Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2016 i Rugby World

THE 2016 Six Nations will not go down as vintage. At times it was stodgy and bereft of quality. But England are worthy Grand Slam winners. ‘Fast’ Eddie Jones doesn’t hang around. His stated ambition is to look beyond the northern hemisphere’s limited boundaries now and bloody a few southern hemisphere noses, starting with Australia. Fair dinkum. The vanquished Welsh will be most frustrated with the championship. A no-show for an hour against England and a sleepy half-hour against Ireland cost the pre-tournament favourites. For Ireland, the phrase ‘short-term pain for long-term gain’ is apposite. Decimated by injury, a seam of rich talent was still unearthed, while Scotland are turning into the great entertainers. The win over shapeless France was a moment of unalloyed joy for supporters. If they can…

Lazy habit Congratulations to England for the Grand Slam. However, they’re guilty of not adhering to the rule that a kick is only as good as its chase. Against France, much was made of Spedding and Vakatawa causing us problems, but this was due to us kicking them the ball and not backing it up! Keith Warhurst Stockport, Cheshire Sit down and watch! I don’t want to pour cold water on the euphoria of the Grand Slam, but can I mention the experience of watching at Twickenham? You reach your seat, the match starts and within five minutes someone disrupts everyone else to go for a beer. This triggers what seems like everyone else to do the same and the exercise is repeated many times during the match. I paid…

14 Number of apples Drew Mitchell crushed with his bicep in one minute, setting a new Guinness World Record by beating the former tally of 11 7 Against England, Maxime Machenaud became the third Frenchman to slot seven or more penalties in a Test, after Thierry Lacroix (1995) & Gérald Merceron (2002) 5 Consecutive bottom-half Six Nations finishes for France, their worst run since the 1920s 1 Number of drop-goals in this 6N, the lowest figure since 1990 16 Points scored by Tigers’ Freddie Burns v Sarries. His try, conversion, two penalties and drop-goal was the first Premiership full house since Ryan Lamb six years ago 24 Number of seconds on the clock when Charles Piutau touched down against Sale, the fastest try of the season and joint sixth fastest…

DEFEATING ARC RIVALS An Argentina XV won the inaugural Americas Rugby Championship, finishing ahead of USA, Canada, Uruguay, Brazil and Chile. PO WON’T GO! Back-rower David Pocock (right) has penned a new contract to keep him with the Australian Rugby Union and Brumbies until after the 2019 World Cup in Japan. CASH SHORTFALL The NZRU has declared a loss of almost £220,000 for 2015. It’s down to playing only two home Tests – against Argentina and Australia – in the year, whilst increasing funding to their sevens and women’s sides. SMITH SECURED The All Blacks have retained the services of assistant Wayne Smith for two more years. Smith had been linked with the Harlequins DoR role. EAGLES PLUNDER NFL New England Patriots defender Nate Ebner has swapped American Football for…

AWAY STADIUM I love playing at Ravenhill, or the Kingspan Stadium as they call it now. It’s always packed out on a Friday night and it can be an incredibly noisy place to play. RUGBY MEMORY My second cap – which was my first-ever start – was in the game we beat Australia in Australia (9-6 in 2012). It was probably one of the worst games I’ve ever played in, but we went and got the result. MUSIC I really love my old classic rock music. I’m talking about guitar-led stuff like Led Zeppelin or Rush – these old farty rock bands. FUNNIEST TEAM-MATE The guy that always made me laugh (when he was with Edinburgh) was Grayson Hart. He is larger than life. He just seems jacked-up all the…

“The North-South divide can be closed – but it won’t happen overnight” SCORE A try. This is the answer you will get if you go to any park in New Zealand and ask a group of kids playing footie what they want to do when they receive the ball from a kick-off. To them it’s uncomplicated. And if you ask them how, you would get a raft of ways: stepping five players, chipping and chasing or an out-the-back offload à la Sonny Bill Williams. This ability to find a way, any way, to cross that try-line is grown from a young age. Skills are almost forced into you, no matter what shape or size you are, because if you’re not skilled enough you’re not getting the ball, and you’ll be…

