AFTER SUFFERING SHOULDER injuries on a round-by-round basis, Ireland came through unscathed from a dominant semi-final and were able to name an unchanged 23 for tomorrow’s World Rugby U20 Championship final against England (KO 19.00). Click Here: Roma soccer tracksuit The Wolfpups will be the underdogs against the home favourites in Manchester’s AJ Bell Stadium,…
BUCKETS AND BUCKETS of rain, combined with that infamous ‘Welly wind’ has set the skill difficult in this morning’s Super Rugby quarter-final to extreme. After visiting out-half Garth April struggled to master the wind, All Black Beauden Barrett produced this inch-perfect cross-field kick in the 16th minute. Jason Woodward rose high and made the slippery…
PRO12 CHAMPIONS CONNACHT will open their return to the Champions Cup with a mouthwatering home clash with Toulouse at the Sportsground on Saturday 15 October (17.30). Earlier on the same day, Leinster will also be at home with Castres the visitors to the RDS (15.15), while Ulster and Munster will both be in France for…
PAT LAM HAS named his starting fifteen for Connacht’s first match of their Pro12 defence against Glasgow Warriors tomorrow evening at the Sportsground [5.15pm]. Eight of the team that started last May’s Pro12 final victory over Leinster survive, including last year’s Pro12 Player’s Player, Bundee Aki. 22-year-old Cian Kelleher will be given his competitive Connacht…
ULSTER DIRECTOR OF Rugby Les Kiss has made eight changes in personnel to his starting line-up for tomorrow night’s visit of Scarlets to Kingspan Stadium in the Guinness Pro12 [7.05pm]. Ulster, the only one of the four Irish sides to make a 100% start to the campaign with two wins from two, welcome Charles Piutau…
IT’S EARLY YET in the Pro12 season and, with two wins from three, Leinster have enjoyed a relatively steady start. Yet there’s one set of numbers that head coach Leo Cullen really wants to see his side drastically improve on, and soon. Last year’s beaten-finalists have struggled in the second half of their three games…
CONNACHT HAVE MOVED to secure the long-term futures of three players signed on initial loan deals, with Stephen Fitzgerald, Tom Daly and Angus Lloyd all penning contracts with the province. The trio all arrived at the Sportsground on short-term contracts during the current season and having impressed head coach Andy Friend, have joined the province…
IRELAND WOMEN BATTLED their way through to tomorrow’s quarter-final in the Kitakyushu leg of the World Series despite losing two of their three pool matches in Japan today. Source: World Rugby/YouTube The explosive Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe is again in red-hot form as her hat-trick in the opener helped Ireland to a 31-10 victory over Fiji….
Sean Farrell reports from Kingspan Stadium IF INJURIES ARE not inevitable in rugby, at the least you will find frequent foolishness if you go into a game assuming your team will escape one. That knowledge is what led Leo Cullen to make 19 changes to his matchday 23 even though Leinster had three weeks to…
SARACENS STAR MAKO Vunipola is fit for his team’s Heineken Champions Cup final clash against Leinster on Saturday. England prop Vunipola has struggled with ankle problems since the Six Nations and was seen wearing a protective boot during Saracens’ victory over Exeter on Saturday. He played 62 minutes in last month’s semi-final victory over Munster…