Premiership

This is where you will find all of The Rugby Paper’s Premiership news, interviews, reports, opinion and other content.

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Rank
MP
W
D
L
PF
PA
P
1
12
11
0
1
255
255
52
2
12
9
0
3
255
232
43
3
12
6
0
6
255
255
31
4
12
6
0
6
255
255
31
5
12
6
0
6
255
255
30
6
12
5
1
6
255
255
29
7
12
5
0
7
255
255
29
8
12
4
0
8
255
255
26
9
12
5
0
7
255
255
26
10
11
4
0
7
250
255
23
11
11
3
1
7
237
255
21
12
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
13
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

Care set to stay at Quins

ON THE BLINDSIDE Veteran scrum-half Danny Care is set to snub lucrative offers from France and sign a contract extension at Harlequins. Care has received […]

Cruse, 35, announces retirement

Grateful: Northampton’s Tom Cruse NORTHAMPTON hooker Tom Cruse will retire from professional rugby at the end of the season. The 35-year-old has spent nine years […]

Bears battle back to subdue Gloucester

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Gloucester ………………….. 24pts Tries: Hathaway 10, Carreras 18, McBurney 21 Conversions: Carreras 11, 19, 22 Penalty: Carreras 33 Bristol ………………………….. 33pts Tries; […]

Sharp Smith gives Saints extra edge

■By ROB WILDMAN Northampton Saints……41pts Tries: Coles 5, Ramm 12, 46, Freeman 61, Sleightholme 68 Conversions: Smith 5, 12, 46, 62, 69 Penalties: Smith 17, […]

Leicester survive a Newcastle fright night

By LUKE JARMYN Newcastle……………………. 13pts Tries: Redshaw 17 Conversions: Connon 18 Penalties: Connon 2, 63 Leicester ……………………… 19pts Tries: van Poortvliet 4, Montoya 32, Hassell-Collins […]

Chiefs do enough to get past Newcastle

By MARK STEVENS Exeter ………………………….. 25pts Tries: Fisilau 12, Wimbush 24, Sio 32, Tuima 39 Conversion: Hodge 39 Penalty: Hodge 73 Newcastle …………………….16pts Tries: Stevenson […]

Diamond: I saw a lot of positives

STEVE Diamond saw seeds of encouragement despite Falcons slipping to a 13th league defeat. “It could have been closer,” said Diamond. “Our first-half discipline wasn’t […]

Bristol put leaders Saints to the sword

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Bristol………………………….. 52pts Tries: Batley 5, Randall 18, Sinckler 50, Dun 56, Malins 62, Davies 71, Ibotoye 79 Conversions: MacGinty 6, 19, 52, […]

Dismay for Leicester as Varney snatches it

By ROB WILDMAN Leicester …………………….. 25pts Tries: Reffell 40, Kata 42, Wiese 54, Shillcock 72 Conversions: Shillcock 72 Penalty goals: Shillcock 22 Gloucester ………………….. 27pts […]