THE CHAMPIONS CUP final is looming large, so there is one item on the agenda when James Tracy answers the phone. It’s Thursday afternoon — nine days to go until Newcastle — and the Leinster squad have parted ways for a long weekend, before reconvening at their UCD base this morning for the serious business. […]
IT MAY SERVE as little consolation in the aftermath of European heartache, but defending their Pro14 crown in the next fortnight would be satisfactory compensation for Leo Cullen’s Leinster. The province are hoping to shake off the physical and psychological effects of last weekend’s Champions Cup final defeat to Saracens as they put their season […]
A RUGBY OBSESSIVE from the start, Nigel Osborne grew up in the 1980s and fell in love with two of the game’s truly great backlines. First, the French. “I absolutely loved the French way of playing the way, with the piano movers up front and the piano players behind,” says Osborne, who runs the ‘Rugby […]
BOTH CIARAN BOOTH and David McCann have been ruled out of the remainder of Ireland’s U20 World Championship, further stretching Noel McNamara’s resources as the injuries continue to mount. Sale Sharks flanker Booth suffered a tournament-ending knee injury in the pool victory over Italy on Wednesday, while Ulster’s McCann sustained a head knock and will […]
TICKETS FOR THIS year’s Women’s Rugby World Cup will go on sale at 9am tomorrow morning (Monday) with the schedule for the pool stages now confirmed. Defending champions England will open Pool B at the UCD Bowl on Wednesday 9 August with kick-off at 2pm while New Zealand and Wales’ Pool B opener is under […]
Click:全国楼凤论坛 GLOUCESTER OUT-HALF Danny Cipriani was give a recall into Eddie Jones’s latest England training squad. However, despite the mercurial 31-year-old having won two player of the season awards last term it is widely believed Jones will take just two recognised number 10s to the Rugby World Cup in Japan — George Ford and captain […]
JAMES O’CONNOR HAS put his party-boy lifestyle behind him as he seeks to reignite his Australia career. O’Connor is in contention for his first Wallabies cap in six years when Argentina visit Brisbane in the Rugby Championship on Saturday. The 29-year-old utility back last featured against the same opponents in 2013, before his contract was […]
IRELAND WILL ANXIOUSLY wait to discover the full extent of Joey Carbery’s ankle injury, but the Munster out-half did not suffer a fracture in the first of the World Cup warm-up games. The sight of Carbery being carted off at the start of the second half sucked the air out of Ireland’s five-try victory over […]
MURRAY KINSELLA DIALED into this week’s The42 Rugby Weekly podcast from Portugal, where Ireland are undergoing warm-weather training less than a month out from their flight to Japan. But while Murray’s spirits were nearing an all-time high as he sat on a veranda outside Eoin O’Malley’s pub amid 30-degree heat, he relayed to fellow analyst […]
Mustafa Ali shared a video on his Twitter page, where he cuts a promo about losing his spot at Elimination Chamber match to fight for the WWE World title. After Mustafa Ali suffered a concussion injury, Kofi Kingston ended up as his last-minute replacement. Ali says an opportunity has been pried out of his hands. […]