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RYAN WILSON: Franco Smith will be sitting pretty to replace Gregor Townsend in Scotland post if his Glasgow Warriors can rise again for URC challenge
It is the beginning of one other season and I reckon it’s going to be an enormous one for...
Read moreSale’s sibling recruitment drive unpacked: Insiders reveal why brotherly ‘chemistry’ is key to club’s PREM charge and the fascinating neuroscience and Love Hormone that reunited the Opoku-Fordjours
It was a research into Oxytocin – in any other case often called the Love Hormone – that led...
Read moreTHE CLUBHOUSE: Midleton RFC… Behind the scenes of the East Cork club who once kept All Blacks legend Christian Cullen on the bench, and were Mick Galway’s last ever Rugby opponents
APRIL 11, 1998 is a date ceaselessly etched in Midleton rugby folklore.That was the day when the East Cork...
Read moreULSTER 29 EDINBURGH 34: Capital men survive frantic fightback to seal unexpected opening URC win
By SEAN VINCENT Revealed: 22:54 BST, 25 September 2026 | Up to date: 22:59 BST, 25 September 2026 Edinburgh...
Read moreSale’s mourning stars honour Hyron Andrews after his death at the age of 31 as rugby takes a back seat on day where defeat by Glasgow was put into perspective, writes NIK SIMON
Early on Saturday morning, Alex Sanderson gathered his squad at their Carrington coaching base to handle the tragic information...
Read more‘You can dwell on it and wonder why me… but that’s not going to get you very far’: OLLY HARTLEY on his horror knee injury, why Saracens will shine this season, his England dream and upping his Instagram game
With a mom who mingles within the movie star world and a father who as soon as gave Will...
Read moreHow bankruptcy and a painful divorce inspired England rugby World Cup hero’s incredible body building journey with physical transformation leaving fans stunned
Reaching the highest of the mountain is one factor, however figuring out the place to go after conquering the...
Read moreHow Courtney Lawes’ audition for England recall did NOT go to plan: There were great expectations over his return to domestic rugby but he’ll have to do more to convince Steve Borthwick, writes NIK SIMON
By NIK SIMON Printed: 22:14 BST, 26 September 2026 | Up to date: 14:05 BST, 27 September 2026 This...
Read moreWe’ve had the match of the season already! 14-man Saracens edge out Leicester in 12-try blockbuster to end opening PREM weekend
By ALEX BYWATER, SPORT REPORTER Printed: 18:59 BST, 27 September 2026 | Up to date: 19:37 BST, 27 September...
Read more‘Brendan Venter would get involved in training and whack players harder than anyone’: Untold stories of Saracens coach from devout Christian and GP to a referee’s nightmare, his golf-course plan that beat England and why ‘intense doesn’t do him justice’
The door was at all times open to Nick Mallett’s teaching workplace on the 1999 Rugby World Cup. His...
Read moreSouth African rugby player Hyron Andrews dead aged 31: Former Sale Sharks star suffers heart attack at team hotel in France on eve of Champions Cup clash with La Rochelle
Hyron Andrews, a former Sale Sharks lock, has died of a suspected coronary heart assault in information that has...
Read moreFive things we learned from PREM Rugby’s explosive opening weekend: Gloucester’s new signings look the part and the coach who’s already under pressure
The 2026-27 PREM Rugby season started in type with a mammoth 52 tries scored – a report for the...
Read moreWILL JOSEPH and SEB ATKINSON interview: Gloucester’s ‘N’Golo Kante and Lamine Yamal’ on turning electric club form into England centre pairing and the overhaul behind PREM leaders’ flying start
Searching throughout the Kingsholm automobile park, Gloucester's Seb Atkinson and Will Joseph have the type of straightforward chemistry any...
Read moreThe Champions Cup is on life support and if European rugby chiefs don’t act now, the unthinkable will happen. Here are four ways to save the jewel in the sport’s crown from extinction, writes ALEX BYWATER
On Tuesday night time, whereas his Bristol team-mates had been acclimatising to their South Africa environment, Louis Rees-Zammit was...
Read moreScotland and Edinburgh star Darcy Graham to line up against Toulon after remarkable return from injury
By SEAN VINCENT Printed: 19:04 BST, 15 October 2026 | Up to date: 19:10 BST, 15 October 2026 Edinburgh...
Read moreBankrupt England rugby legend Lawrence Dallaglio forced to sell his World Cup winner’s medal amid ‘excessive spending’ and bitter divorce
By OLLIE LEWIS, SPORTS DIGITAL EDITOR Revealed: 14:20 BST, 28 September 2026 | Up to date: 21:59 BST, 28...
Read moreSaracens bizarrely change chief Brendan Venter’s job title to ‘head of rugby culture and WINE consultant’… as club exploit media loophole after racking up a £5,000 fine
By ALEX BYWATER, SPORT REPORTER Revealed: 15:50 BST, 29 September 2026 | Up to date: 17:28 BST, 29 September...
Read moreBEN KAY INTERVIEW: My England team went to dark places to win the World Cup – Steve Borthwick’s side can absolutely do the same. Here’s what they need to do, from ‘invaluable’ Shaun Edwards to unleashing PREM style of play
Ben Kay is one in all solely 4 Englishmen to start out two World Cup finals and received the...
Read moreThe six things Steve Borthwick must do to overhaul England and win the World Cup – with one year to go: Get Jack Willis and Shaun Edwards in, crack down on clubs, find midfield muscle… and a new captain?
The final time Steve Borthwick appeared in public was deep beneath the Estadio Unico Madre de Ciudades in Argentina.Borthwick...
Read moreWhy the writing was on the wall for the Munster CEO; the changes that now need to be prioritised at the crisis-hit province and why there is really only one man’s name on the lips of every fan’s lips…
Munster CEO Ian Flanagan has bowed to the inevitable and is to depart the crisis-stricken province in October. However...
Read more‘There’s a similar mindset at Gloucester to South Africa – and we’ve got amazing talent’: Giant Springbok lock JEAN KLEYN on choosing the West Country revolution over lucrative options elsewhere and forcing his way back into Rassie Erasmus’ squad
It was nearly the proper opening weekend for Jean Kleyn.Gloucester received their first recreation of the PREM season, thumping...
Read moreDevastating Motor Neurone Disease blow for another Aussie sports star: Former Wallaby Nathan Charles, 37, reveals terrible diagnosis
By JOSH ALSTON, SPORTS REPORTER Printed: 02:29 BST, 1 October 2026 | Up to date: 22:13 BST, 3 October...
Read more‘No one should hide who they are. I’m just being me and if I can make money off that, then great!’ Saracens ALFIE BARBEARY, a.k.a. Captain Underpants, on being larger than life, being forced out of Bath and Brendan Venter’s horrible ‘fight test’
Sporting dishevelled tracksuit bottoms, a equally giant jumper, leather-based slippers and a beanie hat, Alfie Barbeary takes a seat...
Read moreMunster offer club legend CEO role as other senior figures come under huge pressure, while insiders reveal damaging rift with IRFU
Keith Wooden is known to have been supplied the position of interim Munster CEO with extra change anticipated following...
Read moreEngland Rugby World Cup hero looks unrecognisable after incredible switch to bodybuilding – can you guess who he is?
By WILL PICKWORTH, SPORTS REPORTER Revealed: 15:55 BST, 13 October 2026 | Up to date: 16:08 BST, 13 October...
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