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Posted 370 days ago
THE ARRIVAL of Heineken Cup rugby at Connacht has brought a feel-good factor to the province this season, and the performances of Shane Layden, a 19-year-old academy back, have personified the mood in the camp. Having scored a hat-trick for Connacht U20 in their Inter-Pro victory over Munster
Posted 410 days ago
RUGBY WORLD: What’s your favourite joke?
GEORGE CHUTER: Two fish are in a tank. One says to the other, “Do you know how to drive this thing?”
RW: Do you have any nicknames?
GC: Big Guy, Ace. Not really – it’s more Big Nose and Hooter.
Posted 412 days ago
THE CAMBRIDGE school win their first Team of the Month award, their Daily Mail-RBS U18 Vase win bringing the curtain down on one of their greatest seasons.
The side, based on the one that won the U15 Vase in 2009, won 17 games and lost just two – one when understrength in the Daily Mail Cup to Cambridge’s Hills Road VIth…
Posted 412 days ago
WHEN BARRY Poulter moved to Halstead five years ago, he was surprised to learn that the Essex town had no rugby club. Nor, apart from a handful of games under a pub name in the Seventies, had there ever been one.
Poulter and Neil Prentice, a fellow resident who was coaching Bury St Edmunds, were aggrieved that local players had to…
Posted 414 days ago
NEW ENGLAND coach Stuart Lancaster gets a grilling in the latest issue of Rugby World – answering YOUR questions. We also head down to the farm with Wales flanker Dan Lydiate and chat to back-three dangermen David Strettle, Andrew Trimble and Stuart Hogg. Plus, there’s a special report on depression in rugby and how professionals are finding it hard to…
