Sports News - West
12 October 2009
MEEHAN SIGNS NEW DEAL TO STAY AT BATH
BATH Rugby's Head Coach Steve Meehan (pictured) has pledged his future to the club by signing a two-year extension to the end of the 2011-2012 season.
04 October 2009
BRISTOL CITY - JOHNSON'S HEART IN HIS MOUTH DURING PENALTY INCIDENT
BRISTOL CITY boss Gary Johnson admitted his side had a lucky escape with a goalless Championships draw at Newcastle on Saturday.
04 October 2009
BRISTOL ROVERS - PIRATES GIVEN A HEFTY THUMPING
BRISTOL Rovers were given a hiding as their League One assault was hit with a bad defeat against Norwich.
20 September 2009
BRISTOL CITY - JOHNSON UNHAPPY AT LOSING THREE HOME POINTS
GARY Johnson bemoaned Scunthorpe's late equaliser in the 1-1 Ashton Gate draw which ended Bristol City's 100 per cent home league record.
20 September 2009
BRISTOL ROVERS - PIRATES ROAR ON
HIGH-flying Bristol Rovers shattered Brentford's unbeaten home record with a devastating three-goal salvo in the first half of a 3-1 victory.
13 September 2009
BRISTOL ROVERS - TROLLOPE'S RELIEF AFTER WIN
A RELIEVED Paul Trollope admitted Bristol Rovers had "ground out" a result after Jo Kuffour's last-gasp strike in their 1-0 win over Oldham.
30 August 2009
BRISTOL CITY - JOHNSON PRAISES FIGHTING SPIRIT
BRISTOL CITY 2 MIDDLESBROUGH 1
BRISTOL CITY manager Gary Johnson praised his side's fighting spirit following their Coca-Cola Championship victory over Middlesbrough at Ashton Gate.
30 August 2009
BRISTOL ROVERS - LATE STRIKE DENIES PIRATES A DRAW
WYCOMBE 2 BRISTOL ROVERS 1
JON-Paul Pittman's superb late strike gave Wycombe their first win of the season at Adams Park on Saturday.
27 August 2009
CARLING CUP - ROBINS SUFFER CARLISLE LOSS
BRISTOL CITY were dumped out of the Carling Cup as League One Carlisle won 2-0 at Ashton Gate for the first time in 38 years.
19 August 2009
BRISTOL ROVERS - HARTLEPOOL VICTORY KEEPS ROVERS' RUN ON COURSE
Hartlepool 1 Bristol Rovers 2
BRISTOL Rovers continued their climb up the League One table with a 2-1 win at Hartlepool with Aaron Lescott and Jo Kuffour both on target.
19 August 2009
BRISTOL CITY - VICTORY SUBDUED BY VELICKA INJURY
Bristol City 1 QPR 0
BRISTOL City's joy at Nicky Maynard's late winner against QPR was tempered by sympathy for new signing Andrius Velicka after he suffered what manager Gary Johnson admits could be a "pretty serious" injury.
16 August 2009
BRISTOL ROVERS - TWO EARLY GOALS PROVE DECISIVE
TWO strikes in the first ten minutes secured an impressive 2-0 win for Bristol Rovers over Stockport at Edgley Park on Saturday afternoon.
16 August 2009
BRISTOL CITY - WARNOCK RAGES 'WE WERE CHEATED'
NEIL Warnock was beside himself with rage over the goal that never was during Crystal Palace's 1-0 defeat in their Coca-Cola Championship clash with Bristol City at Ashton Gate.
16 August 2009
RUGBY UNION FRIENDLY - GLOUCESTER AND BATH DRAW
BOTH Bryan Redpath and Steve Meehan were satisfied with good 'hit-out' at Kingsholm yesterday (Saturday) as their respective clubs began the process of starting from a clean slate.
12 August 2009
SWANSEA CITY - SWANS EASE PAST BRIGHTON IN CARLING CUP
Swansea City 3 Brighton 0
A DEPLETED Swansea City, with two players on international duty and Joe Allen injured, were far too strong for first division Brighton at the Liberty Stadium as they progressed through to the Carling Cup second round.
12 August 2009
BRISTOL CITY - MAYNARD IS THE HERO FOR ROBINS
Brentford 0 Bristol City 1
BRISTOL City scraped through to the second round of the Carling Cup with a 1-0 victory over Coca-Cola League One side Brentford.
