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May 18, 2025

Give Ford respect he deserves, says Curry

SALE captain Ben Curry says in-form George Ford deserves more respect after making another mockery of his Lions snub.

1 mins

Saints in race to get stars fit for Euro final

NORTHAMPTON'S last-minute victory over Saracens yesterday came at a cost with four players left on the treatment table ahead of Saturday's Investec Champions Cup final against Bordeaux Begles in Cardiff.

2 mins

Skivington playing it smart at Gloucester

GLOUCESTER are losing 19 players next month but George Skivington expects to have a bigger squad next season for the same amount of money.

3 mins

English second tier gets rebrand

THE Championship will be rebranded as 'Champ Rugby' from next season and with a six-team play off system to determine the league winners.

1 mins

Friday lights don’t scare Bath

BATH head of rugby Johann van Graan has every confidence a Friday night or Saturday afternoon semi-final will make no difference to his team.

1 mins

Murley intends to prove he's no one-cap wonder

CADAN MURLEY is hoping to build on his superb performance against Gloucester and play himself back into the England squad touring Argentina and USA this summer.

3 mins

Bordeaux have a point to prove says Coleman

ADAM Coleman believes Saturday’s Champions Cup final in Cardiff between Bordeaux Begles and Northampton will be a meeting of like minds.

2 mins

Parling to take over at Tigers post Lions

GEOFF Parling will take charge at Leicester Tigers next season, succeeding former Australia coach Michael Cheika who leaves after just one season at Welford Road.

1 mins

Fin's found a soulmate in Saints guru Vesty

FIN Smith and his Northampton teammates will sit down tomorrow as coaches Sam Vesty and Phil Dowson unveil their plan to conquer Europe next weekend.

2 mins

Twelvetrees backs Lions for series win

BILLY Twelvetrees is backing the British and Irish Lions to roar to success in Australia this summer, fired up by the exciting squad Andy Farrell has assembled for the trip Down Under.

2 mins

Batley eyes England tour to cap frustrating season

JOE Batley’s frustrating season can be summed up by a week in November when he turned up for training with England A nursing a calf strain only to discover he had a broken leg.

3 mins

Restore long tours around the UK

WITH details of the forthcoming Lions tour to Australia announced, they show that the tourists will play in six cities; a similar situation to when they visit New Zealand or South Africa.

1 mins

'Rebrand' doesn't go far enough

THE 'rebrand' of the Championship hasn't gone far enough in my opinion.

1 mins

Removingjeopardy is not right direction

IN WELCOMING the prospect of the Premiership becoming a franchise operation, Sale director of rugby Steve Diamond, below, states in the most recent edition of The Rugby Paper: “The wealthy owners model does not stand up at the moment — why invest in something that has a one in ten chance of relegation?”

1 mins

Pichot passed on Grizz's kindness to my son Dan

BRENDAN Gallagher's piece regarding Grizz Wylie (March 30) told of Grizz's support and kindness to Gus Pichot.

1 mins

Modern day warriors deserve far better

IT IS high time rugby union realised ignoring the past is the preserve of the ignorant, shown by the fact today the game’s most revered event is a throwback to the game’s amateur era that was ended in an International Rugby Board meeting in a Paris hotel 30 years ago in 1995.

3 mins

Saints need team effort to stifle 'electric' Louis

NORTHAMPTON and Bordeaux Begles are great at- tacking sides, and that is what makes the European Cup final on Saturday at the Principality Stadium such an intriguing prospect.

5 mins

It wasn't perfect display - Johann

JOHANN van Graan is not getting carried away as the prospect of the treble grows larger.

1 mins

Bath turn on power to secure top spot

BATH delivered a statement of intent with 31 unanswered points against their main league rivals as a first Premiership title beckons.

2 mins

McCall: We didn't deserve to win

SARACENS director of rugby Mark McCall refused to make any excuses after their controversial defeat.

1 mins

Saints fightback hits Sarries play-off hope

SARACENS - so good for 50 minutes, so poor for the final half hour - saw their play-off hopes take a serious dent when they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory at Franklin’s Gardens.

