This issue mails out from 17th June 2024.

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What’s inside?
Around 50,000 words of quality rugby reads in a coffee-table journal

Specifically…

OLLIE CHESSUM
… on injuries, coming from the middle of nowhere, and how England have found their groove.

“I never expected it to pan out the way it has, certainly not this quickly. I always said I wanted to play for England, but did I really believe it? Probably not, but I was going to try anyway.” 

HANNAH BOTTERMAN
… on overcoming injuries and loss, England and being an international veteran aged just 25.

"I thought I’d be fine, but I had a scan and found out I wasn’t going to be able to play the rest of the tournament. That was really tough.”

DEAN RICHARDS
… on life as a bobby, tackling an armed man, bloodgate, life in France and England in the 1990s.

"You have to make a split-second decision, when somebody opens that door  ... It may be an old granny, or a guy who’s 22 with a knife in his hand.” 

NATALIA JOHN
… on the most challenging two years of her life, the legacy of Morgan, and the people of Gorseinon.

"Someone had come out and painted the whole road and the front of her house in bright colours ... it was like the whole town had put their arms around us all.”

JAMAL FORD-ROBINSON
… on 100 games for Gloucester, TikTok fame, and finding the brother he never knew he had.

"So this guy rang his dad the next day, spoke to him for the first time ever, and part of that conversation was, 'you've got a brother called Jamal'."

MICHELLE ORANGE
… on the day her husband bought a rugby club and pushing the Sale Sharks women to the top.

"The two men responsible for us owning a rugby club passed away within four days. I spoke to the players and said, 'can we have two tries, one for Bob and one for my dad?'."

CASTRES
Why the five-times French champions are unique among the Top 14 big dogs, powered by varicose vein cream.

"I think our budget is 12th in the league, but there's still capacity to fight because players want to be here, we’ve got Pierre Fabre behind us, and a president that’s been with us for thirty years.”

BRIXHAM
Meet the 150-year-old club from a Devon fishing town that once took down the dominant force in English rugby.

"That game was probably the biggest feather in our cap. Even right up to not long ago, before certain games, in Bath changing rooms they'd say, 'don't forget the Brixham game'."

NEWPORT
The story of the Welsh club side as they embark on the latest new era as part of Super Rygbi Cymru.

"Newport was sacrificed to save the Dragons, simple as that. We were the owners of Rodney Parade, as we had been since 1923 when we bought it." 

GREAT BRITAIN SEVENS
With the Olympics around the corner, we visit the camp of the British men and women still cutting a path through sevens.

"Sevens is rugby under a magnifying glass. You can have a whole season in one weekend, with all the highs and lows that come with it. Everything is condensed and intensified."