09 August 2009
BRISTOL CITY - TWO GOALS IN DYING MINUTES DENY ROBINS
BRISTOL City manager Gary Johnson admitted he was disappointed to be forced to leave Preston with just a point after a 2-0 lead evaporated in the last ten minutes.
09 August 2009
BRISTOL ROVERS - SMITH VOLLEY SENDS PIRATES CRASHING
03 August 2009
BATH TRIO GUILTY OF TWO CHARGES AFTER RFU INQUIRY
BATH trio Michael Lipman, Alex Crockett and Andrew Higgins have been found guilty by a Rugby Football Union inquiry of two charges of misconduct in failing to submit to drugs tests this year.
19 April 2009
BATH DIG DEEP TO KEEP PREMIERSHIP PLAY-OFFS ON COURSE
BATH head coach Steve Meehan (pictured) marvelled at the depth of his players' resolve after they overturned a 14-0 half-time deficit to keep their Guinness Premiership title hopes alive with a 15-14 victory over Newcastle at Kingston Park.
10 April 2009
RUGBY UNION - BARKLEY IS RETURNING TO BATH FROM GLOUCESTER
ENGLAND cap Olly Barkley (pictured) is going back to Bath from Gloucester at the end of this season.
27 February 2009
HILL QUITS BRISTOL
RICHARD HILL, (pictured) as widely predicted, is leaving Guinness Premiership side Bristol after five-and-a-half years in charge and is believed to be heading to French club Montauban.
18 February 2009
ARGYLE BOSS STURROCK VOWS TO CARRY ON
PLYMOUTH Argyle slipped closer to the Championship relegation place thanks to last night's 3-1 home defeat by Crystal Palace, and heaped more pressure on manager Paul Sturrock.
13 February 2009
WALES V ENGLAND - WE WILL SILENCE WALES SAYS SACKEY
10 February 2009
MAGGS LEAVES BRISTOL WHILE WALKER JOINS WORCESTER
IRISH international Kevin Maggs (pictured) has left the club he started his long career with - Bristol - by mutual agreement.
03 February 2009
CARLOS SPENCER JOINS GLOUCESTER
CARLOS SPENCER (pictured), the former All Blacks fly-half, has joined Gloucester on a 17-month contract.
30 January 2009
DELVE BACK AFTER LENGHTY LAY-OFF
GARETH Delve (pictured) will make his first Gloucester appearance since last season's Guinness Premiership semi-final when he starts at number eight against London Irish on Saturday (2.45pm).
27 January 2009
IT'S THE BLUES OR TOULOUSE FOR BATH IN HEINEKEN SEMI-FINALS
BATH will have to do it the hard way if they want to reach their first Heineken Cup final in 11 years after getting a seriously tough draw in the semi-finals on Tuesday (January 27).
25 January 2009
MEEHAN SHEDS MORE LIGHT ON THE MATT STEVENS DRUGS AFFAIR
BATH head coach Steve Meehan has shed more light on the Matt Stevens (pictured) affair after the prop's self-confessed drugs issue.
25 January 2009
REACTION - MEEHAN RALLIES THE TROOPS AHEAD OF HEINEKEN CUP SEMI AT LECIESTER
BATH head coach Steve Meehan (pictured) has sent a rallying message to his troops to bring on Leicester in the Heineken Cup quarter-finals having missed out on a home draw with their 3-3 plod through the Recreation Ground mud on Sunday.
25 January 2009
BATH 3 TOULOUSE 3 - FINAL SCORE
Click on 'READ MORE' for regular updates from Bath's titanic 'winner takes all' group clash with Toulouse LIVE FROM THE REC.
21 January 2009
BATH TO BE GRILLED ON STEVENS DRUG-TAKING AFFAIR
BATH are to be grilled about the admission of drug-taking by their England prop Matt Stevens when they face the media at their weekly match preview session at The Recreation Ground at lunchtime.
20 January 2009
BREAKING NEWS - BATH PROP STEVENS SUSPENDED AFTER ADMITTING DRUGS USE
BATH have been hit with a bombshell just days before their crunch Heineken Cup Pool Five decider against Toulouse with England prop Matt Stevens (pictured) suspended for an alleged drugs offence.
