Chris Henry has been named as captain for the second of Ulster’s back-to-back Heineken Cup Pool 4 clashes with Northampton (Ravenhill, 6.00pm). The team has just one personnel change and one positional switch from the side that beat the Saints 6-25 at Franklin’s Gardens last Friday. Regular skipper Johann Muller is sidelined with a displaced […]
New Zealand fly-half Nick Evans has selected his starting XV for the first Test of The British & Irish Lions Tour to Australia in 2013. The All Black, capped 16 times for his country, has put pen to paper and jotted down his starting line-up to face the Australians on 22nd June 2013. Furthermore Nick […]
Speaking at an HSBC hosted media debate on the eve of the Dubai Rugby Sevens, former British & Irish Lions captain and HSBC ambassador, Gavin Hastings discussed the opportunities sevens rugby gives the sport to go global, particularly in territories such as the UAE who just this week were announced as a full member of […]
As per previous years the Annual Xmas Exiles v Ards Select will compete for the Michael Taylor Cup Michael was a talented Ards rugby player who came through the ranks of mini and junior rugby at Ards and Regent House along with the likes of Stewarty Paul, Gareth Paden, Colin Ritchie, Stewart Johnston, Richard Cull […]
The road to Rugby World Cup 2015 for Oceania teams will begin in Papua New Guinea in June 2013 after the Federation of Oceania Rugby Unions (FORU) announced that the Papua New Guinea Rugby Football Union (PNGRFU) will host the 2013 Oceania Cup in Port Moresby. Eight Unions will compete in the IRB-funded Oceania Cup […]