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Village teams which gave stars their start

29 October 2023 0 comments

SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND WHEN the Principality Stadium crowd rises to salute Leigh Halfpenny as he makes his final appearance on the international […]

Upset day in Rugby World Cup. Part I. Argentina

25 October 2023 0 comments

Wales was clear favorites with the bookies. The Red Dragons were favored at around 1.5, while the Los Pumas victory was quoted at 3.00. Good […]

Fairytale finale for revived Pumas

15 October 2023 0 comments

From NICK CAIN Wales……………………………. 17pts Tries: Biggar 14, T Williams 57 Conversions: Biggar 16, 57 Penalties: Biggar 21 Argentina ……………………. 29pts Tries: Sclavi 68, Sanchez […]

The only way is up for this team

15 October 2023 0 comments

SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND IF IT was all a bit of a let down in the end, let’s not forget that many people […]

Saints have to nail it away from home

8 October 2023 0 comments

Premiership team-by-team previews: Northampton There was a point last season where Northampton looked as if they could qualify for the play-offs despite conceding a century […]

Wales eye revenge to top Pool C

5 October 2023 0 comments

Wales are taking no risks in their final pool stage game on Saturday afternoon as they seek to secure top spot in Pool C and […]

In Gats we trust! Old boss has new tricks

1 October 2023 0 comments

SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND IF THE Wales win over Australia proved anything it is that in Gats we trust! There were those who […]

Great to see the spine of a new team emerge

17 September 2023 0 comments

SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND JOB DONE . . . just! Five vital points to Wales, but many of the plaudits to the Portuguese. […]

Fiji miss chance to see off Wales

17 September 2023 0 comments

By BEN JAYCOCK Wales………………………… 32pts Tries: Adams 7, North 29, Rees-Zammit 48, Dee 66 Tries: Conversions: Nayacalevu 13, Tagitagivalu 17, Josua Tuisova 73, Biggar 30, […]

Forshaw: Fiji will be a bruising encounter

10 September 2023 0 comments

By SAM JACKSON Defence coach Mike Forshaw has warned his players to be ready for “lightning bolts” from the Fijians when Wales open their 2023 […]

Dowson: Things are going to get better

3 September 2023 0 comments

By PAUL REES Premiership clubs get their season underway this weekend with Northampton’s director of rugby Phil Dowson looking confident that the gloom that has […]

Now South Africans are the team to beat

27 August 2023 0 comments

SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND THIS may still be the phoney war period, but what a statement the world champion Springboks made at Twickenham […]

It’s time for England to climb out of their self-imposed bunker

20 August 2023 1 comment

BRENDAN GALLAGHER OK, I’ve counted to ten and imagined myself snoozing in a hammock on some Pacific atoll. I am calm … but what the […]

England break cover to glimpse new life

13 August 2023 0 comments

By NICK CAIN England …………………………19pts Tries: Itoje 68 Conversions: Ford 68 Penalties: Farrell 10, 40+2, 42; Ford 76 Wales……………………………. 17pts Tries: Penalty 59, T Williams […]

No excuses – Wales simply switched off

13 August 2023 0 comments

SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND For about 60 minutes of England versus Wales, I wondered why I was watching it – it hadn’t been […]

After this, Prince Harry could be calling AWJ

11 June 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Alun Wyn Jones continues to treat ‘the media’ with such contempt that it may be but a matter of time before Prince Harry […]

Superstar Parisse signs off in style

21 May 2023 0 comments

By BEN JAYCOCK Glasgow……………………….. 19pts Tries: Steyn 55, 73; Cancelliere 68 Conversions: Horne 56, 74 Toulon …………………………. 43pts Tries: Serin 4, 24, Parisse 17, Wainiqolo […]

Miotti can be the main man for Glasgow – McDowall

14 May 2023 0 comments

By BRYN PALMER Domingo Miotti can step up and fill the boots of banned fly-half Tom Jordan as Glasgow aim to become the first Scottish […]

All to play for in final days of the season

14 May 2023 0 comments

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Top 14 coaches, pundits and fans have had the calculators, slide rules and computer modelling programmes out last weekend as they […]

Thomas defends decision to defect

7 May 2023 0 comments

By PETER JACKSON Henry Thomas will start work on his unprecedented transfer from England to Wales this month – 16 years after an abortive attempt […]

Biggar keeps Toulon on track

2 April 2023 0 comments

Toulon …………36 Cheetahs …….. 21 DAN Biggar helped steer Toulon past the Cheetahs at Stade Mayol. Thomas Salles cut through the midfield to score the […]

England look far too set in their ways

26 March 2023 0 comments

JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE… EVERY WEEK Attacking rugby is an art. It’s the ultimate match within a match, and there’s a lot of moving […]

All eyes turn to the World Cup

26 March 2023 1 comment

Paul Rees sees the championship go to form with Ireland and France leading the way The Six Nations was for the second successive year decided […]

Gatland: We showed some real character out there

19 March 2023 0 comments

By ROB COLE Warren Gatland finally believes he has got something to build on after watching his side plunder four tries against one of the […]