18 January 2009
REACTION - MEEHAN RELIEVED TO BEAT DRAGONS
BATH head coach Steve Meehan (pictured) was relieved to get through a tricky Heineken Cup group five clash with Newport Gwent Dragons today and said the prospect of a winner takes all Pool Five showdown with Toulouse was exciting.
07 January 2009
BATH 'TRYING OUR UTMOST' TO GET WASPS HOME GAME ON
BATH 'will do our utmost' to ensure that their Guinness Premiership clash with London Wasps at The Rec goes ahead on Saturday (ko: 2.45pm). The ground is 'very hard', said the club on Wednesday, although it is covered.
02 January 2009
GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP TEAM NEWS - IN-FORM LEWIS STARTS AGAINST SARACENS
02 January 2009
GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP TEAM NEWS - BATH REST ENGLAND FRONT ROW MEN FOR LEICESTER TRIP
ENGLAND stars Lee Mears and Matt Stevens (pictured) have been rested from Bath's big Guinness Premiership clash away at Leicester on Sunday afternoon.
31 December 2008
BATH LOCK HARRISON SIGNS FOR AN EXTRA YEAR
AUSTRALIAN lock Justin Harrison (pictured) has signed a one year contract extension with Bath, keeping him at The Rec until the end of next season.
23 December 2008
PROP SOMERVILLE OUT FOR TWO MONTHS AFTER EYE SURGERY
GLOUCESTER'S All Black prop Greg Somerville (pictured) has undergone surgery to re-attach the retina in his left eye.
19 December 2008
GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP TEAM NEWS - BATH MAKE FOUR CHANGES FOR SALE MATCH
BATH have made four changes to side that played Glasgow in the Heineken Cup for their Guinness Premiership match against Sale Sharks on Saturday (kick-off 2.45pm).
14 December 2008
SNOOKER UK CHAMPIONSHIPS - LEE FINDS HIS OLD FORM AS TRUMP IS DUMPED IN THE FINAL FRAME
TROWBRIDGE'S Stephen Lee (pictured) played like he used to and took out five-time champion Stephen Hendry on Sunday at the Maplin UK Championship in Telford.
07 December 2008
REACTION - BATH WERE LAZY SAYS COACH MEEHAN
STEVE MEEHAN (pictured) described Bath as 'lazy' after they nearly lost their Heineken Cup group game against Glasgow at The Recreation Ground on Sunday.
05 December 2008
HEINEKEN CUP TEAM NEWS - BUXTON TO CAPTAIN GLOUCESTER
PETER BUXTON (pictured) will wear the captains armband when Gloucester look to re-stoke their Heineken Cup fires away to Calvisano on Saturday.
30 November 2008
BRISTOL 13 LONDON IRISH 18 - WE LOST A GAME WE SHOULD HAVE WON SAYS HILL
BRISTOL head coach Richard Hill (pictured) said his club should have won their Guinness Premiership clash with London Irish on Sunday after going down 18-13 to a side that now leads the table.
28 November 2008
GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP TEAM NEWS - HILL SWITCHES HIS STARTING LINE-UP
HEAD coach Richard Hill (pictured) makes only injury enforced changes to the Bristol squad that faced Gloucester last weekend as Bristol prepare to take on London Irish at the Memorial Stadium on Sunday.
28 November 2008
GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP TEAM NEWS - BALSHAW MOVES TO FULL-BACK
IAIN Balshaw (pictured) will switch from the wing to full-back on Saturday when Gloucester face Northampton Saints at Kingsholm (4.30pm).
28 November 2008
GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP TEAM NEWS - PRESSURE ON BATH TO SECURE WIN AT QUINS
BATH are still top of the Guinness Premiership but they are looking to use the disappointment of the 28-28 draw against Northampton Saints last weekend to spur them on for a win against Harlequins this Sunday (kick off, 3pm).
20 November 2008
GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP TEAM NEWS - GLOUCESTER CHANGE TWO FOR DERBY
20 November 2008
GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP TEAM NEWS - TWO CHANGES FOR BRISTOL'S TRIP TO GLOUCESTER
BRISTOL head coach Richard Hill has made two changes to the side that beat Northampton last Sunday for the Friday night clash at Gloucester.
19 November 2008
RUGBY UNION - BRISTOL APPEAL FOR NEW MONEY
BRISTOL Rugby have admitted they are struggling to make ends meet and have called on a new investor to come forward and help them.
