"They both loved it from the beginning," remembers Joel. Louis would sleep cuddled up to a rugby ball. The red scrum cap that has become a trademark was initially a present from his parents.

Leinster beat Scarlets 33-21 in the United Rugby Championship ... always particularly secure with ball-in-hand, his rapid movements from the base of the scrum proved vital for a side that were ...

Jimmy O’Brien: Caught out defensively a couple of times and had limited interaction with the ball in hand ... Wearing his trademark red scrum cap and tackling everything that moved, it was ...

while scrum-half is the lowest paid. Figures in the latest Premiership Rugby salary cap report show senior player salaries dropped by 11.4% between the 2022-23 season and 2023-24. However ...

The Congress of SA Trade Unions homed in on Springbok captain Victor Matfield’s choice of scrum ... wear a cap with the country’s new national symbols. Cosatu reportedly asked Sports Minister Fikile ...

Yandisa caught the eye of the Herald while playing for New Republic School’s second rugby team ... “I wear a scrum cap and my hair is short. They think that I am a boy and only find out ...

The Blues’ first victory in Christchurch for 18 years was attacking rugby at its best, a game where both teams thirsted to run the ball in a contest refreshingly light on scrum re-sets ...

Bath Rugby have confirmed the signing of Scottish international centre Chris Harris from Gloucester Rugby on a one-year deal. The Scotland international will join the Blue, Black and White for the ...

Gilbert have a long-standing affiliation with Women’s Rugby World Cups, having supplied the match balls to every tournament since 1991, and have carefully crafted the RWC 2025 ball to reflect the ...

Watch all 48 Rugby World Cup 2023 matches on Sky or stream ... the little maestro could get the hosts home. With only a scrum cap for protection, he displayed little fear in contact, kicked ...

Objectives To characterise the tackler’s head position during one-on-one tackling in rugby and to determine the incidence of ... its duration and the number of steps taken by the ball carrier prior to ...

Head coach Warren Gatland has called up scrum-half Kieran Hardy to replace number-eight Taulupe Faletau, who broke his arm in the Pool C game against Georgia on Saturday, in the Wales squad for Rugby ...