LEICESTER TIGERS HEAD coach Geordan Murphy has been hit with a three-game ban for verbally abusing match officials, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) has announced. Ex-Ireland international Murphy accepted two charges brought against him following the Tigers’ final-day 32-31 Premiership defeat to Bath on 18 May. An RFU statement said the punishment will come into…
WORLD RUGBY’S PREVIOUS plans to revolutionise the sport with an annual global tournament have been ditched after failing to achieve the unanimous agreement of member countries. Rugby union chiefs wanted to launch a new cross-hemisphere Nations Championship from 2022, in which the first and second-placed sides of Europe’s Six Nations would face off against the…
SENE NAOUPU WANTS to help. The brilliant Ireland centre has felt her role change over the decade since first moving to Ireland. It’s about far more than a switch from Galwegians to Old Belvedere, whose kit she wears in the promotional image accompanying this interview. She is seated and overlooking Energia Park to promote the…
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ALL BLACKS LOCK Scott Barrett will miss Saturday’s Bledisloe Cup decider against Australia after receiving a three-week ban for a shoulder charge during New Zealand’s loss to the Wallabies last weekend. Barrett was red carded for his hit on Michael Hooper late in the first half of the 47-26 defeat in Perth and was facing…
IT’S ALMOST THREE whole weeks since international rugby rode off into the sunset for another year. Now we face some long dark days until it returns in February. To help pass the time here’s an international XV we rowed and rowed over. 15. Ben Smith (New Zealand) In a team with an all new centre combination…
Click:英文魔術表演 Click:赴日开发Nia Jax spoke with Mike Jones’ DC 101 and discussed the reaction backstage to Roman Reigns’ WWE return. You can see some highlights below per Wrestling Inc: On what the mood was like backstage during Reigns’ Raw segment: “You know what, he has us all on edge and we were all waiting for what…
FRANCE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE Wesley Fofana is set to miss the Six Nations after rupturing his Achilles tendon in Clermont’s thumping 48-26 European Champions Cup win over Exeter today. The 29-year-old, who has 44 caps for France, suffered the injury late in the first half, just after scoring one of his team’s five tries. “He injured…
AN IRELAND LEGENDS XV will face England in memory of Anthony Foley in the annual curtain-raiser to the Six Nations clash between the sides. The exhibition match will take place on Friday 17 March at the RDS, on the eve of the potential Grand Slam decider between Ireland and England at the Aviva Stadium. It…
Edinburgh 9 Munster 10 MUNSTER RETURNED TO the top of the Guinness PRO12 with the narrowest of wins in Edinburgh, surviving a late scare when the Scots had a 51-metre kick at goal to win the match, only for Blair Kinghorn to see his shot land short. It had been hard from the start for…