18 November 2008
FLATMAN RE-SIGNS AT BATH FOR TWO YEARS
DAVID FLATMAN (pictured) has followed team-mate Peter Short and signed a new two-year contract at Bath.
17 November 2008
HOCKEY - BATH BUCCS PICK UP A FIRST POINT AT BOURNVILLE IN TWO YEARS
17 November 2008
RUGBY UNION - SHORT SIGNS FOR ANOTHER TWO YEARS AT BATH
PETER SHORT (pictured) has re-signed for another two years at Bath - and he has been left in no doubt that he has made the right decision.
13 November 2008
HOCKEY - BEECHAN CLIFF'S SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE IS BEARING FRUIT
03 November 2008
HOCKEY - BUCCS CRASH OUT OF CUP
30 October 2008
EDF CUP TEAM NEWS - GREWCOCK BACK TO FACE CARDIFF BLUES
AFTER the long lay off through injury of Andy Beattie and Danny Grewcock, (pictured) they are back and fighting fit to face Cardiff Blues this Friday in the EDF Energy Cup match.
27 October 2008
TRIATHLON- DIBENS WINS WORLD TITLE AGAIN
JULIE Dibens (pictured) successfully defended her XTERRA World Triathlon Championships title in Hawaii yesterday (Sunday).
27 October 2008
TEAMBATH COULD FACE DERBY IN FA CUP FIRST ROUND
21 October 2008
HOCKEY - BATH BUCCS SMASH NINE PAST WHITCHURCH
19 October 2008
THE BIG MATCH LIVE - BATH V NEWPORT GWENT DRAGONS
LIVE from The Recreation Ground today, Wales and West News and Sport brings you Bath v Newport Gwent Dragons live. Click on 'Read More' for the match and, later, all the reaction from both coaches.
17 October 2008
HEINEKEN CUP TEAM NEWS - RYAN KEEPS FAITH WITH SQUAD FOR CARDIFF BLUES TEST
GLOUCESTER will go in search of their second successive Heineken Cup victory on Sunday with an unchanged team to face Cardiff at the Millennium Stadium (3pm). Head coach Dean Ryan (pictured) has kept faith with the entire 22 that got off to a victorious start with a 22-10 win over Biarritz last Saturday.
13 October 2008
NETBALL - TEAMBATH NAME POWERFUL SQUAD FOR SUPER LEAGUE SEASON
09 October 2008
BATH'S JAMES SIGNS NEW THREE-YEAR CONTRACT
BUTCH James (pictured) would be renewing his contract with Bath Rugby, the club are pleased to announce that the fly half has put pen to paper for at least another three years.
04 October 2008
RUGBY - GLOUCESTER 24 LONDON WASPS 19
30 September 2008
SATALA SIGNS FOR GLOUCESTER
30 September 2008
PREMIERSHIP TEAM NEWS - BATH MAKE TWO CHANGES FOR WASPS TRIP
BATH head coach Steve Meehan (pictured) has made two changes to the starting side that convincingly beat Worcester on Saturday for Wednesday's big Guinness Premiership match at London Wasps.
25 September 2008
RUGBY UNION TEAM NEWS- RYAN RINGS THE CHANGES
GLOUCESTER will launch a period of three games in eight days and head coach Dean Ryan (pictured) has made a number of changes for the trip to face the meanest defence in the Guinness Premiership.
16 September 2008
NETBALL - TEAM BATH FACE WALES IN SEASON CURTAIN-RAISER
16 September 2008
ASHTON LANDS BATH UNIVERSITY COACHING ROLE
BRIAN Ashton (pictured), who led England to the finals of last years World Cup rugby tournament after a hugely successful playing and coaching career in the sport, has taken up a post as Director of Coaching on a consultancy basis at the University of Bath.
12 September 2008
GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP TEAM NEWS - BATH V GLOUCESTER
BATH joint-captain Michael Lipman (pictured) will start against Gloucester in Saturday's Guinness Premiership game at The Rec (kick-off 2.45pm) after missing the opening game against Bristol.
12 September 2008
GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP PREVIEW - THE ONE THAT STAYED BEHIND WANTS TO MAKE BATH 'HORRIBLE'
MATT STEVENS (pictured) threatened to join club captain Steve Borthwick and England star Olly Barkley by walking away from Bath this year.
