George Fords stopping power for England set for stern test.
George Ford is a rarity for a modern international rugby player. His upper body does not bear the tell-tale signs of endless hours spent pumping iron but rather resembles that of an outside-half from a bygone era when tackling��.
O2 asks England Rugby fans to Wear the Rose in major sponsorship campaign
The year-long campaign will give fans the chance to tweet uplifting messages directly to the England Rugby team under the #WeartheRose tag, with O2 displaying tweets on digital billboards dotted throughout the country, including Waterloo Station and .
Six Nations 2015: Stuart Lancaster must deliver for England
As head coach of the host nation for the 2015 Rugby World Cup, Lancaster, 45, is the natural focal point for any discussion about Englands chances of reliving the heady days of 2003, when Sir Clive Woodward masterminded a triumph in Sydney that.
Rugby Title Goes Down to the Wire
England kept its title hopes alive with its best match yet, leaving four teams tied for the lead and two games to go in the Six Nations championship.
Lions Will Have to Gel Quickly
Coach Warren Gatland has a lot of talent on his British and Irish Lions squad, but his biggest task is getting his All-Star lineup to play together as a team.
Welsh Make Their Case for Lions Squad
When Wales came back to win the Six Nations, it also secured plenty of spots for its players on the upcoming British & Irish Lions tour.
Shamed by bigoted England rugby fans at All Blacks game.
Letters: I could not believe that a bunch of men half my age watching a rugby match in the 21st century could be capable of hurling such nasty, foul-mouthed, racist, homophobic abuse.
Six Nations: Wales v England - Jonathan Davies view
Fly-half George Ford has been playing exceptionally well this season, as has Jonathan Joseph. On the wings, they have Jonny May and Anthony Watson who are also playing great rugby. If England can get the ball and gain momentum, they have exciting .
Six Nations Rugby: Whoever Wins In Technology Tends To Win
Sir Clive Woodward, England rugby union coach from 1997 to 2004, is a keen advocate of IT and data analytics. And he has every right to be. They helped him to famously lead his country to World Cup glory in 2003, along with a string of Six Nations .
Irish Wolfhounds 9-18 England Saxons | International match.
It says a lot about the Worcester full-back that the England management want to pick him despite his playing his club rugby in the Championship. It was a less happy night for Wasps James Gaskell, forced off through illness��.
The strange power of the England rugby league teams.
England schoolboys are relegated to red; rugby league shines in sunny Florida; Castleford Tigers plan for the future; and what to watch over the festive season.
What time does England v Wales 6 Nations rugby match kick-off?
One of the fiercest rivalries in international rugby England versus Wales kicks off at 8.05pm tonight (Friday). Coverage of the game, which is being played at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, starts on BBC1 at 7.30pm. The match is the perfect choice.
South Africa defeat pours water on Englands Rugby World.
England had talked up the autumn rugby union Tests as a chance to show off their World Cup credentials, but another deflating Twickenham defeat ��� this time by South Africa ��� put the aspirations of the 2015 hosts squarely��.
Nick Easter and Danny Cipirani on bench as England ring.
England team: M Brown (Harlequins); A Watson (Bath Rugby), J Joseph (Bath Rugby), L Burrell (Northampton Saints), J May (Gloucester Rugby); G Ford (Bath Rugby), B Youngs (Leicester Tigers); J Marler (Harlequins),��.
Ulster Gains Top Seeding in Heineken Cup Matches
Ulster was the big winner on the sixth and last weekend of pool matches in the Heineken Cup, rugby union’s equivalent of soccer’s Champions League.
Jonathan Joseph celebrates dream moment in Millenium.
Joseph added: ���Its incredible. Theres no greater feeling to come here to Wales and win, probably one of our greatest rivals. England rugby GETTY. England players celebrate in Cardiff. The first game in this championship is��.
Highs and Lows for Welsh Rugby in 2012
In the first part of the year, Wales was flying high as the Grand Slam champion in Europe, but by the end of the year it had lost seven straight tests.
