All posts tagged "Championship"
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWhy restart the Prem?
I’M PUZZLED as to why the Premiership need to finish the season. As Saracens are in the Premiership for season 2019/2020...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoCut again,Sweeney and Jones!
WE are told that the 149 redundancies announced by the RFU will be shared across the the workforce,but there are fears...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSix Premiership players test positive for COVID-19
The Premiership has carried out 804 tests, with a total of ten cases diagnosed
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSaracens conclude agreement with emerging fly-half Manu Vunipola
The cousin of Billy and Mako Vunipola has penned an extension through to 2023
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Features
/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Exeter Chiefs scrum-half Hadyn Thomas
Thomas also played for Gloucester and Bristol but remembers the Championship final drama of ten years ago most
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoScottish to be exiled from Athletic Ground
LONDON Scottish will move away from the home they have shared with Richmond since 1894 at the end of the coming...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoCoach Ward serves up his new all-court game
By NEALE HARVEY Multi-talented: Dave Ward shows off his racket skills NEWLY appointed Ampthill forwards coach Dave Ward is taking an...
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Featured
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: Pat Lam has clear ability to turn Bristol into champions
Resources aside, Lam has built a special culture at Bristol which has progressed from their promotion in 2017
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoManu Tuilagi, George Ford and Ellis Genge in contract stand-off with Leicester
The clock is ticking on Leicester and other Premiership clubs to agree adjusted contracts with their players
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Champions Cup
/ 6 years agoLaporte’s World Club Cup won’t harm Champions Cup, says EPCR chief
EPCR chairman Simon Halliday sees little logical sense in how a World Club Cup could be held every year
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoCharlie Walker explains why he chose Ealing over Premiership offers
The former Harlequins winger also had a year left at Zebre but was impressed by a chat with Ben Ward at...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSaracens captain Brad Barritt to leave club after 12 years
Saracens and Barritt have agreed to terms to allow the centre to see out the 2019-20 season
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Features
/ 6 years agoFrance set to launch their third pro league
WHILE all the talk in England is of contraction and putting the financial squeeze on the Championship, the French Federation have...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoKirwan will add his ferocty to Nottingham cause
By JON NEWCOMBE Excited: Carl Kirwan CARL Kirwan is delighted to be back in the Championship after signing a part-time deal...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoRegrets? Robshaw bows out with a few to mention
By JON NEWCOMBE Champions: Quins lift the title in 2012 PICTURES: Getty Images CHRIS Robshaw says Harlequins’ failure to build a...
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Latest News
/ 6 years ago‘Heartland’ competition will renew old rivalries
By NEALE HARVEY Realist: Jon Sharpe Proposal: Ed Griffiths COVENTRY chairman Jon Sharp says a new ‘Heartland’ competition could provide salvation...
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Features
/ 6 years agoLam has the ability to turn his Bears into champions
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK Spectacular: Semi Radradra playing for Bordeaux PICTURE: Getty Images Iwouldn’t underestimate anything about Pat...
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Features
/ 6 years agoTyro No.10 McBryde ready for battle with the Knights
NEWS EXTRA BILLY McBryde is using Josh Adams as his inspiration as he keeps on working his way north to try...
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Features
/ 6 years agoExpand the Prem to 16 clubs and PRO14 to 20
Expansion: Let the Jaguares join a new PRO20 PICTURE: Getty Images ■ HAVING a global season is all well and good....
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Features
/ 6 years agoShould it really be a ‘Wild West’ shootout?
THEREis no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic has changed much in our lives as well as the sports arena. Rugby has...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBiased Booy must step down
THE administrative shortcomings at the professional end of the game in England have been highlighted by the failure of the Professional...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSaracens sign fly-half Will Hooley after leaving Bedford Blues
15-cap USA international says it was an 'easy decision' to join Saracens
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoEngland lock Maro Itoje pledges his future to Saracens
The Saracens lock has been widely tipped to captain the British & Irish Lions next summer in South Africa
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoGloucester to name George Skivington as their new head coach
London Irish forwards coach set for top job at Premiership rivals
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoTed Hill signs long-term extension with Worcester Warriors
The flanker has signed a further extension to the one he agreed last December
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoBig guns snub call for rugby in summer
By PETER JACKSON Non! Paul Goze THE English and French clubs are refusing to sacrifice their traditional winter game on the...