“I’VE NEVER RELIED ON SIZE. YOU’VE GOT TO FIND ANOTHER WAY” FACT FILE Age 26 (5 Oct 1989) Born Kirkcaldy Position Centre/fly-half Club Glasgow Warriors Height 6ft Weight 14st 6lb Scotland caps 18 Points 15 (2T, 1C, 1P) Twitter @petehorne72 MY TOP 3s Home-cooked meals Meatballs Roast dinner Chilli con carne Chat-show guests Michael Jordan (below) Lena Dunham Jon Welsh Sidesteppers Niko Matawalu Max Evans Alesana Tuilagi INJURIES, a cock-up against Italy, a Guinness Pro12 title, a World Cup quarter-final try against Australia and a triumph off the bench against France in this year’s Six Nations – it’s been quite a year for Glasgow and Scotland pivot Peter Horne… I’m a better player for the Italy experience last year. Apart from being injured, my worst moment in rugby was that…

DAMIEN CHOULY Clermont’s captain – who owns his own bar in Brive, where he used to play – began this year’s Six Nations with seven on his back. But since the win against Italy, when Louis Picamoles hurt himself, he’s been at No 8. SAM WARBURTON Every season it seems there is a debate about who should be Wales’ openside – Sam Warburton or Justin Tipuric. But Sam doesn’t mind. He puts in muscular performances no matter which flank he binds on. SEAN O’BRIEN He has only played a fistful of Tests at the very back of the scrum, playing mostly at flanker. Many suggest he is not your traditional breakaway, but he brings a raw physicality to his play no matter the digit on his back. CHRIS ROBSHAW This…

LUKE CHARTERIS Scrum power and Dan Carter’s 94% accuracy off the kicking tee have much to do with this season’s rise of Racing 92, whose pool results included a 64-14 trouncing of the Scarlets – a record high for the Parisians in the professional era. But doff your hat too to their Welsh forward Luke Charteris, who has stolen five lineouts (a competition best) and made 78 tackles from second-row. No wonder Bath have snapped him up for next season. HARRY MALLINDER If Northampton boss Jim Mallinder feared accusations of nepotism when unleashing his son towards the end of the pool phase, he needn’t have worried. Young Harry got the late winner to thwart Glasgow and another try the next week as Saints bagged a vital bonus-point victory at Scarlets…

RIO RUN Brazil (right) won the Olympic sevens test event in Rio last month, seeing off Argentina 27-5 in the final. BIG NUMBERS Almost 310,000 women took up rugby in 2015. That’s a rise of 17% from 2014 and more than two million women now play regularly worldwide. SEVENS EVENTS France beat the Great Britain Select Sevens side 12-7 in the Las Vegas Invitational final, while Canada triumphed over France in the final of the Vancouver Rugby Festival the following week. Great Britain finished third there. RUSSIAN BAN Russia Women’s sevens player Alena Mikhaltsov and her husband Alexey, who also plays for Russia, have been temporarily suspended after testing positive for banned substance meldonium.…

A former Edinburgh captain, Simon Cross coached Glasgow and Scotland U20 before becoming Worcester’s defence coach in 2013. He favours a blitz-style defence because “it’s aggressive like players themselves, it puts opponents’ skills under pressure, and bigger tackles create turnovers”. 1 SET-PIECE ORGANISATION “You need to get the right people in the right places at lineouts. Scrums too, though that’s easy because there are few variables. Where does your fly-half stand? Or your hooker? It’s about identifying numbers and organising on the floor.” 2 FOLDS AND RELOADS “Linking in with the first point, get the numbers right on second phase. The right number of forwards need to fold around the corner to allow the backs to get wide – only by covering the width of the field can you get…