2 mins

Sharks ready for battle at Chiefs

ALEX Sanderson is bracing himself for a potentially fraught final-day trip to Exeter as Sale bid to book a play-off spot.

1 mins

Another masterclass by majestic George

WHEN will George Ford tire of teasing and tormenting opposition defences with matchwinning performances?

2 mins

Lions must get tough by delivering an ultimatum

THE longer the Lions Board continues to be as soft-toy cuddly as the mascot that tour youngster Henry Pollock will have to lug around Australia this summer, the longer coaches like Joe Schmidt, below, will devalue tours by withholding players until the Test series.

1 mins

Champ rebrand can be a real game-changer

THE rebranding this week of England's second professional league as Champ Rugby could be a game-changer in English club rugby, and it is a new dynamic required so urgently that it almost cannot afford to fail.

4 mins

Diamond: It sums up our season...we're the 'nearly' team

FURIOUS Newcastle boss Steve Diamond blamed “three or four minutes of madness” after Falcons’ farewell to their leavers became another defeat.

1 mins

Ace Tomos helps keep Gloucester in the race

TOMOS Williams may not have got on the scoresheet but the Gloucester scrum-half showed exactly why he’s one of only two Welshmen picked for the Lions with a sublime showing.

2 mins

Number nine Danny makes history on his swansong

DANNY Care will make his farewell to Twickenham Stoop this afternoon with special dispensation to wear the number nine shirt — despite being named on the bench.

2 mins

Rob just cares about his own team's display

ROB Baxter has told his Exeter players not to get caught up in the emotion that will be swirling around The Stoop today where Danny Care will be making his final appearance for Harlequins.

2 mins

McCall: George will battle until very end

JAMIE George’s dream of a third Lions tour failed to turn into reality but the experienced hooker is hell-bent on finishing the club campaign on a high.

2 mins

Curry opts to defer surgery

ENGLAND flanker Tom Curry will delay surgery to fix a wrist ligament injury until after the Lions tour of Australia.

2 mins

Kingsholm balancing act should be lauded

GLOUCESTER are a proper rugby club, determined to run themselves properly.

1 mins

World Cup fast-track begins in Argentina

YOUR starter for 10: what might Jason Leonard, Richard Cockerill, Danny Grewcock and Martin Corry have in common, apart from a deep commitment to the England cause and a sinister mastery of rugby's darker arts? The correct answer: they made their international debuts on Argentine soil, the last three of them at moments when established first-teamers were doing something bigger and better with their time, like touring with the British and Irish Lions.

3 mins

Crowley leads the way for Munster

JACK Crowley delivered afine display to march Munster into the play-offs.

1 mins

Bulls seal home run to semi-final

THE Dragons brought down the curtain on their worst ever season by conceding nine tries in Pretoria as they suffered a 17th successive URC defeat.

2 mins

Fassi's late Dublin date

THE SCARLETS will travel to Dublin’s Aviva Stadium to take on table-topping Leinster in the quarter-finals of the URC play-offs after being denied a losing bonus point by the final kick of the game in Durban.

1 mins

McNally's fighters fall just short in Cape Town

CARDIFF captain Josh MeNally insists they are going somewhere special despite missing out on the URC play-offs.

2 mins

Snubbed Graham runs in a hat-trick

DARCY Graham responded to his Lions snub with a hat-trick as Edinburgh booked their place in the play-offs.

1 mins

Hanrahan sparkles in classy Italian job

JJ HANRAHAN stole the show as Connacht concluded an underwhelming season with a victory in Italy over Zebre.

1 mins

Leinster tough out win over Warriors

BRITISH & Irish Lion Sione Tuipulotu made a timely return to action ahead of the play-offs, but reigning champions Glasgow were beaten by table toppers Leinster in a largely dull affair riddled with errors.

1 mins

Fassi's late kick books Dublin date for Scarlets

1 mins

Lions late show makes it sad finale for Ospreys

LUBABELO Dobela scored a last-gasp winner for the Lions as the Ospreys' underwhelming campaign concluded in disappointing fashion.

1 mins

‘I never thought I'd achieve what I did’

IT SEEMED as if Danny Care would go on forever, but 20 years after he made his Premiership debut for Leeds the scrum-half has reluctantly called time on a career which has involved more than 500 matches for clubs and country.

