Exeter back Dan John has agreed a new contract with the Premiership club. The 23-year-old former Wales youth international has played 19 times for the Chiefs in all competitions. He has also spent time on dual registration at Championship side Cornish Pirates. Injuries have restricted John to just two appearances this season – one in...
Ireland forward coach Paul O’Connell – a former Lions captain and three-times a tourist as a player – had been widely expected to take charge of the Lions pack. But with O’Connell out of the running, Farrell has turned to Dalziel. The former Glasgow coach will share forwards duties with Fogarty, with Easterby likely to...
Selection under England head coach John Mitchell is “clear” and competition for places “very healthy”, says Red Roses back row Maddie Feaunati. A much-changed England started their Six Nations title defence with a bonus-point win over Italy in York, despite Mitchell making seven personnel changes from his side’s last outing in October’s WXV1 win over...
From the win over Canada that secured England’s WXV1 title success in October, Mitchell made seven changes and some positional alterations to his starting XV, with the result a comfortable 38-5 victory in front of 8,391 supporters in York. In the early stages, no drop-off was evident. The Red Roses started in clinical fashion, the...
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Ulster have said scrum-half John Cooney will leave the Irish province at the end of the season. Cooney, 34, will move to Brive in France after an eight-year stint at the Kingspan Stadium club. The Dublin-born player, who had spells at Leinster and Connacht, won his 11 Ireland caps during his time at Ulster. Cooney...
Assistant coach John Carver has said Ipswich Town George Hirst brings Scotland a “different dimension” to their forward line. Hirst has been called up for the Nations League play-off with Greece after receiving clearance to represent his grandfather’s homeland. The 26-year-old joins Che Adams, Tommy Conway, Kevin Nisbet and James Wilson as the forwards in...
Too often, though, the character lacked depth: as thin as the page of the comic he seemed to spring from. “He was this kind of Roy of the Rovers figure and as I got older I got frustrated and almost embarrassed by people having a better knowledge of my dad than I did,” Rob says....