The Top 100 Players In World Rugby
Only one Northern Hemisphere player has been included in the top 10. The Telegraph have today published their list of rugby’s top 100 players and only one Northern Hemisphere player...
Category: Challenge Cup
Two-Thirds Of Connacht’s Squad Arrive Home After Nightmare Russian Trip
Connacht’s return journey from Russia is still not complete, though two of the three groups containing the squad have arrived back in Ireland. Pat Lam’s side defeated Enisei-STM in their...
Who Gets The Last Place In The 2016-17 European Champions Cup?
There will be no playoff this year to determine who gets the last place in the 2016-17 European Champions Cup. The automatic qualifiers for next year’s tournament will be the...
Connacht Rugby Are Still Stuck In Russia
Connacht’s Siberian nightmare is set to continue After making the 6,000 km trip to Russia on Wednesday, defeating Enisei-STM by 31-14 on Saturday, they have still yet to return back home....
European Rugby Seeks Solution To Fixture Backlog
Tournament organisers say they are considering “all possible fixture permutations” following opening-round postponements in the European Champions Cup and Challenge Cup competitions. Four-time European title holders Toulouse were the only...
Watch: The Connacht Challenge Shield Game In Siberia Looked Surreal
Connacht kicked off their European Challenge Cup campaign in style in Krasnoyarsk on Saturday morning with a solid 14-31 win over Enisei-STM. Pat Lam’s side made the 6,000 km trip for their...
The European Rugby Super 15
The divide that exists between the hemispheres (or doesn’t exist, depending on who you ask) has been a huge topic the past few weeks following the Southern Hemisphere’s dominance at...
Toulon May Be Set To Add Another Former Lions Captain To Their Ranks
According to Wales Online, Mourad Boudjellal is looking to bring Alun Wyn Jones to Toulon. The former Wales Captain, who is out of contract at the end of this season, and...
Domestic leagues going from strength to strength as European rugby wanes
It might just be me but the European competitions, the Challenge Cup and the now termed Champions Cup don’t seem to have the same aura and excitement surrounding them this...
Third Tier European Rugby Competition Postponed
The EPCR has decided to postpone the project of a 3rd Tier European Competition for 2014/2015, President Octavian Morariu expressed his regrets. The EPCR planned to create a competition allowing a...
