All posts tagged "Leicester"
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoFrench starting to believe in miracles
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Those fearful that France have cornered the market in the supernatural will not...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoNo Six Nations overlap as Premiership Fixtures released
Champions Saracens will head to Exeter Chiefs in the opening round of a Premiership season that will see no games clash...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoLeicester squad keeps on growing
Leicester have signed scrum-half Joe Powell, back row Matt Rogerson and fly-half Kieran Wilkinson (pictured) and re-signed lock Mike Williams. Leicester...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoRadwan’s aiming to fly high with Falcons
By BEN JAYCOCK Despite finishing bottom and with relegation set to return in next season’s top flight, Newcastle Falcons winger Adam...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoA man-mountain who needs to be stopped
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Posolo Tuilagi is a force of nature who stands between England U20 and...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 3 years agoMy Life in Rugby with Richard De Carpentier: ‘It felt a bit surreal when I ran out at Murrayfield’
The former England sevens international and Leicester, Worcester, Harlequins and Bath back rower talks about his life in the game When...
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James Harrington
/ 3 years ago90 players in search of a new club
JAMES HARRINGTON | FRENCH COLUMN What links 16 props, 12 hookers, 10 second rows, 15 back rowers, 13 scrum-halves, 11 wingers,...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoEx-Tiger Burns making his way back to Japan
Former England fly-half Freddie Burns is heading back to Japan next season after a spell playing in Super Rugby for the...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 3 years agoCrusaders to the fore in Team of the Season
Ben Jaycock selects his best XV from this season’s Super Rugby Pacific championship The Crusaders’ incredible dynasty continued as they lifted...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoEaling add Collins to list of star recruits
By JON NEWCOMBE EXCLUSIVE Big-spending Ealing Trailfinders have come to the rescue of Tom Collins who had been left high and...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoToulon have No.9 White in their sights
ON THE BLINDSIDE Top 14 giants Toulon are courting a move for Scotland scrum-half Ben White, who has been looking for...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 3 years agoNienaber keeps faith with World Cup stars
By PAUL REES SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH Africa’s squad preparing for the Rugby Championship contains 19 players who were involved in the...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 3 years agoFoster mixes it up with experience and youth
New Zealand have named five debutants in a 36-man squad for the upcoming Rugby Championship. The squad is a mixture of...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoFamiliar faces find some new identities
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Nine New Zealanders, four Australians, a goalkicking Irishman and an English prop are...
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Peter Jackson
/ 3 years agoLimited by a flawed structure
Back in those blessed years when the Heineken Cup often delivered matches of greater passion and technical skill than the Six...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoSo, who is set to fly in under the radar?
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Remember Jean-Marc Doussain’s international debut for France? Probably not. The poor bloke would happily forget it himself,...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 3 years agoMcKenzie makes the difference for Chiefs
Super Rugby Pacific round-up By CAMERON STEPHENS The Chiefs will host the Crusaders in the Super Rugby final next week after...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoCare and Marler return as England World Cup preparation squad announced
Harlequins duo Danny Care and Joe Marler have been named in the England squad for the first time under Steve Borthwick...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoVarndell fears for future generation
By BEN JAYCOCK Tom Varndell says that allowing three Premiership teams to go under this season is ‘completely unforgivable’ and urges...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoNo more excuses: Time to get serious, England
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE… EVERY WEEK AS soon as Steve Borthwick got the England head coach job he will have...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoWhen Kirk took the All Blacks right to the top of the world
Brendan Gallagher begins a series on the star man at each global gathering Being the first in anything often confers iconic...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 3 years agoMy Life in Rugby with Wayne Kilford: ‘Moore told me – The work starts now’
The former Nottingham, Leicester, Coventry and Midlands full-back talks about his life in the game My first captain in senior rugby...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoWe must find a way to stop vicious spiral
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Heaven knows The Rugby Paper has been warning...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoSanderson: We want to improve and not just be one-off wonders
By PAUL REES Sale took their pain to Spain. The day after the Premiership final defeat to Saracens at Twickenham, the...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoSale’s time will come
SARACENS proved they are still ahead of the field with last Saturday’s triumph over Sale, but I back Alex Sanderson’s side...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoHard to see who can catch Saracens
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK It's hard to predict whether this will be the start of a period of...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoTime to call up X-factor reserves
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Where can Steve Borthwick find the X-factor players to take England back to...