England rugby injury crisis might help Sam | SBS News
A backline injury crisis will do no harm to Sam Burgess hopes of winning a place in Englands Rugby World Cup squad.
Wales 16 - England 21 - Daily Express
England rugby GETTY. England players celebrate in Cardiff. If the game in Cardiff two years ago was a Welsh walkover, this was anything but as England exacted satisfying revenge for that 30-3 loss in a frenetic and dramatic��.
At Rugby World Cup, No Easy Path for Europe
The favorites for the tournament all hail from the Southern Hemisphere, though England and France are expected to challenge, too.
NZ and England to play sevens rugby final
New Zealand will meet England in the final of the Wellington Sevens rugby tournament, with the hosts beating world series leaders South Africa 17-7 in a tense semi-final. A late try to 17-year-old Rieko Ioane sealed victory in a repeat of the result of.
Out of the Scrum and Reaching New Heights
Although the womens game cannot match the pace and power of male rugby, one top player notes, We still emulate it with our skill level.
Wales in Winning Position in Six Nations
Beating England guarantees the team a shot at the title and a chance to sweep the competition.
Wellington Sevens Live Updates: England and Fijis quarterfinal into extra time
Fiji have chased down England in their quarterfinal match to tie it all up at 21-all at the end of regular time. So they will now play extra time and the first to score will win and go on to meet Scotland in the semi-final. The intensity has stepped up.
Different Venue, Same Result as England Tops France
Once again, the English dragged the French into a slow-paced slugging contest Saturday evening. And once again the visitors won, this time 24-13.
England Captures Six Nations but Disappoints in Final Match
Englands rugby players were talking about what might have been after they missed out on a much bigger prize -- the grand slam of beating all five opponents.
French Flair Haunts England as Six Nations Opens
The opening day of Six Nations rugby competition was full of memorable moments for young players as Wales and France notched home-team victories.
Future of Heineken Cup Thrown Into Chaos
English and French teams, unhappy with how the top rugby club competition in Europe is set up and how the money is divided, said they intend to form their own tournament starting next year.
Before Rugby World Cup, Six Nations Takes Center Stage
As France, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Italy do battle for local bragging rights, there will be no escaping the fact that in just a few short months, a bigger prize will be up for grabs in New Zealand.
Rugby Union: England Six Nations squad rocked by yet.
ENGLANDS plans for the Six Nations opener against Wales have suffered serious disruption as injuries struck on the last weekend of the European group stages.
Wales wary of refereeing for Six Nations opener against.
Waless forwards coach, Robin McBryde, has said the referees policing of the scrum could be crucial in the Six Nations opener against England at the Millennium Stadium.. at the Millennium Stadium on Friday. Even without Adam Jones, the tight-head prop who has retired from international rugby after being left out of the Wales squad, there will be at least four Lions front-rowers involved in an area both sides believe will, once more, be a key area of the game.
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Thats brilliant from full-back Brown as he drills England down into the Welsh 22. And they win the Welsh throw too! Massive chance to kill the contest here and theyre over. It is Attwood crashing over.but hang on, TMO time sees Easter penalised for.
Sir Clive Woodwards roof comments are typical of arrogant English rugby.
How disrespectful, how absurd and dare I say it, how very English rugby. For a start, Wales have won three Six Nations titles in the last seven years, are full of Lions and Lions combinations, boast a full-strength squad and happen to have lost once to.
Stuart Lancasters England burning for Six Nations revenge.
���The Six Nations has been hugely frustrating, particularly last year when we played some great rugby but lost the first game and scored 50 points in Italy on the final weekend, which not many teams have done, only for Ireland��.
England Ousts France to Gain Final
England controlled its big-game emotions better than host France yesterday to win its World Cup semifinal, 14-9, and reach a second successive final.
England Captures Six Nations but Disappoints in Final Match
Englands rugby players were talking about what might have been after they missed out on a much bigger prize -- the grand slam of beating all five opponents.
