England hooker Steve Thompson will make his debut for London Wasps this weekend having been handed the number two shirt for Friday night’s trip to Worcester in the Aviva Premiership. Thompson, who featured strongly for England at the World Cup, is one of eight changes Director of Rugby Dai Young has made to this...
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Newcastle Falcons hooker Matt Thompson has extended his contract at Kingston Park, ahead of Saturday’s crucial home Aviva Premiership match against Leeds Carnegie (kick-off 3pm). The former Royal Grammar School pupil has enjoyed a rich vein of form in recent weeks, helping the Falcons to back-to-back premiership victories over Leeds Carnegie and Harlequins, as...
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Leeds Carnegie have suffered a blow ahead of this Sunday’s LV Cup clash with Sale Sharks with the news that hooker Andy Titterrell will be out of action for at least five months after scans revealed he will need surgery on a knee injury sustained in training last week. Titterrell requires surgery on his...
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The vexed question of which team should Warren Gatland pick to play Italy is a talking point in the Welsh Message Board (WMB). RR poster “Hook”, poses this question and offers Gatland the following advice: “I think its important we don’t make the same mistake as Gats did last year but I would make...
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Greig Laidlaw will captain a new-look Edinburgh side for the trip to Magners League champions Munster on Friday evening (19 February, kick off 8pm, live on Setanta Ireland) and head coach Rob Moffat believes the scrum-half has the right skill-set to lead the side to a positive result. Laidlaw, 24, signed a new two...
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Steve Thompson and Courtney Lawes will be on parade at Twickenham on Saturday as a testament to Northampton Old Scouts. Lawes follows Thompson and Ben Cohen as the latest to come out of the Scouts club founded in 1926 around a camp fire at Castle Ashby. Thompson said: “A couple of the guys down...
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Steve Thompson will make his first international start since 2006 when England line up against Australia in the Investec Challenge international at Twickenham on Saturday. (2.30pm). Brive hooker Thompson is joined by fellow 2003 Rugby World Cup winners Jonny Wilkinson (Toulon) and Lewis Moody (Leicester Tigers) in the team to face the Wallabies. Thompson...
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Hawke’s Bay slip out of the top four after going down at home to Canterbury. Tries by James Paterson, Richie McCaw, and Dan Carter, plus a handful of penalties and conversions by Carter did just enough to overcome game opposition, mostly from the boot of Matt Berquist, who supplied fifteen of the home side’s twenty...
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