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Kyran Bracken On The England Rugby Set-up

16 March 2012

Much of the speculation this week centres around the appointment of the coach of the England rugby team, to take them forward to the next world cup. Every writer and ex-player has an opinion, many of which hail the current set up headed by Stuart Lancaster. It is hard not to feel the same and give h...
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Keep Faith in the House of Lancaster: Why the Top Job in England Rugby Should be Stuart’s

13 March 2012

Regardless of how England finish their Six Nations campaign at Twickenham on Saturday, Stuart Lancaster should remain at the helm. He is, ever so precisely, guiding a ship that is on course to mount a very real challenge for the 2015 Rugby World Cup. Nobody, not even new chief executive Ian Ritchie ...
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Sportsvibe’s Six Nations Blog: Five Reasons for England Fans to Ditch the Bitching

14 February 2012

The reaction to the first fortnight of competition under Stuart Lancaster’s has been typically, and ever so disappointingly, English. Despite the fact that the Six Nations champions have won their first two matches, and are consequently on course for a successful defence of their title, little pra...
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Sportsvibe’s Six Nations Blog: Mad Englishmen Tarnish a Celtic Classic

8 February 2012

The first weekend of the Six Nations has been and gone in a typical explosion of tribal passion, leaving behind the delicious debris of vehement talking points. With half of the sides in the tournament under new stewardship, the opening fixtures of this season’s championship were surrounded by ver...
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The Future of the New Dawn: England Under 20s Prepare for 2012

20 January 2012

Much has been made over the past month of Stuart Lancaster’s interim regime, the new dawn brightening the gloom of what was, in many ways, a decidedly gloomy Rugby World Cup for England. Naming his first Elite Player Squad last Wednesday, the Yorkshire schoolteacher reaffirmed a pressing ne...
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The British and Irish Lions: Memories and a Team for 2013

12 January 2012

For tradition and prestige, there is very little in sport that comes close to a British and Irish Lions tour. With its roots firmly planted in the honest soils of rugby’s amateur era, there is a definite romance about the very best players from the United Kingdom and Ireland burying their patrioti...
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Farewell Shane, and Farewell Jonesy

21 October 2011

So Wales's big adventure has finally come to an end at the Rugby World Cup. Somehow they seem to have achieved far more than their fourth place suggests. What was their award for losing this morning's bronze medal play off against Australia? To slip below Ireland in the world rankings - oddly! Did w...
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Ian Stafford's World Cup Blog: Week One

12 September 2011

One weekend gone and it is fair to say that the Rugby World Cup is very much alive, if not exactly kicking. The biggest shock so far has been the ineptitude of normally world-class place kickers, led by the best of the lot, Jonny Wilkinson, but followed by both Pumas, Felipe Contepomi and Martin Rod...
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Sportsvibe’s Rugby World Cup Team to Watch

9 September 2011

Regardless of who ends up with the Webb Ellis trophy at the end of the next six weeks in the Land of the Long White Cloud, we can be assured of some scintillating rugby from some of the sport’s biggest names. Just as everyone else seems to be, here at Sportsvibe we are bursting with anticipatio...
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Toiling at Twickenham: Sportsvibe Trains with the England Sevens Side

16 May 2011

Oddly,�the butterflies fluttering under my sternum on Friday 13th of this month had nothing at all to do with the date. Rather than because of petty superstition, I was fluctuating violently between intense excitement and clammy nervousness at the prospect of taking part in a media training morning ...
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