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Posted 706 days ago
Rugby is a good game, sure… and a good game brimful of goodness. Of all the major team sports, can there be a more consistently generous one than rugby?
Think of any rugby club you know – from the superior and snooty to the parish-pump piffling – and it would be a major shock-horror surprise, wouldn’t it, if it was a…
Posted 712 days ago
Stuart Hogg
(Scotland U20)
The 2010-11 season has taken Stuart Hogg from his Hawick home to Italy, as he’s playing for Scotland U20 in the Junior World Cup in Treviso and Padova from 10-26 June.
Hogg, a versatile back who turns 19 this month, has impressed the Scotland U20 coach Peter Wright, who says: “He identifies space exceptionally well and has the ability…
Posted 716 days ago
He may be mature, he may be sensible, he may be known as the wise old head of the Leicester midfield, but Anthony Allen is keen to point out that he’s only 24. This, it seems, is something that the outside world, and even some of his team-mates, can struggle to come to terms with.
“I suppose I’ve been around for…
Posted 717 days ago
Graeme Morrison can still remember the way it panned out in 2007, but then he reckons the day which remains one of the worst of his rugby life will be seared into his mind for years to come.
The Scotland centre had won a whole load of caps off the bench in 2004, and by 2007 was really beginning to prove…
Posted 731 days ago
The Wales centre hopes his fruitful season will ensure him a World Cup place. Sarah Mockford reports
The heritage of one Scarlet has proved quite the topic of conversation in the past couple of months, the form of England-born No 8 Ben Morgan catching the eyes of national selectors on both sides of the Severn Bridge. He qualifies to play for…
Posted 739 days ago
“When i die I don’t want to go to Heaven,” said former Wales wing Glenn Webbe, “I want to go on tour.” We can all relate to that, and this guide to global rugby hotspots will whet the appetite of fans planning to follow their team at home or abroad, writes Rugby World deputy editor Alan Pearey.
Rugby nations big and…
Posted 739 days ago
Three years after the first Help for Heroes rugby match raised £1.4m for our servicemen and women, we’re going back to Twickenham on 3 December for Help for Heroes 2.
In 2008 it was a Help for Heroes team against the Rest of the World and we attracted 54,000 to HQ. This time it will be a battle of the hemispheres,…
Posted 739 days ago
It’s only two short years since Edinburgh finished second in the Magners League and there is a great belief that we can return to those great days of top-four finishes and Heineken Cup quarter-finals. Everyone is convinced we can develop a club to honour the traditions of one of the world’s great rugby cities, writes Jim Calder, the Edinburgh Chariman.
There…
Posted 739 days ago
If you’re looking for a change of pace this month, take a leaf out of Donncha O’Callaghan’s book. He’s urging rugby fans in Ireland and the UK to get on their bikes in support of Paul Darbyshire.
Originally from Wigan, Darbyshire is Munster’s head of strength and conditioning, having arrived at the province in 2007 from rugby league side Warrington Wolves,…
Posted 740 days ago
These are the only awards that span the entire globe, taking in the season from September to May. We reveal our winners…
