Topic: Cardiff

Former Wales and British and Irish Lions skipper Gareth Thomas, who announced on Saturday that he was gay, was unable to save his Cardiff Blues side from European Cup defeat.Thomas, 35, came off the bench in the dying moments against former club ...

French sides suffer rugby away day blues

Stade Francais and Toulouse added to the impression that French sides do not travel well as they both went down to defeats in the latest set of European Cup matches on Saturday.Stade Francais - who have yet to reward owner Max Guazzini's ...

Delon Armitage's Lions hope

England's Delon Armitage could win a late call-up for the Lions after Leigh Halfpenny was ruled out of the first two weeks of the tour.. Halfpenny will rejoin the squad when he is fully fit but with the party leaving for South ...
Alan Quinlan's place on the Lions tour is under threat after he was cited for alleged gouging during Munster's Heineken Cup defeat to Leinster.. However, South Africa have suffered their own blow with full-back Conrad Jantjes ruled out of the three-Test series ...
Ian McGeechan faces another anxious wait to discover if he has lost any more key men from his Lions squad as up to 17 of the players he is taking to South Africa could be involved this weekend's Heineken Cup semi-finals, which ...

Blues celebrate cup success

The Cardiff Blues demolished Gloucester 50-12 in the EDF Energy Cup final at Twickenham to win their first piece of silverware as a region.. The Blues raced into a 22-5 half-time lead with two tries from Wales winger Leigh Halfpenny and a ...
Cardiff Blues reached the European Cup semi-finals on Saturday with a battling 9-6 triumph over three-time champions Toulouse.The Welsh team gained sweet revenge over a French side who had crushed them 41-17 at the same stage last season and will now tackle ...

Toulouse star quartet doubtful for Cardiff clash

Three-time European Cup winners Toulouse have injury doubts over a quartet of French internationals ahead of their tough European Cup quarter-final with Cardiff in Wales on Saturday.French international fly-half David Skrela and fellow international Clement Poitrenaud were unable to train on Tuesday ...

Police cautions Wales rugby centre Henson

Wales centre Gavin Henson has been cautioned by police for his behaviour after celebrating a Six Nations victory, police announced Wednesday.Henson, already reprimanded by the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) for the February incident, was out in Cardiff with Wales team-mates Andy Powell, ...

'Cursed' Henson considering playing future

Wales centre Gavin Henson admitted Wednesday he was considering his rugby future after another injury setback left the Ospreys star feeling " cursed".Henson's hopes of touring South Africa with the British and Irish Lions were all but ended on Tuesday when he ...