Rugby
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Italy-England sales break 50,000-mark
With a month to go before Italy’s first home Six Nations game of the season, sales for the rugby match against England at the Stadio Olimpico have already topped 50,000. Italian Rugby Federation president Giancarlo Dondi an-nounced the figure...
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England axe old guard for Six Nations
England interim coach Stuart Lancaster signalled his determination to herald a new era for the side after dropping several senior players from the Six Nations squad he unveiled yesterday. Mike Tindall, the 2003 World Cup winner whose off-field...
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Cardiff venue may feature in 2015 finals
The International Rugby Board have hinted that they may allow Wales to play some of their 2015 World Cup matches at the Millennium Stadium. The Cardiff venue is just one of many arenas organisers are looking at using during the World Cup despite the...
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Care out of Six Nations squad after drinking offence
England scrum-half Danny Care will miss the upcoming Six Nations Championship after being arrested for drink driving, the Rugby Football Union said yesterday. It was Care’s second alcohol-related incident in three weeks after he was arrested and...
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I’ll finish career at Toulon – Wilkinson
Two weeks after calling time on his 91-cap England career, Jonny Wilkinson said that he will end his club career at French Top 14 side Toulon. “The aim is to finish my career at Toulon, continue to improve and do the best I can do until the moment...
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Few gains for N. Zealand business
The 2011 Rugby World Cup may have been considered a success in New Zealand’s largest city Auckland but it held few benefits for businesses, a city council report released yesterday said. An evaluation of the impact of the World Cup in Auckland,...
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Stompers – the team to beat
Stompers 44Kavallieri 3 Stompers earned the tag as the team to beat this season after sweeping past Kavallieri, handing them one of their biggest defeats in league competition for several years. Kavallieri started well but failed to score from their...
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Jones ‘picked for Japan job’
Former Australia coach Eddie Jones has been chosen to replace All Blacks legend John Kirwan as head coach of the Japan rugby team, media reports said yesterday. The Japan Rugby Football Union recommended Jones as the sole candidate for the job when...
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Hansen appointed new All Blacks head coach
Steve Hansen was yesterday confirmed as the new head coach of the All Blacks after serving eight years as assistant coach of the world’s most successful rugby side. Hansen was widely tipped to get the prestigious role when former head coach Graham...
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Overseas overcome Kavallieri
Overseas 17Kavallieri 10 Despite having all the early territorial advantage, a strangely unmotivated Kavallieri were outsmarted by Overseas who won this match despite being reduced to 13 men in the final ten minutes. Thomas opened the score for...
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N. Zealand says vote shows change needed
New Zealand rugby officials voiced confidence yesterday that change is on the way despite the re-election of Bernard Lapasset as International Rugby Board chairman. At an IRB Council meeting in Los Angeles on Monday, Lapasset was returned for a...
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Woodward salutes ‘team man’ Wilkinson
Former England coach Clive Woodward praised Jonny Wilkinson as a “marvellous team man” after the fly-half announced his retirement from international rugby union on Monday. It was Woodward who gave Wilkinson the first of his 91 England caps in 1998...
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Lapasset edges rival to remain IRB boss
In a political fight to control the direction of global rugby for the next four years, Frenchman Bernard Lapasset edged former England captain Bill Beaumont late Monday to remain in charge. Lapasset was elected to a second consecutive term as...
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Lapasset and Beaumont face election D-Day
Incumbent Bernard Lapasset and former England rugby captain Bill Beaumont will learn their fate in Los Angeles today in a second round of voting for the presidency of the International Rugby Board (IRB). Lapasset, 64, has been in power for the past...
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Lancaster will coach England in Six Nations
Stuart Lancaster will be England’s caretaker during their defence of the Six Nations title, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) announced yesterday. Lancaster, currently coach of the reserve England Saxons, will be supported by Graham Rowntree, presently...
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Gators show progress but Stompers romp to victory
Alligators 6Stompers 52 This scoreline might give an impression of a one-sided match but that was not the case as Alligators continued to show progress and made Stompers work hard for their victory at Marsa, last weekend. In fact, at first the...
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Tindall reinstated after appeal
World Cup winning centre Mike Tindall effectively won his appeal against a £25,000 fine and being dropped from the England Elite player squad on Monday when the fine was reduced to £15,000 and he was reinstated into the squad. The decision by acting...
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England-linked White going nowhere, say Brumbies
Australia’s ACT Brumbies said yesterday their World Cup-winning coach Jake White would not be leaving them for the vacant England job. White, who masterminded South Africa’s World Cup triumph in 2007, has been linked to the England position after...
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RFU tried to buy NZ maid’s silence
England’s embattled Rugby Football Union (RFU) tried to buy the silence of a New Zealand chambermaid following allegations of sexual harassment during the World Cup, London’s The Times reported yesterday. The newspaper quoted a confidential Rugby...
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RPA recommends a ‘stricter regime’
England’s World Cup squad were ill-disciplined, with a divide between senior members and the rest of the squad and an unclear coaching policy, leaked official reports into the team’s ill-fated campaign have shown. England’s stay in New Zealand was...