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Features
/ 3 years agoSleeping giant that is struggling to wake up
Peter Jackson consults his stats book to see which teams are the best-supported in Europe’s big leagues Crowd pleasers: Leicester Tigers...
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National League 2W
/ 3 years agoLuctonians, Lions share spoils
THE BEST XV FROM THE 2022-23 SEASON Ben Jaycock canvassed the views of our National Two West reporters to compile The...
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News Extra
/ 3 years agoOosthuizen goes home to be a Shark again
NEWS EXTRA SPRINGBOK prop Coenie Oosthuizen will leave Premiership finalists Sale to return to South Africa and re-join URC side the...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 3 years agoFijians on a roll as they race past Reds
Super Rugby Pacific round-up By CAMERON STEPHENS Fijian Drua created history as they booked their spot in the Super Rugby play-offs...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoRoss: Ben good enough to lead England
By JON NEWCOMBE Jono Ross believes Ben Curry has the ability to develop into a top-class captain for both club and...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoHow is decline in crowd numbers good for game?
WHAT has been described by Simon Massie-Taylor as the best season the Premiership has seen, is not shared by the home...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoFarrell in command as Sharks cut down by incisive Saracens
By NICK CAIN Saracens .......................... 35pts Tries: Penalty 20, Malins 34, Daly 67, van Zyl 71 Conversions: Farrell 35, 72 Penalties:...
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Paul Rees
/ 3 years agoSanderson will know that better times are ahead
PAUL REES As Alex Sanderson reflected on what could have been after a Premiership final that yielded 60 points, Sale’s director...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoCarter and Kata sign for Tigers
NEWS EXTRA LEICESTER have signed Ulster second row Sam Carter and Tonga centre Solomone Kata, following his release by Exeter. Both...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoIreland mustn’t copy this breakdown flaw
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER The tumultuous happenings in Dublin last week were...
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English Championship
/ 3 years agoReds should have had a shot at the Prem – Allen
By JON NEWCOMBE Double-winning coach Anthony Allen admits he feels for Jersey after his Cambridge side were allowed to go up...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoSharks can give favourites a fright
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK Alex Sanderson is quality, and that is why he has managed to take Sale...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoLeinster finally pay the price for their cynicism
BRENDAN GALLAGHER Every journo is surely allowed one “told you so” moment in their career and mine arrived last night when...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 3 years agoWiese wins the players’ player gong
NEWS EXTRA Standout: Tigers No.8 Jasper Wiese LEICESTER No.8 Jasper Wiese has been named the Rugby Players’ Association players’ player of...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 3 years agoPowell replaces Cokayne at Quins
LEICESTER have signed England and Harlequins hooker Amy Cokayne for the 2023-24 Premier 15s season.The 26-year-old has won 72 caps for...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 3 years agoSurgery ends Curry’s World Cup dream
Agony: Sale’s Ben Curry SALE Sharks flanker Ben Curry is set to miss the World Cup after being ruled out for...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoSharks deserve far more recognition
BRENDAN GALLAGHER Rugby has its favourites and we in the media are as guilty as any of promoting them above others...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 3 years agoRefs must demand immediate release
Another game, yet another big “jackal” injury, this time it was the unfortunate Ben Curry as he bent low to turnover...
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Club Rugby
/ 3 years agoBarnes fears impact of social media on grassroots referees
Wayne Barnes believes that ignoring social media is the best way for referees to operate, but is also concerned that online...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoSaracens on track for sixth Prem title
By GARY FITZGERALD Mark McCall hailed “outstanding and controlled” Owen Farrell after the England star pulled the strings at StoneX Stadium...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoBattling Saracens seize the moment
By PAUL REES Saracens .......................... 38pts Tries: Maitland 5, 21; van Zyl 29, Penalty 70, Malins 75 Conversions: Farrell 6, 22,...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoRoebuck aims to rise high for Sale
By JON NEWCOMBE PREVIEW... Sale v Leicester Today. Kick-off 3pm, AJ Bell Stadium IN-FORM Sale winger Tom Roebuck hopes to help...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoI’m proud we stuck together, says Leicester’s Montoya
By PAUL REES Julian Montoya, who leads Leicester in today’s Premiership playoff semi-final at Sale, is proud the team stuck together...
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