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 […]
NEWS EXTRABy BEN JAYCOCK WORCESTER Warriors have withdrawn from this season’s Women’s Premiership and Allianz Cup with immediate effect. The men’s team went into administration […]
KENT secured their first Bill Beaumont Men’s County Championship in 96 years with an incredible 39- 37 comeback win over Lancashire, who came up just […]
Gill Burns Cup By BEN JAYCOCK Before the County Cup season started, Lancashire women’s head coach Chris Hall encouraged his side to spend more time […]
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Eddie Jones returned to Twickenham this week as an RFU-made millionaire coach. Jones, who was paid over […]
Division 1 North Cheshire…………19pts Lancashire……. 54pts By KIERAN FREE Lancashire got off to a winning start on the road at Upper Park, Birkenhead as they […]
By ROB COLE Bridgend……………… 18 Pontypridd……………. 8 Bridgend continued to pile misery on to Pontypridd’s season with an emphatic victory to move up to ninth […]
By GEOFF ROBERTS Sedgley Park………47 Sheffield……………… 17 A Cash Chilvers hattrick ensured Sedgley Park snared all five points from Park Lane and secured their position […]
RUGBY SHORTS TICKET sales have been boosted this week for England’s two September women’s internationals following the Lionesses’ triumphant Euro 2022 campaign. The Red Roses […]
By MARTIN HILL Sedgley Park………26 Chester…………………22SEDGLEY PARK remain in the hunt for promotion following another bonus-point win, with Chester their latest victims.The hosts, who won […]
By CHRIS CAMPBELL Hinckley……….. 15Clifton…………….28HINCKLEY’S indiscipline and errors once again cost them against one of the top sides in the league as they lost out […]
By SAM JACKSON EXETER boss Rob Baxter says players have not lowered their wage expectations in line with the Premiership’s lower salary cap.The wage cap […]
PETER JACKSON THE latest in the neverending series of mismatches between Wales and New Zealand ought to have left certain All Black coaches cringing at […]
By PETER JACKSON Wales………………16 pts Tries: J Williams 60 Conversions: Priestland 60 Penalties: Anscombe 6, 40+2; Priestland 52 New Zealand ..54 pts Tries: B Barrett […]
NEW Saracens special advisor Michael Yormark says the club plan on going global after their £32m takeover. American Yormark, president of Roc Nation Sports who […]
THE £32m takeover of Saracens by a polyglot international consortium comes with a health warning as the club’s erstwhile banker and foremost fan, Nigel Wray, […]
JAMES HARRINGTONFRENCH COLUMN Fears over the future contracts of France’s internationals have raised the spectre of a marquee player system in the Top 14 and […]
Summer recruits scored 32 of La Rochelle’s 59 points against Biarritz last weekend to the delight, no doubt, of Ronan O’Gara and his coaching team. […]
MY LIFE IN RUGBYTHE FORMER BIRMINGHAM- SOLIHULL PLAYER AND COACH WHO WAS ALSO ONCE IN CHARGE OF WORCESTER, STOURBRIDGE AND COVENTRYPHIL MAYNARD WHEN I went […]
By STEFFAN THOMAS Low point: Scarlets thrashed by SaleSCARLETS chairman Simon Muderack has outlined a way out of the Covid-19 crisis for the Welsh regions […]
CHRIS HEWETT IT DOES not require years of detailed analysis from a political theorist to reach the conclusion that Rugby Union has never been much interested […]
JEFF PROBYNA FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Penalty try? Henry Slade’s kock-on prevents Matthieu Jalibert from scoringPICTURE: Getty ImagesIt’s amazing how time and circumstances can […]
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Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools IT can be tough work competing against the great private, fee-paying rugby schools of the […]
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST If you fancy undertaking a basic English language challenge this Sunday morning – it really shouldn’t take long, so you won’t […]
ON THE BLIND SIDE BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler KIRILL YASHENKOV, who is bidding to become president of Rugby Europe, has vowed to […]
NEWS EXTRA By ALEX BYWATER WALES Women’s hopes of turning professional could be dependent on a proposed £300m investment into the Six Nations from CVC […]