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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoExeter Chiefs sign highly-rated centre from Connacht
EXETER Chiefs have completed the signing of Ireland U20 outside centre Sean O’Brien who has agreed to a two-year deal. O’Brien,...
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Features
/ 5 years agoPremiership title race: Heading in to the eye of the storm
Bristol, Exeter, Harlequins and Sale are all set to contest the 2020-21 Premiership knockout stages to be crowned league champions
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoAlex Cuthbert to leave Chiefs and join Ospreys
ALEX CUTHBERT is set to leave Premiership champions Exeter Chiefs when his contract ends in the summer, with the Ospreys set...
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Features
/ 5 years agoBath boss Hooper searches for emergency cover at hooker
BATH boss Stuart Hooper has spent the last week looking for a hooker to join the club until the end of...
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoAmpthill feature: They’re only human… just far stronger and fitter!
Ampthill head coach Paul Turner and captain Billy Johnson are drawing on the pasts of Exeter Chiefs and Worcester to dream...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoRugby Matters: Wigan Warriors gave Union their wake-up call
Brendan Gallagher recalls the illustrious players who shone in the battle of the codes for Wigan Warriors
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoSmall numbers, but big success at Bryanston
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools BRYANSTON is not a venerable institution, it was only founded in...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoShame my dream team won’t grace Olympics
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER APROPOS of almost nothing other than probably having too much time on my hands, it struck me...
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Features
/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Aled Brew: Ko’d by Burger after my World Cup try
After my time at Bath ended, I still had a little bit of fire left in the belly, as they say,...
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Features
/ 5 years agoEngland system is OK, just pick right players!
COLIN BOAG In his column last week, Jeff Probyn bemoaned the deals struck by the RFU and the Premiership to allow...
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Dream Team
/ 5 years agoDream Team: Former Ireland and Sale Sharks hooker Bernard Jackman
Bernard Jackman picks a dream XV based on the best he has played with or against
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Features
/ 5 years agoRoom 101: Plymouth Albion prop Dan Pullinger
ROOM 101 THE PLYMOUTH ALBION PROP TAKES US THROUGH HIS PET HATES FROM THE RUGBY WORLD AND BEYOND 1. Cold dripping showers...
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Features
/ 5 years agoBrown in battle to play again for Quins
RUGBY SHORTS HARLEQUINS full-back Mike Brown will appeal against the length of the ban handed to him following his sending-off against Wasps...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoRichard Hill coming back to England after Rouen stint
FORMER England scrumhalf Richard Hill is leaving French club Rouen because he wants to be nearer to his family in...
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Features
/ 5 years agoCrowley steps up for Azzurri
RUGBY SHORTS BENETTON coach Kieran Crowley has replaced Franco Smith as Italy’s coach. Smith had been in the role since 2019...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoWasps continue shopping spree with 20 stone prop from Scarlets
WASPS have agreed to sign Scarlets prop Pieter Scholtz who moved to South Wales from the Southern Kings last December. Wasps...
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Features
/ 5 years agoPremiership duo banned
RUGBY SHORTS WASPS flanker Ben Morris and Gloucester lock Matias Alemanno have been given three-week bans for dangerous tackles. Morris was...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoNo rules broken this time by Wray, says legal expert
NIGEL Wray broke no rules when he bought a substantial stake in Owen A Farrell Limited, a leading sports lawyer has told...
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Features
/ 5 years agoBig Four: The deciding factors
FIXTURES Sale have the toughest run-in with their three remaining fixtures against the other clubs in the play-off positions. The first...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoLam helps launch the dazzling rise of Samoa
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful What happening...
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Features
/ 5 years agoCHEICK KONE
YOUNG GUNS Warriors so lucky Kone popped up WORCESTER WARRIORS LOCK As the newest member of the Worcester Warriors senior academy, Cheick Kone admits...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoDenny Solomona has talks with Bristol Bears boss Lam
Could the Sale Sharks wing make a cross-Premiership switch to Bristol this summer?
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoBath prop Henry Thomas on his way to join La Rochelle
Henry Thomas is out of contract this summer at Bath
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoRory Sutherland will dodge interest from Worcester Warriors
Sutherland now looks set to either move to the Top 14 or stay in the PRO14
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoMartin Gleeson set to replace Amor with England
Amor's exit at the RFU comes after the union's Six Nations review
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Features
/ 5 years ago‘Wellbeing champion’ at all clubs in England
PREMIERSHIP Rugby is supporting the LooseHeadz Foundation, a mental health charity set up four years ago which aims to have a...
