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Posted 820 days ago
LONDON IRISH have secured the signing of Bath and England centre Shontayne Hape on a two year deal from Bath Rugby.
Shontayne currently features in Martin Johnson’s England squad for the 2011 Six Nations and made his seventh and eighth consecutive test starts against Wales and Italy in the first two rounds of the tournament. He appeared in all of…
Posted 841 days ago
Bath Rugby are delighted to announce that England and Leicester Tigers centre, Dan Hipkiss, will join the club on a two year contract at the end of this season. Currently a member of the England Saxons squad, the 28 year old centre brings with him a wealth of experience, having been capped 13 times for England. He featured heavily during the…
Posted 858 days ago
Another cracking 24 hours in the Heineken Cup leaves Northampton and Leinster as the only two sides definitely through to the quarter-finals, although yesterday and today’s matches certainly tipped the balance in a number of the pools. Rugby World now makes the remaining pool favourites – Pool 3: Munster, Pool 4: Biarritz, Pool 5: Leicester, Pool 6: London Wasps. But…
Posted 863 days ago
The race for the prestigious eight Heineken Cup quarter-final places is entering the final straight – but 11 of the 24 teams in the 2010 / 2011 tournament will still be in elite European club rugby action come April.
While the six Pool winners and two best Pool runners-up will prolong their Heineken Cup adventure into the knock-out stages, the next…
Posted 866 days ago
Bath Rugby welcome Leeds Carnegie to the Recreation Ground on Saturday 8th January, and will be aiming to build on their narrow victory away to London Irish on New Year’s Day, kick-off 2.15pm. Director of Rugby, Ian McGeechan, believes that the hard work going into training is beginning to pay off come game day, and gives credit to the fantastic effort…
Posted 869 days ago
By Paul Morgan, editor of Rugby World Magazine
Well, something had to give here at the Madejski Stadium as two of the sides with the worst recent record in the Aviva Premiership clashed. Going into the game London Irish has lost their last eight games in all competitions since their 39-26 victory over Sale at Madejski Stadium on 31 October.
Bath’s most…
Posted 1245 days ago
By Kate Bamber, Rugby World reader
With the Heineken Cup behind us after two weekends of great rugby, it’s time to don our Santa hats and jingle those bells for the festive round of Guinness Premiership games. Which teams will be on Santa’s winning list and which teams will be banished back to their training grounds with neither a satsuma…