07 September 2008
JAMES STARS AS BATH BEAT BRISTOL IN WEST COUNTRY DERBY
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BATH coach Steve Meehan (pictured)
RUGBY UNION - FRUSTRATED RYAN HITS OUT AT HIS OWN TEAM
DEAN RYAN (pictured) hit out at his Gloucester side as they were beaten at home by Leicester in the opening Guinness Premiership clash of the season.
RUGBY UNION - GLOUCESTER LEGEND TEAGUE CAUGHT UP IN BLACK MARKET TICKET ROW
FORMER England international Mike Teague (pictured) has been reprimanded as part of the Rugby Football Union's crackdown on black market tickets.
PREMIERSHIP TEAM NEWS - TINDALL LEADS GLOUCESTER AGAINST TIGERS
MIKE TINDALL (pictured) will lead Gloucester into their opening Guinness Premiership match of the 2008-9 season on Sunday aiming for their seventh successive first round victory.
WEST COUNTRY DERBY TEAM NEWS - IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK SAYS BATH STAR JAMES
BUTCH JAMES (pictured) is back in the Bath side to face West Country rivals Bristol on Sunday at the Memorial Stadium.
RUGBY UNION - JAMES' RETURN CANNOT COME QUICK ENOUGH FOR BATH
SPRINGBOK star Butch James (pictured) cannot return soon enough to Bath before their first Guinness Premiership game at Bristol on Sunday.
RUGBY UNION - BATH NAME VIRTUAL FIRST TEAM FOR SCARLETS VISIT
BATH coach Steve Meehan has named a vitual first team to face Llanelli Scarlets on Saturday at The Rec in their second friendly of the pre-season.
GREWCOCK EXTENDS CONTRACT AT BATH
DANNY GREWCOCK (pictured) has extended his Bath contract for another year until the end of the 2009/10 season.
WEST COUNTRY DERBY ON FIRST DAY OF NEW PREMIERSHIP SEASON
BRISTOL will play Bath and Gloucester face Leicester on the opening weekend of the new Guinness Premieship season.
PREDERGAST LEAVES GLOUCESTER FOR MUNSTER
27 June 2008
NETBALL - COOKEY LANDS BRITISH SPORTS AWARD
16 June 2008
ALL CHANGE AT BRISTOL RUGBY WITH NEW CEO GENERAL MANAGER AND CAPTAIN
12 June 2008
BRISTOL CEO WHITE QUITS FOR JOB IN NEW ZEALAND
BRISTOL chief executive David White has quit the club to take up a new role in New Zealand. He will be leaving the Memorial Stadium at the end of next month.
26 May 2008
BATH CAN GO ONTO BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS NOW SAYS PROP STEVENS
BATH'S Matt Stevens (pictured) believes his side can move on from their European Challenge Cup victory over Worcester on Sunday to bigger and better things next year.
26 May 2008
BATH SIGN NEW ZEALAND RUGBY LEAGUE ACE SHONTAYNE HAPE
BATH have signed New Zealand Rugby League back Shontayne Hape on a three-year contract from the start of next season
21 May 2008
RUDDOCK - WE CAN LEAVE BATH WITH NOTHING THIS SEASON
MIKE Ruddock (pictured) believes his Worcester side can take advantage of the pressure on Bath to win the European Challenge Cup final on Sunday and grab a shock result.
12 May 2008
WELSH ACE WATKINS SIGNS FOR GLOUCESTER
WELSH international Matthew J Watkins (pictured) has agreed a two-year deal with Guinness Premiership leaders Gloucester.
02 May 2008
BRISTOL CONFIRM THEIR GROUND-BREAKING MOVE TO RODNEY PARADE
BRISTOL have confirmed they will ground-share with Newport at Rodney Parade for the next two years, bringing Guinness Premiership rugby to Wales for the first time.
(Pictured - Bristol's new Memorial Stadium)
01 May 2008
MEEHAN NAMED PREMIERSHIP COACH OF THE MONTH FOR SECOND TIME
BATH'S Steve Meehan (pictured) has been named Guinness Premiership Coach of the Month for April.
