Rugby

Sandy Park, Saturday 28th November – Aviva Premiership Round 5 – Exeter Chiefs 26 [4 league points for a win] Harlequins 25 [2 bonus points, one for ending within 7 points, one for scoring four tries]. We like coming from slightly left field on the Rust but I would like it to be known that [...]

European Challenge Cup (Thursday 19th November, kick-off 7.45pm) – Cardiff Blues 20 Harlequins 32 – at Cardiff Arms Park The journey from London to the centre of Cardiff – whether by rail or road – is a bit of an ordeal at the best of times and thankfully, committed to being elsewhere [...]

Shortly before midnight last night, whilst I was listening to the Phil Williams Show on Radio Five Live, the broadcast was interrupted by one of those ‘earth-jolting’ pieces of news that occur from time to time – the announcement of the death of All Black rugby legend Jonah Lomu at the [...]

First things first. Last night I went down to the Stoop by car for Quins’ European Challenge Cup opening match against Montpellier (whose director of rugby is Jake White, the bookies’ current favourite to be the next England head coach) and managed to find somewhere to park off Twickenham Green [...]

For those of us in the UK who love the sport of rugby union these are testing times. We are but days beyond what by general consent was a brilliant and exciting Rugby World Cup in which no home country reached the quarter final (knockout) stages and the Southern Hemisphere dominated. Where are we [...]

Earlier this week I reported upon Sunday’s Quins away game at Leicester Tigers (a 19-22 loss), which I watched ‘live’ on BT Sport, and therefore must half-apologise to Rust readers for returning to the subject and indeed sundry other matters. I do so as a result of reading Monday’s quality [...]

The record will show that yesterday that Quins lost 19-22 to Leicester Tigers at Welford Road, gaining a losing bonus point and as a result now sitting at 6th in the Premiership league table. There’s a theory abroad that – broadly speaking – winning your home games and picking up the odd [...]