Tag: London Irish

White is staying put

SCOTLAND scrum-half Ben White is close to re-signing at Toulon for next season, which will end the hopes of Premiership high-flyers Bath and the Scottish […]

Langdon in right place at Saints

By PAUL REES Curtis Langdon’s world was thrown upside down when Worcester folded last season three matches into his contract with the Warriors, but the […]

Dream Team with Mark Mapletoft

Mark Mapletoft, the former England, London Irish, Harlequins, Saracens and Gloucester fly-half, now England U20s head coach, chooses the best XV he has played with… […]

Energetic Vakatawa puts Bears in charge

By LUKE JARMYN Newcastle Falcons…….. 13pts Tries: McCallum 80+2 Conversions: Jennings 80+3 Penalties: Johnson 40+2, Jennings 48 Bristol Bears ……………….. 21pts Tries: Ibitoye 17, Vakatawa […]

Support the survivors, not fallen

WHAT would be the point of resurrecting London Irish and Wasps? Wasps were never financially viable at High Wycombe or in Coventry and Irish weren’t […]

Setting the agenda for rugby

Paul Rees looks ahead to the issues that will be addressed in this week’s meeting of the Premiership’s top men The 10 Premiership directors of […]

Bears set to splash cash for Lovejoy

By NEIL FISSLER Bristol have launched a massive recruitment drive for next season, with Harlequins tighthead Lovejoy Chawatama set to become their first recruit. The […]

Cokanasiga a target for Gloucester

Gloucester are understood to have put England winger Joe Cokanasiga on the list of potential replacements for Wales superstar Louis Rees-Zammit, who is out of […]

Ice-cool Sheedy the hero for Bears

By TOM BRADSHAW Bristol ………………………….. 36pts Tries: Lane 5, Luatua 23, Thacker 30, Randall 48, Oghre 53 Conversions: Sheedy 6, 24, 31, 49 Drop goals: […]

Battling Saints too strong for Saracens

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Saracens ……………………… 12pts Tries: Parton 59, Lewington 72 Conversion: Vunipola 73 Northampton Saints…… 18pts Tries: Sleightholme 51, Mitchell 66 Conversions: Smith 52 […]

Don’t give lifelines

IF Wasps, Worcester, and London Irish are gifted lifelines, then it would be an absolute disgrace – surely it can never be allowed to happen? […]

Big clubs ready to rumble

Paul Rees looks forward to the Champions Cup, kicking off this weekend THE Champions Cup returns this week with a tweaked format that does away […]

Record turnover for Saints

Northampton have posted a record turnover of £21.96m in their annual report for the year ending June 2023. The club made an overall loss before […]

When relegation battle was the key

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Twenty years on from England’s World Cup triumph – Wednesday is the […]

Grayson to join Delaney in Japan

ON THE BLIND SIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Off: James Grayson MITSUBISHI Dynaboars will announce this week the signing of Northampton Saints fly-half James Grayson, whose […]

COACH TO COACH

FORMER RICHMOND DIRECTOR OF RUGBY STEVE HILL, FAR LEFT, TALKS TO GISELLE MATHER, DIRECTOR OF WOMEN’S RUGBY AT EALING TRAILFINDERS Giselle played for Wasps and […]