Rugby News

Salford Red Devils head coach Paul Rowley says he has to keep believing there is "light at the end of the tunnel" following his side's 80-6 loss to Hull FC as the club's financial crisis deepens.

Hull FC romped to an 80-6 win over patched-up Salford in a demolition job that laid bare the deepening crisis engulfing the Red Devils.

By GARY FITZGERALD BEN Youngs claims the proposed breakaway league R360 could be just what rugby needs to help give it a major shake up and reshuffle. The former England, Lions and Leicester Tigers scrum-half feels the ...

By ADAM HATHAWAY ANDY Farrell has been given the green light to pack his squad with Irishman again if he gets the Lions head coachs gig in four years time. Farrell, who oversaw the 2-1 win over the Wallabies in the tour...

By BEN JAYCOCK LEADING sports scientist Stephen Smith believes World Rugbys guidelines on the maximum number of appearances made in a season are too blunt an instrument and instead urges the governing body to operate wi...

By ADAM HATHAWAY BEN Earl looked back on the summer when he became a Test Lion and revealed England will get an improved player back in time for the November internationals. The Saracen came off the bench in the first a...

By ADAM HATHAWAY BUNDEE Aki had an eventful Lions tour to Australia, on and off the pitch, but rated the trip down under as the best experience of his rugby life. The Ireland centre had a mixed bag, starting the last tw...

DRAGONS have signed Irish scrum-half Niall Armstrong after his departure from Exeter at the end of last season. The 25-year-old has trained with the Rodney Parade side throughout pre-season and replaces Dane Blacker, who...

FORMER Leicester and England prop Dan Cole has become the recruitment and retention manager at Welford Road under new head coach and former Tigers teammate Geoff Parling. Cole, 38, who retired after the Premiership final...

By SIMON THOMAS STEVE Tandy says he is ready to deal with the criticism which will inevitably come his way as Wales head coach. The 45-year-old will be firmly in the spotlight in his new high-profile role and admits the...

By BEN JAYCOCK JONATHAN Davies believes the best is yet to come from returning Welsh superstar Louis Rees-Zammit, who he feels can be the poster boy for Wales once more. Davies won 96 caps for Wales between 2009-22 and ...

By GARY FITZGERALD HENRY Pollock has become so box office even Jason Robinson loves watching the England youngster strut his stuff on the field. Youngster Pollock followed up his sudden burst onto the Premiership scene ...

AUSTRALIAN rugby officials have announced the removal of the so-called Giteaus Law, which had previously limited the number of overseas-based players Wallabies coaches could select. Joe Schmidts Wallabies avoided the whi...

LIKE thousands of others I invested lots of my time in this British & Irish Lions tour of Australia, as I have with previous tours, and now that it has come to an end, I feel, as a tour, it has been very underwhelming, t...

I DONT think Andy Farrell should lead the side against New Zealand in 2029. They will provide a lot stronger opposition in every game and Farrell is not up to picking for a strong series. There were too many poor selecti...

WELL the Lions just about managed to win the series and that is all that matters at the end of the day but I doubt the squad will go down as one of the greatest ever. They played well in the first half of the first Test....

THE disgraceful behaviour of the Wallaby team in the third Test should not be allowed in international rugby. Every stoppage was for them an excuse for a streetfight scuffle, where they would not give the ball to the Lio...

IN last weeks Rugby Paper Ben Jaycock describes how Cornishman Fraser Honey makes 500-mile round trips to train and play for London Scottish in the Champ. Many players faced with similar journeys would be unable to make ...

I FIND Ben Jaycocks article Level 4 clubs hit by overseas player rule quite extraordinary. He reports Rossendale complaining about their inability to use foreign players and about the salary cap. In my view Rossendale ha...

I READ with interest the comments from Jeff Probyn re the 1991 RWC Final, England v Australia, and that if a penalty try was given for, in his view a deliberate knock on by David Campese. The referee gave a penalty, and ...

By BEN JAYCOCK POPPY Leitch believes her England Students side can plug a crucial gap in the womens pathway, having previously been overlooked. The former Exeter and England lock retired aged 27 in May following repeate...

Poppy Leitch believes her England Students side can plug a crucial gap in the womens pathway, having previously been overlooked. The former Exeter and England lock retired aged 27 in May following repeated injuries. She ...