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Brendan Gallagher: Why Barbados against mighty All Blacks will be no rum do

13 March 2014 0 comments

It’s a bleary-eyed Sunday morning on Aldershot Garrison Common where the icy wind knifes you in two and the freezing rain threatens to morph into […]

Peter Jackson: Italy arrive in Wales on a wing and a blessing

17 January 2014 0 comments

Italy come to Cardiff for the opening match in the Six Nations next month armed with something different, a Papal blessing. Judged on their biennial […]

My Life in Rugby: Steve Booth – former Leicester and Bath wing

17 December 2013 0 comments

There are two major incidents that shaped my rugby career – first it was watching the 1994 Challenge Cup final and second it was getting […]

Richard De Carpentier faces eye-gouging hearing

3 December 2013 1 comment

Richard De Carpentier will appear in front of a RFU disciplinary hearing for eye-gouging next week. The Worcester Warriors flanker has been charged with “making contact with […]

20 Questions: Mark Mapletoft – Harlequins backs coach

9 October 2013 0 comments

Pleased with your coaching career so far? Crikey, yes. I started as an academy coach at Saracens, then worked for the RFU before joining Quins […]

20 Questions: Andy Goode – London Wasps fly-half

2 October 2013 0 comments

An ex-Leicester man at Wasps… how? I know. If you’d told me when I was playing for Leicester that I’d end up playing for our […]

Dream Team: Leon Lloyd – former Leicester, Gloucester and England centre

16 September 2013 1 comment

1. Graham Rowntree – When I first went to Leicester as a 17-year-old Graham took me under his wing – for a back like me […]

Brendan Gallagher: When Pooler were top dogs, amid the blood, mud and beer

12 September 2013 2 comments

Exactly 30 years ago Pontypool embarked on a season, the likes of which we will never see again in Britain or Ireland. In just under […]

Dream Team: Tom Johnson – Exeter and England flanker

22 May 2013 0 comments

1. Brett Sturgess – He would kill me if I didn’t put him! He’s a great scrummager and also very good around the park. 2. […]

Warriors scrum-half Perry forced to retire

1 May 2013 0 comments

Worcester Warriors scrum-half Shaun Perry has been forced to retire with immediate effect due to injury. The 34-year-old has been sidelined with a knee injury […]

20 Questions: Tom Wood – Northampton flanker

26 April 2013 1 comment

What went wrong against Leicester? We embarrassed ourselves. It was billed as a big game and we failed to deliver. Our defence was porous, our […]

Peter Jackson: Trust me, Cardiff jinx waits for Lancaster!

21 March 2013 0 comments

At a dinner in London some years ago, the English defined their rugby relationship with the Welsh as one based on “trust and understanding”. Dudley […]

Two-week ban for Chris Hala’ufia

27 February 2013 0 comments

Chris Hala’ufia will miss London Irish‘s trip to Northampton on Saturday after being hit by a two-week ban following the Exiles’ clash with London Wasps […]

Room 101: Phil Maynard – Coventry Director of Rugby

2 December 2012 1 comment

1. Foreign Call Centres Heaven forbid if anything you’ve recently purchased from the shops goes wrong and you need to contact someone in the customer […]

Boris Stankovich and Jake Abbott banned after LV Cup

21 November 2012 2 comments

Boris Stankovich and Jake Abbott have been banned for three and two weeks respectively tonight after being cited following the first two rounds of the […]

Jeff Probyn: Lack of rugby stadiums means shortage of legacy

24 October 2012 1 comment

The announcement of the cut down list of potential venues for the Rugby World Cup has cast a worrying shadow over the whole of the […]

Welford Road not shortlisted as RWC venue

8 October 2012 0 comments

England Rugby 2015, the organiser of the next Rugby World Cup, has announced the long list of 17 potential match venues and, in a shock […]

Nick Cain talks to Exeter blindside Tom Johnson about his remarkable rise from grass roots to Test level

30 September 2012 0 comments

Tom Johnson is not so much a late bloomer as a one-man Indian summer. The Exeter Chiefs blindside flanker was a 5ft 10ins, 13 stone […]

SSE National Leagues preview

29 August 2012 1 comment

With the National Leagues competitions starting on Saturday, we take a look at how Fylde, Ealing, Caldy and Redruth are preparing. SSE National League One […]

Pre-season friendly games results

25 August 2012 1 comment

Most of the teams were playing friendly games a week away from the start of the season. Here are some of the results: Gloucester 54 […]

Dream Team: James Grindall – Bristol and former Leicester scrum-half

20 August 2012 0 comments

1. Andrew Sheridan – We played age group rugby together and he was an absolute beast running over people playing No.8. 2. Trevor Leota – […]

Moment in Time: Northampton Saints and the 2000 Heineken Cup final

6 August 2012 0 comments

Few people had rated Northampton’s chances of lifting the Heineken Cup. Still fewer gave them a prayer after they had lost their second Pool match […]

My Life in Rugby: Brett Davey – Doncaster Director of Rugby

6 August 2012 0 comments

Slotting the last-minute penalty to win the Principality Cup Final in 2002 was nerve-wracking but it was incredible to seal a famous win over Llanelli. […]

Coventry Nathan Jones: “Some Championship players earn no more than minimum-wage”

24 July 2012 0 comments

Coventry‘s new signing Nathan Jones has hit out at Championship clubs’ pay structures, revealing some of his former Nottingham teammates earn no more than minimum […]