30 April 2008
FEAUNATI QUITS PRO RUGBY FOR TEACHING
ZAK FEAUNATI (pictured) is retiring from professional rugby at the end of the to go into teaching. The 34- year-old, who has been a mainstay of the Bath Rugby squad since arriving at the Rec in 2003, will hang up his boots after the completion of the Guinness Premiership and European Challenge Cup campaigns.
27 April 2008
MEEHAN PRAISES A FIVE-STAR PERFORMANCE THAT PUTS BATH INTO EURO FINAL
HEAD coach Steve Meehan (pictured) believes Bath played one of their best games of rugby under his command as they reached the European Challenge Cup final to face Mike Ruddock's Worcester.
27 April 2008
TEAM BATH INTO PLAY-OFFS
24 April 2008
EX-NEWPORT ACE STRANGE TO LEAVE BRISTOL
THERE will be no homecoming for ex-Newport outside-half Jason Strange (pictured) next season when Bristol ground-share with the Black and Ambers at Rodney Parade.
22 April 2008
RUGBY UNION - BATH LEGEND ROBINSON JOINS SCOTTISH COACHING TEAM
FORMER Bath legend Andy Robinson (pictured) will assist Frank Hadden in Scotland's summer tour of Argentina, the SRU have confirmed.
14 April 2008
SINGLETON MISSES MEDAL
TEAM Baths Georgina Singleton (pictured) just missed out on the medals at the European Judo Championships when finishing fifth.
14 April 2008
LAMB - GLOUCESTER CAN GO ALL THE WAY IN THE PREMIERSHIP
BRILLIANT Ryan Lamb (pictured) reckons Gloucester have it in them to go all the way in the Guinness Premiership.
09 April 2008
RUGBY UNION - JONNY F IS INCREDIBLE, SAYS BATH BOSS MEEHAN
HEAD coach Steve Meehan believes Samoan Jonny Faamatuainu (pictured) is coming of age as a Bath player this season, describing him as 'incredible'.
09 April 2008
MODERN PENTATHLON - HARLAND BACKS BRITAIN'S MEN
OLYMPIC bronze medallist Georgina Harland (pictured) is backing the British mens modern pentathlon pairing of Sam Weale and Nick Woodbridge to make the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
07 April 2008
JOHNSON CAN MAKE ENGLAND GREAT AGAIN - BARKLEY
OLLY BARKLEY (pictured) hopes that the instalation of World Cup-winning skipper Martin Johnson in the national set-up will sweep him onto the England plane bound for New Zealand this summer.
03 April 2008
SWIMMING - REMARKABLE MARK GETS OLYMPIC STANDARD
UNIVERSITY of Bath swimmer Mark Foster (pictured) rolled back the years by clocking the A qualifying standard for the Beijing Olympics at the British Championships Wednesday (April 2).
29 March 2008
GLOUCESTER 'MUGGED' AS WORCESTER SCORE FIRST WIN OVER THEM
WORCESTER 17 GLOUCESTER 14
GLOUCESTER went back to the Guinness Premiership summit on Saturday despite being 'mugged' by arch rivals Worcester at Sixways.
(Pictured - Gloucester head coach Dean Ryan)
28 March 2008
GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP TEAM NEWS - ALL CHANGE FOR BRISTOL'S TRIP TO IRISH
BRISTOL make several changes to his side for Sunday's trip to London Irish including the return at hooker of England ace Mark Regan (pictured) and a full debut for Academy flanker Iain Grieve.
28 March 2008
GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP TEAM NEWS - KEY DUO BACK FOR GLOUCESTER
GLOUCESTER launch into their Guinness Premiership derby against Worcester Warriors on Saturday with both Alex Brown (pictured)and Olly Morgan back in the starting line-up.
27 March 2008
HALLIDAY TELLS DE GLANVILLE - 'YOU ARE WELCOME TO AN RFU JOB'
FORMER Bath and England international Simon Halliday (pictured) reckons Phil de Glanville would be 'welcome' to a management job with the national squad if he went for it.
25 March 2008
GLOUCESTER HOST EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIIPS
GLOUCESTER is to host the European Junior Synchronised Swimming Championships 2009 after the European Federation for Aquatic Sports confirmed the bid had been successful.
23 March 2008
MEEHAN TELLS HIS PLAYERS TO ENJOY BEING AT THE TOP
BATH 19 LONDON IRISH 16
BATH boss Steve Meehan (pictured) told his players to enjoy being top of the Guinness Premiership this weekend before their final push to the title.