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Features
/ 5 years agoYoung Gun: Harlequins lock George Hammond
Hammond is one of two locks to have emerged at Harlequins this season, going back to England U20s with clubmate Hugh...
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Features
/ 5 years agoSaints give thanks for their feeder school
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools WE have featured the likes of Campion and St Peter’s Gloucester...
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Features
/ 5 years agoWOMEN’S GAME IN FOCUS
WASPS WING Sarah Rendell takes a weekly look at some important women players ELLIE BOATMAN THIS WEEK... Broadcast details for the...
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Features
/ 5 years agoRoom 101: Doncaster Knights flanker Sam Graham
The Doncaster back row selects three of his biggest pet peeves from the rugby world and beyond
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Features
/ 5 years agoHad time of my life at Quins until Deano left
MY LIFEIN RUGBY THE FORMER WORCESTER, NORTHAMPTON, HARLEQUINS, GRENOBLE AND ENGLAND U21S SECOND ROW JAMES PERCIVAL MY experiences in rugby changed me as a...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoRestrict ‘England A’ selection to players aged under 25 | Colin Boag
How best to approach using the revived England A programme for maximum benefit to the elite level
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoPerpignan interested in Harlequins wing Nathan Earle
PERPIGNAN are chasing Harlequins winger Nathan Earle who is out of contract at Twickenham Stoop at the end of the season....
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Features
/ 5 years agoBoyd can’t bear to watch as Saints let chance slip
PAUL REES TALKS TO CHRIS BOYD ABOUT NORTHAMPTON’S FALTERING BID FOR THE PLAY-OFFS After the Saints came lurching in against Gloucester...
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Features
/ 5 years agoProctor: We still believe we can make top four
MATT Proctor was expecting the Premiership to be a slog when he arrived from New Zealand but the All Blacks centre...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoGarish scenes in France enough to send shivers
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...
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Features
/ 5 years agoLions tour cut to three venues
RUGBY SHORTS THE Lions’ schedule for the summer’s tour of South Africa has been amended. The team will play eight matches in...
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Features
/ 5 years agoRed ends Dunn’s race
RUGBY SHORTS BATH hooker Tom Dunn's club season is over after being banned for four weeks for his red card against Bristol....
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Features
/ 5 years agoBrown may yet appeal
RUGBY SHORTS HARLEQUINS are ‘considering their position’ after Mike Brown was given a six-week ban following the first red card of his...
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Features
/ 5 years agoYou need help to ride highs and lows
PAUL REES talks to two Prem stars about the importance of PRL’s Restart charity As Dan Carter approached the end of...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoHarlequins wait on decision from Stormers head coach John Dobson
Stormers boss John Dobson tops Harlequins' three-coach shortlist
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Features
/ 5 years agoHarlequins turning on style now shackles are off
Paul Rees discusses Harlequins' turnaround in fortune as they close in on a semi-final place in the Premiership
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoKiwi prop Josh Iosefa-Scott signs for Exeter Chiefs
A player released by the Highlanders prior to the Super Rugby Aotearoa season
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Features
/ 5 years agoSevens convert Muir earns extended Bath
RUGBY SHORTS WILL Muir has signed a two-year contract at Bath. The 25-year-old winger signed a shortterm deal in August 2020...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoToulon want to tempt Jonathan Joseph to leave The Rec
Could England centre Joseph be set for a move to the Cote d'Azur
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Features
/ 5 years agoWarriors call for Blues back up
RUGBY SHORTS WORCESTER Warriors have signed former Wales prop Scott Andrews on loan from Cardiff Blues until the end of the...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 5 years agoHamish Watson’s inclusion for the Lions makes it a back row treble for Oakham
THE selection of Scotland flanker Hamish Watson for the Lions tour makes him the third Oakham School back row player to...
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Features
/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Alex Davies: My first year at Leeds was the fondest of all
SOMEONE pointed out to me that winning silverware doesn’t happen very often so I can count myself as one of the...
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Features
/ 5 years agoWhy I always find myself rooting against the Irish
COLIN BOAG AsI watched the Champions Cup semi-final between La Rochelle and Leinster, cheering for the French team, it got me wondering why,...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoBattling Bundee Aki can fill Manu void | Jeremy Guscott
Bundee Aki may be the man to go head-to-head with Damian de Allende for the Lions, writes Jerry Guscott













