Rugby Union News

Williams wants Welsh ‘patience’

BBC Sport | Rugby Union | Welsh | UK Edition — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:43:26 +0000

Martyn Williams says Wales will try to spoil Brian O'Driscoll's 100th Ireland appearance party with a game of patience in the Six Nations on Saturday.

Gatland tells Delve to take chance

Rugby news from Scrum.com — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:22:09 +0000

Wales boss Warren Gatland has challenged Gareth Delve to take his chance against Ireland on Saturday to entrench himself in the international rugby scene.

Chiefs’ Lauaki charged with assault

Rugby news from Scrum.com — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:06:35 +0000

Sione Lauaki has been dropped from the Chiefs side and will face disciplinary action from the NZRU after being charged with assault over an incident in a Hamilton bar last week.

Robinson keeps faith in his side despite result in Rome

The Independent - Rugby Union RSS Feed — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000

They led until the 79th minute against Wales in Cardiff and until the 67th minute against Italy in Rome. Now the challenge for Scotland is to do it all over again, to get into a potential winning position in Edinburgh on Saturday ? and this time stay there until the digits on the Murrayfield match-clock turn to 00.00.

Joe Worsley: ‘In Edinburgh you feel the hostility in the air’

The Independent - Rugby Union RSS Feed — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000

Joe Worsley has been playing international rugby for a dozen years now and has accumulated more England caps ? 75 going on 76, having been restored to the starting line-up for the Six Nations set-to with Scotland on Saturday evening ? than some of those to be found in that corner of the red-rose pantheon reserved for back-row forwards: Richard Hill, Neil Back and Peter Winterbottom, to name but three. It is a remarkable story, made all the more startling by the quiet manner of its unfolding.

No mercy for Powell but Delve ends his long wait

The Independent - Rugby Union RSS Feed — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000

Warren Gatland admitted yesterday that he considered recalling the suspended Andy Powell to fill in for his injured captain, Ryan Jones, at Croke Park on Saturday. But in the end the Wales coach opted for a back-rower whose journey to his first Championship start has been akin to a golf-buggy ride down the M4 ? slow.

Moody makes way as Johnson plans to grind out result

The Independent - Rugby Union RSS Feed — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000

Martin Johnson and his coaching staff spent many a long hour chewing the fat over their personnel choices for England's fear-fuelled Calcutta Cup meeting with Scotland this weekend. "It was the longest selection process since I've been involved," the manager confessed. And what did the top brass come up with as a result of their tortuous deliberations? A team of bruisers: tough-tackling, arm-wrestling, agoraphobic bruisers. The Murrayfield groundsman might as well dig trenches across the pitch.

Boks look overseas for Wales Test

BBC Sport | Rugby Union | Welsh | UK Edition — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:45:58 +0000

South Africa will field a team minus a host of home-based players when they face Wales in Cardiff in June.

‘Massive relief’ says Armitage

Sky Sports | Rugby Union News — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:34:59 +0000

Delon Armitage is relieved to be named for England against Scotland this weekend and admitted that he did not expect to make the side.

Coach The Coaches at Windsor RFC

Laura Brown — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:03:00 +0000

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