1 FAT BAR ROW 3 x 8 REPS With back flat, knees slightly bent and an overhand grip, pull a thick bar up to chest. Lower, controlled. 2 PINCH GRIP FARMER’S WALK 3 x 40M Hold onto weight plates by the edge and walk 20m quickly. Turn under control and walk back. 3 TOWEL PULL-UPS 4 x 5 REPS Hang a towel over the normal bars and grip each end. Pull yourself up until chest is between hands. Lower.…

Age 32 (28 April 1983) Born Lower Hutt, New Zealand Club Exeter Country England Position No 8 THOMAS’S ONE-WORD ANSWERS Joker Damian Welch Movie The Lion King Animal Rhino Rob Baxter Wise man Colour Blue Training Intense Food Roast chicken Music Adele THERE’S NOBODY like ‘Thomas the Tank’, the anglicised Kiwi whose thunderous charges and prolific scoring – 24 tries in his first 36 Premiership games for Exeter – have helped make the Chiefs a European force. Here he tells us his story… I’m Wellington born and bred. My dad played at first-five (fly-half) for Wainuiomata, and when he coached my older brother Scott, I jumped on top of that. I first played at four. Not everyone could afford boots so we’d all go bare feet on Saturday mornings in…

REGIONAL SWITCH Scarlets fly-half Steve Shingler (right), 24, is to join Cardiff Blues next season on a long-term contract. TOP ADVICE Community coaches can get free practical tutorials from current players, such as Rhys Patchell and Aaron Shingler, as part of the WRU’s Continuous Professional Development programme. Find a local course at bit.ly/wrucpdbooking MOVING ON Ospreys chief executive Andrew Hore has left the region after eight years to take up the same role with NSW Waratahs in Australia. WIN KIT! Fill in the WRU’s online survey and you’ll be in with a chance of winning an Under Armour kit in your club’s colours for your team. Visit wru.wales/shapeourgame…

TOP FOUR This month’s BT Premiership play-offs feature Ayr, Heriot’s, Melrose – clubs which also reached the BT Cup semi-finals – and Currie. The Premiership final takes place on Saturday 23 April. GOING UP Hamilton guaranteed their promotion to BT National One with two games still to go after clinching their 19th win out of 20 in National Two in March. KING CASTLE Merchiston Castle won the Scottish Rugby U16 Schools Shield, seeing off St Aloysius College 37-21. Kelso High beat Caithness 29-12 in the U16 Plate final. STIRLING WORK Stirling County beat Ayr 17-12 in a tight National Youth League U18 Cup final, but Ayr (left) won the U16 Cup with a 36-13 win over Highland.…

QUICK-FIRE PROFILE Name Matthew Daniel Healy Age 27 (14 March 1989) Girlfriend? Rachael Hussey Twitter @heals102 Personality Outgoing, a little bit stubborn, honest TV show Impractical Jokers Last book read Scar Tissue by Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis. A mad fella Holiday destination Rome How you switch off from rugby I have a puppy, a Japanese Spitz called Miko Toughest opponent The Ospreys’ Jeff Hassler. He’s extremely strong and quick Team-mate you would like to be Eoin McKeon. He has a great house Surprising fact I’ve done a diploma in sports nutrition. My dad ran his own organic produce business so I grew up being interested in it I’d like to meet… Ricky Gervais. I enjoy his humour EMBARRASSING MOMENT Playing against Zebre – last year or the year…

WINNER THE FRENCH WOMEN While the men forced followers of France to scream “Zut alors!”, the women shone. Under inspirational skipper Gaëlle Mignot, they eked a win over Grand Slam-chasing England to claim the title. Magnifique! LOSER KEY OMISSIONS The Six Nations Player of the Tournament shortlist was met with incredulity. How they could omit England locks George Kruis and Maro Itoje, Wales’ Jamie Roberts and Ireland’s CJ Stander (above) was baffling. WINNER THE JAGUARES Neutrals didn’t think they’d love Los Pumas more but in their Super Rugby guise they still thrill and give their defence coach nightmares, risking turnovers to offload, offload, offload……

