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Young Guns: London Irish scrum-half Caolan Englefield

10 December 2020 1 comment

Despite being in the Harlequins academy, Englefield explains how he was also on the pathway at the Exiles

Young Guns: Saracens back row Ollie Stonham

2 December 2020 0 comments

Neale Harvey speaks to the 19-year-old product of Felsted School in Essex now readying himself for Championship action

Young Guns: Exeter Chiefs centre Corey Baldwin

24 September 2020 0 comments

Neale Harvey talks to the England-born centre who arrived at Sandy Park from Scarlets this summer

Young Guns: Bristol Bears winger Jack Bates

16 September 2020 0 comments

Bates made his Premiership debut for Bristol against Sale Sharks a fortnight ago, showing impressive defence

Young Guns: Ealing Trailfinders centre Ruben Moxham

9 September 2020 0 comments

Moxham was in Premier League Southampton’s academy with ex-Bath teammate Gabe Hamer-Webb, before rugby became his path

Young Guns: Leicester Tigers centre Dan Kelly

1 September 2020 0 comments

Kelly fielded a call from an unknown number last year where Geordan Murphy was on the other end when he picked up…

Young Guns: Leicester Tigers tighthead Jack Rowntree

18 August 2020 0 comments

There is another Rowntree coming through at the Tigers. Meet Jack, the son of Munster scrum coach Graham

Young Guns: Scarlets hooker Morgan MacRae

10 August 2020 0 comments

Teenage forward Morgan MacRae starred in the Welsh Exiles programme before joining the Scarlets

Young Guns: Leicester Tigers hooker Archie Vanes

3 August 2020 0 comments

A player likely to be in the England U20s set-up for next year’s Six Nations after starring for the U18s

Young Guns: Cardiff Blues flanker Gwilym Bradley

6 July 2020 0 comments

A No.7 who started out at London Irish before moving over the Severn Bridge

Young Guns: Exeter Chiefs back-five forward Christ Tshiunza

29 June 2020 0 comments

A player who is well on Wales’ radar after leaving Congo as a child and growing up in Llandaff

Young Guns: Ospreys and Wales U20 back row Morgan Strong

15 June 2020 0 comments

Told he wouldn’t make the top level in rugby as a teen

Young Guns: Worcester Warriors prop Lewis Holsey

8 June 2020 0 comments

A player familiar to those in the Championship at London Scottish last season

Young Guns: Northampton Saints No.8 Tui Uru

28 May 2020 0 comments

Uru was signed by Saints after playing for Bury St Edmunds in National Two South

Young Guns: Northampton Saints full-back Tommy Freeman

18 May 2020 0 comments

A talent who could have been lost to rugby after being released from an academy for being ‘too small’

Young Guns: Exeter Chiefs full-back/centre Tom Wyatt

11 May 2020 0 comments

A National 2 South winner with Taunton Titans on dual-registration this season and learning off Stuart Hogg at Chiefs

Young Guns: Cardiff Blues prop Theo Bevacqua

27 April 2020 0 comments

England-born, loosehead Bevacqua says Wales was always his first choice

Young Guns: Gloucester full-back/centre Tom Stanton

21 April 2020 0 comments

Tom Stanton has played plenty at outside centre, but wants to stamp his mark at full-back

Young Guns: Northampton Saints winger Josh Gillespie

14 April 2020 0 comments

Dropped by Bath, Northampton came calling for the Australia-born wing

Young Guns: Worcester Warriors back row Morgan Monks

7 April 2020 0 comments

Taking a lot of inspiration from fledgling teammate Ted Hill at Sixways

Young Guns: London Irish prop Tarek Haffar

31 March 2020 0 comments

Capped at England U18 level, the Exiles loosehead looks to base his skills in the same mould as Mako Vunipola and Ellis Genge

Young Guns: Gloucester fly-half George Barton

27 March 2020 0 comments

England U20s sharpshooter Barton explains how Danny Cipriani has been offering him pointers

Young Guns: Northampton Saints prop Manny Iyogun

19 March 2020 0 comments

Leaning on the experience of the Franks brothers at Franklin’s Gardens

Young Guns: Newcastle Falcons fly-half Will Haydon-Wood

13 March 2020 0 comments

Going head-to-head with Gloucester’s George Barton for the England U20’s fly-half starting job

