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WOMEN’S GAME IN FOCUS LOUGHBOROUGH LIGHTNING BACK-ROW Sarah Rendell takes a weekly look at some important women players THIS WEEK... Loughborough Lightning are...

Michele off to France

ITALY centre Michele Campagnaro, 28, will leave Harlequins at the end of the season to join French Pro D2 side Colomiers....

Exiles prop cops three

LONDON Irish prop Will Goodrick-Clarke has been banned for three weeks after being sent off in last week’s Challenge Cup win...

Saracen Tompkins

WALES centre Nick Tompkins has returned to Championship side Saracens from his loan spell with PRO14 club Dragons. The 26-year-old scored...

Hill’s happy among best of part-timers

By LUKE JARMYN Thriving: Jesse Liston offloads to Kurt Schonert in Richmond’s win over Jersey PICTURES: Dante K Photography RICHMOND director...

Free-flowing Fisher put an emphasis on speed

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools JOHN Fisher School might have been founded as recently as 1929...

Right wing’s king for Kiwis

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER I WAS struck by an interesting tweet this week from respected New Zealand rugby journo Jim Keyes...

Lee was the heart and soul of Sevenoaks rugby

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A BELATED hat tip and farewell to an old rugby colleague – Lee Adamson – from Reigate...

Six Nations’ treatment of Spain blights game

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER THERE has been much debate this week about...

McCarthy pumped for wrestle with Lions

Daniel Gallan talks to Bedford captain Seán McCarthy ahead of today’s Sarries clash Like so many of us, Seán McCarthy had...

Preview: Bath boys primed for Championhip debuts for Coventry

COVENTRY have added two more promising players from the Premiership ahead of today’s match against Ampthill. Director of rugby Rowland Winter...

Preview: McCall brings in heavies to avoid more slip-ups

MARK McCall has named a side with almost 400 Test caps admitting Saracens cannot afford another slipup if they are to...

Jersey 10-22 Doncaster: Knights weather the early storm to ride for victory

Steve Boden's men keep up their strong start to the Championship season, but he saw some faults in their win over...

Cornish Pirates 10-38 Ealing: Six-hitting Trailfinders get ready for Sarries

Sin bins to Tom Duncan and Shae Tucker open up room for Trailfinders to score two tries in bonus point win

Hartpury 15-13 Nottingham: Max is the hero for Hartpury with last-play winner

Nottingham let their lead slip in the final minute as first win of the season eludes Midlanders at the Alpas Arena

Harlequins get away with letting Europe down again | Peter Jackson

HARLEQUINS’ Champions Cup went belly-up from the start, a pointless sortie to Thomond Park yielding little more than three yellow cards,...

Team Wales casts long shadow over regions

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The newly-enthroned international champions of Europe are having to spend the weekend on their...

Cullen in his pomp was poetry in motion

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby‘s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful What’s happening...

Israel Folau row looks set for re-run in Tonga | Chris Hewett

Folau's journey into cyberspace should inhibit any return to Test rugby, after recent comments by Tonga's head coach that he would...

Gourdon proves big is not the best policy | Chris Hewett

Rugby's struggles with David and Goliath statures for forwards can often by a headscratcher, writes Chris Hewett

Italy 3-67 England: Nine-try England book date in final

Italy played their best rugby in years in a first half which England still managed to score two tries in, before...

Wales 0-45 Ireland: Woeful Wales ship seven in Arms Park demolition job

Wales overwhelmed by Ireland to suffer second-successive heavy defeat in the Six Nations

Less can be more for rugby insists Hogan

Should seismic reform to place in the Premiership? A reduction in the number of games would be a good start, says...

Evaluating how ready the Springboks are for the Lions

NICK CAIN EVALUATES THE SPRINGBOKS PREPARATION FOR THE UPCOMING LIONS SERIES WHEN Faf de Klerk was buried by a brutal Jake Ball...

Long-serving Henry Trinder to leave Gloucester

LONG-SERVING Gloucester centre Henry Trinder has left Kingsholm to kick-start his career with French club Vannes on a deal until the...

