PLAYED OUT in the kind of conditions that would have drowned ducks and bent weathervanes Scotland set themselves up for a stripped down but dogged performance against Australia in Newcastle,…
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French focus: Top 14 Semi-final play-offs
AS THE Home Nations gear up for Down Under, across the Channel in France the Top 14 is coming to the boil, writes Gavin Mortimer. The French domestic season is…
Rugby World’s Championship blog
London Welsh were crowned kings of the Championship last night at the Kassam Stadium — a palace deemed unfit for the round table of Premiership rugby by the RFU, writes…
Gloucester prop Harden replaces Matt Stevens in England squad
GLOUCESTER PROP Rupert Harden has been called into the England squad for the tour to South Africa. Harden replaces Saracens’ Matt Stevens, who suffered a shoulder rotator cuff injury during…
Premiership Final: Harlequins 30-23 Leicester
By Owain Jones, Rugby World Editor In a nutshell HARLEQUINS CELEBRATED their first Premiership title beating Leicester 30-23 in a fine advertisment for the Aviva Premiership at a sweltering Twickenham.…
Premiership Final preview: Harlequins v Leicester
By Owain Jones, Rugby World Editor WITH ONLY a point to separate them in the League at the end of the regular season, the smart money will be on the…
Rugby World’s Championship Blog
LONDON WELSH showed the RFU exactly what they thought of the their decision to bar them from the Aviva Premiership by making the Cornish Pirates walk the plank at the…
Amlin Challenge Cup Final – Toulon v Biarritz preview
IT’S AN all-French affair in Friday’s Amlin Challenge Cup final at the Stoop as Toulon take on Biarritz. Did we say ‘all-French’ affair? That’s a bit like saying Arsenal against…
Rugby World’s Championship Blog
THE GREAT thing about Eurovision, is that when it’s all over, Engelbert Humperdinck — win or lose — will return to relative obscurity, writes Richard Grainger. Sadly, the same will…
Jonny Wilkinson on his best coaches
By Jonny Wilkinson, England 2003 World Cup winner I HAVE been enormously fortunate to have been coached by some of the best coaches around. Here I let you know why…