Key Clash Preview: Northampton Saints v Leicester Tigers
Updated: 2010-09-02 16:00:02
Each week, we'll be previewing one or two key clashes, and we start the season with a cracker - Saints v Tigers.
Home Forum About Us Free Newsletter Rugby Twitterers Local Clubs Contact Us Home Featured Headline Rants The Pros and Cons of Offering Warren Gatland a New Contract One Comment One of the aspects of Welsh rugby getting a lot of debate is the news that the WRU are in talks with Warren Gatland about offering him a new contract to take him beyond the 2011 World Cup in New Zealand . We wanted to look at both sides of it so we offered out the option of writing the pros and the cons of offering Warren Gatland a new contract to . Twitter Whilst we did get articles for both sides of the argument I have decided to rewrite the pros one the one I got didn’t quite hit the mark for me , but will make an interesting article in it’s own right . Whilst I am not fully behind offering him a new contract I
Home Forum About Us Free Newsletter Rugby Twitterers Local Clubs Contact Us Home Featured Headline Rants Tri-Nations Sports Journalism Pretty Shoddy 2 Comments I am tarring a lot of people with the same brush here , so apologies to the large number of worthwhile sports journalists . However we should all be aware , by now , of my dislike for the Western Mail school of journalism make everything a shock’ and people don’t say things they rap’ And if you are wondering just how poor and formulaic the Western Mail really is check out their football reporting not unsurprisingly they have changed it now But it is far from just us that have press that couldn’t find a rugby pitch if they were given a map plenty of other nations have them . And right now New Zealand have managed to provide us with a
Home Forum About Us Free Newsletter Rugby Twitterers Local Clubs Contact Us Home Featured Headline News Mark Taylor Interview The Captains Climb No Comment One of the biggest Welsh rugby charity efforts in a long time is getting ready to get under way . The walkers including amongst their number 15 ex-Welsh captains such as Rob Howley , Colin Charvis and Eddie Butler are climbing Kilimanjaro in an effort to raise money for lung cancer research and . facilities Mark Taylor , one of the ex-captains braving the trek , was kind enough to take time out to answer a few questions about the walk for us . There is a massive fund raising target set for all concerned , and Mark has a personal target of 2,000. So please do sponsor him on this very worthy endeavour . You can sponsor him here Mark
Home Forum About Us Free Newsletter Rugby Twitterers Local Clubs Contact Us Home Dragons Featured Headline Magners league News Rants Rugby Awards Time Magners League Style No Comment Don’t ask me how some awards get decided , it seems a lot of the time a tombola is used to decide who is worth getting an award and the Magners League awards are no . exception Ok that’s a tad harsh , a lot of the awards decided are worthy . For example I may be biased as an Ospreys fan but Tommy Bowe has been so superb this season he is fully deserving of the players player of the year award . But one that has confused me is that the Dragon s boss Paul Turner has won the Magners League Best Coach . Award Now he has been doing decently down at Rodney Parade , but pardon me if I don’t join in the lauding of him
Home Forum About Us Free Newsletter Rugby Twitterers Local Clubs Contact Us Home Featured Ospreys New Ospreys Training Shirt One Comment Personally I am hoping this is just a hoax but Cai Griffiths and Sonny Parker have just been Twittering about the new Ospreys training shirt . Worse it seems that a number of people on Twitter seem to think that it is a good thing . Which just goes to show how many people there are out there with bad . taste To quote Prysiau from the Rugby Rebels thread about this Maybe I’m wrong , but I’m absolutely convinced clubs could make far more money from merchandise if they actually put together a shirt that wasn’t utterly sh t . Why do they do it All the top clubs seem to emulate SF . No-one stands out , we just have a bejewelled multi-coloured rainbow of