By PAUL REES Danny Wilson’s has backed calls to play Champions Cup semi-finals at a neutral venue after Toulouse and Leinster enjoyed home city advantage […]
By PAUL REES Newcastle may be adrift at the bottom of the Premiership but Steve Diamond remains an advocate for promotion and relegation. The Falcons […]
The former Leicester, Nottingham, Avignon, Rotherham and Fylde hooker, now head coach of Fylde & Lancashire, chooses the best XV he has played with or […]
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK ARE marquee players, or coaches, worth it, or are they just a Premiership owners’ vanity project? Judging […]
By BEN JAYCOCK Northampton have signed England U20s fly-half George Makepeace-Cubitt. Having endured the hardship of London Irish folding, the tyro playmaker showed grit and […]
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. […]
By PAUL REES The ground-breaking new agreement between Twickenham and the Premiership clubs is expected to be announced after next month’s play-off final. The eight-year […]
For only the second time in eight seasons there are two English teams in the Champions Cup semi-finals, and we’ll have action and reaction from Northampton’s trip […]
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 […]
By PAUL REES Starting: Guy Pepper LAST season’s beaten Premiership finalists would not seem the ideal opponents after conceding a record number of points in […]
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 […]
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 […]
By BEN JAYCOCK Worcester Warriors’ Supporters Trust chairman Marcus Mulcahy is frustrated at the lack of empathy and support shown by the rugby community towards […]
The Red Roses return to Twickenham! Find action and reaction from England Women’s second Six Nations standalone fixture at HQ against Ireland in The Rugby […]
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 […]
By BEN JAYCOCK Harlequins face the toughest run-in of the Premiership’s top four contenders and director of rugby Billy Millard knows he must shore up […]
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 […]
By BEN JAYCOCK The demise of Wasps, Worcester Warriors and London Irish has left just 10 starting fly-half spots across a congested Premiership, leaving the […]
By SAM JACKSON Ospreys have signed Phil Cokanasiga from Leicester Tigers for the 2024-25 season. Cokanasiga, the younger brother of England and Bath wing Joe, […]
ENGLAND flanker Sam Underhill has signed a contract extension to stay with Bath until the end of the 2025-2026 season. The 27-year-old made his Bath […]
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 […]
By BEN JAYCOCK George Makepeace-Cubitt was the only player in England U20s’ victorious Six Nations squad not connected to a Premiership club but the talented […]
The Coventry and former Yorkshire Carnegie, Darlington Mowden Park & Exeter Chiefs hooker, chooses the best XV he has played with or against… 1. Will […]
NICK CAIN – READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK SEETHING financial undercurrents are undermining the main pillars of the game in England, with the professional […]
With the Premiership resuming next weekend, Paul Rees looks at how the runners and riders are gearing up The Premiership resumes this week after an […]
By MARK STEVENS Head coach Ryan Lamb believes the foundations are being laid for a bright future ahead at Plymouth Albion. The former Gloucester, London […]
Matthew Luddington talks to London Scottish flanker Jack Ingall about combining work and play in the Championship ANECDOTES from rugby’s amateur era paint a vivid […]
ON THE BLINDSIDE – EXCLUSIVE By JON NEWCOMBE Having already snapped up Coventry’s star centre Will Rigg in a mid-season swoop, Exeter are going back […]
By ADAM HATHAWAY England new boy Chandler Cunningham-South is still paying the price for not recognising 2003 legend Richard Hill. World Cup winner Hill, in […]
By MARK STEVENS In terms of an on-field audition, Northampton’s Tom Pearson could not have done much more to impress watching England head coach, Steve […]