“England are headed in one direction” SITTING HIGH in the stands at the Stade de France, watching England’s captain Dylan Hartley lift the RBS 6 Nations trophy, was an absolute joy. Championship wins are fine but that is all they are because unless you win the Grand Slam, you’ve failed somewhere in the previous six weeks. That England hadn’t tasted Grand Slam glory for 13 years is staggering. That’s 12 campaigns where they have been unable to win five games on the trot against teams not ranked in the world’s top three. Handsomely resourced, the senior squad has repeatedly failed to capture the elusive Slam, yet Eddie Jones comes in and within seven weeks takes the worst-performing England team in World Cup history – a team humiliated in their own…

“Win or lose, it’s time for drinky-poos” AFTER THE pressure of the Six Nations and two months of hotels, meetings and staring at lineouts on laptops, players and coaches alike are in need of a bit of a blowout. Clearly, the tone of the end-of-tournament night out will be affected to a certain extent by how you finish up in the table, but ultimately even picking up the Wooden Spoon isn’t going to dampen the mood for too long. That vital tenet of rugby – win or lose, let’s drink booze – holds true even at the highest level of the game. Supporters, understandably enough, may take issue with the attitude of their team’s underperforming stars when they bump into them in the kebab shop queue at 3am. But the…

WHEN IT started in 2013 – with a certain degree of scepticism – Judgement Day attracted a crowd of just above 35,000, writes RW’s Owain Jones. Just three years later, in excess of 60,000 fans will file through the gates of the Principality Stadium in an annual celebration of Welsh regional rugby. Over five hours on Saturday 30 April, supporters of Wales’ four regions will be able to feast on individual battles all over the field, as the Ospreys face off against Cardiff Blues, and Newport Gwent Dragons cross swords with Scarlets. One man looking to help the Guinness Pro12 title-chasing Scarlets is Wales’ bearded second-row behemoth Jake Ball, who after playing just a smattering of minutes during the RBS 6 Nations is eager to make an impression. “Judgement Day…

“IT’S ALL ABOUT WINNING FOR EDDIE AND THAT FEEDS THROUGH FROM THE TOP” FACT FILE Age 22 (11 April 1993) Born Truro, Cornwall Position Wing Club Exeter Chiefs Height 5ft 11in Weight 15st 1lb England caps 15 (8T) Twitter @nowellsy15 MY TOP 3s Stadiums TwickenhamSandy ParkThe Mennaye Field Films American Pie 1American Pie 2American Pie 3 Treat foods Cornish pastyOreosPancakes WINNING THE Grand Slam has given Jack Nowell something to celebrate, but now the England wing is gunning for glory with Exeter Chiefs as they aim to reach the knockout phase of the Aviva Premiership for the first time and face Wasps in a European Champions Cup quarter-final. Here the Cornishman reveals some of the ingredients of England’s new winning formula and looks ahead to a big month for the…

“I USED TO PLAY FLY-HALF AS A KID SO IT’S NICE TO GET YOUR HANDS ON THE BALL” FACT FILE Age 29 (9 Jan 1987) Born Llantrisant Position Second-row Club Wasps Height 6ft 6in Weight 19st Wales caps 54 MY TOP 3 JOKERS Rob Evans “He’s got a bit about him. I’m trying to pass on the role of squad joker to him.” Christian Wade “He’s got his own swagger.” Dai Young “He has a knack of saying very funny things.” LOOK CLOSELY and you would have spotted Bradley Davies loitering on the wing a few times during the RBS 6 Nations. The second-row jokes that “some would call it lazy” but this is actually part of an evolving game plan for Wales. Criticism of a predictable and unimaginative attack…