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Features
/ 6 years agoItoje pledges his future to Saracens
Committed: Maro Itoje. Inset, Will Skelton MARO ITOJE is set to confirm he is staying with Premiership and European champions Saracens...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoKlim latest to join revamped Reds
JERSEY Reds have signed Namibia international wing Lesley Klim ahead of the 2020-21 Championship season. Klim, 25, played twice at the...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoRing-fence could reduce the drain on RFU funding
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Ireally enjoyed last week’s article interviewing Plymouth Albion commercial manager Chris Bentley and his...
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Features
/ 6 years agoDismal England needed radical shake up and Carling delivered
TIME offers up perspective and what has become known as the ‘Carling era’ looks ever more important with the passing years,...
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Features
/ 6 years agoDriven by desire for Bristol’s champagne!
MY LIFEIN RUGBY HAYDN THOMAS THE FORMER EXETER CHIEFS, GLOUCESTER & BRISTOL SCRUM-HALF THE other day we had a 10th anniversary...
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Features
/ 6 years agoRobshaw agrees to stay until season end
TRANSFER WRAP CHRIS Robshaw will finish the remainder of the postponed Premiership season with Harlequins after agreeing a contract extension. The...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoKiss: We have to protect league rugby
By NEALE HARVEY LONDON Irish head coach Les Kiss says World Rugby must not sacrifice league rugby on the altar of...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoAlex aims to conquer England after France
By JON NEWCOMBE Channel-hopper: Alex Lozowski of Saracens skips the tackle of Munster’s Chris Farrell Inset: Chris Ashton PICTURE: Getty Images...
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Features
/ 6 years agoQ&A – Les Kiss: Dec and I have come a long way since our days in an Airbnb
We ask the London Irish head coach about Brentford, the Championship, and the big money outlay last summer paying off
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoEaling Trailfinders confirm signing of Leicester’s Guy Thompson
Thompson's move to Ealing was exclusively revealed by TRP on April 26
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Features
/ 6 years agoHeffernan must wait for move to Prem
OISIN HEFFERNAN has been left in limbo despite this week being named in the Championship team of the season. The Nottingham...
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Features
/ 6 years agoVan Vuuren joins the Trailfinders revamp
Signed: Van Vuuren EALING have continued the massive overhaul of their squad next season by signing Michael van Vuuren from Northampton...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoMoving Six Nations will work – Conrad
By NEALE HARVEY World champ: Conrad Smith playing for the All Blacks PICTURES: Getty Images DOUBLE World Cupwinning ex-All Black Conrad...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoQUIZ ANSWERS from P24:
1. Mike Campbell-Lamerton - 1966 New Zealand; born in Valletta, Malta in 1933. 2. Serge Blanco 3. Ray Gravell (Llanelli, Wales...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoGolden Era ends with Welsh Slam but France are also formidable
Brendan Gallagher continues his expert and authorative look at the history of Rugby Union Power: France before their game against Wales...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoBest spots talent while he waits for Knights to kick off
By JON NEWCOMBE NEW Doncaster signing Mark Best is hoping to give promising young sports stars a leg-up while he waits...
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Guest Blogs
/ 6 years agoHow American Football Grew Out of British Rugby
There’s no question America has borrowed traditions from the British. Even the melody to the national anthem “The Star Spangled Banner”...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoPremiership targets August date for season’s resumption
League organisers outline steps for matchdays to return in week where training resumes
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoBath make splash for Ben Spencer, Will Spencer and Sharks prop
Bath have provided a squad update on the departures, extensions and new signings set to come and go this summer
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Featured
/ 6 years agoQ&A – Brad Mooar: I’m leaving Scarlets with them ready to explode
We ask the outgoing Scarlets head coach about what he's leaving behind in west Wales and his final message to fans
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoHarlequins find tighthead to fill void left by Kyle Sinckler
The Premiership club are set to bolster their front row across all three positions
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoNicky Thomas urged to make Ospreys chance count
Former coach Bernard Jackman believes the Ospreys is a the final chance for Thomas to show his Wales potential, yet to...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Can Emirati riches pump life into fallen giant Beziers?
Glory days of Beziers gave rise to region removed from French rugby's heartland of the south west, writes Brendan Gallagher
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoThe Saracens players who can thrive in the Championship
Neale Harvey discovers the academy graduates now fully integrated within Saracens first team
International Rugby
Will Genia backs the Henry Pollock hype but feels England need to be more fluid
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