Rugby

Any Rust reader who has ever been a long-term sporting club supporter will find familiar my current state of combined anguish, dread and hope as the Harlequins enter their last few weeks of pre-season prior to the launch of the 2016/2017 Aviva Premiership season on 3rd September. I shan’t bother [...]

Little in this life is more calculated to forcibly remind a human being of the swiftness at which time slips away than sitting down, fondly recalling something memorable from one’s past and simply working out just how long ago it occurred. In days of yore (at the dawn of the professional era in [...]

The biggest controversy arising from yesterday’s announcement of England rugby head coach Eddie Jones’s squad for the tour of Australia next month is the selection of Harlequins’ wing threequarter Marland Yarde, apparently at the expense of Saracens’ free-scoring Chris Ashton. The argument [...]

Saturday 7th May 2016: Aviva Premiership Round 22: Harlequins v Exeter Chiefs at the Stoop, kick-off 1330 hours: Result – Harlequins 24 (0 league points) Exeter Chiefs 62 (5 point bonus-try win). Harlequins 3 tries (Care, Stanley and Sinkler), three conversions (Evans 1, Botica 2) and one penalty [...]