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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 […]

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 […]

Waltzing Dempsey’s false step

23 October 2022 0 comments

NICK CAIN Crash ball: Jack Dempsey playing for Australia against Fiji at 2019 World Cup PICTURE : Getty Images The last time I saw Jack […]

Millfield retain festival title

23 October 2022 1 comment

SCHOOLS RUGBY ■By NICK POWELL MILLFIELD secured their eighth St. Joseph’s National Schools Rugby Festival title, and became the first school ever to retain the […]

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 […]

Young Guns: Bristol Bears fly-half Sam Worsley

28 August 2022 0 comments

Having learned off the likes of AJ MacGinty and Callum Sheedy, ‘triple threat’ fly-half Sam Worsley is looking to make his mark on his boyhood […]

No need to read beyond the headline with Jones

22 August 2022 1 comment

Colin Boag Eddie Jones, master of creating headlines and tweaking tails, did it again when he suggested that the English independent schools created a cloistered […]

Why Bash Street kids are left at the gates

14 August 2022 0 comments

EDDIE Jones? What a bounder. Anyone who thinks he can waltz in from the colonies and criticise our private school system (motto: for the few, […]

We need to get more alternative opportunities

14 August 2022 1 comment

Former Hartpury College DoR Alan Martinovic joins the debate EDDIE Jones has had opprobrium heaped on him after his claims that players developed in independent […]

Rugby has a proper fight on its hands now

7 August 2022 0 comments

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Anyone out there remember Sean Kerly? It’s just about possible, but only if your joints are seizing up and you feel […]

Jones calls for resilience

7 August 2022 1 comment

ENGLAND head coach Eddie Jones believes English rugby’s reliance on private schools has led to a less resilient culture among the nation’s elite rugby players. […]

Nelson: Urgent changes needed to protect game

17 July 2022 0 comments

By PAUL REES Rugby union is on a collision course with oblivion unless it takes steps to reduce the amount of contact in the game […]

England to host 2025 Rugby World Cup

12 May 2022 0 comments

England will host the 2025 women’s Rugby World Cup, with a multi-city and multi-region approach planned to help the game grow. Women’s rugby has grown […]

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 […]

Adopt NFL model at elite level – Haskell

24 April 2022 0 comments

By PAUL REES RUGBY should look to American football and make the professional game self-contained with an emphasis on quality and producing a spectacle to […]

It’s tough for Hull in League country

17 April 2022 0 comments

NEWS EXTRA By BEN JAYCOCK POSITIONED in the centre of a rugby league obsessed city, Hull RUFC – who are top in National Two North […]

Incentivise schools to help broaden the player pool

17 April 2022 1 comment

LAST week’s TRP included Jeff Probyn’s interesting piece, contesting Brian Moore’s claim that payments to players should be banned in all but a limited number […]

Collinson Construction completes new £3.8m training centre for Ealing Trailfinders

2 March 2022 1 comment

Collinson Construction has completed a new multi-million-pound training facility at Trailfinders Sports Club in West Ealing, London. Home to Ealing Trailfinders Rugby Club, the new […]

How Is Rugby Impacting Gambling Industry?

7 February 2022 0 comments

Betting that sports betting has been around for a lot longer than historical sources can show? Not surprising at all, because what could be more […]

Van Zyl keen to stay with Sarries for long haul

6 February 2022 1 comment

SOUTH African scrumhalf Ivan van Zyl would be happy to see out the rest of his playing days in the Premiership just six months after […]

Cardiff last up for unbeaten Christ College

6 February 2022 1 comment

SCHOOLS RUGBY By BEN JAYCOCK CHRIST College Brecon face Cardiff High Scool on Wednesday aiming to complete an unbeaten season in the East Wales Premier […]

Millfield roaring back to their best again

23 January 2022 0 comments

SCHOOLS RUGBY By BEN JAYCOCK MILLFIELD School first XV coach John Mallett is ‘delighted with his team’s success’ this season after a disrupted 2020/21 season. […]

