There was a lunch meeting last week about the Varsity Match, held in a hospitality box at Twickenham stadium. At its conclusion, the affable convener Rob Cole, a director at…
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Aviva Premiership: Let’s look after home-grown tightheads
FIVE. That’s a number to remember and come back to. With Premiership Rugby announcing that they will be extending the salary cap to £5.1m plus an additional £400,000 ‘Home Grown…
James Simpson-Daniel: My five career highlights
Kingsholm bow My first choice is my home debut at Kingsholm against Rotherham (March 2001). I came off the bench and scored a try. I got the ball on the…
Rugby World Cup countdown: Seven memorable moments
Exactly a year ahead of the opening fixture in the 2015 Rugby World Cup, RW rewinds the clock to some memorable moments from previous tournaments
Rugby and royalty combine at Invictus Games
GREAT BRITAIN beat the USA to win the wheelchair rugby title at the recent Invictus Games and a few more familiar faces kept the crowd entertained when playing an exhibition…
Saints and Sinners: The weekend’s talking points
The Saints The Bee team Having seen reigning champions Northampton cruise past 50 points against Gloucester in the Aviva Premiership’s opening match, Wasps might have been a tad nervous about…
Top 14: Jonathan Wisniewski in the mix
Jonathan Wisniewski is the form fly-half in the Top 14, scoring 55 points in his four appearances after moving to Grenoble from Racing Metro in the summer. Rested for last weekend’s…
Premiership player analysis: Will Fraser, Saracens
One of rugby’s weirder nuances is that sometimes it is better not to have the ball. Every so often, relentless aggression in defence, allied to only a few attacking ambushes,…
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The Saracens and Springboks hooker on golf, gags and guilty pleasures
How to get Rugby World Cup 2015 tickets
Our step-by-step guide on how to buy tickets for RWC 2015