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Posted 840 days ago
The 25-year-old prop joins the Saints from Gloucester, where he has played for the last two seasons. Comfortable on either side of the scrum, Doran-Jones was capped by England in the 2009 Autumn Internationals and is in the England Elite Playing Squad currently preparing for the Six Nations. A member of England’s touring party last summer, Doran-Jones has also played…
Posted 846 days ago
Andy Hazell is Gloucester born and bred and a one club man and it’s going to stay that way as the openside flanker has agreed a new deal to stay at Kingsholm. The longest serving member of the Gloucester Rugby squad, Hazell has enjoyed a glittering club career as well as winning seven caps for England.
Originally signed for the club…
Posted 846 days ago
We head back to the Aviva Premiership, and back in the capable hands of Scott Quinnell who visits Gloucester to take them on in the Crossbar Challenge. Can Scott go 2-1 up in the series? Or will the country boys give him a run for his money?
Posted 846 days ago
The balance of power in Scotland’s famous McLaren/Lawson rugby family has shifted. The late, great broadcaster Bill McLaren and his son-in-law Alan Lawson – owner of 15 Scotland caps – vied for top billing for years. But Alan’s son Rory has now upped the ante by captaining Scotland to two wins.
Rory had overhauled his dad’s total of caps back…
Posted 855 days ago
Harlequins will need a point from next week’s home clash with Bayonne after hammering I Cavalieri Estra on Ugo Monye’s 150th appearance for the club. Exeter and Gloucester stayed in the hunt for a place in the quarter-finals. Click here for every result.
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POOL 1
I Cavalieri Estra 16 Harlequins 48
HT: 6-20 Attendance: 3,700
I Cavalieri Estra: Try…
Posted 864 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 864 days ago
David Attwood, the Gloucester Rugby player appeared before an independent Disciplinary Hearing in Dublin on Thursday, 6 January s a result of the citing complaint arising from the Amlin Challenge Cup Pool 5 match against La Rochelle at Kingsholm on Sunday, 19 December, and was banned.
The citing complaint made by the Citing Commissioner for the match, Tom McCormack (Ireland), was…
Posted 865 days ago
Once roared on by the notorious Gloucester ‘Shed’ this weekend Exeter Chiefs scrum-half Haydn Thomas will return to Kingsholm aiming to inflict misery on his former club for the second time this season.
The 28-year-old half-back, who spent two seasons with the Cherry & Whites after joining in 2005 from Exeter, is back on familiar soil as the Chiefs look to…
Posted 1242 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…
