All posts tagged "Top 14"
-
Latest News
/ 5 years agoRestarting season is rather ridiculous
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Why play on? Newcastle have been promoted. Here George Wacokecoke scores his...
-
Latest News
/ 5 years agoFrench cash crisis should halt Racing bid for Itoje
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Watch this space: Maro Itoje’s rumoured move to Racing looks doubtful PICTURE: Getty Images For some time,...
-
Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoFrench lessons will help Myles Edwards make his mark at Wasps
The new Wasps signing explains how his career took a detour in France before a Premiership homecoming
-
Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoRugby contracts will deviate from what we know now, says Carl Fearns
The former Bath No.8, now at Rouen, believes rugby's player base could shift towards preferring freelance agreements
-
Columnists
/ 5 years agoHarrington column: Takeovers, big moves, life goes on in Pro D2
James Harrington reports on how money is swirling around the second tier of French rugby
-
Miscellaneous
/ 5 years agoRing-fence now to help clubs rebuild say Bristol
By NEALE HARVEY EXCLUSIV SALARY cap rebels Bristol have called for Premiership ring-fencing plans to be implemented to enable cash-strapped rivals...
-
Features
/ 5 years agoON THE BLINGSIGE
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler ■DAN CARTER has formally parted company with Kobe Kobelco Steelers and is now weighing...
-
Columnists
/ 5 years agoTakeovers, big moves, life goes on in ProD2
France’s Top 14 clubs are currently pretty quiet. There’s some news of player moves, and updates on planned preseason friendlies in...
-
Latest News
/ 5 years agoFrench lessons will help Myles earn top marks with Wasps
By NEALE HARVEY Combative: Myles Edwards is ready to fight for his place SURPRISE Wasps signing Myles Edwards warns second row...
-
Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoPremiership club may offer Nick Abendanon route back to England
Abendanon had said he may be forced to retire when he still desires to play rugby, but there has been interest...
-
Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoSkills coach Rory Teague to be put in charge of Gloucester
Johan Ackermann left Kingsholm after three years as head coach last Friday
-
Features
/ 5 years agoSavea flies home – minus his reputation
AND SO another All Black leaves France, his bank balance all the healthier, his reputation all the poorer. On the all-...
-
Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoOfficial: Ex-Wasps full-back Kurtley Beale to leave Waratahs for Racing 92
The Top 14 club bring in Beale and one other Wallaby ahead for next season
-
Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoExclusive: Plan for rugby’s global calendar sees Six Nations run into May
Peter Jackson exclusively reports on how the club and international calendar could be about to shift its axis
-
Miscellaneous
/ 5 years agoGlobal plan sees club season run into July
EXCLUSIVE ■By PETER JACKSON Mako may quit Sarries England prop Mako Vunipola says he has yet to decide whether to remain...
-
Features
/ 5 years agoColombiers were so close to place in the limelight again
JUST as the Tartan Army sang about ‘only one team in Tallinn’ when Estonia’s footballers failed to turn up for a...
-
Features
/ 5 years agoNo French champions for first time since WW2
JAMES HARRINGTON Big signing: Wallaby Kurtley Beale will join Racing 92 PICTURE: Getty Images The 30 presidents of the Top 14...
-
Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoAll Blacks great Dan Carter plots last hurrah
The fly-half isn't ready to call it quits at 38, writes Neil Fissler
-
Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoProud brother Luke Whitelock tips Crusaders flanker to hit the big time
Four brothers raised on a dairy farm who have hit the heights of New Zealand rugby
-
Columnists
/ 5 years agoHarrington column: Presidents scrap over playoff principle
The 'hellscape' facing France's Top 14 with TV and player welfare ramifications
-
Latest News
/ 5 years agoBargain buys from abroad will stymie English talent
By NEALE HARVEY AN already shrinking jobs market will become even tougher for aspiring young English players as more overseas stars...
-
Columnists
/ 5 years agoCain column: The hustings buzz with the promises of Agustin Pichot
Nick Cain says the campaign to become World Rugby chairman is verging on ageism
-
Columnists
/ 5 years agoWilliams column: Riches of Japan spell big trouble for players in England and Wales
Growth of game in the Far East will leave unions short given selection criteria, writes Shane Williams
-
International Rugby
/ 5 years agoExclusive: Plans to hold Six Nations in FULL this autumn
Peter Jackson reports on the contingency talks for a second Six Nations in November
-
Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoTop 20 rugby hard cases countdown: 20-16
Brendan Gallagher begins his countdown of rugby's hardest men
-
The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoRugby must speak with one voice -like Apollo 13
For the space buffs among you rugby aficionados, this last week has been an extraordinary trip down memory lane as we...
