From Paul Morgan, editor of Rugby World Magazine At the start of the Lions tour if you had offered Ian McGeechan five wins from the first five matches on the…
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Preview – rugby union: Lions v Western Stormers
From Paul Morgan, editor of Rugby World Magazine THINGS ARE now starting to get very serious in South Africa. A huge number of Lions fans arrived on tour yesterday and…
Lions v The Sharks Verdict
From Paul Morgan, editor of Rugby World Magazine ANOTHER match and another win for the Lions, but I am concerned that they will be mightily undercooked for the Test matches…
Rugby union: Lions v The Sharks Preview
From Paul Morgan, editor of Rugby World Magazine You can smell the Test matches on this Lions now we are less than two weeks away from the first one, in…
Rugby union: Lions v The Cheetahs – Verdict
ANOTHER WIN for the British and Irish Lions, and another set of lessons learned for the men in the famous red jersey…but they quickly need to start handing out more…
Lions on Terrestrial TV
By Chris Tipping, rugby writer At the risk of sounding like one of those professional whiners who used to drive the old TV show Points of View; why oh why…
Rugby union: Lions v Golden Lions verdict
From Paul Morgan, editor of Rugby World Magazine In one of my favourite episodes of Monty Python they said “nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!” Well, at Ellis Park we were…
Day Five – Previewing Lions v Golden Lions
From Paul Morgan, editor of Rugby World Magazine Having spent the morning with some of the Lions players at their impressive base, at St David’s School, in Sandton, Jo’Burg, I…
Lions tour day four – Post – Lions v The Royal XV match
From Paul Morgan, Editor of Rugby World Magazine Day Four of the Lions and it is all about the injuries, or rather the “bumps and bruises” as Lions doctor, James…
Lions tour day three – Lions v The Royal XV match
From Paul Morgan – Editor of Rugby World Magazine Apart from Andrew Sheridan, Ronan O’Gara, Jamie Roberts and Lee Byrne few people can have been happy with what occurred at…