Category: Rugby

  • Owen Farrell Books His Lions Spot (Ireland vs England)

    Owen Farrell Books His Lions Spot (Ireland vs England)

    Last minute of the match, and Ireland couldn’t even get a line out in their own half to go right. Owen Farrell wasn’t flawless, and England didn’t score any tries, but there was no question as to the best team on the damp and muddy pitch, and as to the identity of the favorites to keep on to win the 2013 Six Nations Championship.

  • 2013 Six Nations – Ireland vs England Predictions

    2013 Six Nations – Ireland vs England Predictions

    It’s been quite a while (ten years) since England last managed a Six Nations win at Ireland, but their first visit to the Aviva stadium since August 2011 brings with it a different sense of favorites, and a sign of change in the constant power struggle.

  • George North Reminds Welsh What it is to Win (France vs Wales)

    George North Reminds Welsh What it is to Win (France vs Wales)

    It takes a special effort to deny France from scoring a try in Paris, but the effort that Wales put in their second match of the 2013 Six Nations championship, culminating with a big try from George North to snatch away the victory, was enough for a historic result.

  • 2013 Six Nations – France vs Wales Predictions

    2013 Six Nations – France vs Wales Predictions

    There wasn’t too much for France to take from their opening weekend defeat in Rome, but the fact that Wales haven’t won in Paris since February 2005 has to be one of the few things keeping a smile on their players heading into their second 2013 Six Nations match.

  • Owen Farrell Keeps Getting Better (England vs Scotland)

    Owen Farrell Keeps Getting Better (England vs Scotland)

    It wasn’t a perfect performance from the young England Fly-Half, but you couldn’t have asked for much more as well. Owen Farrell kept hitting penalties and making the right passes and decisions as the home side began their Six Nations campaign brilliantly, demolishing a Scotland side that fought hard, but wasn’t really close to causing an upset.

  • Brian O’Driscoll With a Little Bit More Magic (Wales vs Ireland)

    Brian O’Driscoll With a Little Bit More Magic (Wales vs Ireland)

    Counted out time and time again, Brian O’Driscoll keeps coming back, this time with a tremendous match in the 2013 Six Nations opener, leading Ireland to a very impressive away win against Wales after a perfect first half and an enormous defensive effort, sometimes with 14 men, in the second.

  • 2013 Six Nations – England vs Scotland Predictions

    Few sport rivalries in this world are as ancient as the one between England and Scotland in Rugby Union, playing for the Calcutta Cup, but in recent years, especially in the Six Nations, it’s been one of the more one-sided one’s as well.

  • 2013 Six Nations – Wales vs Ireland Predictions

    2013 Six Nations – Wales vs Ireland Predictions

    The opening match in the 2013 edition of the Six Nations tournament brings together two teams that have formed possibly the finest rivalry in the tournament in recent years; Wales, the defending champions and Ireland, who haven’t won a Six Nations title since 2009.

  • Squads for the 2013 Six Nations Championship

    Squads for the 2013 Six Nations Championship

    For the 14th time, the Six Nations Championship gets underway; counting the previous Home Nations and Five Nations incarnations, this is the 119th edition of the annual Northern Hemisphere championship. Wales are the defending champions, England are confident due to their Autumns tests and the win against the All-Blacks, while France always have the talent to win it, but not always the will.

  • Best Photos From England Beating the All Blacks

    Best Photos From England Beating the All Blacks

    After two very disappointing results in the previous two weeks, there was nothing better than a historic win for England against the All Blacks, their first over New Zealand in over nine years, to get Stuart Lancaster quite optimistic about the 2013 Six Nations, with a sublime performance from the likes of Tom Wood, Manu […]