THE PHRASE ‘wantaway’ has been plastered all over tabloid back pages this summer as wonga-spoilt strikers and midfielders who had previously shook the chip-fat from their slicked back hair as…
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A fresh challenge for Nick Evans
By Katie Field NICK EVANS added an extra five-kilometre run to his pre-season training programme, and it was a run with a difference. The Harlequins fly-half completed the Standard Chartered…
Leicester Tigers “disappointed” with result of Richard Cockerill appeal
HAD LEICESTER Tigers said: “we’re not angry, we’re just disappointed,” while spinning a ruddy-cheeked RFU spokesman towards the naughty step it would have had the same ring…
Out of the frying pan…: Alan Solomons will leave Southern Kings for Edinburgh
AS BUTTER fizzes and browns at his feet, Southern Kings’ Alan Solomons has opted to hop out of the Super Rugby frying pan for a more certain future. The former…
Wealthy owners like Jacky Lorenzetti and their late forays into the transfer market
QUEUEING EARLY at rugby’s buffet does not appear to be a requirement for the millionaire owners of some teams, with the wealthy able to place late orders for personnel they…
The Heineken Cup fixtures list
THE DRAW may not have been the most glamorous of affairs, resembling something between an IT lecture and an awards ceremony for engravers, but we now know the Heineken Cup…
Should there be another cross-code Union versus League match?
BIZARRE THOUGH it may seem, but if the images are anything to go by then the mind-boggling dual-code pre-season showdown between football’s Marseille and rugby’s Toulon was a brilliant day…
Could Benji Marshall and other converts light up RWC 2015?
NEWS IS bubbling up from Down Under that NRL heavyweight Benji Marshall is on the verge of switching codes. The Kiwi playmaker has been heavily linked with a move to…
Mike Phillips doesn’t make the Top 14 cut… for now
IN THE August edition of Rugby World, British and Irish Lions scrum-half Mike Phillips spoke of his role for Bayonne in the French Top 14. After a tough year where…
French Top 14: New faces for the new season
OSTENTATIOUS OR talent-filled, either way, it is hard to deny that the Top 14 will have an impressive array of international stars next season. Indeed there is something for everyone…