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Posted 841 days ago
ANOTHER CRACKING weekend of Aviva Premiership action starts this Friday at Kingston Park, when play-off chasing Harlequins roll into town, without their England players. Leicester meanwhile try to get within one win of another record on Saturday and Gloucester try to emulate their best league run for nine years. London Wasps are on their worst run for nine years, on…
Posted 890 days ago
Thomas Waldrom has been voted the Aviva Premiership Rugby Player of the Month.
The Leicester Tigers number 8 was picked for December by a panel made up of rugby media representatives from print, TV, radio and the photographers.
Rugby World editor Paul Morgan, who chairs the panel, commented: “Since arriving from New Zealand, Thomas has really lived up to his nickname of…
Posted 893 days ago
Sale Sharks Fly Half Charlie Hodgson will be leaving the club at the end of the current season. The 30 year England International and British Lions Tourist will depart after eleven seasons at the Sharks where he has amassed a Premiership record 1,753 points.
Sale Sharks CEO Mick Hogan commented,
“We are naturally disappointed that Charlie has told us that he will…
Posted 893 days ago
By Bea Asprey
After Saturday’s entertaining Midlands derby, Leicester and Northampton must surely be favourites to make the Aviva Premiership final in May – and that’s certainly what the two coaches are gearing up for.
Leicester triumphed 27-16 at Welford Road to stay top of the table but rivals Northampton have two games in hand given the recent postponements caused by bad…
Posted 893 days ago
By Sarah Mockford, Rugby World Features Editor
Leicester remain top of the Aviva Premiership after this hard-fought win over Midlands rivals Northampton at Welford Road.
A few flashes of brilliance from Ben Foden aside, it was a game for the purists with the two packs fiercely competitive both in the set-piece and the breakdown – and it was Leicester’s strength up front…
Posted 895 days ago
London Irish have made one change and two positional changes to the starting XV that played against Bath on New Year’s Day for Sunday’s Aviva Premiership clash with Saracens at Vicarage Road (Kick off 3pm). The changes appear in the back line with Dan Bowden moving from inside centre to fly half replacing Chris Malone who moves to full back as…
Posted 895 days ago
Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter believes his side will have to come out of the blocks firing when they tackle Gloucester in tomorrow’s Aviva Premiership clash at Kingsholm (3pm).
With just one league victory on the road so far this season – that came against Saracens back in late October – the Chiefs will make the relatively short trek up…
Posted 895 days ago
Northampton Director of rugby Jim Mallinder said that the Northampton Saints team will have to play “a lot better than last week” if they are to get a positive result from tomorrow’s East Midlands derby at Welford Road.
The Saints and Leicester lead the way in the Aviva Premiership Rugby league table, with the former’s New Year’s Day loss to Harlequins…
Posted 897 days ago
Leicester Tigers hit the top of the Aviva Premiership Rugby table following their victory at Exeter on Sunday, a spot previously held by the Northampton Saints since round eight, their opponents on Saturday on what is the game of the round. The Tigers have lost only one of their last seven matches in all competitions, while Northampton Saints slipped up…
Posted 918 days ago
Now that Autumn Internationals are no longer dominating the headlines lets take a break and look at results closer to home. The Aviva Premiership A League is in full swing – here are results from the last round of match-play [14 December 2010]. Due to the bad weather some games were still post-poned.
NEWCASTLE FALCONS A PP, NORTHAMPTON WANDERERS PP
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