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Posted 6 days ago
By Bea Asprey, Rugby World Writer
THE FIRST of this weekend’s Aviva Premiership semi-finals will see Harlequins and Northampton battle it out at the Twickenham Stoop. Neither team has competed in a league final before, but nor are they strangers to knock-out rugby, with both having competed in European finals last season. And having missed out on the latter stages of…
Posted 6 days ago
By Sarah Mockford, Rugby World Features Editor
WELFORD ROAD will hold no fear for Saracens when they play Leicester in the second of the Aviva Premiership semi-finals on Saturday. After all, the defending English champions have won on their last three visits to the ground, including a 50-25 thumping of the Tigers when they met earlier in the season.
However, the Leicester…
Posted 7 days ago
STUART LANCASTER has included 13 uncapped players in his 42-man England squad to tour South Africa in June.
Harlequins back-rower Chris Robshaw will again captain England on the five-match tour, which includes three Tests against the Springboks.
The 13 uncapped players in the squad include Wasps lock Joe Launchbury and wing Christian Wade, London Irish centre Jonathan Joseph and Leicester hooker Tom…
Posted 8 days ago
By Paul Williams
RUGBY’S LAWS, or more precisely the changing of those laws, have become a familiar subject for any rugby fan. Indeed, regular debate of the game’s laws are at the centre of any self-respecting rugby club conversation. It’s usually neatly sandwiched in between choosing your ‘All-time XV’ or selecting an immensely biased Lions team.
This season’s undoubted hot topic has…
Posted 8 days ago
ENGLAND CAPTAIN Chris Robshaw’s successful year continued when he was named Aviva Player of the Season at the Aviva Premiership Rugby Awards in London.
The Harlequins back-rower led his club to top spot in the Aviva Premiership table at the end of the regular season and his side now host Northampton in the semi-finals on Saturday afternoon at the Stoop. Robshaw,…
Posted 9 days ago
THE FOG on the Tyne, made thicker by Newcastle’s failure to take a bonus point win from Wasps on Saturday, has lifted somewhat this morning with news from west of the Tamar, writes Richard Grainger.
With a defence that was about as effective as Network Rail on a wet bank holiday, Bristol conceded five second half tries at the Mennaye Field…
Posted 10 days ago
England’s Mathew Turner was today shortlisted as a contender for the IRB International Sevens Player of the Year award.
The former Bristol wing faces competition from two New Zealanders – half back Tomasi Cama and wing Frank Halai – for the accolade, which will be presented after the ninth and final leg of this season’s HSBC Sevens World Series at Twickenham…
Posted 12 days ago
RUGBY WORLD: What’s your favourite joke?
GEORGE CHUTER: Two fish are in a tank. One says to the other, “Do you know how to drive this thing?”
RW: Do you have any nicknames?
GC: Big Guy, Ace. Not really – it’s more Big Nose and Hooter.
Posted 14 days ago
THE CAMBRIDGE school win their first Team of the Month award, their Daily Mail-RBS U18 Vase win bringing the curtain down on one of their greatest seasons.
The side, based on the one that won the U15 Vase in 2009, won 17 games and lost just two – one when understrength in the Daily Mail Cup to Cambridge’s Hills Road VIth…
Posted 14 days ago
By Gavin Mortimer
TWO ROUNDS of the Top 14 to go and down at the foot of the table it’s looking tight. Lyon are doomed, that much is sure, even though the club clearly doesn’t intend to hang around too long in Division Two. Last month they announced the signings of Lionel Nallet and Sebastien Chabal which, along with the probable…