-
Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoOptions are drying up for Nick Abendanon who seeks homecoming from Clermont
After six years in France with Clermont, ex-Bath full-back Nick Abendanon had been planning on a return to England
-
Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoJapan set to overtake Top 14 and Premiership to become No.1 destination
The Top League is attracting players from the world over - and that won't stop says ex-Gloucester lock Tom Savage
-
Columnists
/ 5 years agoHarrington column: Top 14 in turmoil with no option to cut player wages
It has been estimated the Top 14 will lose up to €100m (£88m) if the season was cancelled
-
The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoTop 14 in turmoil with no option to cut wages
Surviving the current coronavirus crisis is forcing professional rugby in France to take a long, hard look at itself. In an...
-
The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoMoriarty commits future to Ryan’s Dragons
By ALEX BYWATER and STEFFAN THOMAS ROSS Moriarty has turned down big money offers in England and France to continue his career with...
-
Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoContract chaos puts Carl Fearns in limbo in France
Former Bath back row Carl Fearns reveals the situation facing him as an out-of-contract player in the Top 14
-
Columnists
/ 5 years agoTime for these slow-goers to get a move on with their kicks at goal
Clocking the players who take their time kicking penalties - who is the worst culprit?
-
The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoDomestic leagues can make rugby healthyagain
The new age of the nation state is finally dawning – headmaster Nigel Farage and his senior prefect, the Prime Minister,...
-
Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoKurtley Beale set to switch hemispheres and move north
The former Wasps full-back has agreed a deal with Racing 92, according to reports
-
Columnists
/ 5 years agoHarrington column: Philippe Saint-Andre calls for cup shootout to decide title
James Harrington points out the three options open to the Top 14 and Pro D2
-
Features
/ 5 years agoSaint-Andre calls for cup shootout to decide title
In the current health crisis in France professional rugby has, like all sports, taken a large backward step. Clubs, coaches and...
-
The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoItoje shows RFU should lift the ban
THE idea that Maro Itoje should be allowed to play on loan for Racing 92 in France’s Top 14 next season,...
-
International Rugby
/ 5 years agoWales v Scotland: WillGriff John and Rhys Webb to start for hosts
Wayne Pivac and Gregor Townsend offer their thoughts ahead of the final round of the Six Nations for Wales and Scotland
-
Columnists
/ 5 years agoCain column: It is about time CVC told us what they are up to
As CVC plot a takeover of major competitions in northern hemisphere rugby, Nick Cain writes about how little is known
-
Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoLeicester Tigers add firepower in wing Nemani Nadolo
Leicester fans who are missing Nemani Nadolo will have another Fijian to fill the void
-
Features
/ 5 years agoPowerhouse Boks get the French firing
Brendan Gallagher looks at the history of great lock pairings during France’s golden eras of rugby Threat: Bernard le Roux of...
-
Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoTop 14 shun virus threat to go ahead on schedule
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Hat-trick: Joris Jurand ran in three tries in the first half for Brive Yesterday’s Top 14 matches...
-
Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoWhy Justin Tipuric turned down Bristol and the Top 14 to stay in Wales
A huge boost for the Welsh region after a deeply troubling campaign thus far in the PRO14
-
Columnists
/ 5 years agoCain column: Pro D2 can show the RFU how to run a second tier
Former Bath captain and Worcester DoR, Richard Hill, is currently in charge at Rouen in the second tier of French rugby
-
Latest News
/ 5 years agoThis crowing cockerill can show RFU how to run Tier Two
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE desultory manner in which the Championship clubs have been treated by the...
-
Columnists
/ 5 years agoAll-rounder Kolbe wows Toulouse as a fly-half
FRENCH COLUMN It’s official. There are more active ingredient molecules in a homeopathic remedy than there are things Cheslin Kolbe cannot...
-
Columnists
/ 5 years agoTop 14 column: Second coming of Jules Plisson is down to TLC of O’Gara
It’s astonishing what careful and empathetic player management can do. Jules Plisson – remember him? – returned to the club where...
-
Features
/ 5 years agoLozowski closes on his move to Bath
West country recruit: Alex Lozowski SARACENS centre Alex Lozowski was last week spotted in Bath ahead of a potential move to...
-
Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoBen Youngs told to take pay cut if he wants to stay at Leicester
The scrum-half is out of contract at Welford Road at the end of the season
English Championship
What the new Championship format could mean for English rugby
Latest News
Jacques Vermeulen: I must prove myself again
British and Irish Lions
Dewi Lake still dreaming of becoming a British and Irish Lion
The best betting sites
