Premiership

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

Harlequins announce signing of Stormers tighthead Wilco Louw

13 February 2020 0 comments

Quins have found their replacement in the pack when Kyle Sinckler heads to Bristol

Harlequins line up Springboks star Pieter-Steph du Toit to replace Robshaw

12 February 2020 0 comments

Also, Simon Zebo appears to be on his way out of France but an Ireland homecoming might not be on the cards…

Bracken: Saracens’ Lions tour hopefuls should be looking to leave

12 February 2020 0 comments

Kyren Bracken believes Saracens’ elite players should move elsewhere next season

RFU and PRL slash funding to the Championship by 50%

12 February 2020 0 comments

Championship clubs hang on a cliff edge as funding from central power is cut from £8.1 to £4.3m

WRU target homecoming for two Welsh exiles currently in the Premiership

11 February 2020 0 comments

Leicester’s Tommy Reffell and Bristol’s Mat Protheroe are targets to bring to a Welsh region for the WRU

Dai Young steps back from Wasps director of rugby role

11 February 2020 0 comments

Wasps take action after underwhelming start to Premiership season and Challenge Cup exit

Sale and England hooker Rob Webber makes retirement call

11 February 2020 0 comments

Webber won 16 caps for England, all of which came under Stuart Lancaster

Dombrandt stars again as Quins march on

9 February 2020 0 comments

Exeter ………………22 Harlequins ……49 ALEX Dombrandt scored two tries as Harlequins ended Exeter’s hopes of winning three trophies with a thumping win in Sunday’s first […]

Sharks let rip in first half feeding frenzy

9 February 2020 1 comment

By ROSS HEPPENSTALL FOR a club as ambitious as Sale, a first piece of silverware in 14 years would do nicely this season. Steve Diamond’s […]

Diamond: Four big games to book our playoff place

9 February 2020 0 comments

STEVE Diamond expects a tougher test when Sale travel to Saracens in the Premiership on Saturday. Diamond said: “We’re in the Premiership Rugby Cup final […]

CLOSE-UP

9 February 2020 0 comments

ROB DU PREEZ Sale fly-half V ALEX GOODE Saracens fly-half Rob du Preez is a class act and has become a driving force for Sale […]

Callum Braley to leave Gloucester after six years at Kingsholm

6 February 2020 0 comments

Italian PRO14 club Benetton will be Braley’s destination at the end of the season

Transfers: Wasps lose flanker Thibaud Flament to Toulouse

5 February 2020 0 comments

News regarding the packs of Wasps and Harlequins

Leicester Tigers lead the chase for Ross Moriarty

4 February 2020 0 comments

Leicester seek to bolster front row and back row for next season, with Wales flanker Moriarty just one of their targets

Gustard: Eddie won’t ignore us much longer

2 February 2020 0 comments

By JON NEWCOMBE Outstanding: Alex Dombrandt scores for Quins against Worcester PICTURE: Getty Images TEAMS EXETER: Dollman; Bodilly, Wyatt, Hendrickson, Short; Skinner, Townsend; Keast, Poole, […]

Skinner makes his return to lead charge for Chiefs

2 February 2020 0 comments

SCOTLAND international back-rower Sam Skinner, right, makes his first start of the season after injury to captain an Exeter side showing a mix of youth […]

Lineen led the way for Six Nations invasion

2 February 2020 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Trail-blazer: Sean Lineen playing for Scotland in 1990 The entire cast for the 1990 Five Nations, brought […]

Posponed game puts a sudden spoke in Les’ bicycle wheel

2 February 2020 0 comments

AS A WING for Aberavon and Wales, Les Keen always knew where to go, hard and fast, ideally along the line of least resistance. As […]

Specifically our Terry was simply one of the very best

2 February 2020 1 comment

TERRY Cooper was an old-fashioned reporter with an innate love of the game he wrote about. As Rugby correspondent of the national news agency, the […]

Bath ready to offer Saracens centre Alex Lozowski a new challenge

30 January 2020 0 comments

Neil Fissler reveals which clubs have marked Saracens players as targets

Clamour for Saracens’ free agents may start a slaughter, says Joe Simpson

29 January 2020 0 comments

The Gloucester scrum-half believes the market will impact players at other clubs when want-away Saracens stars become available

Ed Griffiths steps down at Saracens after just 26 days

28 January 2020 0 comments

Interim chief executive Ed Griffiths resigns days after news emerges he is being investigated by the ECB

Bristol Bears hunt Matt Kvesic after wrapping up Sinckler deal

28 January 2020 0 comments

And Exeter have already found a replacement from a fellow Premiership club

We’re kicking ourselves for losing that says disappointed Duncan

26 January 2020 2 comments

Frustrated: Duncan Weir DUNCAN Weir hopes for better luck with Scotland next weekend after failing to sign off from club duty with a win. The […]

Salary cap fallout pours more fuel on feisty rivalry

26 January 2020 0 comments

By NEALE HARVEY Loyal: Will Collier Eager: Richard Barrington HARLEQUINS prop Will Collier insists his side need no extra motivation as a fierce local rivalry […]

Porecki’s the hero as Saints implode

26 January 2020 0 comments

By ROGER PANTING Shock and roar: Dave Porecki dives over in the last minute to seal victory for Irish PICTURE: Getty Images Kennedy: We rode […]

PRL lynch mob make Sarries climb scaffold

26 January 2020 2 comments

HOW can a Premiership Rugby organisation which preaches the moral virtues of a level playing field in salary cap funding – with brutal punishment for […]

Stuttering Bears finally remember their lines

26 January 2020 2 comments

By NICK CAIN In at the corner: Henry Purdy scores the opening try for Bristol PICTURES: Getty Images BRISTOL have had a lean time of […]

Hughes ‘needs to be 80 minutes’

26 January 2020 1 comment

BRISTOL boss Pat Lam said he had mixed emotions after his team recorded their biggest Premiership tally over Gloucester, mainly because they missed out on […]

Struggling Tigers put down by Homer’s try-double

26 January 2020 3 comments

By ALEX BYWATER TOM HOMER’S moment of brilliance lit up a turgid clash to give Bath a vital win as Taulupe Faletau proved himself ready […]

Murphy calls for more bravery

26 January 2020 0 comments

GEORDAN Murphy bemoaned a slow Leicester start as his team were pipped at the post by Tom Homer’s second try, after he had opened the […]

Diamond savours his rare triumph at Exeter

26 January 2020 0 comments

By MIKE SINCLAIR STEVE Diamond believes his Sharks are in good shape to mount a serious attack on a Premiership play-off final after securing a […]

Sharks go third, ‘doing it right way’

26 January 2020 1 comment

VICTORY took Sale into third place in the Premiership table and rugby director Steve Diamond said: “Our investment – like Exeter’s – is correct and […]

Young tells England to keep an eye on Willis

26 January 2020 0 comments

By GARY FITZGERALD Comeback: Ollie Lawrence goes over for Worcester DAI Young claimed Eddie Jones should have picked Jack Willis after the young flanker shone […]