Au revoir! French requiem for old warrior

19 March 2023 0 comments

By PETER JACKSON France……………………………41pts Tries: Penaud 10, 77; Danty 34, Atonio 44, Fickou 49 Conversions: Ramos 12, 35, 45, 50, 78 Penalties: Ramos 26, 30 […]

Cotton: I can’t see Welsh win

5 March 2023 1 comment

By PETER JACKSON One of England’s all time greats has delivered a withering verdict on Wales as they struggle to stop their Six Nations rot. […]

Rugby World Cup gets close; Favourites, dark horses and the talent

2 March 2023 1 comment

Outcomes from test matches in 2022 show that predictability is no longer present. There is more freshness in the air than there was in previous […]

Positives begin to add up for Borthwick

19 February 2023 0 comments

JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE… EVERY WEEK Assuming that the Wales v England game in Cardiff on Saturday is played despite the threatened Welsh squad […]

Biggar has no one to blame but himself

19 February 2023 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Had Wales only opted to man the picket lines outside Murrayfield instead of the barricades inside, Dan […]

Russell puts on a show as Scots run riot

12 February 2023 1 comment

By PETER JACKSON Scotland ……………………… 35pts Tries: Turner 30, Steyn 51, 58; Kinghorn 71, M Fagerson 79 Conversions: Russell 32, 53 Penalties: Russell 9, 15 […]

Ruthless Ireland take no time to quash talk of a Welsh restoration

5 February 2023 0 comments

By PETER JACKSON Wales ……………………………. 10pts Tries: Williams 46 Conversions: Biggar 46 Penalties: Biggar 14 Ireland…………………………. 34pts Tries: Doris 2, Ryan 9, Lowe 21, van […]

The Sheriff riding in to rescue Wales

22 January 2023 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Somewhere up there on the Elysian Fields, word might have reached Eric Evans that someone down here […]

Gatland will want players on edge

15 January 2023 0 comments

SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Main man: Dan Biggar is in line to be captain PICTURES: Getty Images IT is going to be fascinating […]

Sign of the times may cause a hulabaloo

31 December 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Any day now, tradesmen will move into six of Europe’s most famous stadia bearing luminous clocks designed […]

Steward is everyone’s pick at 15 for England

23 December 2022 0 comments

JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE… EVERY WEEK You get a good measure of a player in their day-to-day club environment, and it was Freddie Steward’s […]

Ospreys win points to happier New Year

23 December 2022 0 comments

SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Christmas certainly has come early in Welsh rugby. Firstly, Warren Gatland rides in on Santa’s sleigh and then the […]

Top clubs finding it tough in Europe

23 December 2022 0 comments

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Reigning Champions Cup title holders La Rochelle and 2021 winners Toulouse have been notable exceptions but Top 14 clubs have not, […]

Skivington delight as McGuigan joins

18 December 2022 0 comments

George Skivington could not believe his luck when he learned that George McGuigan was available as he looked for a hooker to compensate for the […]

Parisse has too much class as Toulon give Bath lesson

18 December 2022 0 comments

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Toulon ……………..29pts Tries: Wainiqolo 14, Rabut 23, Deavaux 37 Cordin 54 Conversions: Biggar 15, 24, 38 Penalties: Biggar 7 Bath …………………… 7pts […]

Six Nations agony for Anscombe

11 December 2022 0 comments

By PETER JACKSON Gareth Anscombe will miss the entire Six Nations tournament for the third time in four seasons. The full extent of the damage […]

Time for players to impress Gatland

11 December 2022 2 comments

SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND New coach, clean slate, new opportunities. Every player who has played for Wales in the past, is in the […]

Zebre……………….. 21 Toulon…………….. 24

11 December 2022 1 comment

GAEL Drean’s 71st minute try won the match for Toulon against a plucky Zebre side. The visitors made a strong start and after consecutive penalties […]

Lloyd’s the man for Wales at 10 – Madigan

4 December 2022 0 comments

By SIMON ROBERTS Bristol playmaker Ioan Lloyd has been tipped as a future successor to Dan Biggar as Welsh rugby’s main man at No.10. The […]

Smith steps up for Saints as Biggar departs

6 November 2022 1 comment

Fin Smith has started his Northampton career earlier than anticipated, but has settled in quickly at Franklin’s Gardens after suffering the anguish of Worcester going […]

Don’t give up on Wales, Lam tells Sheedy

6 November 2022 0 comments

By PAUL REES Pat Lam has told Callum Sheedy to keep his head up after being overlooked by Wales again for the autumn international series. […]

Dyer debuts as Halfpenny makes return

3 November 2022 0 comments

22-year-old winger Rio Dyer is set to make his debut for Wales, and is joined in the back three by the returning Leigh Halfpenny as […]

Priestland is the last kicker standing

23 October 2022 0 comments

By PETER JACKSON Wales are in the throes of a goal-kicking crisis barely a fortnight before their date with the All Blacks in Cardiff. Leigh […]

Not sure if old guard will make World Cup

23 October 2022 0 comments

SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND WAYNE Pivac named his Wales squad to take on New Zealand, Argentina, Georgia and Australia this week and I […]

Time for Pivac to put faith in Keelan

16 October 2022 1 comment

SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND This week Wayne Pivac will name his squad to take on New Zealand, Argentina, Georgia, and Australia next month. […]