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Posted 16 hours ago
If you haven’t managed to secure tickets to this year’s Six Nations, then fear not.
Rugby World has teamed up with tournament sponsors RBS to offer you the chance to win a pair of tickets to Scotland v England and France v Italy.
For your chance to win, answer the following question: Who is the all-time leading try-scorer in Five/Six Nations history?
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Posted 16 hours ago
Cardiff Blues travel to Kingsholm this Saturday to face Gloucester for the LV= Cup Round 3 match, kick off 3.00pm
The team is almost completely different to the side that secured a Heineken Cup Quarter Final in defeating Racing Metro last weekend, as the opportunity to once again give youth its chance is taken by the Blues coaching team, albeit with…
Posted 16 hours ago
Scarlets tight head prop Rhys Thomas has been admitted to Morriston Hospital, Swansea, after collapsing during training at Parc y Scarlets yesterday afternoon (Thursday 26th January 2012).
Rhys was treated by Scarlets medical staff at his training base of Parc Y Scarlets before being taken by ambulance to hospital where he was treated for a heart condition.
He has undergone successful surgery…
Posted 16 hours ago
Rugby World teamed up with The Sport Collective earlier this week to preview what promises to be an intriguing and exciting Six Nations campaign.
Adding to the lively debate are editor Owain Jones, features editor Sarah Mockford and The Sports Collective’s Matt Ogborn and Nick Metcalfe.
Check it out… The Rugby World/Sport Collective Podcast
Posted 22 hours ago
The Southern Kings’ place in the Vodacom Super Rugby competition in 2013 was reaffirmed at a Special Council Meeting of the South African Rugby Union (SARU) in Cape Town on Friday. Proposals on mechanisms to identity the four other South African entrants will be considered at a SARU Special General Meeting on March 30.
“The decision to include the Southern Kings…
Posted 23 hours ago
Heyneke Meyer will be the new Springbok coach after a Special General Meeting of the South African Rugby Union (SARU) ratified his proposed appointment in Cape Town on Friday.
The 44-year-old Blue Bulls rugby executive takes over from Peter de Villiers, who coached the Springboks from 2008 to 2011. Meyer has been offered a four-year contract and will take charge of…
Posted 2 days ago
The biting winds which swept across the playing fields of West Park Leeds fulfilled England Head Coach Stuart Lancaster’s hopes of Yorkshire creating a Murrayfield environment for his men, but that chill was obscured by the warmth that was generated by England’s involvement in an Under 13 festival involving eight teams and 96 youngsters from local clubs and schools.
The England…
Posted 2 days ago
Ospreys have loaned Tom Prydie to London Wasps until the end of the season. Prydie became Wales’ youngest international, aged 18 years and 25 days against Italy in 2010.
19 year old Prydie, who has played 12 times for the region since making his debut in 2009, reported for duty at Wasps today where he trained with his new team-mates for…
Posted 2 days ago
After 15 months out with a knee injury Ben Blair returns to rugby this weekend
Having suffered a knee injury in the Heineken Cup match against Castres in October 2010, Cardiff Blues fullback Ben Blair returns to action to face Gloucester this weekend.
The Blues take on Gloucester at Kingsholm on Saturday 28 January at 3pm and Blair is relieved to be…
Posted 3 days ago
New Zealand Sevens Coach Gordon Tietjens has named four new caps in his 2012 national contracted squad of 15 who are preparing for next weekend’s Hertz Sevens tournament in Wellington.
Wellington’s 18-year-old Ardie Savea, the younger brother of Hurricane and former New Zealand Sevens player Julian Savea, has been named in Tietjens’ squad for the first time. Savea was nominated for…
Posted 3 days ago
The HSBC Waratahs will follow up their opening trial against Samoa, February 10th in Tamworth, with a second match against Pacific Island opposition when they take on Tonga at the Sydney Football Stadium on Friday, February 17.
With Sydney University playing Samoa in the curtain raiser (5.30pm) before the HSBC Waratahs take on Tonga at 7.30pm, fans will be able to…
Posted 3 days ago
Edinburgh Rugby will open the 2011/12 Heineken Cup quarter-finals on Saturday 7 April against Toulouse at Murrayfield Stadium with a 3pm kick-off it was confirmed today.
The club became the first Scottish side to secure home advantage in the last eight when a four-try home win over London Irish (34-11) set up a reverse of their 2004 fixture in the knockout…
Posted 3 days ago
Marland Yarde and David Sisi have committed their foreseeable futures to London Irish, signing new contracts. Marland has signed a two year deal whilst David has signed a one year extension.
Marland Yarde, 19, has made three Aviva Premiership appearances this season. Standing 6ft tall and weighing 90kg, he has the physical attributes to go with his abundance of pace, to…
Posted 3 days ago
This week’s Championship round-up takes a look at the British & Irish Cup as all but two of the division’s sides had a welcome day off, writes Richard Grainger.
The two remaining sides in the competition met west of the Tamar on Sunday as Nottingham made their second visit to Cornwall within two weeks. With Premiership aspirations very much at the…
Posted 4 days ago
Ross Ford, the 27-year-old Edinburgh Rugby hooker, was today appointed Scotland captain for the opening match of the RBS 6 Nations Championship – against England at Murrayfield on Saturday week.
Ford, the 53-times-capped product of Kelso High School, a British and Irish Lion in South Africa in 2009, was hailed by head coach Andy Robinson as a “man who will step…
