All posts tagged "Leicester"
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Six Nations
/ 2 years agoMillar Mills on course to emulate his star sisters
By PAUL REES Elliot Millar Mills this week joins up with the Scotland squad to prepare for the Six Nations little...
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Miscellaneous
/ 2 years agoBen for Baa-Baas
Former England scrumhalf Ben Youngs will return to Twickenham with the Barbarians this summer. The most-capped male player and Leicester Tigers...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoPremiership previews: Round 12
After a two-week break for European action, the Premiership is all set for its final round of matches before the Six...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoExeter game is must-win for Saracens – Monye
The last time Saracens finished a Premiership season outside of the top four was in 2009 but after a sluggish start...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoBeard: To get the call was a dream come true
By PAUL REES Oscar Beard missed the call he dared not expect. The Harlequins centre had shut himself in his room...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoLeicester left waiting for spot in knockouts
By ROB WILDMAN Leicester ........................... 10pts Try: Liebenberg 10 Conversions: Pollard 10 Penalty: Pollard 20 Leinster............................. 27pts Tries: McCarthy 28, Larmour...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoMcKellar: We didn’t take our chances
Leicester boss Dan McKellar was frustrated for his players after his side's second successive defeat to a top team in the...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoThe talent is there – now let’s be bold
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK STEVE Borthwick talked of England “turning a corner” when he announced his preliminary...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoSanderson hoping record crowd will inspire Sharks
PREVIEW... Sale v La Rochelle Today. Kick-off 1pm, Salford City Stadium By JON NEWCOMBE ALEX Sanderson wants La Rochelle to feel...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoTough for Falcons as Diamond gets ready
■ By PAUL REES NEWCASTLE’S players will have their fourth boss in less than a year when Steve Diamond starts work...
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Paul Rees
/ 2 years agoBorthwick puts club form at top of his list
SIX NATIONS COUNTDOWN Paul Rees says change will be gradual rather than sudden as teams renew after World Cup THE first...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 2 years agoImproving Tigers eager to break duck at Sale
PREVIEW... Sale v Leicester By BEN JAYCOCK Today. Kick-off 4pm, Chester RUFC LEICESTER are hoping to secure their first ever victory...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoRecall for Ward less than year after giving birth
BRISTOL lock Abbie Ward has been recalled to the England training squad less than a year after giving birth to her...
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National League One
/ 2 years agoLewis hoping to make some big headlines of his own!
By BEN JAYCOCK Dan Lewis believes Leicester Lions have what it takes to beat the drop after their victory over Blackheath...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoGeorgia turn to Cockerill
FORMER England hooker and forwards coach Richard Cockerill has been appointed head coach of Georgia and the nation’s premier club side...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoAll clubs must be able to reach top
JEFF PROBYN SO it’s back to the future with the RFU CEO Bill Sweeney telling the Championship that they either don’t...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoTigers will go to limit
LEICESTER remain against the Premiership’s salary cap increase but will spend to the limit. The cap is set to increase from...
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Schools / Universities
/ 2 years agoSaints are only team to record away win
ACADEMY LEAGUE By TOM JEFFREYS After a four month hiatus, the Premiership U18s league returned to action in the new year...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 2 years agoNoon proud to be top of the hit parade
By BEN JAYCOCK Becky Noon is delighted her dirty work in the engine room is being noticed as the Leicester Tigers...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoCockerill handed Georgia job
Former Leicester Tigers boss and England assistant Richard Cockerill has been named head coach of the Georgian national team and their...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoGeorge to captain England as Feyi-Waboso named in squad
Jamie George has been named England captain as Steve Borthwick handed opportunities to seven uncapped players, including Exeter’s Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, in...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoJenkins takes Welsh captaincy in Six Nations squad announcement
21-year-old Dafydd Jenkins has been handed the Wales captaincy as Warren Gatland named five uncapped players in his Six Nations squad....
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoChampions Cup and Challenge Cup round three Sunday round-up
The third weekend of EPCR action ended with half of the qualification places now decided in each of the Champions Cup...
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English Championship
/ 2 years ago‘RFU deal would cut our funds by 50%’
By JON NEWCOMBE Championship clubs would be nearly 50 per cent worse off in real terms if they agree to the...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoTigers are braced for Porter departure
Leicester Tigers are looking for an outside centre, with Super Rugby sides spying on a move for England international Guy Porter,...
