Rugby Archive

  • Friday 25 May 2012

    Andy Robinson has made it clear caps cannot be guaranteed for all 28 players in the Scotland squad that set off last night on their three-Test tour of Australia and the South Pacific.

  • Thursday 24 May 2012

    AUSTRALIAN rugby's chief executive last night denied his officials had squeezed in the one-off Test match with Scotland purely as an emergency money-maker.

  • Thursday 24 May 2012

    Newcastle Falcons appear to have again dodged the relegation bullet after the Rugby Football Union's board of directors decreed that London Welsh, the only side still in the frame for promotion from the English Championship – the tier below the Aviva Premiership – had failed to meet the strict criteria that would allow them to move up to the top flight.

  • Wednesday 23 May 2012

    Peter Wright, the former Glasgow Hawks head coach, has joined Peebles as head coach for season 2012/13.

  • Wednesday 23 May 2012

    Denis Leamy has become the third Munster player this season to announce an early retirement due to injury.

  • Wednesday 23 May 2012

    GHA will go into their own Braidholm Sevens on Saturday on a high after beating a number of high-quality teams to win the NCS Glasgow City Sevens to conclude the Legacy Sevens Series.

  • Wednesday 23 May 2012

    It's not that long since media announcements from Edinburgh Rugby trumpeted the fact that all but one of the club's players – around 35 or so – were eligible to play for Scotland.

  • Tuesday 22 May 2012

    Rob Howley, the Wales caretaker head coach, remains hopeful Warren Gatland will be able to join the squad at some stage of their three-Test tour of Australia.

  • Tuesday 22 May 2012

    There will be a new look to next season's RFU Championship after a change of structure was agreed between the Rugby Football Union and the Championship Clubs Committee.

  • Tuesday 22 May 2012

    Declan Kidney, the Ireland head coach, has named three uncapped players in his 29-man squad for the three-Test summer tour to New Zealand.

  • Tuesday 22 May 2012

    UNLIKELY Heineken Cup hero John Cooney could be one of the first targets for Sean Lineen, Scotland's new "super scout" after his controversial sacking as Glasgow Warriors coach.

  • Tuesday 22 May 2012

    They may be undisputed kings of the Continent but Leinster's Heineken Cup heroes have already switched focus for one last big challenge in seeking to achieve what has so far proved beyond them by winning European rugby's second biggest match.

  • Monday 21 May 2012

    Heriot's gave a glimpse of what they might have achieved had they opted for greater participation in the Kings of the Sevens competition, after winning the final round at Jed-Forest with an emphatic victory over Melrose.

  • Monday 21 May 2012

    Ask anyone to list the modern greats of Irish rugby, and the roll-call will rarely get much further than Brian O'Driscoll, Paul O'Connell, Donncha O'Callaghan and Ronan O'Gara.

  • Monday 21 May 2012

    Carl Hogg, the former Scotland internationalist, is being tageted by Edinburgh, if he fails to become head coach at Gloucester.

  • Sunday 20 May 2012

    Ryan Grant reckons the world is too big to stay in one place for too long.

  • Sunday 20 May 2012

    The door to the rugby Pantheon was always going to swing open if Leinster could secure a third Heineken Cup win in four seasons, but they hurried the process along by kicking the thing off its hinges with this emphatic victory at Twickenham.

  • Saturday 19 May 2012

    Newcastle Falcons have signed Rory Lawson, the Scotland scrum-half, on a two-year deal, while his international team-mate, Phil Godman, has left Edinburgh and will play for London Scottish next season.

  • Saturday 19 May 2012

    What has seemed to be a protracted Borders Sevens Circuit – it started on the first Saturday in April at Gala –concludes at Riverside today when Jed-Forest stage their 111th event, the 10th and final round of the Kings of the Sevens title race.

  • Saturday 19 May 2012

    Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some put the matter beyond all doubt whatsoever by winning three Heineken Cup finals in the space of four years.

  • Friday 18 May 2012

    Ruairidh Jackson, who earlier in the week was left out of Scotland's summer tour party, will be part of the Glasgow Warriors squad taking part in the NCS Glasgow City Sevens at Dumbreck tomorrow.

  • Friday 18 May 2012

    It's nice to be nice, but Heineken Cup officials were surely over-egging the pudding earlier this week when they revealed a team of the tournament in which no less than four of the eight forwards were drawn from Edinburgh.

  • Friday 18 May 2012

    Tom Brown's rugby career has been in fast-forward mode for the past couple of months, and the young Edinburgh full-back has no intention of easing off as he prepares to take his place in the Scotland squad for next month's three-Test tour to Australia, Fiji and Samoa.

  • Friday 18 May 2012

    Marc Delpoux, the incoming Perpignan head coach, believes the arrival of Alasdair Strokosch, the Scotland flanker, can be a significant factor in delivering an upturn in fortunes for the Catalan side, who have just finished the season in 11th spot in the French Top 14.

  • Thursday 17 May 2012

    It is probably best not to speculate on the reasons behind Tim Visser's choice of Amsterdam as the venue for his recent stag weekend, but Scottish rugby supporters can be assured that the Dutch-born winger has no hankering for the canals and the tulip fields as far as his sporting affections are concerned.

  • Thursday 17 May 2012

    Newcastle have announced the signing of the Italy lock Carlo Del Fava.

  • Thursday 17 May 2012

    Steven Shingler was yesterday coming to terms with that fact that his prospects of representing the land of his mother's birth had become even more remote after the sport's global governing body upheld their ruling that the 20-year-old fly-half/centre is eligible only for Wales.

  • Wednesday 16 May 2012

    Johnnie Beattie has been named in the Barbarians' 33-man squad for the forthcoming fixtures against England, Ireland and Wales.

  • Wednesday 16 May 2012

    The venture as a whole may have been diminished by a host of injury call-offs and the cancellation of one game, but Scotland's summer tour to Australia and the South Pacific is still an exciting prospect for those who relish the thought of seeing Tim Visser on the international stage.

  • Tuesday 15 May 2012

    Rob Howley, the Wales caretaker coach, has hailed the "immeasurable" influence of Warren Gatland on his coaching career.