RIVAL SHOWDOWN Jersey will play Guernsey in the Siam Cup at Footes Lane on Saturday 7 May, kick-off 2.30pm. The rival islands’ second, vets’ and women’s teams will also play each other that day. BRIS BOOST Bristol coach Sean Holley has extended his contract and full-back Luke Arscott, on loan from Bath, will be on a permanent deal next season. Academy duo Elias Caven and John Hawkins are spending three months in New Zealand at Sumner RFC. HAAG OFF Martin Haag (left) will leave Nottingham at the end of the season to become head coach of England U20. CLARKE IN Ex-Saints and England Saxons centre Jon Clarke has joined Rotherham as backs coach until the end of the season.…

“WE’VE HAD CAMPS WITH US, ENGLAND AND WALES” QUICK-FIRE PROFILE Age 22 (21 Feb 1994) Born Winchester Series debut London, 2015 Height 6ft Weight 14st 11lb Twitter handle @farndalej IN THIS of all seasons, there is a true desire to pit home nations England, Scotland and Wales against each other on the HSBC Sevens Series, to see which players make a strong case to represent Team GB at the Olympics. If keen focus is on tries and improvement levels, Scot Jamie Farndale deserves special mention. No other home nations player has scored as many series tries (17) or made as many clean breaks (23). He has come a long way in a short space of time, enjoying his first full season focusing on sevens rather than trying to make it…

• Set the side up to achieve desired outcome. You won’t get line speed with five players in the back-field. • Work on tackle technique – one high, one low (right) – to slow opposition ball. • Better that players go too hard than not hard enough, because otherwise you won’t get the right behaviour. • If a pass lands in your lap, then brilliant. But don’t go looking for interceptions. • Forget tackle completion stats – it might make players go less hard. Effectiveness of breakdown ball and number of phases before regaining the ball are more relevant. • Scrap the Thursday team run and do 15 v 15 where you coach both sides of the ball.…

Brian Holland, who delivers Premiership Rugby initiatives for Quins, shows how to exploit space on the outside by suddenly increasing the game’s tempo What’s the object? To create scoring opportunities by turning slow ball into quick ball. How it works After a series of pick-and-goes, you switch the angle of attack with a wide forward runner and a quick clear-out to unleash your outside backs. Key points Fool the defence into thinking your runners are going to attack their guards, then quickly change the angle and up the pace. Brian Holland is Harlequins’ community schools manager. He also coaches Old Pauline RFC and the women’s teams at St Mary’s University STEP A Position a pod of three forwards, with 9 hitting the outside runner. The receiver takes a 45-degree angle…

THE IDEA WAS THAT OUR CALLS WOULD BE INDECIPHERABLE BACK IN 1987, the Cardiff HSOB youth team toured Canada, writes RW reader Mark Seymour. I was a young winger and as such observed our lineouts with a detached interest. Anyway, our coach decided to change our lineout calls for the tour to names of places in Wales. South Wales = front, mid-Wales = middle, North Wales = back. The idea was that this would be an indecipherable code for our opponents. Unfortunately, it also proved a geographical challenge for our hooker, Craig, who called the lineouts. At the first lineout in our first match, he called ‘Cardiff’ and threw it to the front. Second lineout – Newport – to the front. Third lineout – Swansea – to the front. As…

QUICK-FIRE PROFILE Name Stuart McInally Nickname Rambo Age 25 (9 August 1990) Place of birth Edinburgh Marital status Girlfriend Natalie Grieve Twitter @McInallyStuart Personality Optimistic Favourite TV show The Blacklist, an FBI drama I’m reading… Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed, and a lot of flying manuals Dish you most like to cook Haggis lasagne. I made one for Natalie’s birthday and it went down well, so I made it for my brother recently Childhood rugby heroes Jason White and Ally Hogg Other sport you’d like to play professionally Darts I’d like to meet… Arnold Schwarzenegger, one of my favourite actors growing up SURPRISING FACT I’m almost qualified to be a pilot. I just have a few more lessons. It’s a great escape from rugby EMBARRASSING MOMENT I was due…

