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Wales U18 Women face USA tomorrow to finish off their first ever summer series development camp at Cardiff Arms Park. (KO 1.30pm – free entry) “We have selected a strong competitive 23 to take on the USA. It was not an easy selection to make as the full squad have applied themselves positively all week,” […]
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History-making Jasmine Joyce-Butchers is hoping it will be a case of third time lucky at this year’s Olympic Games in Paris. The Welsh flier will become the first British rugby player to appear at three Olympic Games when GB Women begin their campaign with a match against Ireland on Sunday at Stade de France in […]
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History-making Jasmine Joyce is hoping it will be a case of third time lucky at this year’s Olympic Games in Paris. The Welsh flier will become the first British rugby player to appear at three Olympic Games when GB Women begin their campaign with a match against Ireland on Sunday at Stade de France in […]
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The return to Australia in 2026 is a blow to expansionists, but a slimmed-down tournament makes sense for the sport
By Gavin Willacy for No Helmets Required
Expansionists have twice been denied the excitement of new hosts. Initially, the next World Cup was going to be held in the United States and Canada in 2025, before France took over as potential hosts. When that plan fell through, the tournament was pushed back to 2026, with New Zealand and Fiji suggested as hosts, only for it to be confirmed this week that the World Cup is going back to Australia (and Papua New Guinea) again.
Continue reading...The Rugby Football League is ready to pause the controversial changes to tackle height in the professional game planned for 2025 which would have reduced the legal height to below the armpit, after data showed a reduction in head contact of 75% in Super League this year.
Rugby league has already approved the changes at amateur and academy level, with the intention to replicate the ruling at professional level next year after recommendations from the sport’s brain health committee, which is aimed at reducing the number of concussions suffered by players. However, that change could now be halted, the Guardian has been told.
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Wales Women U18 head coach Siwan Lillicrap has given the Development Camp her side is currently undertaking alongside Scotland, Netherlands and USA a big thumbs up. The four sides are taking part in a week-long festival in Cardiff which culminates in Wales taking on USA at Cardiff Arms Park on Saturday. Netherlands will play Scotland […]
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The Welsh Rugby Union today published its audited annual report for the 2023 financial year. A draft version of the financial statements was first published last autumn and since then we have been working through the way in which certain transactions were accounted for with our new auditors. The accounts describe the same turnover for […]
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There may be a record 31 Welsh sportsmen and women taking part in the 2024 Olympic Games, but the honour of being the first Welsh representatives in Paris fell to two rugby officials on the first day of competition. Even before the opening ceremony this week the football and rugby sevens tournaments kicked-off and that […]
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Fiji ran in 12 tries in two matches to finish day one of the men’s rugby sevens competition at the top of Pool C, while New Zealand, Ireland, Argentina, and Australia enjoyed perfect starts to their Olympic campaigns. Wales referee Ben Breakspear had the perfect view of the defending champions opening game, giving a commanding […]
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Canada Women U20s gave Wales Women U20s a lesson in the art of finishing when racing over for nine tries in a 53-17 victory in the Transatlantic Quad Series at Cardiff Arms Park. The Canadians were lethal with ball in hand with their physicality with and without the ball gave Liza Burgess’s side plenty to […]
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Fallon had been named in reserves for Parramatta’s round one clash with Brisbane this weekend
A Parramatta player is facing allegations she assaulted a Sydney neighbour ahead of the women’s rugby league season opening this week.
New South Wales police allege 20-year-old Kate Fallon was involved in an incident with a 17-year-old girl at an apartment complex in Chifley last Wednesday.
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Head coach Liza Burgess has named her Wales Women U20s side to take on Canada at Cardiff Arms Park tomorrow in the Transatlantic Quad Series (KO 8pm). It promises to be an exciting affair as both teams enter the match on the back of encouraging wins from the last round. After a fruitless challenging Six […]
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England’s most-capped player, Ben Youngs, has revealed he had heart surgery after collapsing during an open training session. The Leicester scrum-half says he is “on the mend” and hopes to be fit for the new season that begins in September.
Youngs was diagnosed with arrhythmia and supraventricular tachycardia, which is a type of irregular heartbeat that causes the heart’s upper chamber to beat fast or erratically. The 34-year-old had a two-hour operation in Birmingham following the episode while training with Leicester this year.
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The Wales U20 squad arrived home from their South African trip a frustrated group after falling to a 47-31 defeat to host nation South Africa at the World Junior Rugby Championship. It meant Ryan Woodman’s side ended eight overall with just one win, against Spain, from their five matches. It was a drop of two […]
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It was entertaining but a ton of unforced Australian errors and an inability to build through the phases kept the visitors in the contest
“How good is afternoon footy?” Tim Horan was practically gushing when he delivered this rhetorical question shortly after the 3:45 pm kick-off in Sydney. The two-time World Cup-winning Wallaby didn’t need to provide an answer of his own. His love for the game, his love for the badge, was self-evident. The question that was left unasked, the question that runs through every facet of Australian rugby at present, is, how many people feel the same way as Tim Horan?
Pontificating over the health of the code in Australia has almost become old hat. Like pointing out that there’s a looming housing crisis in the country or that the ice caps are melting. And though even the most popular sports are far less important than those real world challenges, the current health and predicted future of rugby union remains a nagging existential concern.
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