Jack Hart

The European Champions Cup final at the weekend displayed many things: the dominance of French rugby in Europe, the dominance of Toulon’s rugby in France, and, above all else for English fans, the dominance of England’s outcast hero in Toulon, Steffon Armitage. Armitage has been dominating headlines for the...

This weekend’s European Champions Cup quarter-finals saw a conflict of emotions for English fans. Northampton Saints were positively mauled by Clermont Auvergne, Wasps were heroic in defeat against Toulon, and Saracens were left flying solo as English contenders after their last-gasp win over Racing Metro. Some were enamoured by...

England have had a mixed start to their Six Nations campaign, comprehensively beating the Welsh on their own turf before almost letting the cat out of the bag against Italy. Stuart Lancaster and his fellow coaches need to tighten up their team’s performance, but the fans aren’t the only...

It doesn’t seem a minute ago that the QBE Autumn Internationals closed with England’s emphatic win over Australia, but the 2015 Six Nations is almost upon us, and given England’s current injury list it may well be too close for comfort. The Six Nations kicks off in Cardiff in...

Italian veteran Martin Castrogiovanni dominated the rugby headlines for all the wrong reasons this week, albeit for the reasons that he intended. Following Toulon’s 25-21 defeat to Leicester last week, the French team’s prop called a press conference in which he unleashed an expletive-ridden tirade against the Tiger’s head...

England’s defeat of Australia on Saturday brought to a close this year’s autumn internationals test series; it was the last opportunity for northern hemisphere teams to test themselves against a host of southern hemisphere countries before the World Cup in England next year. Fortunes were mixed: England generally struggled,...

Expectations were set suitably high for England’s latest QBE Autumn International test match. Given recent disappointing yet optimistic performances against New Zealand and South Africa, Saturday’s encounter against Samoa was an opportunity to end a losing streak and provide inspiration for frustrated England fans. In one sense, this did...