Posts Tagged Tri Nations
Davies sidelined until New Year
Ospreys full-back Barry Davies could be out for up to a month after undergoing keyhole-surgery to repair a groin injury.
The 28-year-old had been in scintillating form after returning to Wales from Brive in the summer before his latest setback.
The former Scarlets player has seen his persistent injury restrict him to just six first team appearances [...]
Flannery a doubt for Six Nations
It has emerged that injury-cursed hooker Jerry Flannery is a doubt for the start of Ireland’s Six Nations defence as he battles with an Achilles injury.
Flannery will undergo diagnostic surgery later this week after the injury forced him out of Munster’s match against Perpignan on Friday.
If Flannery requires further surgery he could be ruled out [...]
Saracens win battle of the leaders
Saracens produced an impressive second-half comeback to win the battle between the English and French league leaders 23-9 in Castres on Friday.
Saracens trailed 9-3 at half-time at Stade Pierre Antoine but kept their opponents scoreless after the break as tries from replacements Andy Saull and Schalk Brits sealed a vital win that keeps their hopes [...]
O’Gara to Munster’s rescue
24 points from the boot of Ronan O’Gara saw Munster to a shaky 24-23 win over Perpignan in Limerick on Friday, with Catalan hopes now hanging.
Perpignan scored all the tries but they just could not stop giving away cheap penalties and O’Gara could have had nine more points in a game where Munster kicked so [...]
NZRU reverse ANZ Cup decision
The New Zealand Rugby Union has backed down on plans to cut four teams from the country’s premier domestic competition next year after threats of legal action from teams facing the axe.
Rugby union chairman Jock Hobbs said Friday the union was reversing its decision made in July to cut the top provincial competition in 2010 [...]
Third time lucky for Stade Français?
Stade Français are now the only team to have reached two Heineken Cup finals but not got their hands on the main prize - and they are banking on making it third time lucky.
The cosmopolitan French capital club went down at the final hurdle in 2001 and 2005 to Leicester Tigers and Toulouse respectively but [...]
Coaches plan rest for All Blacks
Echoing the sentiments of their South African counterparts, the All Blacks coaching team have raised concerns about burnout of New Zealand’s top players and will meet with Super 14 coaches on Friday in the hope of scheduling periodic breaks in the packed calendar.
Upon his return form a successful November tour of Europe - despite Saturday’s [...]
Banahan banned for two weeks
England winger Matt Banahan has been banned for two weeks by Rugby Football Union disciplinary chiefs.
Banahan was sent off for stamping on Northampton back Stephen Myler midway through the second half of his club Bath’s 15-13 Guinness Premiership defeat to Saints on December 5.
The 22-year-old pleaded not guilty to the offence, but a three-man RFU [...]
Ireland to play Barbarians in June
Ireland will take on the Barbarians at Munster’s Thomond Park ground in Limerick on June 4 next year the Irish Rugby Football Union confirmed on Wednesday.
The IRFU said the match would serve as a warm-up for their June tour to New Zealand and Australia. The Barbarians will play England the week before.
The match will be [...]
No punishment for Wasps
Wasps have escaped punishment for refusing to play their Guinness Premiership clash with Sale at Edgeley Park.
The London club refused to play the match on November 27 because of surface water down one channel of the pitch.
They were charged with a breach of regulations but a Premier Rugby disciplinary panel tonight dismissed the charges after [...]