Chin up northern hemisphere. It’s not all doom and gloom. Yes, its the last full round of summer internationals this weekend (Scotland face a daunting trip to South Africa next week) and, yes, the results so far have been underwhelming for the majority of Six Nations sides (as foreseen in a post a couple of…
Apologies that there isn’t a fuller piece here this week on, oh I don’t know, England’s courageous showing in Auckland last Saturday or the Welsh attempt to notch up a win against the Springboks for the first time since 1999. It’s been a busy seven days, what with new European Cup draws, the WRU’s looming…
The new era of European rugby competition began in Neuchâtel, Switzerland today with the draws for next season’s inaugural Rugby Champions Cup and Rugby Challenge Cup. The competitions replace the now defunct Heineken Cup and Amlin Challenge Cup and are run by a new organising committee called European Professional Club Rugby. EPCR aims to create…
News is breaking tonight that David Moffett (former CEO of the Welsh Rugby Union and Regional Rugby Wales) is heading home for New Zealand just days before an Extraordinary General Meeting of the WRU is due to take place. Over the last months, Moffett had returned to Wales to seek election to the WRU Board. …
So after last Saturday and the drama of the northern hemisphere ‘finals’ weekend (where Messieurs O’Driscoll and Wilkinson signed off with wins, and the Northampton Saints won their first ever title in the final minute of extra-time) you’d be forgiven for thinking that rugby this side of the equator would put its proverbial feet up…
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