Gruff Rees embarks on Italian sojourn

Wales Under 18 head coach and WRU Performance Skills Coach (Ospreys region) Gruff Rees has agreed to join Italian Super Club Aironi Rugby on a one-year secondment from the Welsh…

Gulliver travels to promoted Warriors

Towering lock Ben Gulliver has today put pen to paper and completed his anticipated move to Worcester Warriors ahead of the club’s forthcoming Aviva Premiership season. Coventry-born second row Gulliver…

In the past few months Jamie Heaslip has been somewhat pushed out of the spotlight. It’s not that the No 8 has completely disappeared from the hearts of Leinster and…

In most years the Churchill Cup is little more than a development event, with little at stake, writes Paul Morgan. But in 2011 everything has changed with the competition becoming…

HFW Wailers win the Amsterdam 7s

Top international Sevens team HFW Wailers triumphed in the prestigious Amsterdam 7s Competition last weekend. The team, which is based in the North-East, overcame Castricum, ve Arendeu, Lorraine, Moldova and…

Thomas Waldrom and Manu Tuilagi win top awards

Leicester Tigers did the double at the 13th annual RPA Computacenter Rugby Players’ Awards, scooping both the Computacenter Players’ Player of the Year Award and the Norman Broadbent Young Player…

Barbarians pick strong side to take on England

Italy’s Sergio Parisse will captain the Barbarians against England at Twickenham on Sunday. He leads a multi-national side that features Australia’s George Smith and Springbok Joe van Niekerk alongside him…

Fergus Thomson to miss World Cup

Fergus Thomson, the 27-year-old Glasgow Warriors hooker, will miss this autumn’s Rugby World Cup in New Zealand through the recurrence of a shoulder problem, which required surgery. Eight-times capped Thomson,…