Sale miss out in pursuit of Nick Schonert from Premiership rivals Worcester

SALE SHARKS are believed to have failed in a bid to land Worcester Warriors tighthead Nick Schonert on a deal for...

Thomas looks to France

ON THE BLIND SIDE Move: Henry Thomas HENRY THOMAS, the former England international tighthead, looks set to leave Bath to move...

Saracens gather all their on-loan stars back in the fold

Saracens head coach Mark McCall reveals the likelihood of having Nick Isiekwe and Ben Earl back at the club next season

Jeremy Jordaan may quit Agen for Newcastle Falcons

Dean Richards offers South African lock way out of Top 14 basement boys Agen

Wasps coach Martin Gleeson free for England call-up

What would Gleeson's appointment mean for current England attack coach Simon Amor?

Room 101: Saracens and Red Roses legend Rocky Clark

The veteran prop offers her three biggest pet peeves from the rugby world and beyond

Brentford base will attract new recruits to London Irish says Les Kiss

The club's new groundshare with Brentford FC shows the Exiles are going places with its ability to attract players to help...

Phipps: Premiership is like big game of chess

Nick Phipps admits to being proven wrong about the misconceptions Down Under has of the Premiership

Regions should not suffer for their service to country | Shane Williams

WALES’ four regions were conspicuous by their absence in Europe this weekend. To not even have one of our professional sides...

Benetton denied in the final frantic moments

Montpellier....31 Benetton ........25 A TREMENDOUS defensive effort in the closing minutes saw Montpellier book their place in the semi-finals after back...

Northampton 27-35 Ulster: Even battling Ludlam can’t drag Saints home

Nick Isiekwe and David Ribbans sin-bins cost Saints dear at Franklin's Gardens

Hooper: Cameron Redpath has grown so much

Redpath answered every question asked by Hooper in his comeback from injury

Bath 26-13 London Irish: Zach Mercer the man as Bath flex muscles

Bath remain in the hunt for their first trophy in 13 years

Newcastle not at the races admits Dean Richards

Dean Richards offers his thoughts on Falcons 39-15 loss to Leicester Tigers

Leicester 39-15 Newcastle: Tigers’ too powerful for 12-man Falcons

Newcastle fall to the grunt of Tigers' forwards pack, following a chaotic finish that saw Falcons reduced to 12 men

Time to get the rules right over TV replays | Nick Cain

THE confused protocols surrounding camera angles, TV match directors, referees, and TMOs have been a contentious area throughout the professional era....

Skelton: It’s like being at Sarries

WILL Skelton believes La Rochelle have what it takes to be crowned champions of Europe after the giant lock helped his...

La Rochelle 45-21 Sale: Sharks are handed a painful French lesson

Victor Vito and Raymond Rhule show their genius to put Sale under the pump

Lions face six weeks in just one city bubble

THE Lions may be forced to spend virtually their entire six weeks in South Africa confined to the same bio-secure bubble...

Now RFU must sack Eddie’s ‘yes men’, says Bracken

THE RFU must ensure Eddie Jones ditches some of his backroom staff ‘yes men’ if they do decide to stick with...

Pandemic sees even champs Exeter suffer loss

By SAMUEL JACKSON PREMIERSHIP and European champions Exeter Chiefs have recorded a pretax loss of £2.26m after being “significantly impacted” by...

Captain Sarah Hunter returns to England starting line-up

Hunter will form a completely new back row selected by head coach Simon Middleton for the trip to Italy

Jake Ball evades citing for contact with Faf de Klerk

The ball was deemed to be out at the ruck by referee Mathieu Raynal when Ball charged into de Klerk

Exeter Chiefs turnover falls by almost £5m in published financial statement

Tony Rowe and Rob Baxter have spoken about Exeter's loss-making performance for the financial year ending June 2020

Unattached Israel Folau offered route back to Test rugby by Tonga

Could the disgraced Wallabies full-back be on his way back to union?