SHOWDOWN Play-off contenders Clontarf and UCD meet in the last round of the Ulster Bank League 1A regular season on 16 April. All matches kick off at 2.30pm that day. SUPER SURFACE Terenure College have a new 4G pitch at Lakelands Park, thanks to a partnership with the Ulster Bank. Terenure members Girvan Dempsey and Patrick ‘Rala’ O’Reilly opened the pitch. HAVE YOUR SAY All players are invited to take part in a short IRFU online survey to give their views on the future structure of the club game. For details see irishrugby.ie HUMPH OFF Fly-half Ian Humphreys (left) will retire at the end of the season after eight years and 113 appearances at Ulster. “My body is telling me it’s time to stop,” he said.…

AN INTREPID duo of rugby-mad fans aim to take part in the 10,000-mile Mongol Rally this summer to raise cash for a young man paralysed in an accident during a schools rugby match, writes RW’s Katie Field. Mike Parlby and Ed Blackwell will hit the road in a 0.8 litre Daewoo Matiz – all Rally cars must be under one litre – and they’ll set off from the UK on 16 July, hoping to reach the finish in Siberia within their five-week target or by the 12 September deadline. They need to raise a minimum of £1,000 to take part – money which organisers will then split between their favoured rainforest charity, Cool Earth, the Max Levene Trust, and Back Up, which helps people in the UK who have spinal…

England prop Joe Marler (right) was investigated for calling Samson Lee “Gypsy boy” during the Wales game, but the Six Nations ruled it was in “the heat of the moment”. Here are your thoughts about the topic on Facebook and Twitter… That is setting a dodgy precedent. @stevie_huge Been called a Slav, Pole, Serb and lots more. We all have had scraps on the pitch. At the end of the game you shake hands and have a beer or two. Stefan Madzarevic Ridiculous! Punches are thrown ‘in the heat of the moment’ but still incur disciplinary action! Cop-out! @Benlloyd70 Just plain wrong – rugby should have higher values. Graham Sutheran Rugby officials have set new standards of behaviour… The Gutter! Glan Evans My opposite number called me a “poo poo…

“I’VE BEEN DELIGHTED TO BE BACK IN THE GREEN JERSEY BUT WE’VE NOT BEEN CLINICAL” FACT FILE Age 31 (20 Oct 1984) Born Belfast Province Ulster Position Wing Height 6ft 1in Weight 15st 8lb Ireland caps 63 (17T) Twitter handle @andrew_trimble MY TOP 3 FILMS Léon “I just like the main actor, Jean Reno.” Home Alone “Despite what Rory thinks, I love it.” Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves “One I know the entire script of.” YOU COULD call the recently concluded RBS 6 Nations a bit of a hodgepodge for Andrew Trimble. Driving “into town” with his captain Rory Best, the Ulster wing considers the frustrations and promise of a patchwork championship. Weeks in camp have seen him endure the longest time he’s spent away from nine-month-old son Jack, but…

STUART BARNES THE EX-ENGLAND TEN AND WORLD-CLASS ANALYST THIS WAS England’s 13th Slam but there wasn’t anything too grand about it. Rather like the two Welsh Slams in 2008 and 2012 and Ireland’s solitary recent triumph, for all the bluster there was nothing ground-shaking in these Grand Slams. Not since England’s 2003 team has the Grand Slam been won by a world-class team. European rugby has been living through unexceptional international times. While Ireland and Wales have dominated in recent years, France have slumbered and a slumbering France takes the tournament down a peg or two. Scotland have been a mere shadow of their old cussed selves since the game turned professional and Italy are, well, Italy. Just because England have finally got their name linked with a Grand Slam…

