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Posted 260 days ago
Saracens begin their 2012/13 Aviva Premiership season at Twickenham on Saturday when they face London Irish as part of the London Double Header.
In team news ahead of the game, Chris Ashton makes a Premiership debut for Saracens while Kelly Brown also makes a return from the leg injury that saw him miss the second half of last season. Centre Joel…
Posted 260 days ago
Following a preseason campaign which saw Gloucester secure two victories from three outings, Director of Rugby Nigel Davies has named his first line up of the season, and it’s down to the serious matter of Aviva Premiership Rugby and the visit of the Saints.
Skipper Jim Hamilton is out of the opening fixture after rolling his ankle in training this week…
Posted 270 days ago
DANNY CARE has signed a three year contract extension with Harlequins that will keep him with the current Aviva Premiership champions until the end of the 2015-16 season.
The 25-year-old England scrum half has made 116 appearances for Harlequins since he joined from Leeds Carnegie in 2006 scoring 157 points, including 28 tries. He was a key member of the team…
Posted 284 days ago
JONATHAN MILLS has been confirmed as London Welsh captain for the 2012/13 season.
Mills, 28, led Welsh to Championship success last season and is the Exiles’ longest serving player. He recently signed a new contract with the club.
The back row forward began his London Welsh career with an unbeaten four game loan spell from the Scarlets in January 2007, before making…
Posted 304 days ago
THE LEICESTER back row will be dusting off their tuxedos in anticipation of giving Gavin Henson a dancing lesson at the Kassam Stadium, come September 2, writes Richard Grainger.
For 30-year-old Henson, the lifeline thrown by London Welsh this week may well represent the last chance saloon, and the Premiership new boys must be hoping that the ice cubes stay on…
Posted 312 days ago
By Katie Field, Rugby World writer
RYAN WALKINSHAW is younger and slicker than your average Aviva Premiership chairman but don’t be fooled into thinking he is frivolous or in any way naïve. The 24-year-old Gloucester boss is actually a deep thinker with a wider agenda than rugby and his other sporting business interest, motor racing.
Walkinshaw is passionate about physics and taught…
Posted 319 days ago
LONDON WELSH have belatedly been confirmed as the new boys in England’s rugby master-class. But will they still be there this time next year, asks Richard Grainger.
An old proverb made famous in the 1902 short story The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs, warns: ‘be careful what you wish for’.
For London Welsh, their wish for Premiership rugby became a reality on…
Posted 319 days ago
BATH’S OLLY BARKLEY is still only 30 so is sure to have a good few years left playing professional rugby, but he is already planning for life post-retirement. The centre has set up Elektrik Events and plans to branch out into music and other sports, but for now the focus is on his rugby camps for children aged eight to 16.
So what…
Posted 325 days ago
TOBY BOOTH and Neal Hatley are in unchartered waters as they take on one of the biggest challenges of their lives in Canada: the gruelling 715km Yukon River Quest, in aid of Help for Heroes.
The duo, who are part of Bath’s new coaching team, have been taking part in warm-up exercises over the past week before setting off today in…
Posted 326 days ago
GLOUCESTER RUGBY’S new Director of Rugby, Nigel Davies, was delighted to confirm that Mike Tindall has signed a contract to become a player/ coach at the club next season.
Davies was meeting the media for the first time in his new role having only been at Kingsholm for two weeks. He has hit the ground running and his first key decision…
