Carter injury is World Cup leveller October 6, 2011 TOMORROW sees London Scottish take on last season’s relegated Premiership side Leeds Carnegie at the Athletic Ground. It’ll be interesting to pit ourselves against a team that was playing top level rugby last season. This will be our fifth game of the Championship season, which, when you include pre-season and cup matches, means that we [...]
Wilkinson fitness boost but Tindall looks doubtful October 4, 2011 FLY-HALF Jonny Wilkinson provided England manager Martin Johnson with a timely fitness boost ahead of Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final against France by taking part in light training yesterday. But vice-captain Mike Tindall, who suffered a dead leg in last weekend’s narrow victory over Scotland, sat out the session and remains a major doubt. After another [...]
Shaw: Rugby in danger if players not given privacy September 21, 2011 VETERAN England lock Simon Shaw fears rugby players will lose their unique and long-held rapport with supporters if their social lives are subjected to increasing media scrutiny. The England World Cup camp, in particular newly-wed Mike Tindall, was engulfed in controversy last week after members of the public passed accounts and CCTV footage of the [...]
Gatland backed by Deans over cheating comments October 20, 2011 AUSTRALIA coach Robbie Deans has offered his sympathy to Wales counterpart Warren Gatland, who caused a storm by admitting he considered cheating in Saturday’s World Cup semi-final defeat to France. Gatland has been criticised in some quarters for confessing he discussed asking a prop to feign injury in order to force uncontested scrums, a move [...]
Missing out on the World Cup was not a blessing in disguise November 2, 2011 CRUSHING as it may have been to miss out on last month’s World Cup through injury, Harlequins scrum-half Danny Care could be forgiven for feeling his international aspirations have been enhanced as a result of the damaged toe which meant he was unable to travel to New Zealand. In Care’s absence England limped into the [...]
Missing out on the World Cup was not a blessing in disguise November 2, 2011 CRUSHING as it may have been to miss out on last month’s World Cup through injury, Harlequins scrum-half Danny Care could be forgiven for feeling his international aspirations have been enhanced as a result of the damaged toe which meant he was unable to travel to New Zealand. In Care’s absence England limped into the [...]
Robinson sounds a World Cup warning March 20, 2011 SCOTLAND head coach Andy Robinson has warned his side about potential slip-ups against Georgia and Romania when the Rugby World Cup starts in September. Scotland ended their RBS 6 Nations campaign with their first win of the tournament, beating Italy 21-8, but Robinson said afterwards that there was still “a lot of hard work to [...]
Wilkinson and Flood selection not a gamble, says Johnson October 6, 2011 ENGLAND vs FRANCE ENGLAND manager Martin Johnson has denied gambling with England’s World Cup future by persevering with an out of sorts Jonny Wilkinson and shunting Toby Flood to inside centre for tomorrow’s crunch quarter-final against France. Johnson, ahead of the biggest game of his managerial career, has taken the bold decision to promote Leicester [...]
Back All Blacks for tries not trophies and England to reach last four September 7, 2011 RUGBY TRADER DAVID WILD, OUR RUGBY BETTING EXPERT, SURVEYS THE MARKET AHEAD OF THE BIG KICK-OFF WILL hosts New Zealand finally manage to shake off their underachiever status at the 2011 World Cup? An entire nation of devoted rugby union fans expect them to go all the way and lift the Webb Ellis Cup for [...]
Greenwood: England must utilise Foden and Ashton September 12, 2011 FORMER England centre Will Greenwood has urged Martin Johnson’s side to throw off the shackles and return to the expansive style of rugby that saw them brush Australia aside last autumn if they are to make a major impact at the World Cup. The error-strewn performance against Argentina on Saturday could not have been further [...]