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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Lively Randall raises Bears off the bottom

By ROGER PANTING Bristol ……………………………30pts Tries: Randall 9, 42; Vui 20, Harding 80 Conversions: Williams 20, 42 Penalties: Williams 40, 68 Newcastle …………………….12pts Tries: Graham […]

Leicester Tigers

Leicester set sights on £13m

Leicester Tigers have announced plans to raise £13m through a share subscription via two investors to help secure the club’s future. The subscription would come […]

Irish get their mojo back to sink Saints

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER London Irish …………………30pts Tries: Cinti 13, Basham 45, Poolman 79 Conversions: Jennings 14, 47, 79 Penalties: Jennings 36, 40, 75 Northampton ……………….. […]

Walder: Give my players a chance

By LUKE JARMYN Newcastle boss Dave Walder has been left with mixed feelings of delight and disappointment after Falcons’ first choice hooker Jamie Blamire was […]

Saints show the wit to keep Tigers at bay

By PAUL REES Leicester ……………………… 18pts Tries: Potter 7, 46 Conversions: Pollard 8 Penalties: Pollard 19, Burns 62 Northampton ……………….. 19pts Try: Sleightholme 49 Conversion: […]

Despair for Bears as Saracens steal glory

By GARY FITZGERALD Saracens ………………………20pts Tries: Dann 59, Segun 77, Hougaard 80 Conversions: Goode 59 Penalties: Goode 52 Bristol …………………………… 19pts Tries: Thacker 38, Ibitoye […]

George looking good for England

Mark McCall revealed after Saracens win over Bristol that hooker Jamie George looks likely to be available for England selection in next Saturday’s Calcutta Cup […]

Advantage Chiefs but they need to improve

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Exeter ………………………….. 24pts Tries: Gray 10, Kata 17, Woodburn 34 Conversions: Skinner 11, 18, 35 Penalties: Skinner 54 Gloucester …………………… 17pts Tries: […]

Reed has final say as Sharks snatch it

By ROSS HEPPENSTALL Sale ……………………………….30pts Tries: Carpenter 2, Dugdale 17, Roebuck 25, Taylor 32, Reed 80+1 Conversions: Du Preez 18 Penalties: Du Preez 50 Bath […]

In-form Raikes helps end Ponty’s drought

Premiership By IESTYN THOMAS Aberavon…………….. 10 Pontypridd…………..27 PONTYPRIDD picked up their first win in seven league games as they secured a notable bonus-point win over […]

Bridgend’s happy new year continues

Premiership By ETHAN GEORGE Bridgend………………27 Newport……………….24 A GOOD opening month to 2023 simply got better and better as Bridgend made it three league wins in […]

Fish chips in to get Cardiff back on track

Premiership By ROB COLE Cardiff…………………. 30 RGC……………………….. 20 CARDIFF got back to winning ways after their last-gasp single-point defeat at home to Newport as they […]

Quins triumph in basement battle

Premiership By HARRY CORISH Llanelli…………………28 Carmarthen…………38 MARC Jones’ Carmarthen Quins seem to have found the winning formula at last, and this win not only completed […]

Battle-hardened Ironmen are just too strong

Premiership By JACK LONGSTAFF Swansea………………. 6 Merthyr……………….. 31 A BATTLE-HARDENED Merthyr put Swansea to the sword with an emphatic bonus-point victory. The visitors got off […]

Seabrook signs on to be a Saint

Northampton have signed Gloucester winger Tom Seabrook for next season, as reported last week in Neil Fissler’s Blindside Column. Seabrook, 23, who scored the Premiership’s […]

Connon flying high with the Falcons

By PAUL REES The unpredictability of the Premiership was highlighted earlier this month when champions Leicester travelled to Newcastle, a team that has struggled in […]

Hogg ready for big clash

Scotland full-back Stuart Hogg should be fit for the Six Nations opener against England on February 4, says Exeter director of rugby Rob Baxter. The […]