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British and Irish Lions
/ 2 years agoCharismatic Farrell the right choice for Lions
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK ANDY Farrell is a very good choice as Lions head coach of the 2025...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoSaracens have to get it right this time
By PAUL REES PREVIEW... Bordeaux v Saracens Today. Kick-off 5.30pm, Stade Chaban-Delmas SARACENS over the years have been a model of...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoRFU’s sorry failure to respond to flood
While the game in the East Midlands drowns, the RFU lifeboat is in the dry dock with the crew nowhere to...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoMcKellar knows Tigers face massive challenge
By PAUL REES PREVIEW... La Rochelle vLeicester Today. Kick-off 3.15pm, Stade Marcel Deflandre LEICESTER face holders La Rochelle at Stade Marcel...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoStade fail to turn up as Leinster go through paces
By JIM SHORT Leinster............... 43pts Tries: Lowe 18, van der Flier 30, Sheehan 40, Doris 47, 61; Larmour 45, 68, Conversions:...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 years agoToo few actually want to be promoted
Iain Sharpe makes some excellent points (Letters, Jan 7) in taking issue with views on the RFU’s second-tier revamp expressed in...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoNottingham launch bid to raise £50,000 after flooding
By BEN JAYCOCK It's been an unhappy new year for Nottingham as a record flood in the Lady Bay area last...
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Paul Rees
/ 2 years agoWith Smith and Mitchell, there should be fireworks
Paul Rees talks to Topsy Ojo and finds the TV pundit in optimistic mood for both club and country Topsy Ojo...
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Red Roses
/ 2 years agoRed Roses: Connie Powell
RED ROSES HARLEQUINS HOOKER Birthplace: Ipswich Date of birth: 13/07/00 Community club: Sudbury RFC Red Roses debut: 2021 vs USA Caps:...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 2 years agoReed takes charge as Bears put on a show
By STEWART MCCULLOGH Leicester T....... 12pts Tries: Martin 37, Brody 50 Conversions: Gallagher 50 Bristol Bears ...50pts Tries: Wills 19, Varley...
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National League One
/ 2 years agoLions get tamed at the death by visiting Bouchier
By GRAHAM COX Blackheath .....29 Leicester L ......27 A NARROW, but deserved, and much-needed victory for the side who started the...
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National League One
/ 2 years agoBalding backs Mose’s luck to change in close clashes
By EDDIE McATEER Prior to their game against Rosslyn Park, nine of Birmingham Moseley’s 14 games in National One have been...
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National League 2W
/ 2 years agoAdams looks for big home comforts in crucial run-in
By BEN JAYCOCK Newport Salop head coach Bob Adams is hoping history repeats itself this season with the club bottom of...
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Schools / Universities
/ 2 years agoSaints and Bath academy lads top of class
SCHOOLS RUGBY By TOM JEFFREYS As the sevens season approaches and the finest school talent don their academy/national jerseys, 15-a-side school...
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Schools / Universities
/ 2 years agoMapletoft out to build next generation
By BEN JAYCOCK As England’s U20s side prepare for the upcoming Six Nations, head coach Mark Mapletoft insists that the development...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoChampions Cup round three Friday and Saturday preview
The 2023/24 Champions Cup resumes with an eagerly anticipated third round of pool-stage matches. English teams have performed exceptionally well up...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoBorthwick wants to dominate Six Nations
By ADAM HATHAWAY England boss Steve Borthwick has vowed to put his side back on the Six Nations map and leave...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoMcCall: I wouldn’t blame Farrell
By ROB WILDMAN Saracens boss Mark McCall did little last night to dampen the speculation that England captain Owen Farrell is...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoLeicester power too much for Saracens
By ROB WILDMAN Leicester ...........................19pts Tries: Kelly 12, Rogerson 34, Simmons 60 Conversions: Pollard 34, 60 Saracens ...........................10pts Tries: Parton 20...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoChessum and Martin were really ‘up for it’, says McKellar
Leicester boss Dan McKellar paid tribute to his young locks Ollie Chessum and George Martin. The Australian said they were “up...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoTime for Borthwick to put faith in Itoje
nick cain READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK STEVE Borthwick struck a positive note this week when he made it clear...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoMass rotation could end up a crowd killer
The Premiership wants to be taken seriously, but then makes the cardinal error of not taking itself seriously by trashing its...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoMillard backing Gloucester to do some damage
■ By PAUL REES Starts: Jonny May GLOUCESTER are looking for the new year to provide them with a reset after...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoSaints look to Gonzalez
•SALE Sharks want the Curry twins Tom and Ben to commit their long-term futures to the club, but it’s unlikely to...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 2 years agoZachary looking forward to facing her old club
■By BEN JAYCOCK PREVIEW... Exeter v Ealing Today. Kick-off 12.30pm FORMER Exeter Chiefs captain Kate Zackary returns to Sandy Park for...
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