Our live match centre has you covered for all the big moments, best scores, reactions and full Ireland player ... pure art. His defence is superb, too, and he put down a lot of big ball-carriers.

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The wealth of the industry is also reflected in the net worth of some of the games' top players of the past and present. In 2024, Simon McDowell topped the list of the world's wealthiest rugby ...

Rugby players are not paid anywhere near as much as their football counterparts, but England's biggest stars are still due to receive a healthy chunk of money from the RFU. Express Sport takes a ...

Dramatic footage shows a drug-dealing ex-rugby captain throw packets of drugs ... and the amount of money seized confirms you were a serious player. The case is seriously aggravated by your ...

In my time in Canberra, I became one of the founders of the Rugby Players’ Association, dealing with the rugby unions on collective bargaining etc, and it also gave me the platform to play 16 ...

Standard Sport’s Simon Collings was at the Aviva Stadium to rate the England players... Proved a useful weapon under the high ball, both in attack and defence. Carried solidly from deep ...

The aim of the study was to compare the characteristics and incidence of injuries in male youth amateur soccer and rugby players. Methods: This prospective cohort study comprised an initial baseline ...

Methods Saliva was obtained from male professional players in the top two tiers of England’s elite rugby union competition across two seasons (2017–2019). Samples were collected preseason from 1028 ...

5 13 Juan Ignacio Brex: One of the most underrated players in world rugby. Reads the game superbly in defence and ... 5 6 Sebastian Negri: Huge work rate on both sides of the ball as his performance ...

How we rated the Scotland players ... to Test rugby by the tireless lock who came into the match rather cold. Usually, a tackling machine, he was not needed too much on defence but was effective in ...