The climax of this year's Six Nations championship brought "Wales' most important rugby match for a generation".
It's tough playing this level of rugby match every week, so it's probably good to have that fortnight gap.
Mr Stedman Jones, a London barrister, lays it out like a rugby match.
This can be illustrated by considering the following: suppose a physicist and a sociologist describe, each in their own argots, a rugby match.
Then during rehab at Shepherd, he saw a wheelchair rugby match.
Publicans had sought an exemption to accommodate more than 26, 000 people who will attend the Munster v Leinster rugby match at Thomond Park on 2 April.
He said he regularly drove five hours each way to see a rugby match in the Welsh capital and he hoped arts audiences would similarly drive for hours to see productions in Cardiff Bay.
While he stressed that he did not want to detract from Leicester's achievements, Young - whose team have not lost a game in this season's competition - said that he did not feel that the kicking lottery was the best way to decide a rugby match.
The incident led to a rugby league match between Hull FC and Bradford Bulls being called off.
For many years, the Maori have competed in the Pacific Cup and two years ago played an Australian Indigenous side ahead of the official opening ceremony of the 2008 Rugby League World Cup match in Sydney.
Coventry Rugby Club confirmed their home match against Rosslyn Park in National League 1 has been postponed.
There were five tries in each half as the Lions banished memories of a poor opening match on their rugby union tour.
The build-up to the match saw the Rugby Park's main stand officially renamed as the Frank Beattie Stand in memory of the former Killie midfielder who passed away last year.
O'Driscoll is the 14th player to join the ranks of rugby's centurions, one match after John Hayes became the first Irishman to reach the landmark.
Although intended as a home series for the the Pumas, the Argentinean Rugby Union requested that the first match be held in Manchester to raise extra revenue before they return to Salta for the second.
Because the Wallabies match falls outside the International Rugby Board's official Test window, Horsman's English club was not obliged to release him.
Former Great Britain rugby league captain Farrell will miss the match after picking up a calf strain, while he has been joined on the sidelines by Barkley after the Bath man picked up a dead leg during training.
But in terms of this match having a meaning beyond the rugby league cognoscenti, forget it.
It is as if Scotland stole something, or committed some dreadful sin against rugby and the English right to win that match.
Trevor Halstead and John O'Sullivan went over before former rugby league player Brian Carney scored a late match-winning try for the visitors.
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The Crusaders hope they gain a few new fans on Friday, when they host Oldham in a match to celebrate the centenary of rugby league in Wales.
Unlike the sport of soccer, which has grown at a much slower rate than most had predicted in the US, the sport of rugby has some attributes that are more likely to match our taste.
We came close to winning that match, playing a very adventurous style of rugby.
And Wasps' director of rugby, Nigel Melville, said the timing of the match had "ruined" his team's build-up.
Police are becoming "increasingly concerned" for a Wales rugby fan who disappeared after Saturday's Six Nations match in Cardiff.
Faced with Sarries' third match in the space of nine days, rugby director Eddie Jones made 14 changes from the side which won at Bristol in the Guinness Premiership on Wednesday.
Mr Thompson, described as a big rugby fan, had won tickets for a hospitality box at the match at the Millennium Stadium.
Venter was handed the punishment by the Rugby Football Union for "making provocative and inappropriate gestures" during a match at Leicester on 8 May.
Toulon director of rugby Philippe Saint-Andre was in no doubt that the big-match experience the Blues have gathered under Young was a major factor in their favour.
Five more teams will have to qualify, while officials are likely to give the go-ahead for a special match between Maori and Aboriginal teams to recognise their contribution to rugby league.
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