RUGBY LEGEND SHAUN EDWARDS TO “COACH THE COACHES” AT CALDY RUGBY CLUB AND WILMSLOW RUFC Rugby legend Shaun Edwards will be visiting the Wirral next month to share his knowledge with amateur coaches. Edwards, a leading coach with Wales and the British Lions and a former rugby league scrum half with Wigan and Great Britain, […]
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It is extremely important to compete and be clinical and focused and intense in a game of rugby. It is a physical game. The immaturity of throwing a ball at a competitors head is a direct reflection of the ethos within the camp. This action in our opinion is a red card offence and indeed […]
Jack Kyle goes on one of his many trademark runs in an Ireland shirt His first cap came in January 1947 on a team that included Karl Mullen, JC Daly, Barney Mullan and Bill McKay to name but a few in at the start of a golden generation and golden period for Irish rugby. I […]
THE KIERAN SHANNON INTERVIEW The great Jack Kyle passed yesterday, aged 88, but what a full life he lived and he knew it. “You should look on the past with gratitude, the present with enthusiasm and try to look on the future with confidence,” he’d once been told — that’s how he was still thinking […]
Jack Kyle: ‘an exceptional person.’ David Conachy A few years ago at the annual dinner of the Guinness Rugby Writers of Ireland, I sidled over to Jack Kyle and asked him would he be kind enough to sign his autograph. I told him it was for my son, which was true, but added that even […]
Women’s Rugby World Cup 2017 tender process opens Just months after a record-breaking Women’s Rugby World Cup in France, the tender process has now opened to host the event in 2017. The tournament, which was won by England after a thrilling final in Paris last August, will move to 2017 to maximise synergy with the […]
The referee Nigel Owens, right, is drenched as the heavens open during England’s defeat against New Zealand. Photograph: Hugh Routledge/Rex The Rugby Football Union has issued two-year Twickenham bans to two men accused of directing homophobic abuse at the referee Nigel Owens, the governing body has announced. The RFU launched an investigation into allegations of […]
Jack Kyle was one of the stars of the Ireland team of 1948: (pic Paul Faith/PA) It’s the year that still defines Irish rugby, a date repeated so frequently in the last month and so urgently in the last week that it seems to have raced from history into the present. 1948, when Ireland last […]
PC Rob Green joined Welsh and New Zealand fans to perform a haka on a Cardiff street which has been watched (and loved) around the world He’s the comical copper who gave Welsh fans a reason to smile on Saturday when he helped bring a Cardiff city centre street to a standstill with an impressive […]