Month: November 2022

LEINSTER, MUNSTER AND Ulster have all utilised the option to bolster their squads for the Heineken Champions Cup knockout stages, each adding three players ahead of the quarter-finals ties.  Under EPCR tournament rules, the eight clubs which have qualified for the knockout rounds of the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup can nominate up to threeRead moreRead more

JOSH VAN DER Flier isn’t the most voracious reader of sports books. Sports documentaries are more his thing, basketball being a favourite focus, but he made an exception for the autobiography of the man many view as the greatest openside to have played rugby. Van der Flier is back in Ireland’s starting team for tomorrow.Read moreRead more

DEFENDING CHAMPIONS UL Bohemians won 31-14 at Galwegians to finish top of the Women’s All-Ireland League table for the fourth consecutive season. UL will host Blackrock at the semi-final stage, while Old Belvedere earned home advantage in the last-four against Railway Union with a 15-8 victory over Philip Doyle’s ‘Rock side. GALWEGIANS 14 UL BOHEMIANSRead moreRead more

EDDIE JONES WAS relieved to get England’s second-half horror show against Scotland out of the way, believing it was better to come in what was essentially a Six Nations dead rubber rather than at the Rugby World Cup. England were in scintillating form in the first half at Twickenham and led 31-0 after four unansweredRead moreRead more

* Ilja Dragunov defeated Ashton Smith (Dark Match) * NXT UK GM Johnny Saint announces Pete Dunne will defend the WWE UK Championship at NXT TakeOver: New York. * Tyler Bate defeated James Drake * Jordan Devlin defeated Dan Moloney * Kassius Ohno cuts a promo, reading an apology off his phone for Aston Smith.Read moreRead more

Sean Farrell reports from the Aviva Stadium LEO CULLEN ADMITTED a heavy sense of relief after his Leinster side edged an inter-pro battle with Ulster to take their place in the Heineken Champions Cup semi-finals. The eastern province’s head coach surely won’t have paid much heed to bookmakers’ spreads reaching upwards of 13 points, thoughRead moreRead more

MUNSTER CENTRE CHRIS Farrell is hopeful that work done in February, well away from the limelight, will aid Munster’s preparation for Saturday’s Heineken Champions Cup quarter-final (kick-off 12.45). Source: Morgan Treacy/INPHO Farrell was in the Ireland side who took victory against Scotland in Murrayfield last month, and six days later he was back in theRead moreRead more

LEINSTER’S BEN TE’O has earned his first England call-up ahead of the three-Test tour of Australia. Te’o, who will leave Ireland to join the Worcester Warriors after next weekend’s Pro12 final, is one of four uncapped players in Eddie Jones’s squad. The versatile back, who played rugby league for Samoa but has never been cappedRead moreRead more

BEFORE LEINSTER AND Connacht contest the Guinness Pro12 final at 5.30pm this evening, there’ll actually be another Irish team in action at Murrayfield, though — as they’ll admit themselves, you probably have never heard of them. At 3pm on Murrayfield’s back pitch Ireland’s only mixed ability, 15-a-side full-contact rugby team — the Sunday’s Well RebelsRead moreRead more

IRISHMAN CONOR GASTON will start on the left wing for Jeremy Davidson’s Aurillac in their Pro D2 promotion play-off final against Bayonne tomorrow [KO 3.15pm Irish time]. Click Here: canterbury-bankstown bulldogs rugby store A win would see Davidson’s side cap a remarkable season with promotion into the Top 14. Davidson has worked wonders with Aurillac.Read moreRead more