BASHED UP BOKS BAG BARGAINS: RUGBY HEALTHCARE COSTS REVEALED Essential maintenance for an English rugby player costs more than £16,000 a year; South African players would have to fork out just £6,000 for the same treatments Top-of-the-range mouth guards can set you back up to £800, yet enquiries more than triple (222%) in past 12 […]
The draw for the Round 1 of the Danske Bank Ulster Schools’ Medallion Shield has taken place. The draw is as follows:- Wellington College v Downshire School. Strabane Academy v Cambridge House. These games must be played on/before Saturday 6th December and results relayed through to cnash293@c2kni.net as soon as possible after the game. The […]
ConfEx Welcomes Global Rugby Family to London International Rugby Board Chairman Bernard Lapasset has officially opened the IRB World Rugby Conference and Exhibition (ConfEx) 2014 in front of record numbers in London. In only its second year, ConfEx has proved to be a huge draw, surpassing the success of last year’s inaugural event in Dublin […]
IRB Hall of Fame Welcomes 15 New Inductees First women among the legends honoured Nine greats from men’s game also named Winners of Spirit of Rugby and IRB Development awards also announced Fifteen legends of men’s and women’s rugby have been inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame at a special ceremony in London on […]
Referees are noticing that the amount of back chat to referees is reducing and there is less and less physical violence between players. Instead the athletes are playing better rugby and concentrating to a very very high level and the quality and intensity of the rugby is developing higher and higher as a consequence. For […]
Player of the year: Andrew Trimble with his award this week. Photograph: billy Strickland/INPHO see more at :- https://twitter.com/Inphosports Rugby’s Andrew Trimble: ‘I’m a mistake’… by Ann Marie Hourihane The Ulster and Ireland rugby winger is watching a lot of television following a ligament injury to his big toe. So how did it feel to […]