7 mins

Dragons swoop for Wyn

WALES loosehead Wyn Jones will join Dragons from Harlequins at the end of season, joining fellow prop Dillon Lewis in swapping London for Gwent.

1 mins

Falcons pin faith in their local lads

THERE’S no silver bullet, no overnight fix, and Newcastle Falcons aren't pretending otherwise.

2 mins

Saints and Bath shape up to face the French

AS THE Premiership hacks through the undergrowth to find a path to sustainability, envious glances are directed at France where the Top 14, underpinned by a strong second division, is commercially vibrant and generates considerable interest, club rugby's Shangri-La.

10+ mins

Ace Adamson bags four as Cambridge get the Blues

BEDFORD Blues left Grantchester Road with the bragging rights in this local derby after a turbo-charged second half performance blew away the stubborn resistance of Cambridge, who were well in the game at the break.

1 mins

Pirates dig deep to stretch their winning run

PIRATES battled back from a 23-7 first-half deficit to sink Ampthill and plunder their sixth successive victory.

1 mins

Ealing enjoy feeling all over again

CLAPPING their travelling fans and enjoying jugs of beer in the sun were the order of the day for Ealing after they wrapped up their third Championship title in four years.

2 mins

It's famous five for Opoku to bag slice of Cov history

DELIGHTED head coach Alex Rae paid tribute to record-breaking winger David Opoku after the speedster ran in five tries to help Coventry to an emphatic victory over their East Midlands visi-tors.

2 mins

Strong back to lead the charge

MORGAN Strong lines up for Doncaster for the first time since his move to Coventry next season was confirmed as Knights look to reel in high-flying Hartpury.

1 mins

Scottish are so ruthless, but Chinnor rue mistakes

LONDON Scottish made the most of their opportunities to take the win with their clinical red zone efficiency proving the difference.

1 mins

Irish faith helped me to fulfil my Wallaby dream

I WAS a rugby fan first and foremost before I joined the Western Force, aged 14. My happiness on a weekend would be based on whether they had won or not so I was more sad than not given the results of the team! I had the jerseys of people like Matt Giteau and David Pocock on my bedroom wall, so to get the chance to join their academy and then ultimately to go and train and then play for the team was unbelievable.

5 mins

European Cup's given us some real pearlers

So NEXT week in Cardiff will be the 30th European Cup Final, a pearl anniversary of sorts. Where did the time go? It seems like yesterday that Emile Ntamack was lifting the trophy high at Cardiff Arms Park after Toulouse's extra-time win over Cardiff, which is still, come to think of it, the only occasion a Welsh club has reached the final.

4 mins

Brace of tries for Kendrick and Davies as Kent run riot

THERE’S something to be said for ‘know-how’ in team sport.

2 mins

The lame Bucks are so broken by Herts

WITH the professional season drawing to a conclusion, attention turned to the grassroots stage as the County Championship returned with a bang.

1 mins

Cross sparkles in Cheshire’s victory

SET-PIECE dominance, some silky play in the loose and a man-of-the-match display by replacement back-rower Stuart Cross saw Cheshire run out comfortable 29-10 winners over Northumberland at a sunkissed Birkenhead Park.

1 mins

Loney lauds new-look Lancashire's fine start

A NEW-LOOK Lancashire produced a superb display to beat Somerset and open with a win.

2 mins

Loney lauds new-look Lancashire's fine start

A NEW-LOOK Lancashire produced a superb display to beat Somerset and open with a win.

2 mins

Culley concerned for game's future

WITH the RFU County Championships kicking-off this weekend, a former head of Northumberland and Dorset & Wiltshire men’s teams is calling for it to be re-invigorated by being at the heart of wider reforms to the sport.

2 mins

Devon cream their way past Gloucestershire

THE Gill Burns County Championship got underway with three matches across its three divisions, with ties taking places in the deepest south, to the most far-flung of northern locations.

1 mins

Oundle cruise to victory at HQ

Papa Johns Finals

1 mins

Gloucester bring in reinforcements

GLOUCESTER have signed scrum-half Mike Austin on a permanent deal after an impressive spell on loan from Championship side Hartpury.

