THE WORLD champions of women’s rugby, New Zealand’s Black Ferns, are taking on England three times in the next eight days with the aim of avenging the two consecutive Test…
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Would a global rugby season endanger the Heineken Cup?
WITH PREMIERSHIP Rugby coming out in support of the International Rugby Players Association’s proposal for an integrated global rugby season, there could be a world of possibilities in front of…
Diary of a new academy recruit in NZ – Part Two
SINCE THE first blog on my stay here in Mount Maunganui at the Inside Running Academy, I’ve really settled into the rhythm of the schedule and been working hard at…
Lions 2013: The final Thank Yous
NOW THAT it is all over and you’ve had your say on what was the team of the tour and who was the man of the series and who will…
Lions 2013: The Series XV
SO IN the end it was a pair of props and a rampant last twenty minutes that prised two balanced outfits apart, the Lions’ power game coming to the fore…
Simon Shaw powers his way to Paris in aid of charity
SIMON SHAW has brought a new meaning to the word ‘longevity’. He made his senior debut for Bristol 22 years ago, aged 17, but after seven years in the west…
Lions 2013: Five things we’ve learned. Third Test
THE LIONS secured their first series win in 16 years, with a storming 41 -16 win over the Wallabies in Sydney. During the previous nine fixtures the Lions had, on…
Lions 2013: Vindication for Gatland as the big calls pay off
THE ROAD sweepers were out in force in Sydney this morning, clearing away the debris from a heady night, as the sun rose for another flawless mid-winter’s day sunshine. What…
Lions 2013: Third Test Australia 16-41 Lions
How the Lions wrapped up their first series win for 16 years emphatically in Sydney
Lions 2013: The key match-ups in Test 3
COME SIX Nations time we always talk about Le Crunch when England meet France. In the final match of the British and Irish Lions series in Australia, though, with the…