20 March 2008
BRISTOL CENTRE HIGGITT JOINS THE SCARLETS WELSH REGION
BRISTOL centre Rob Higgitt (pictured) has signed for Llanelli Scarlets along with former Swansea and Sale Sharks scrum-half Sililo Martens.
19 March 2008
NARRAWAY SIGNS A NEW TWO-YEAR DEAL WITH GLOUCESTER
LUKE NARRAWAY, (pictured) one of Gloucester's leading forwards whose form this season earned him a call-up to Englands Six Nations squad, has signed a two-year contract extension with the Guinness Premiership leaders.
17 March 2008
PERRY SIGNS THREE-YEAR DEAL TO STAY AT BRISTOL
ENGLAND scrum half Shaun Perry (pictured) has given Bristol Rugby the perfect boost for the rest of the season by signing a new three year contract.
13 March 2008
GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP TEAM NEWS - TEENAGER SHARPLES MAKES DEBUT
CHARLIE Sharples will make his Guinness Premiership debut tomorrow when Gloucester travel to Sale Sharks (7.45pm).
(Pictured - head coach Dean Ryan)
13 March 2008
TENNIS - YOUNG STARS SET TO CAUSE A RAQUET
11 March 2008
ASHTON TO BE REPLACED BY WHITE - CLAIM REPORTS
ENGLAND head coach Brian Ashton (pictured) is being lined up for the sack with the man who beat his side in last year's World Cup final, Jake White, possibly being offered the Twickenham hotseat, claim reports on Tuesday (March 11).
07 March 2008
BEATTIE OUT FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON AT BATH
FLANKER Andy Beattie (pictured) is out for the rest of the season after suffering a major knee injury against Bristol last week.
06 March 2008
BALSHAW BACK FOR CALCUTTA CUP CLASH AFTER CIPRIANI IS AXED
GLOUCESTER'S Iain Balshaw (pictured) is back in the England squad for the Calcutta Cup clash with Scotland on Saturday at Murrayfield after Wasps' Danny Cipriani was caught coming out of a London nightclub on Thursday morning.
04 March 2008
RUGBY UNION - BROWN HAS SURGERY ON JAW FRACTURE
GLOUCESTER lock Alex Brown (pictured) underwent surgery on Tuesday (March 4) to stabilise a hairline fracture in his jaw, sustained during his side's 30-25 defeat against Harlequins on Saturday.
03 March 2008
BARKLEY SHOULD BE IN SIX NATIONS RIGHT NOW SAYS COACH MEEHAN
BATH secured their first win over Bristol in a decade on their West Country rival's patch on Sunday and their coach Steve Meehan reckoned Olly Barkley (pictured) should be playing for England right now.
26 February 2008
AUSTRALIAN HARRISON BECOMES BATH'S SECOND LOCK SIGNING IN 24 HOURS
FORMER Australia lock Justin Harrison (pictured) is joining Bath on a one-year contract. It is the second signing in the boilerhouse made by the club in 24 hours as the 33-year old veteran of 34 Tests for the Wallabies joins Stuart Hooper in making the move to the Recreation Ground next season.
25 February 2008
LEEDS CAPTAIN HOOPER JOINS BATH
LEEDS captain Stuart Hooper (pictured) will be joining Bath at the end of the season on a three year contract.
22 February 2008
BREAKING RUGBY NEWS - BARKLEY QUITS BATH AND SIGNS FOR GLOUCESTER
OLLY Barkley, (pictured) the second highest points scorer in Bath's history, has dropped a huge bombshell and is joining Gloucester this summer on a two-year contract.
20 February 2008
MODERN PENTATHLON - FOUR BRITS THROUGH TO WORLD CUP ROUND ONE FINAL
13 February 2008
ATHLETICS GREEN PICKED FOR WORLD INDOOR CHAMPS
UNIVERSITY of Bath student Steve Green (pictured) has been selected to compete at his first World Indoor Athletics Championships.
12 February 2008
TAUMALOLO TO QUIT BRISTOL AT THE END OF THE SEASON
FORMER Ebbw Vale full-back Josh Taumalolo (pictured) is leaving Bristol at the end of the season. The Tongan international was under contract through 2008-9 but asked the club if he could be released in order to spend more time with his family, who remain back home in the South Pacific island.
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