DREAM TEAM

16 January 2022 1 comment

ALLAN DELL, THE SCOTLAND AND LONDON IRISH PROP, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST 1. Cian Healy – One of the […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Potter draws on gambling hell to help save others

31 October 2021 0 comments

PAUL REES talks to Mark Potter about his fall and rise after gambling addiction When Mark Potter tells sportsmen and women that gambling can ravage […]

Bish was ahead of his time, today he’d be a national hero

31 October 2021 0 comments

OVERSEEING Neath’s halcyon days during the Fifties and early Sixties as coach was Roy Bish, a fine centre who combined his playing career with Aberavon […]

Cup specialists await their next golden era

24 October 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby‘s great schools CAMPBELL College Belfast have a fine record in the Ulster Schools Cup, second only to […]

Hard to replicate those post-war halcyon days

10 October 2021 1 comment

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby‘s great schools RUGBY success at Christ’s Hospital School over the decades has been sporadic but the Horsham […]

Loss of county pathway has blocked young stars

3 October 2021 1 comment

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME It’s interesting to note that there are people out there who profess to know about the […]

Questions the RFU’s new boss ignored

19 September 2021 0 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK TOM Ilube’s first Press conference as RFU board chairman was carefully scripted, and the reference to his […]

Super Hooper deserves to stand with greats

22 August 2021 1 comment

THIRTY years ago, Bishop Wordsworth’s of Salisbury lost a national schools cup final to King Edward VI of Stratfordupon-Avon by the odd point in seven. […]

Lion king Tony learnt how to be a winner by losing at Belvo

15 August 2021 0 comments

IT’S a close-run thing but Belvo’s most famous rugby alumni is probably still Sir Anthony O’Reilly. O’Reilly was a staggering schoolboy talent who made his […]

Welsh Premiership: Dead-eye Jones kicks Bargoed to first round win

8 August 2021 0 comments

TWO penalties from Steffan Jones enabled Bargoed to launch their WRU Championship Cup campaign with a 13-7 home win over Bedwas. Jones hit the mark […]

Normanton ruled before the axe fell

1 August 2021 1 comment

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby‘s great schools NOT for the first time in this series we must sing the praises of a […]

Cusworth: I owe that school everything

1 August 2021 1 comment

POSSIBLY Normanton’s most illustrious old boy is former England and Leicester Tigers fly-half Les Cusworth, a genius on the Sevens pitch and, of course, a […]

Hargreaves: Law changes could destroy Union ethos

30 July 2021 2 comments

As the DCMS releases a report as a result of a four-month inquiry into the impact of concussion in sport, Alistair Hargreaves fears rugby may be changed beyond its foundations

MacKay’s motto uniting Caerau Ely

30 May 2021 0 comments

ALEX BYWATER talks to Liam Mackay, a reformed man looking to make a difference For most of the last year, the fields of Cardiff ’s […]

Wildcats pay homage to Sedbergh star Henry

30 May 2021 0 comments

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER SEDBERGH, year in year out one of British rugby’s great nurseries, has been mourning the sudden death of Henry Foster, 20, […]

Shame my dream team won’t grace Olympics

23 May 2021 0 comments

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER APROPOS of almost nothing other than probably having too much time on my hands, it struck me this week that Great […]

Murrayfield to host 16,500 fans for British & Irish Lions clash with Japan

19 May 2021 0 comments

The Scottish government and SRU agree to allow 16,500 fans to attend the first match of the Lions schedule against Japan

County Cup would promote diversity

9 May 2021 0 comments

TO aid Ugo Monye in making the game more inclusive and reduce the dependence of the RFU on Premiership academies and their public school association, […]

Ugo Monye spearheads the fight for rugby diversity

25 April 2021 0 comments

FORMER England wing Ugo Monye hopes that as chair of a new RFU advisory group he can help make rugby more accessible for all. Monye, […]

St Peter’s learned how to take on the big boys

28 March 2021 2 comments

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby‘s great schools NO sooner had I mentioned recently that Campion were the only state school thus far […]