Wales Squad for Invesco Perpetual Series ’09: Backs (13): Dan Biggar (Ospreys), Gareth Cooper (Blues), Jonathan Davies (Scarlets), Leigh Halfpenny (Blues), James Hook (Ospreys), Tom James (Blues), Mark Jones (Scarlets), Stephen Jones (Scarlets), Dwayne Peel (Sale Sharks), Jamie Roberts (Blues), Martin Roberts (Scarlets), Tom Shanklin (Blues), Shane Williams (Ospreys). Forwards (16): Huw Bennett (Ospreys), Luke [...]

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Welsh rugby’s best talents are poetry in motion.  Like ballet dancers; perfectly balanced, graceful and effortless, the likes of Shane Williams are living embodiments of the beauty of the game.  Indeed, while at Amman United, excitable song and dance man Shane would often pelt down the left-wing in a top hat and tails, carrying a [...]

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Leighton Samuel, Tony Brown, Peter Pie Thomas, Roger Blyth, Mike Cuddy, Huw Woss-Name at Llanelli, that fella who used to manage Oasis but also owned Ebbw Vale (talk about rock ‘n roll); the old Welsh rugby benefactors have shrunk in number and there doesn’t seem to be a new breed ready to replace them. Do [...]

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Gavin Henson shocked fans when he announced that he and Charlotte Church planned to swap careers. Speaking at the launch of his pop career and hair gel product range on X-Factor, Henson revealed that he although he had decided to hang up his boots for good, Ospreys and Welsh fans would be cheered to find [...]

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Under new rules announced by the IRB, specially trained medical staff will be required for all future rugby matches to guarantee the replacement process does not allow a repeat of Bloodgate.  To ensure each game is conducted in the proper Corinthian spirit, an independent team of vampire, butcher and coroner will be appointed to support [...]

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Softly spoken, black-gloved WRU enforcer Dai “With Your Boots On” Pickering has come within a gnat’s bumcrack of being embarrassed into relinquishing his discretionary match ticket allowance for a forthcoming Autumn international. As WRU Group Chairman Executive Managing Principal Director Head, Pickering is legislatively entitled to first dibs on just 35,000 tickets for each Wales [...]

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What’s a Scrum Queen? Is it Phil Vickery moaning about getting prison-shamed by “The Beast?”. No. Scrum Queens is a new rugby website dedicated to Women’s Rugby, covering the international game at 15 and 7-a-side levels. The site features international rugby tournament news and information from leading competitions such as the Women’s 6 Nations, Nations [...]

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