Rugby

We recognise the tremendous support we receive at the Arms Park and so have decided to FREEZE PRICES for next season so you can make the best savings on your Season Ticket once again. This means that a full season of Pro12, European and Anglo-Welsh Cup action – plus entry to all Cardiff RFC games – starts from just £50 …

Blues side ended a run of eight successive defeats to the Scarlets and made it three wins in a row in the RaboDirect PRO12 to climb to seventh spot. Allen, 21, was at the centre of the performance as he earned the man of the match award and made a successful return to the Millennium Stadium, after picking up a …

Alex Cuthbert gave Blues a dream start after three minutes with a close range score and the boot of Gareth Davies opened up the lead early on. Rhys Priestland’s clinical score, after a charge down on Dan Fish’s kick, gave Scarlets a way back just after the half hour as Blues took a 14-8 lead into the break. A tense …

An early try from Alex Cuthbert put Blues on the front foot before a score from Rhys Priestland just before the break fired a Scarlets fight-back. A tense and nervous second half saw both teams reduced to 14 men – as Robin Copeland and Liam Williams were both sent off. A try from Ken Owens set up a grandstand finale …

Judgement Day II, the double-derby extravaganza on Easter Sunday, will see Blues take on Scarlets at 2pm and Newport Gwent Dragons will face the Ospreys at 4.45pm. Tickets to watch the back-to-back rugby games are available all Easter weekend; at the WRU Shop until 6pm today and all day tomorrow from three locations just outside the stadium – the WRU …

Hooker Rees is one of three changes to the starting line-up for Blues as they aim to make it a hat-trick of successive league wins. Centre Dafydd Hewitt is also called up after his late try bonus heroics against Edinburgh. Lock Bradley Davies will also make his first start of the calendar year after successfully coming on as a replacement …

Runner-up in 2007 show, Rhydian, and 2009 finalist, Lucie, will take centre stage at the iconic rugby venue when the Welsh regions go back-to-back in RaboDirect Pro12 games on Sunday. Rhydian, a former Llandovery College rugby fanatic whose early ambition was to play for Wales, will be performing two songs in the break between Cardiff Blues v Scarlets (kick-off 2pm) …

Rees moved to the Arms Park from Parc y Scarlets last summer and the former Scarlets captain admits the two games against his old club were the first he looked for on the fixture list. The front row will get that chance at the home of Welsh rugby on Easter Sunday (kick-off 2pm). Rees said: “It’s a weird one because …

Blues tackle Scarlets (kick-off 2pm) before Dragons and Ospreys pack down (kick-off 4.45pm) in the big double-header of regional rugby in the RaboDirect PRO12. And Defence guru McIntosh believes the feast of rugby will be a wonderful occasion on Easter Sunday. “The best players in Wales are under one roof and both games should be great spectacles so let’s hope …

More than 100 players aged between 11 and 12 from seven schools from the Cardiff region gathered at Rumney RFC yesterday (Thursday, 10 April) to take part in a qualification festival as part of the programme targeting schools which are not traditionally associated with rugby. The winning schools, Radyr and St Telios High School, have now earned the right to …