Young Guns: Saracens and England U20 prop Sam Crean

28 February 2020 0 comments

The England U20 prop is learning off Mako Vunipola at Saracens

Young Guns: Leicester Tigers scrum-half Jack van Poortvliet

18 February 2020 0 comments

One of the young scrum-halves at Leicester forming a line behind senior man Ben Youngs

Young Guns: Sale Sharks scrum-half Raphael Quirke

14 February 2020 0 comments

Learning off former scrum-half and England Under-20s head coach Alan Dickens

Young Guns: Saracens hooker Theo Dan

7 February 2020 0 comments

Starting for England U20s in their match against Scotland this weekend

Young Guns: London Irish prop Luke Green

5 February 2020 0 comments

Get to know the England U20 tighthead who will start against Scotland this weekend at Myreside

Young Guns: Bath winger Gabriel Hamer-Webb

13 December 2019 0 comments

The Bath speedster talks working with Anthony Watson, Semesa Rokoduguni and Tom Homer

Young Guns: Bristol Bears fly-half wonderkid Ioan Iloyd

11 December 2019 0 comments

A big future ahead for Bristol Bears’ try-scoring fly-half

Young Guns: Bristol Bears & England U20 hooker Will Capon

29 November 2019 0 comments

Capon talks to Neale Harvey about working with Harry Thacker and John Afoa at Bristol

Young Gun: Harlequins hooker Jack Musk

21 November 2019 0 comments

Neale Harvey talks to the converted back rower who was playing at Esher last season

Young Guns: Saracens second row Jonathan Kpoku

9 November 2019 0 comments

A player who helped take Ampthill into the Championship while on loan from Allianz Park last season

Young Guns: Saracens tighthead prop Sam Wainwright

24 October 2019 0 comments

From the north Wales coast to Saracens, meet a youthful addition to the Premiership club’s front row

Young Guns: Exeter Chiefs centre Barrie Karea

15 October 2019 0 comments

Karea spent the summer training with the Exeter Chiefs first team

Young Guns: Leicester Tigers tighthead prop Osman Dimen

4 October 2019 0 comments

Dimen talks about his time at Loughborough Students last season in National One and his future at Welford Road

Young Guns: Bath flanker Miles Reid on lessons learned

6 September 2019 0 comments

Set for more game time at Bath after Louw’s departure and Underhill on England duty?

Young Guns: Saracens wing Elliott Obatoyinbo

29 August 2019 0 comments

Elliott Obatoyinbo is a man in a hurry, metaphorically as well as physically, and a big season lies ahead for the 20-year-old former Stoneyhurst and […]

Young Gun: Leicester Tigers and Wales U20 Tommy Reffell

26 June 2019 0 comments

Do Leicester Tigers have a young Justin Tipuric on their hands?

Young Gun: Saracens and England U20 back row Andy Christie

18 June 2019 0 comments

Schooled at Harrow and mentored last summer by Rodney So’oialo on his trip to New Zealand

Young Gun: Sale Sharks lock Rouban Birch

1 June 2019 0 comments

An up-and-comer at Carrington eager to learn from incoming Springbok star Lood de Jager

Youngs Guns: London Irish back row Izaiha Moore-Aiono

22 May 2019 0 comments

After London Irish splurged the cash on big-name players, we met one of their academy prospects

Young Guns: Leicester Tigers prop James Whitcombe

18 April 2019 0 comments

A career which sat on a knife edge between union and code

Young Guns: Worcester Warriors fly-half Luke Scully

4 April 2019 0 comments

Learned under Dan Biggar at the Ospreys and now Jono Lance at Sixways

Young Guns: Wasps and England U18 sensation Alfie Barbeary

29 March 2019 0 comments

The centre-cum-hooker could be on his way to Argentina this summer for the World Rugby U20 Championship

Young Gun: Saracens fly-half Manu Vunipola’s cousins aren’t his only influences

19 March 2019 0 comments

“Getting the views of Owen, one of the best players in the world at the moment, is pretty awesome”

Young Gun: Gloucester tighthead prop Jack Bartlett

8 March 2019 0 comments

The 19-year-old on turning out for England U18s and learning from Fraser Balmain

Young Guns: Leicester Tigers flanker Taylor Gough

10 January 2019 0 comments

Neale Harvey discovers the emerging Tigers back row forward didn’t start playing until he was 14

Young Gun: Northampton Saints hooker Samson Ma’asi

7 December 2018 0 comments

A look at one of Northampton’s up-and-coming front row forwards

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