JJ Hanrahan’s departure to Northampton is desperately deflating for Irish rugby Gerry Thornley: Munster kicking themselves after talent slips through fingers Pic: JJ Hanrahan will play his rugby next season with English Premiership champions Northampton. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho There’s something that sticks in the craw about JJ Hanrahan leaving Munster for Northampton and the English […]
Ulster’s Dan Tuohy will miss the Six Nations after thumb surgery. Photograph: James Crombie / Inpho Ulster and Ireland secondrow Dan Tuohy will miss the majority of the Six Nations Championship because of thumb surgery. The player suffered a torn ligament in the province’s victory over Treviso on Sunday and is expected to be out […]
It is less a matter of what’s professional practice as what’s good practice. The best managers and management teams understand this, writes Kieran Shannon. All these years and the message still hasn’t sunk in. Ten years ago the GAA coaching conference also focused on burnout, just like last weekend’s one investigated it as well. At […]
Mike McGurn takes a training session during International Rules Series in 2011 A leading strength and condition coach has said that many of the current training regimes implemented by many GAA county managers go against science and smart methods of training. Mike McGurn, who has previously worked with the FAI, the Irish rugby team as […]
Image Credit: Bob Bob via Flickr. What Next For Ireland’s Provinces? As the European transfer-merry-go round gathers pace, Munster’s loss of emerging star JJ Hanrahan to Northampton could be the start of a worrying trend for the Irish provinces. En route to annexing five Heineken Cup trophies in seven seasons between 2005/6 and 2011/12 Munster […]
The protective ear plasters worn by Sarries players can pioneer the monitoring, and ultimately the prevention, of serious head injuries • Saracens introduce head impact monitoring in win over London Irish The x-Patch will enable coaches to scrutinise the size, severity and location of every hit to the head suffered by rugby players. Photograph: Guardian […]
As the RFU prepares to release figures on the biggest problem in rugby, players’ chief Richard Bryan tells Chris Hewett where progress is being made A new set of carefully audited injury statistics will be published by Twickenham next month and if, as seems likely, there is another increase in concussion rates – perhaps the […]
Neurosurgeon critical of rugby’s ‘excessive aggression’ Broken necks and serious brain injuries don’t result from other school sports – surgeon “As a ‘rugby parent’ I’ve observed the school and club game at close quarters, from both sides of the touchline. What I’ve seen and heard suggests that our thinking on the subject may not be […]
Jerry Sexton embraces teammate Greg Bateman after Exeter Chiefs’ LV= Cup win over Gloucester at Sandy Park. Photograph: Dan Mullan/Getty Images The second row made his debut against Gloucester having spent time in France Jerry Sexton has embarked on a road less travelled in pursuing a career in professional rugby. The youngest of a clan […]
Dan Robson to join Wasps at end of season Wasps today confirmed the signing of England Saxons’ scrum half Dan Robson from Gloucester Rugby at the end of the 2014/15 season. Robson is seen as one of the brightest young prospects in the game and has accrued significant Aviva Premiership experience with 51 appearances already […]