Claire Thomas has lived and breathed sport all her life - besotted from an early age, before competing internationally - and is lucky enough to, these days, talk and write about it for a living. When not mainlining tea in various commentary gantries, wishing she handled the cold better - she’s generally found running, or watching Squidge Rugby videos for a second time, painstakingly pausing them to cackle at all the tiny in-jokes.
The question is: will the afternoon’s real murder have already taken place? Will there be any life left in this fixture by the f…
53 points scored - seven tries, six conversions, and a pair of penalty kicks - which is a tally only the Red Roses have surpassed.…
So - in a bid to put a slight (read: dubious) twist on that tried-and-tested classic of a listicle, here’s a player from each na…
Put simply, spending a few hours at Pennyhill Park on a cold and blustery Wednesday - in between rounds one and two of the Six Nat…
If the senior men’s and u20s championships were anything to go by, we’re in for a scintillating ride - so clear your weekends,…
Just as is the case with the PWR - test match women’s rugby has never been in ruder health, but it’s certainly not perfect yet…
In their fledging PWR existence, they had played five and won two. 11 table points from 400 minutes of competition - 397 of which …
In 2024, the PWR needs to ‘do lots the same, but fight to make things even better - whilst also changing other bits.’ It’s c…
At the end of the year, with reflection in mind, six rounds (almost) complete, and a whole chocolate reindeer as column-writing fu…
Bristol Bears, who have taken every other scalp in the league, have never got the job done against Sarries - regardless of locatio…
The Australian women's sevens team are currently flying the flag for Australian rugby - easily the best team Down Under - but ther…
We’ve scarcely got going with this new Premiership Women’s Rugby campaign - if the season were a sprinter, it’d only just ha…
The jubilant scenes at the Premier 15s final on June 24th are the ones which make the early season montages now, but this was a si…
They might not be dishing out the giant bags of crisps anymore, but this thing never fails to entertain - so grab yourselves some …
So they huffed, and they puffed, and they blew the house in - storming the land of the long white cloud, and leaving ferns strewn …
Fiji and Spain were involved in some proper tussles - competition their set-ups have been craving - whilst Kazakstan battling past…
‘Winning is a habit’ is something you hear an awful lot in sport, and Scotland’s recent results suggest that’s a truism ba…
Welcome back from that brief intermission. We hope you did something fun - like watching a supercut of Alisha Butchers highlights,…
This Autumn, the WXV1 trophy will be raised for the very first time - and the nominees are blockbuster. It’s time to cast our ey…
WXV is here: 18 teams, three tournaments, and a yearly opportunity for women’s rugby to dazzle on a planetary scale. A truly wor…
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