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Posted 98 days ago
EVERY MONTH we rack the brains of the professionals to bring you the best tips to help you improve your game! Ben Ryan, England Sevens head coach, explains how to use a good old-fashioned tap-penalty move to create try-scoring opportunities.
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Posted 144 days ago
KING’S SCHOOL, Macclesfield held off St Paul’s School, Eltham College, Ellesmere College and Rugby to claim this month’s award.
After an unbeaten tour of Canada, the Cheshire school – led by No 8 Jack Sadler – reeled off nine consecutive wins against stiff opposition to register as good a start as any in recent memory.
There were outstanding wins over QEGS Wakefield,…
Posted 144 days ago
Jordi Murphy
(Leinster)
You were born in Barcelona. Is your family Irish?
Yes. In the late 1980s my parents moved to Spain and my sister and I were born there, but we came back when I was nine.
Was that when you first played rugby?
I didn’t know what it was until I went to Blackrock College, but I got into it really quickly. I…
Posted 145 days ago
THE FESTIVE season always leads to an increased intake of food and drink. But try to keep your diet in check, maintain some sort of training routine and get rid of any extra body fat, writes John Dams, Harlequins’ head of strength and conditioning.
Posted 146 days ago
TOMMY HAYES has been around the block but he never forgets the words of one of his first coaches, Waikato’s Kevin Greene. “He encouraged us to have the confidence to try things and lose that fear of failure,” says the much-travelled Cook Islander. “You think about Saturday’s game all week and then you only get 80 minutes to express yourself,…
Posted 149 days ago
The England centre has an off-the-wall chat with Sarah Mockford
RUGBY WORLD: Do you have any nicknames?
BRAD BARRITT: My family call me ‘Dub’ as I was the double of my dad when I was young. The England guys call me ‘Shovel Face’, which isn’t very nice. I’m not too fond of it, but if it raises the spirits of other players…