1 mins

Rugby milestone for ref Davidson

SCOTLAND'S Hollie Davidson will become the first woman to take charge of a European final when she referees the Challenge Cup clash between Bath and Lyon on Friday night.

1 mins

Williams and Burns hunt for new clubs

WALES full-back Liam Williams will leave Saracens at the end of the season.

1 mins

Komaitai the star as Army retain title

BRITISH Army women’s head coach Sarah Mitchelson paid tribute to the development of playerof-the-match Manuqalo Komaitai and the leadership of team captain Jade Mullen after the team overwhelmed the RAF to retain the Inter Service Championship title at Kingsholm.

2 mins

Classy Rokoduguni blasts in a hat-trick

THE permanence of class was on show at Kingsholm as Semesa Rokoduguni rolled back the years with a hat-trick of tries which anchored the Army's thrilling win over the RAF.

2 mins

Priday gave life service to Cardiff

ALUN Priday made his debut for Cardiff against Harlequins in January 1953, a year which would end with victory over New Zealand, vindication of the club’s grandiose description of itself as ‘The Greatest.’

1 mins

The Leicester Lip's still talk of the town

NOBODY in a European Cup final has engineered a break like the one 'The Leicester Lip' made when English rugby's largest tribe spent a memorable weekend plastered in Paris.

4 mins

Tonbridge's six of the best lead way but Dorking and Bames aces also nab spot

TONBRIDGE Juddians proved the league’s pacesetters, securing promotion back to National One, and their formidable campaign saw the Kent side dominate this year’s Dream Team with six selections.

5 mins

Wales' star backs in fitness race to make JWC

WALES U20 are sweating on the fitness of two key back line players ahead of this summer’s U20 World Championship in Italy with outside-half Harri Wilde and wing Tom Bowen both picking up hamstring injuries.

1 mins

Chessum chasing his dream at Tigers

Ben Jaycock talks to Leicester lock Lewis Chessum who has a big goal for when he returns from sabbatical in Japan

3 mins

Steady Pirates are primed for attack

FOR the first time in years, the Cornish Pirates are heading into the off-season without the usual hectic scramble to piece together a competitive squad.

1 mins

‘Mongrel’ Plumtree craves Wales recall

TAINE Plumtree says his father’s example has rubbed off on him when it comes to his life as a “mongrel” rugby player.

2 mins

Green sets his sights on a big finish at Coventry

DAN Green has enjoyed his first season at Coventry after making the step up from Newport (Salop) and he is determined to help turn around his side’s mid-season slump.

2 mins

Kvesic returns to Worcester

MATT Kvesic says it was a ‘no-brainer’ to return to Worcester next season.

2 mins

Give players the tools to problem solve in-game

Steve Hill puts the questions to Tim Stevenson, below, the head coach at Drybrook RFC who won this season’s Regional 2 Tribute Severn (Level 6)

3 mins

I was thrilled to finally receive my Lions cap

IT’S funny how at a time when the game is looking forward to something special for a few players, I feel a little sad for all those that have missed out. I am, of course, talking about the Lions selection which has always been a puzzle to me and probably anyone and everyone outside the cartel that has the job of player selection.

4 mins

Newport battling in honour of 'BJ'

Ebbw Vale u Newport 2.30pm

2 mins

Britain's first European king on trip down memory lane

TONY Rees and Alain Penaud will share a moment in Cardiff this weekend ahead of the 30th anniversary European Cup final to recall what it was like for them to lift the greatest piece of club silverware 28 years ago.

2 mins

Try-fests galore as fans flock to ProD2

THE curtain had barely come down on the regular ProD2 season on Friday night when the Ligue Nationale de Rugby - entirely justifiably - popped out a press release celebrating a new cumulative crowd record for the French second tier.

4 mins

Steelers hit back to book semi-final spot against the champs

KOBE Steelers overcame an early deficit to book their place in the semi-final agaonst Toshiba Brave Lupus, with a 35-20 win against Shizuoka Blue Revs.

1 mins

Savea stars as Moana move into contention

Super Rugby Pacific round-up

3 mins

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