For Some Wasps, The Season Never Ends
As the summer internationals continued apace, first up was the England U20 team facing the USA in their final group game of the Junior World Cup. Their one opportunity to progress in this tournament...
View ArticleBecoming the Best: The Improvements at Ulster
If you’d watched Ulster play three or four years ago, you’d be forgiven for not being sure what you were going to get. To change a quote from Forrest Gump – “Ulster are like a box of chocolates, you...
View ArticleThe Pride of the Lions: The TOP TEN Standout Players So Far
This may be one of the few times going into the first test that everyone is thinking, watching, listening out for the same thing. The fans, the media, Gatland and his coaches are all looking out for...
View ArticleGloucester on Tour – Part 3
There we go, then. That’s Gloucester’s tour of South America all done and dusted. Two nil and the first time ever – well, for a long time anyway – a Gloucester team has gone over to Argentina and won...
View ArticleThe Inside Centre Dilemma at Ulster
At the start of the 2012/13 season you would have been forgiven for selecting an Ulster team with relative ease – there was a large gap between the top players and those who would fill in for them...
View ArticleAcross the Pond: Ireland Tour Review
Ireland’s rugby resources were stretched thin due to the Lions tour but the IRFU sent a team to play the USA and Canada, an emerging Ireland team to compete in the Tiblisi Cup in Georgia and the under...
View ArticleHow Can Scarlets Improve Next Season?
Simon Easterby and the Scarlets coaching team have the luxury of a summer break in order to focus on areas that caused concern for the team over the last season. It was very evident in the season just...
View ArticleForeign Climes and New Logos
With a successful tour of Argentina and Uruguay behind England, it was the turn of the Under 20s to shine in rugby’s Junior World Cup in France. Having qualified for the semi-finals courtesy of...
View ArticleBest at his Worst?
It’s extremely hard to put a positive spin on it, and no matter how hard I try, I cannot. Rory Best’s performances for the Lions have been less than perfect, especially in the line-out, which is why he...
View ArticleBuying a Second Hand Pirate
I know nothing about cars. Well, I suppose that’s not true, really – I know that some of them run on petrol and some on diesel and I know that because when I take my car to the petrol station – a bit...
View ArticleSponsored Post: HSBCs Lions Weekly
All eyes will be on the third test between the British & Irish Lions and Australia at Sydney this weekend, in what is the deciding match in the series. After the Lions won in Brisbane, the...
View ArticleWho’s Who at Wasps – Part 1
With Wasps’ players involvement in the summer tours and competitions complete, we’re taking a look at the new recruits, how they’ll fit into the overall squad, and whether more players are still...
View ArticleGloucester Sheds
It’s amazing what comes out of a shed. Did you know that tens of thousands of MagnaCleans are fitted every month, making it the nation’s favourite filter for professional installers and householders?...
View ArticleThe National Coach Theory
And there’s me, thinking that there’d be nothing to write about in the dead season! Couldn’t have been more wrong, could I. What with the 7s coming up, the niggling question of whether Gloucester’s...
View ArticleReviewing the Anscombe Appointment
One season under his belt, I think it’s fair to say that now we can really assess how Mark Anscombe’s first season as Ulster head coach went. It wasn’t one without ups-and-downs and there were times...
View ArticleUlster’s European Ambitions
Anybody else excited about the new season? Even though there are still around 30 days until Ulster’s first pre-season friendly (recently announced to be against provincial rivals Leinster), there is...
View ArticleReviewing Bath’s New Players and Young Stars
There is something of an influx of new players for the new season, among them some well known names, some eyebrow raisers. There is also quite a few young players who have come in and who will be...
View ArticleWho’s Who At Wasps?
With Wasps’ players involvement in the summer tours and competitions complete, we’re taking a look at the new recruits, how they’ll fit into the overall squad, and whether more players are still...
View ArticleThe FAB Olly Morgan
We really shouldn’t be surprised when the careers of our professional rugby players are cut short through injury. The game is so intense, these days, what shocks me, quite frankly, is that any of them...
View ArticleUlster’s Seventh Heaven
At the start of last season Chris Henry wasn’t exactly a well-known name in the world of rugby. Having played a lot of games at blindside for Ulster early in his career it seemed like Henry would never...
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