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Something will have to give at Eugene Cross Park when the top two teams in Super Rygbi Cymru go head-to-head for the second time this season. When Ebbw Vale went down to the Arms Park on 19 September they were beaten 29-12 by Cardiff, their only defeat in eight games, and they will have added […]
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Christmas has come early for Wales head coach Warren Gatland with both Dafydd Jenkins and Taulupe Faletau finally returning from injury to play in the second round of European competition. Hot on the heels of Josh Adams return for Cardiff Rugby against the Dragons two weeks ago, Exeter Chiefs lock Jenkins and Cardiff’s legendary No […]
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Wales U20s ran in five tries to record a 31-7 victory against Scotland Development U20s at a boisterous Merthyr Rugby Football Club. Local schools and colleges packed out the stadium at the Wern and although it was a crisp afternoon, they were treated to some clinical finishing by the home side. Wales scored two tries […]
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Head coach Catrina Nicholas-Mclaughlin has named the Gwalia Lightning squad for the new home and way Celtic Challenge 2024/25 campaign. The Lightning have named a squad full of Welsh internationals and a host of new young talent to play the best in Wales, Ireland and Scotland. The Lightning will play all their homes games at […]
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Head coach Ashley Beck has named the Brython Thunder squad for the new home and away Celtic Challenge campaign for 2024/25. Experienced Wales second row Natalia John is joined by fellow Wales internationals Niamh Terry, Hannah Bluck and Meg Webb in a new-look Thunder squad. Fifteen of the 30 players named are new to the […]
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Police searching for missing former England rugby player Tom Voyce said Thursday they had found a body in the river where his car was swept away in a storm.
The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU), the Welsh Rugby Players’ Association (WRPA) and World Rugby have today launched a new Brain Health Service to support former elite players in Wales. The WRU is one of the first to launch this new initiative, which is available free of charge, and follows services already available in Ireland and […]
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Referee Ben Connor may well take charge of Thursday night’s televised Super Rygbi Cymru clash at Carmarthen Park wearing longjohns given the change in climate from his last assignment to this fixture. Last weekend the young Welsh referee was in Cape Town officiating at the Cape Town Sevens, where he controlled the final between South […]
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Wales centre Kerin Lake has returned home and will play for Gwalia Lightning in the new expanded Celtic Challenge this season. Lake, who won her 50th Wales cap against Spain at Cardiff Arms Park in the summer, left reigning English champions Gloucester-Hartpury at the end of last season. She was part of the side that […]
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Stormers head coach on his Cape Town connection and ‘putting up a fight’ at Harlequins in the Champions Cup
Rugby union still produces some fascinating individuals and John Dobson, the head honcho at the DHL Stormers, is very much one of them. To say “Dobbo” is not your average coach is self-evident from his CV. In addition to degrees in law and business administration from the University of Cape Town there is surely no other top-level director of rugby with a creative writing degree. As he wryly puts it: “I was the only person on the course who didn’t wear a tweed skirt.”
As a player he was also, for two seasons, the only white guy in an otherwise exclusively black working-class club side. “What did I learn? How privileged us white people were.” He was conscripted into the South African army during the apartheid era, has had two novels published and is the son of a noted South African rugby writer, referee and historian. He describes himself as “an accidental coach” having started out as coach of his local university fourth XV, but has subsequently guided the Stormers, then in administration, to the inaugural 2022 URC title, the franchise’s first piece of silverware.
Continue reading...The Welsh Rugby Union held its first National Player Development Centre Skills Clinics at the National Centre of Excellence for the first intake of new players identified as prospective future internationals. More than 60 players attended two evening sessions as female players from the Player Development Centres (PDC’s) at Cardiff Met, Swansea University and RGC […]
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There is a familair ring to the try scoring charts in Super Rygbi Cymru with Cardiff winger Dewi Cross now installed at the top of the pile. The former Bridgend flier has been a regular contender near the top of the charts in recent years. It’s true, it has taken him longer to reach the […]
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Ben Connor’s career continues to flourish after being given the honour of refereeing the HSBC SVNS title decider in Cape Town in the second round of the global series on Sunday. In just his second event following his debut in Dubai a week earlier, the young Welsh referee impressed the adjudicators to earn his spot […]
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Lawrence Dallaglio has expressed his sorrow after his former England teammate Tom Voyce was apparently swept away while crossing a flooded river, with the Rugby World Cup winner saying it has echoes of his own family tragedy.
Voyce was believed to have died after trying to flee his car when he got into difficulty crossing a ford on the River Aln, near Alnwick, Northumberland, during Storm Darragh. The 43-year-old was last seen on Saturday and a major search involving the emergency services and volunteers continued on Wednesday.
Continue reading...Former English rugby star Tom Voyce is feared dead after his car went into a river during Storm Darragh.