Tag: London Irish

Dream Team with Alex Loney

The former Leicester, Nottingham, Avignon, Rotherham and Fylde hooker, now head coach of Fylde & Lancashire, chooses the best XV he has played with or […]

Tbilisi win was key – Skivington

By JON NEWCOMBE George Skivington has credited the European Challenge Cup win against Black Lion in Tbilisi as the moment Gloucester turned their season around. […]

Dream Team with Darren Edwards

The former Newport, Saracens, London Irish & Leeds scrum-half, chooses the best XV he has played with or against… 1. Andrew Sheridan – A freak […]

Saracens know how to win – Tompkins

By BEN JAYCOCK With the Premiership run-in hotting up, Saracens centre Nick Tompkins claims ‘experience matters’ in these blockbuster end-of-season contests and says his side […]

Crunch time for red lines

The crunch is coming as negotiations between the Championship and the RFU/Premiership over promotion-relegation intensify, with the Premiership ring-fence moratorium finishing after this season. My […]

Leinster manage to stem the flow

By BRIAN FINN Stormers ……. 42 Leinster………..12 LEINSTER suffered another chastening experience in South Africa as their understrenth side were hammered by five tries to […]

Saracens winger Alex Lewington

All over for Lewington

Saracens wing Alex Lewington will retire at the end of the season. The 32-year-old, who was part of Saracens’ Champions Cup and Premiership double-winning team […]

RFU needs a sense of proportion

The RFU has always maintained that promotion-relegation is sacrosanct, even though the RFU Council agreed in February 2021 to a so-called “moratorium” to suspend it […]

Cruse, 35, announces retirement

Grateful: Northampton’s Tom Cruse NORTHAMPTON hooker Tom Cruse will retire from professional rugby at the end of the season. The 35-year-old has spent nine years […]

Dream Team with Jordon Poole

The Coventry and former Yorkshire Carnegie, Darlington Mowden Park & Exeter Chiefs hooker, chooses the best XV he has played with or against… 1. Will […]

Leicester survive a Newcastle fright night

By LUKE JARMYN Newcastle……………………. 13pts Tries: Redshaw 17 Conversions: Connon 18 Penalties: Connon 2, 63 Leicester ……………………… 19pts Tries: van Poortvliet 4, Montoya 32, Hassell-Collins […]