THE FACTS JOHN BARCLAY Age 29 (24 Sep 1986) Born Hong Kong Region Scarlets Position Back-row Scotland caps 50 (4T) JOHN BARCLAY sits down in the reception area at Murrayfield bearing the distinct funk of someone who has been crawling through dirt and sweat for an hour or so, with bits of his limbs strapped together like he’s a one-man three-legged race. He is straight off the training park, having niggled and clawed through another team session in which the squad covered “everything” and he now plans to chew his way through a shaker full of nondescript ‘recovery’ pulp. As Barclay settles to loosen some of the medical tape keeping him a whole person, Vern Cotter swings past to head up the stairs to the stadium’s internal offices. Full of…

RUGBY AND safety. It is the sport’s pricking conscience and especially so when it comes to rugby for younger people. Melanie Reid writes a superb column in The Times on Saturdays. It is called Spinal Column. She was injured when falling from a horse, breaking her neck and back, and is now a tetraplegic. She writes weekly of her triumphs and frustrations as she copes with the profound change in her life. She was struck some time ago by an incident from the league career of Sam Burgess. “The glorification of Sam Burgess proves that rugby simply doesn’t get it. Burgess is the wrecking ball of rugby league who has just switched to union. He is being talked up as a future star of England on the strength of the…

1861 Richmond FC is formed and they play the world’s first inter-club fixture in 1864, v Blackheath 1871 They become one of the founding clubs of the RFU 1996 They’re one of the first clubs to embrace professionalism after Ashley Levett becomes the owner 1998 Move home games from the Athletic Ground to Madejski Stadium in Reading. Fifth in the Premiership 1999 After Levett withdraws his support, the club go into administration and are sent into freefall 2000 A new company financed by supporters, Richmond Vikings, re-establishes the club 2004 Play in London One after four straight titles in a record run of 83 consecutive league wins 2005 Former South Africa skipper Bobby Skinstad joins Richmond for a season 2008 Win promotion to National Three South, which becomes Two South…

THERE’S NO ‘one size fits all’ to nutrition, and sometimes an ingredient that most people digest happily will cause others discomfort. Sale scrum-half Peter Stringer (right) is one player who experienced this problem and so changed his diet. “For many years I ate a lot of bread; a Nutella or peanut butter sandwich was my go-to snack. But I’d get cramps and feel bloated, and I knew I had to do something about it,” he says. So Stringer took a food intolerance test and when wheat and cow’s milk showed up as triggers he eliminated them from his diet. “That was nearly three years ago and I feel so much better from both a stomach and energy point of view. “I eat lots of protein and healthy fats, and reduced…

What’s needed One rugby ball, bibs, tags, and cones to mark a pitch with a 15m outer square and a 10m inner square. How to play Pick two teams of eight. The attacking side starts in the inner (yellow) square, while defenders pair up to defend the four sides of the outer (red) square, which are all try-lines. Defenders can’t go inside the yellow square. Attackers can pass in any direction in the inner square, but must pass backwards once they cross the yellow cones to attack the try-lines. See how many tries the attackers can score in a certain time, then see if the defenders can beat it. Tactics Attack the space, call for the ball if in space, communicate with your team-mates in defence and attack.…

QUICK-FIRE PROFILE Name Keelan Giles Age 18 (29 January 1998) Birthplace Swansea Honours Wales U18 & U20 Twitter @keelangiles123 Favourite film White Chicks – I like comedies TV programme My Wife and Kids. It’s really funny Best holiday destination Zante in Greece – I went with a few mates last year Rugby hero Shane Williams Other sport you’d like to do professionally NFL – it’s similar to rugby and looks really enjoyable How you switch off from rugby I just like to chill out and go out with my mates Team-mate you’d like to be Dan Jones – he’s funny Person you would like to meet Odell Beckham Jr – he’s an NFL player RUGBY HIGHLIGHT Getting selected to play for the U20s this season – and then winning the…