Rugby World Cup 2015: Sam Warburton calm over bonus-point failure as Wales move a step closer to quarter-final with Fiji victory October 1, 2015 Exhausted Wales skipper Sam Warburton dismissed the significance of his side’s failure to secure a bonus point after beating Fiji in a bruising encounter at the Millennium Stadium yesterday. Scrum-half Gareth Davies and hooker Scott Baldwin touched down for Wales as fly-half Dan Biggar kicked 13 points, while Fiji retaliated in the second period [...]
Rugby World Cup 2015: England are wrong to target Australia scrum and we’ll prove it in Twickenham showdown, says Wallabies coach Michael Cheika October 1, 2015 Australia coach Michael Cheika has urged his team to prove England wrong and condemn the hosts to the ignominy of becoming the first World Cup hosts to suffer group stage elimination. England No8 Ben Morgan has indicated they will look to exploit their historic scrummaging superiority tomorrow at Twickenham in pursuit of the win they [...]
England v Wales: Hosts willing to thrust Sam Burgess into frontline Rugby World Cup action after Jonathan Joseph struck by injury September 24, 2015 England are ready to thrust international rookie Sam Burgess into frontline Rugby World Cup action against Wales at Twickenham on Saturday should centre Jonathan Joseph fail to recover from a chest injury, according to backs coach Andy Farrell. Joseph, who scored four tries during this year’s Six Nations, has emerged as an injury doubt for [...]
Rugby World Cup 2015: Tournament set to be highest attended single sport event in history after football World Cup following record attendance at Wembley September 21, 2015 This year's Rugby World Cup is on course to be the best-attended single-sport tournament in history behind the football World Cup, after a record attendance watched New Zealand beat Argentina 26 – 16 at Wembley yesterday. Read more: Record Rugby World Cup crowd witnesses All Blacks suffer fright Over 89,000 packed into Wembley to watch the tournament [...]
Maro Itoje exclusive: The modest Saracens, England and British and Irish Lions megastar determined to keep his feet firmly on the ground | City A.M. May 4, 2017 Rugby’s equivalent of basketball superstar LeBron James is just one analogy aimed at, and promptly rejected by, Saracens and England powerhouse Maro Itoje, whose unceasing rise and catalogue of accolades shows no sign of subsiding. “It’s hyperbole,” Itoje tells City A.M. “Those kind of things are nice but you don’t pay too much attention to [...]
Rugby World Cup 2015: All Blacks haka leader Liam Messam shrugs off favourites tag – “nothing’s taken for granted” September 17, 2015 New Zealand flanker Liam Messam has shrugged off the All Blacks’ favourites tag for the Rugby World Cup and insisted the reigning champions will take nothing for granted. Read more: Pressure is all on England and not New Zealand, insists All Blacks legend Jonah Lomu The All Blacks kick off their campaign against [...]
Rugby World Cup 2015: England women’s team players Fiona Pocock and Vicky Fleetwood to give Canary Wharfers a gruelling training session September 23, 2015 The Rugby World Cup isn’t just about Stuart Lancaster’s 31-man England squad. The nation's women's rugby players Fiona Pocock and Vicky Fleetwood are heading to Canary Wharf today to show workers how it’s done with a training session at Reebok Sports Club ahead of the gym’s own five-a-side tournament next month. So far JP Morgan and [...]
England v France: Who’s in and who’s out of Stuart Lancaster’s Rugby World Cup squad? August 13, 2015 “There will be World Cup places up for grabs, everything on the line. If you don’t play well, you’re going home,” said stand-in captain Tom Wood ahead of England’s Rugby World Cup warm-up match against France this Saturday. Read more: Lancaster calls on convert Sam Burgess to seize Rugby World Cup chance Such are [...]
Rugby World Cup squad 2015: England gamble on Sam Burgess as Stuart Lancaster axes Danny Cipriani August 27, 2015 Rugby league convert Sam Burgess is the surprise inclusion in England head coach Stuart Lancaster’s squad for the Rugby World Cup, it was confirmed today. Burgess, 26, switched codes less than a year ago and only made his senior England debut earlier this month, earning mixed reviews in a 19-14 win against France at Twickenham. [...]
Bonds that tie Rhino Rugby to the game: Manufacturing firm talks red carpet appearances and re-engaging with Rugby World Cup 2015 September 6, 2015 We’ve all had those spoof office calls and when one of Reg Clark’s Rhino Rugby colleagues announced some years ago that “Warner Brothers, Los Angeles are on the line for you”, he naturally suspected a practical joke was in the offing. As it happened however, the call was real. Director, Clint Eastwood, was beginning [...]