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Gareth Anscombe looking forward to marking his comeback with Webb at Ospreys

21 July 2020 0 comments

A Wales half-back combination coming to the Liberty Stadium

Lead fight against racism, WRU told

19 July 2020 0 comments

By PETER JACKSON THE Welsh Rugby Union are being urged to spearhead a global movement within the sport under the banner of Black Lives Matter. […]

Whistle-stop tour sets up tyro prop Carre for big future

19 July 2020 0 comments

By ROB COLE RHYS Carre met his former Saracens team-mate Vincent Koch for the first time in the heat of a World Cup semi-final battle. […]

Icon Dan becomes a hero for grassroots

12 July 2020 1 comment

WALES AND LIONS LEGEND SHANE WILLIAMS One for the scrapbook: Blair Agnew tackles Dan Carter PICTURE: Getty Images “Some people dismissed Dan’s return to his […]

Silence the razzmatazz,best tunes are on field

12 July 2020 1 comment

GUEST COLUMNIST CHRIS HEWETT Do stop me now: Music-free Shed at Kingsholm. Inset: Freddie Mercury When the new All Black captain Sam Cane and his […]

Young Guns: Cardiff Blues flanker Gwilym Bradley

6 July 2020 0 comments

A No.7 who started out at London Irish before moving over the Severn Bridge

High time Cardiff put up a statue for Billy

5 July 2020 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Exceptional: Billy Boston on the rampage for Wigan. Inset, above, with Cardiff & District XV in 1951. […]

Euros signs five to drive his Drovers up the table

5 July 2020 0 comments

NEWS EXTRA By ROB COLE EUROS Evans got his recruitment for next season over and done early doors this year and it was just as […]

Young Guns: Exeter Chiefs back-five forward Christ Tshiunza

29 June 2020 0 comments

A player who is well on Wales’ radar after leaving Congo as a child and growing up in Llandaff

Spare a thought for the so-called pariahs of the game

28 June 2020 1 comment

I COULDN’T believe my eyes last week when I read that between them the two Welsh football clubs, Swansea and Cardiff City, had spent £8.5m […]

Ieuan Evans states his case for a seat on WRU Council

26 June 2020 0 comments

The former Lions winger believes he can help contribute a positive impact to the governance of rugby in Wales

Ellis Jenkins on verge of return to full fitness for Cardiff Blues

23 June 2020 0 comments

Cardiff Blues head coach John Mulvihill provides an update on the recovery of Ellis Jenkins from a severe knee injury

Gareth Edwards-led Millfield really started Rosslyn Park Sevens dynasty

23 June 2020 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher begins a new feature looking at Britain’s esteemed rugby schools

Evans states his case for seat on WRU Council

21 June 2020 0 comments

By ROB COLE IEUAN Evans admits to feeling the same tingle of excitement that greeted the first of his then record 72 Welsh caps as […]

YOUNG GUNS

21 June 2020 1 comment

GWILYM BRADLEY CARDIFF BLUES NO.7 When Gwilym Bradley suffered a serious wrist injury that wiped out his 2018/19 season and caused him to be released […]

Jackson column: Keith Lyons, the bushfire hero who blazed a trail in rugby analytics

19 June 2020 0 comments

Lyons’ influence and keen eye for breaking down rugby helped the likes of Alan Davies, Alec Evans and Kevin Bowring

Dream Team: Departing Wales and Scarlets centre Hadleigh Parkes

18 June 2020 0 comments

The Japan-bound centre chooses a team loaded with Welsh and Kiwi talent

Gill’s off-field venture brings in extra green

14 June 2020 1 comment

By ROB COLE Lawn maker: Blues prop Rhys Gill Partner: Ross Johnson RHYS Gill hasn’t had a chance to miss the green, green artificial grass […]

DAN BIGGAR ON…

31 May 2020 0 comments

…Gareth Anscombe’s arrival spurring him on I made a joke and said I was happy coming off the bench last season, and then when Gareth […]

Barnard Castle, monument to mystery old and new

31 May 2020 0 comments

Old boy: Underwood ISN’T it great to see Barnard Castle back in the news! Actually there is a long, proud tradition of people winging it […]

Where have all the Welsh coaches gone?

