David Strettle has withdrawn from England‘s World Cup training squad and will be replaced by Bath‘s Semesa Rokoduguni. The 31-year-old wing, who won the Premiership […]
England have named an unchanged squad for tomorrow’s World Rugby U20s Championships final against New Zealand in Italy. Following Monday’s 28-20 semi-final win over South […]
Manu Tuilagi deserves to be cut some slack, according to his England pal Billy Vunipola, who is backing the errant Leicester centre to overcome his […]
Chris Pennell’s superb two-try contribution to the thrilling 30-30 draw in the second-leg of the Championship final at Sixways on the last Wednesday in May, […]
This season as a whole has been very positive, and the attitude of teams in the Premiership will, hopefully, help to inspire the younger generation […]
England have made four changes ahead of their World Rugby U20s Championship pool decider against France tomorrow. Blindside Charlie Beckett makes his first start of […]
Stuart Lancaster’s die is cast, but this Dai certainly isn’t downcast! England’s 50-man squad won’t hold many fears for Warren Gatland and his Welsh players. […]
Bath v Leicester Bath: Anthony Watson; Semesa Rokoduguni, Jonathan Joseph, Kyle Eastmond, Matt Banahan; George Ford, Peter Stringer; Paul James, Ross Batty, David Wilson; Stuart […]
Northampton (1) Story of the season The reigning champions may have wobbled badly in Europe with those big defeats against Racing and, of course, Clermont […]
Sam Burgess and Maro Itoje have today been named in Stuart Lancaster’s England World Cup training squad. Rugby League superstar Burgess only joined Bath last […]
Bath have arrived as true Premiership contenders again, and with a home semi-final already secured I would bet on them at the Recreation Ground against […]
There’s a spaghetti of conflicting views surrounding the long-squad of around 50 players – initially billed as 45 – that Stuart Lancaster is expected to […]
Defence will decide the outcome of the Championship final, according to Worcester fly-half Ryan Lamb, whose half-back battle with livewire Welsh pivot Matthew Morgan promises […]
Bath v Gloucester Bath: Anthony Watson; Semesa Rokoduguni, Ollie Devoto, Kyle Eastmond, Matt Banahan; George Ford, Peter Stringer; Paul James, Rob Webber, David Wilson; Dave […]
As the dust settles on the first ever Champions Cup and the remarkable but unsurprising success of Toulon in winning their third successive European crown, […]
Our latest Killik Rugby interview is with Saracens and England wing Chris Ashton. Ashton makes his 100th Premiership appearance next weekend and reflects on his career […]
The almost universal acceptance by the media that ring-fencing the Premiership will actually take place, even if it’s just for a short period, seems at […]
15 Nick Abendanon (above) – Clermont For some reason his stellar performances for Clermont seem to have attracted more attention than similar displays for Bath. […]
Bath v London Irish London Irish: Andrew Fenby; Topsy Ojo, Eoin Griffin, Fergus Mulchrone, Alex Lewington; Chris Noakes, Darren Allinson; Tom Court, David Paice, Richard […]
Worcester Warriors today announced that former Scotland international Gordon Ross will become the Club’s Academy Transition Manager. The 37-year-old will move to Sixways this summer […]
Last week’s European results drew some interesting opinions from casting doubts on the French international side, to a call for another salary cap increase in […]
Champions Cup Clermont v Saracens Clermont: Nick Abendanon; Noa Nakaitaci, Jonathan Davies, Wesley Fofana, Naipolioni Nalaga; Brock James, Ludovic Radoslavjevic; Vincent Debaty, Benjamin Kayser, Davit […]
1999: Ulster 33 Stade Francais 27 The English clubs weren’t involved in the 1998-9 competition but frankly nobody really missed them and Ulster’s magical mystery […]
Billy Vunipola has been cleared of head-butting Matthew Tait last night making him free to play against Clermont in the Champions Cup semi-finals this Saturday. […]
Exeter v Northampton Exeter: Phil Dollman; Ian Whitten, Jack Nowell, Sam Hill, Matt Jess; Henry Slade, Will Chudley; Ben Moon, Jack Yeandle, Tomas Francis; Dean […]