South Africa U18s ‘A’…………34, England U18s…………36 Rory Taylor’s last minute penalty gave England U18s a thrilling victory against South Africa U18s ‘A‘, after super-subs Billy […]

St Luke’s left Exeter with a proud legacy

7 August 2022 0 comments

CLUB OF THE WEEK EXETER UNIVERSITY BY BRENDAN GALLAGHER Founded: 1860 (as St Luke’s College) Colours: Green and white Director of Rugby: Keith Fleming Coaches: […]

Pearson: BUCS gave me perfect grounding

31 July 2022 0 comments

By BEN JAYCOCK London Irish’s Tom Pearson credits Cardiff Met University for getting him to where he is today – and believes BUCS Super Rugby […]

Lathallan Rugby 7s returns for first time since 2019

4 May 2022 3 comments

A popular youth rugby tournament returned to one of the North-east’s top independent schools at the weekend for the first time in more than two […]

Brilliant Exeter win BUCS Championship

13 April 2022 0 comments

Durham….13 Exeter……14 Dafydd Jenkins late score ended Exeter’s six-year wait for BUCS Super Rugby Championship glory as they edged past Durham in a high-class final […]

Exeter University Has a Track Record of Success

25 February 2022 1 comment

Luke Mehson, Richard Capstick, Jack Owlett, Tom Lawday… these are just a few of the players that have represented Exeter University Rugby Club at Sandy […]

Gowerton: A conveyor belt of talent for Wales

23 January 2022 1 comment

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools AS YOU might expect in such a rugby-daft area many great players have been spawned […]

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

16 January 2022 4 comments

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools BEFORE the mid-1970s Plymouth College, although competitive enough locally, had no great pretensions as a […]

Light Blues shone golden light upon the great game

9 January 2022 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher charts the rich history of 150 years of Cambridge University rugby As we nudge into 2022 it’s time to officially celebrate 150 years […]

Women make their mark at Cambridge as well

9 January 2022 0 comments

HQ heroines: Cambridge women’s team at Twickenahm in 2017 WOMEN’S rugby started to really blossom in the late 1980s. England played their first international against […]

Varsity match was all important

9 January 2022 1 comment

CAMBRIDGE, Wales and Lions wing Rowe Harding –a future High Court judge – was a wonderfully acute and pithy observer of the rugby scene in […]

Supermen aplenty sculpted at Stowe

9 January 2022 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools GIVEN that the ethos of Stowe and its founding father JF Roxborough was to encourage […]

Hastings was the star in school’s best XV

9 January 2022 4 comments

ONE of the great names of Stowe rugby is PRH Hastings – Peter Robin Hood – who after the war morphed into Peter Hastings-Bass, below, […]

UK is ‘closing the divide with South African schools’ now

9 January 2022 0 comments

Schools roundup By BEN JAYCOCK MOUNT St Mary’s College head of rugby Dylan Campbell believes school rugby in the UK is in a great place […]

A mop-top Gower rises from the past

2 January 2022 1 comment

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Star turn: King’s 1974-75 with David Gower fourth left back row Nick […]

Poets, writers war heroes, all the King’s men

2 January 2022 1 comment

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby‘s great schools KING’S Canterbury, save for brief periods in their sporting history, can’t claim to have always […]

Longest running schools rivalry of all

26 December 2021 1 comment

NOT the least of Merchiston’s claims to rugby is their participation in the world’s longest running fixture against great local rivals Edinburgh Academy. To date […]

Any rugby schools I have missed? Let me know now

26 December 2021 0 comments

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER AND finally for this year…a last call to our brilliant rugby playing schools out there. I’m calling time very soon on […]

Merchiston Castle have led from start

26 December 2021 1 comment

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby‘s great schools FEW schools in Scotland have a prouder rugby record than Merchiston Castle, with the Edinburgh […]

Kidney turned PBC into a powerhouse

19 December 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby‘s great schools LAST week it was Christian Brothers College Cork, this week it is Presentation Brothers College […]

Donncha helped turn tide back CBC’s way

12 December 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby‘s great schools LIMERICK might be considered the modern-day heart of Munster Rugby, and nobody can deny the […]

Garrett led charge in Munster success

12 December 2021 1 comment

CBC Cork have a notable list of former internationals among their alumni but arguably their most influential rugby old boy was a player and coach […]

Rugby was religion in the Douai sixth form

5 December 2021 2 comments

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools IT’S over 22 years since anybody laced up their boots and played in anger for […]

The smoking priest fired up Crescent

28 November 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby‘s great schools CRESCENT College in Limerick – now styled Crescent Comprehensive – lies in the heart of […]

Stellar cast of Scottish champions

21 November 2021 1 comment

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools STEWART’S Melville College in Edinburgh might not be among the oldest schools in Scotland, indeed […]

Watson’s production line is strong as ever

7 November 2021 1 comment

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby‘s great schools Colts champions: George Watson’s U16s, winners of the Scottish Schools in 2017 GEORGE Watson’s College […]

Neath GS was hard as nails rugby melting pot

31 October 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby‘s great schools THERE was a time when the blue and gold of Neath Grammar School was almost […]

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