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Brython Thunder are still looking for their first win after going down 48-0 to reigning champions, Wolfhounds, in Round 4 of the Celtic Challenge at Parc y Scarlets this afternoon. The Wolfhounds were crowned league champions and were unbeaten in last season’s new cross-border competition between sides from Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The Thunder came […]
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The Welsh Academies U23 XV promised to give the Wales U20 side a run for their money in the first of two clashes ahead of the U20 Six Nations and they did exactly that at the Arms Park. In front of a very healthy crowd, Richard Whiffin’s U20 team were forced to tough it out […]
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Wales U20 will get some vital pre-Six Nations preparation this week and next when they meet the newly formed Welsh Academies U23 XV, but the games at Cardiff Arms Park (Friday 10 January) and Llandovery’s Church Bank (Friday 17 January) won’t just be about them. The way the fixtures have been set-up, and the way […]
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With Alex Mitchell back at scrum-half, England could turn opener in Dublin into start of successful campaign
Maybe Elon Musk is the man to revive English rugby union. He already believes he has the solutions to most of the universe’s biggest problems so reforming a mere sports team should be a piece of futuristic cake. Throw £40bn at it, take over the comms department and stick the Rugby Football Union’s finest on a rocket ship to Mars? It’s an easy game, megalomania.
Back in the real world, of course, nothing is ever quite that straightforward. Even AI cannot identify why England keep struggling to maximise their resources because there is no one simple explanation. As Steve Borthwick prepares to unveil his Six Nations squad on Tuesday, it is again less about the individuals per se than finding the right blend to enable the collective to flourish.
Continue reading...Brython Thunder have named the team for Round 4 of the Celtic Challenge when they host Wolfounds at Parc y Scarlets on Saturday, January 11th (KO: Midday). The Welsh side return home looking for a first win of the cross-border league against the second in the table Irish side at the home of the Scarlets. […]
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The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) hosted His Excellency, the Japanese Ambassador to the United Kingdom, at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium earlier this week (Wednesday). The visit marks the beginning of a series of cultural and sporting events in celebration of ‘Wales and Japan 2025’, highlighting the strong ties between the two countries. The partnership between Wales […]
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Gwalia Lightning will look to return to winning ways when they face Glasgow Warriors in Round 4 of the Celtic Challenge at Ystrad Mynach on Sunday, January 12th (KO: 1pm). The Welsh side went down to a first defeat of the campaign in Belfast last weekend but face a Warriors side still looking for their […]
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Continue reading...Harry Beddall is hoping the Welsh Academies XV come on strong against his Wales U20 side to help them get ready for their U20 Six Nations opener against France in Vannes on 1 February. The two teams will meet twice to give Beddall and co a stiff work out before they take the field at […]
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The former national rugby union captain has been spared jail for the domestic abuse of his estranged wife, Gill, after courts painted a grim picture of his off-pitch behaviour
Scotland has not always been blessed with rugby players of genuine world class but prime-time Stuart Hogg was a rare exception. At the height of his powers he was the Six Nations Player of the Year in successive seasons in 2016 and 2017, mixing acceleration and attacking intent with a just-try-and-stop-me attitude that set him apart from the average workaday pro.
The talented lad from Hawick was a big fish in a series of smallish pools – the Borders, Scottish rugby, Exeter – and grew accustomed to being hailed as king of his local oval-ball castle. While, behind closed doors, not being entirely the man his many fans thought him to be.
Continue reading...Scarlets scrum half Rhodri Lewis says his Welsh Academies U23 XV will go into their two clashes with Wales U20 “quietly confident” of not only testing them, but also emerging with a couple of wins. This time last year Lewis was in the ‘other camp’ preparing for the World Rugby U20 Junior Championship in […]
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The former Scotland rugby union captain Stuart Hogg will be supervised for a year as an alternative to jail after he admitted abusing his estranged wife over the course of five years.
He pleaded guilty to a single charge of domestic abuse of his ex-partner, Gillian Hogg, when he appeared at Selkirk Sheriff Court on 4 November. He admitted shouting and swearing, tracking her movements and sending her messages which were alarming and distressing in nature.
Continue reading...It’s a New Year and all change at the top of the try and points scoring charts of Super Rygbi Cymru. Cardiff winger Dewi Cross has been deposed as the leading try scorer with Ebbw Vale’s captain Joe Franchi leaping to the top of the pile after scoring against Pontypool just before the New Year. […]
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England’s Immanuel Feyi-Waboso is still in two minds about whether to undergo a shoulder operation that could affect his chances of representing the British & Irish Lions this summer. The Exeter wing is scheduled to have surgery next week, which would rule him out of the Six Nations and complicate his dream of touring Australia with the Lions.
Rob Baxter, Exeter’s director of rugby, says the 22-year-old has not yet ruled out postponing the operation and can avoid recurring shoulder issues for the remainder of this season. A decision will need to be taken imminently, however, with Baxter suggesting extensive discussions between club and country are already delaying the process.
Continue reading...Bath centre should not have apologised for stopping match against Northampton after going down from clash of heads
A round of applause for Ollie Lawrence. Not for his apology after Bath’s last-gasp defeat by Northampton, which was entirely unnecessary, but for having the wherewithal to put his side into a winning position by demonstrating a streetwise streak all too seldom shown in elite rugby union.
To recap, Lawrence was pilloried by Northampton supporters for going down in instalments after a fairly innocuous clash of heads with Alex Mitchell in the last few minutes of Saints’ thrilling 35-34 win over Bath on Sunday. He took himself down to his knees, clutched his face and in doing so, made sure that the match was stopped, the incident reviewed.
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