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Posted 459 days ago
Zach Kibirige
(Newcastle)
Newcastle may be going through a torrid time in the Aviva Premiership, but one man who is clearly thriving in the Falcons environment is academy back Zach Kibirige. Still just 17, Kibirige has appeared in A league games for the Falcons on the wing and at full-back, and he is also captain of the club’s academy.
A pupil at Yarm…
Posted 825 days ago
MUTUAL CONSENT, it’s one of the great sporting clichés. Up there with ‘Over the moon’ and ‘game of two halves’. There was plenty of mutual consent in evidence when it was announced in December that Euan Murray would be leaving Northampton Saints. On this particular occasion, however, there was a clue in the press statement that perhaps the mutuality wasn’t…
Posted 1234 days ago
By Paul Morgan, editor of Rugby World Magazine
Wasps 6 Newcastle 12
It’s not often a loosehead prop is made man of the match but in Jon Golding Newcastle have discovered a destructive prop and the main reason they beat Wasps to go sixth in the Premiership was their set piece as they pretty-much destroyed Wasps at scrum and lineout in the…
