Newport Gwent Dragons have signed up former WRU Academy Skills Coach Rob Appleyard as Assistant Coach for the region. Appleyard, currently working with the Wales Under 20 side at the…
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Phil Waugh will quit after the World Cup
Phil Waugh announced today that he will retire from professional Rugby at the end of 2011. Waugh is the most-capped player in the history of NSW Rugby, and he has…
The Rugby Week in Review: June 13-19
Catch up in the Rugby week that was: June 13-19… We start in the Northern Hemisphere, Wales to be exact, to find Welsh scrum-half Mike Phillips has been indefinitely suspended…
Steenson ready for new season
Exeter playmaker Gareth Steenson is well aware the Chiefs will no longer be the surprise package of the Aviva Premiership this season, but he is confident he and his team-mates…
England’s 45-man World Cup squad revealed
Saracens prop Matt Stevens and Leicester Tigers centre Manu Tuilagi are among the players named in England Team Manager Martin Johnson’s 45-man preliminary training squad for the Rugby World Cup.…
WRU launch probe into 92-0 defeat
The Welsh Rugby Union Head of Rugby, Joe Lydon, has announced details of a dual focused study of the Player Performance Pathway within Welsh Rugby which will formulate its initial…
Junior World Cup semi-finals confirmed
Defending champions New Zealand, England and France all enjoyed victories on the last day of pool action at the IRB Junior World Championship 2011 in Italy to take their place…
Clermont Auvergne: Wesley Fofana tribute
Check out Clermont Auvergne’s finest young export, Wesley Fofana as he carves up the Top 14 turf.
England Saxons win the last Churchill Cup
Miles Benjamin scored two spectacular tries on his home ground to earn England Saxons a sixth and final Churchill Cup title, 37-6 over Canada. The Worcester Warriors wing raced 70…
Italy A win last Churchill Cup Plate against Tonga
MARCO BORTOLAMI saluted his Italy A players after they lifted the Churchill Cup Plate at Sixways, beating Tonga 28-17. The skipper, whose side had spluttered throughout the tournament, came good…