Premiership

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

Team
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

Baxter: We know we can beat them

EXETER boss Rob Baxter said his team had taken a psychological step that was more important than the win over the English champions. “I wanted […]

Worst display so far – Gustard

ANGRY Harlequins players locked themselves in the dressing room after this defeat as boss Paul Gustard labelled the performance as the ‘worst of this season’ […]

Hansen’s time over

STEVE Hansen says he’s going. But before he hangs up his earpiece for ‘someone new’, the New Zealand coach with a peerless record of played […]

Takulua tells Falcons to front up

■By JON NEWCOMBE Tongan ace: Sonatane Takulua SONATANE Takulua is confident the return of Newcastle’s big guns can help fire them back to the top […]

That was tough admits Heaney

WORCESTER scrum-half Michael Heaney, who made his first start in the Premiership in the absence of knee injury absentee, Francois Hougaard, conceded it had been […]

Gustard hails his England outcasts

ENGLAND’S loss is Harlequins’ gain as far as full-back Mike Brown is concerned. “He was exceptional,” said Quins supremo Paul Gustard. “I thought Danny Care […]

It’s like a morgue in there – Boyd

CHRIS Boyd admitted the Northampton dressing room resembled “a morgue” after Dylan Hartley’s 250th Saints appearance was ruined by Mark Wilson. England flanker Wilson went […]

’We used money to grow game’

THE RFU are keen to represent the current criticism of their financial affairs as a legitimate divergence of opinion over fiscal policies. This week an […]

Speaking up has cost Baron

AT the same time Francis Baron and Graeme Cattermole have been separated from their ‘privileged member’ status by a score-settling RFU Council vote, the governing […]