LAST SEASON was a funny old one for Marcel Garvey. Seventeen outings for Castres in the Top 14 and just one try, and that in the final game of the…
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Leigh Halfpenny’s Lions 2013 experience
LEIGH HALFPENNY is looking at the picture of himself embracing Jonathan Davies and Jamie Roberts in the pages of Rugby World and is taken back to Saturday 6 July; he…
Hotshots: Meet young Bath rugby star Ollie Devoto
Tell us about your rugby background… My dad Steve coached my U7s team at Sherborne RFC and I stayed there through all the age groups. Bath picked me up…
Hotshots: Ospreys upcoming rugby star Sam Davies
How do you feel about winning IRB Junior Player of the Year? I was shocked to be nominated but it was an honour to win. I’m gutted about losing…
Pro’s Playbook: The free drop at goal
DO YOU want to be able to win a match in the dying moments? Then read on, because in the October edition of Rugby World we asked former Lion Nigel Horton how…
Rugby Championship: European refs in demand
IT'S ALWAYS nice to be wanted. It must be a strange feeling for referees, though. In an age where the men in the middle are as professional as players and…
Contract extensions for Pro12, Premiership and Super Rugby stars
HERE’S TO the stayers. While we have all gotten hot and bothered about the prospect of George North playing for Northampton Saints or Matt Kvesic signing for Gloucester or even…
30 minutes with… Simon Zebo
RUGBY WORLD: What’s the funniest thing you’ve seen or heard on the pitch? SIMON ZEBO: Conor Murray’s reaction to me telling him to kick the ball out when time wasn’t…
Innovations in Aviva Premiership coverage
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The players missing openers in the Aviva Premiership and Pro12
THE WAITING is almost done. We are just over a week away from the opening days of the Aviva Premiership and the RaboDirect Pro12 and already we are condemning some…