Six Nations: England vow to avenge 30-3 defeat to Wales.
���It doesnt get any better as a set-up to the championship,��� said England coach Stuart Lancaster. ���Its an iconic rugby stadium, its an iconic fixture, the history behind the two countries in rugby is huge and to kick off on a Friday��.
Rugby-England rally to beat Wales in Six Nations opener
Striking the first blow in World Cup year, England held the hosts scoreless in the second half to quieten a noisy Millennium Stadium crowd and avenge a record 30-3 defeat two years ago in Cardiff. The memories of that capitulation appeared to still.
England head coach Stuart Lancaster rejects Wales request.
With the forecast good, England ��� who trained indoors with Welsh rugby anthems pumping out at full blast at their Pennyhill Park base yesterday ��� see no reason why they should help in turning up the crowd volume by��.
Why do rugby fans sing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?
The Rugby Football Union is trying to find out how a song rooted in slavery became an anthem for rugby fans. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is a spiritual - a type of song created by African people enslaved in the US. Englands supporters were rumoured to.
RBS Six Nations: Bath trio inspire 21-16 England win over Wales in Millennium.
Rhys Webb bagged the first try of the match, but his try along with two Leigh Halfpenny penalties and a Dan Biggar drop-goal were not enough to see Wales over the line as England gained the psychological advantage ahead of a Rugby World Cup pool .
Six Nations: a pub survival guide for rugby newbies
The Rugby World Cup is coming to England in September when the home nations will erupt in rugby hysteria and British men previously clueless about mauls and scrums will feel socially compelled to mask their ignorance and pretend to know what the ruck .
Unpredictable? Mais, Non — as Usual, France Defeats Ireland, 25-22
In a Six Nations rugby match, France beat Ireland, something les Bleus have done eight of the last 10 times.
France Puts Worries to Rest
France, shaken by a series of heavy defeats by southern hemisphere teams last year, put those losses behind it as it defeated Scotland, 34-21, to start its defense of the Six Nations rugby championship.
Englands rookie centre partnership of Burrell and Joseph see.
THIS fixture has been written in capital letters and underlined for 14 months, since Wales slipped out of the worlds top eight and ended up in a World Cup pool with England and Australia.. So it was that Luther Burrell and Jonathan Joseph, with just 13 caps between them, found themselves facing the most experienced centre pairing currently operating in Test rugby. Since Jamie Roberts and Jonathan Davies first became partners in crime in 2011, they have proved��.
Out of the Scrum and Reaching New Heights
Although the womens game cannot match the pace and power of male rugby, one top player notes, We still emulate it with our skill level.
BBC creates Game Of Thrones-style Six Nations rugby promo video
Thats the question posed by the BBCs new Game of Thrones-style Six Nations video, which marks the commencement of the fiercely fought rugby tournament. England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales begin playing for glory on Friday, with.
Six Nations: England use illegal rugby league tactics - Edwards
Wales defence coach Shaun Edwards says England risk being penalised if they use their league tactics in Fridays Six Nations opener in Cardiff. Former Great Britain rugby league captain Edwards claims England use illegal rugby league-style plays.
After Settling Down, Danny Cipriani Is Back With England
Cipriani, who used to be best known for making headlines for all the wrong reasons, is playing for his national team again for the first time since 2008.
Battle Lines Being Drawn in European Rugby
The organizing body for Europes two main rugby tournaments is in the midst of a dispute with domestic leagues over television rights and the qualifying process for the Heineken Cup.
England vs. Wales Rugby: Live Stream Info, TV Channel And Kickoff Time For.
England return for the first time to the scene of one of their most chastening defeats of recent years, when they kick off the 2015 Six Nations at the Millennium Stadium against Wales on Friday. Two years ago, England were thrashed 30-3 in Cardiff as.
Ireland Wolfhounds v England Saxons: Sam Burgess to make
Sam Burgess will make his international rugby union debut at centre when England Saxons take on Ireland Wolfhounds in Cork on Friday night.