31 May 2020 1 comment

NO MATTER how different it may look or when it will start, next season will have a depressingly familiar look about it in one respect. […]

Jackson column: Apartheid so sickened Tony Ward, he did not go back

28 May 2020 0 comments

The Ireland fly-half tells Peter Jackson how the disparaging sights of Apartheid South Africa he witnessed on the 1980 Lions tour left him ’emotionally scarred’

Czekaj calls time at 34

25 May 2020 1 comment

FORMER Wales wing Chris Czekaj has decided to hang up his boots at the age of 34. He played for Merthyr in the Welsh Premiership […]

Find out why King John was so regal

25 May 2020 1 comment

I NEVER saw him play, but I’ve heard all the stories about how good he was. Barry John continues to be the standard bearer for […]

Jackson column: Andy Dibble and Warren Joyce were stars that rugby lost

20 May 2020 0 comments

Peter Jackson looks at the examples of two footballers who opted for the round-shaped ball rather than the oval

Damian Welch takes the reins at Plymouth Albion and wants Championship chase

19 May 2020 0 comments

The former Exeter Chiefs lock has been named head coach at
National One club Plymouth Albion

The Last Dance inspires Gloucester wing Louis Rees-Zammit to be bullish in search of Wales debut

19 May 2020 0 comments

Rees-Zammit explains how Michael Jordan’s winning mentality has occupied his mind during lockdown

Dibble and Joyce were stars that rugby lost

17 May 2020 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Hero: Andy Dibble wears the 1988 Littlewoods Cup on his head after Luton beat Arsenal and he […]

Welch set to take the reins for Albion’s Championship chase

17 May 2020 1 comment

■By NEALE HARVEY New chief: Damian Welch in action for Exeter DAMIAN Welch, former Exeter, Scarlets and Cardiff second row, is relishing his first management […]

Dream Team: Former Newport, Exeter and Wales U21 flanker Chris Brown

12 May 2020 0 comments

The Taunton Titans forwards coach picks a dream XV based on the best he has played with and against

Quins recruit Turnbull to coach forwards

10 May 2020 0 comments

NEWS EXTRA By ROB COLE JOSH Turnbull will combine his playing duties at Cardiff Blues with coaching the forwards at Welsh Premiership club Carmarthen Quins […]

Prop Blackmore dies aged 58

10 May 2020 0 comments

FORMER Wales prop Steve Blackmore has died aged 58 after suffering from a brain tumour. Blackmore featured four times for Wales, including three appearances at […]

Leinster’s Joe Tomane to head to Dragons in the summer

5 May 2020 0 comments

The Dragons continue to recruit some impressive players for their squad next season

British & Irish Lions 2021 tour could be cancelled to preserve home unions finances, report claims

4 May 2020 0 comments

Lions 2021 tour to fall victim to backlogged Test calendar?

Wales make it painful viewing for Red Rose

3 May 2020 1 comment

KICKING off at 9pm this Friday (May 8), S4C will fill the rugby void by rerunning the first of three Wales-Eng- land matches, all of […]

DREAMTEAM

3 May 2020 1 comment

CHRIS BROWN, TAUNTON FORWARDS COACH AND FORMER NEWPORT, CAERPHILLY, EXETER AND WALES U21 FLANKER, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST… 1. […]

Luke Northmore might have as interesting a story as Harlequins teammate Dombrandt

27 April 2020 0 comments

After finishing school, the Quins centre worked in a pasty shop while playing for Tavistock RFC

Young Guns: Cardiff Blues prop Theo Bevacqua

27 April 2020 0 comments

England-born, loosehead Bevacqua says Wales was always his first choice

Easy does it when we finally get green light

26 April 2020 0 comments

I can almost hear the twang of hamstrings as we contemplate the return to action of our professional players. Everyone is missing rugby – players, […]

A sea of people hailed Carling like a Messiah

26 April 2020 1 comment

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby Pictures: PART 6 Will […]

THEO BEVACQUA

19 April 2020 0 comments

YOUNG GUNS CARDIFF BLUES LOOSEHEAD Born in London, raised in Heathfield and educated at Eastbourne College, in ordinary circumstances promising prop Theo Bevacqua might have headed […]

Gatland: ‘I loved beating Eddie Jones’

8 April 2020 0 comments

Warren Gatland has spoken of his time in charge of Wales and the showdowns with Eddie Jones in the media

Nick Tompkins’ move away from Saracens hits problems

7 April 2020 0 comments

Negotiations stall over the length of deal for Wales international

Rapid Young rode his own Chariot of Fire

5 April 2020 1 comment

OF ALL England’s postwar speed merchants, none came closer to emulating Eric Liddell as an international rugby player and Olympian than John Young. Long before […]