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Posted 716 days ago
Leeds Carnegie have announced that former player and Academy Manager Diccon Edwards, 38, has agreed to join the club as the Yorkshire side’s new Head Coach on a three year contract.
Edwards, who will succeed Neil Back, re-joins the club from the RFU where he held the position of National Academy Coach and England U20 Assistant Coach. He will officially take…
Posted 744 days ago
Leeds Carnegie Head Coach Neil Back has made five changes to his starting line up for Saturday’s massive game at Northampton Saints.
Three of the changes come in the forwards with skipper Marco Wentzel ruled out with a calf injury. Kearnan Myall moves from the back row to the second row in his final appearance for Leeds before he joins Sale…
Posted 765 days ago
Leeds Carnegie Head Coach Neil Back has been able to name an unchanged 23 man squad for the trip to Wasps.
Skipper Marco Wentzel has not recovered in time from a hamstring injury that ruled him out at the last minute last week for the dramatic win at Newcastle. Steve Thompson will continue to captain the side in the absence of…
Posted 787 days ago
LEEDS CARNEGIE Head Coach Neil Back has made five changes to his side for this Friday’s Aviva Premiership clash with Sales Sharks at Edgeley Park. The majority of the changes come in the front row. Steve Thompson returns from his try-scoring appearance off the bench with England last weekend. Either side of Thompson are Mike MacDonald and Phil Swainston with…
Posted 830 days ago
He’s always fun to talk to, is Hendre Fourie. Never short of a story or two, the Leeds flanker tells a good one about how he first found out he was in the senior England squad. It was May last year, not long after he had done his bit to help Leeds avoid the Premiership drop, and there were mutterings…
Posted 832 days ago
Lock Dominic Barrow has already made his first-team debut for Leeds Carnegie, despite being just 17 years old. He started in the LV= Cup game away to the Scarlets alongside James Craig, and although the young side lost the match 52-13, such exposure is exactly what Barrow will need if he is to impress international selectors.
A senior debut at such…
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 912 days ago
When Tom Biggs was at Leeds Carnegie, he took some time out to chat to Rugby World about relegation, team building, working at a Pea factory and Lionel Richie being his go to for karaoke.
RUGBY WORLD: Many congratulations on your promotion. So how did you all celebrate?
TOM BIGGS: We thought it would come down to the Rotherham game, but then…
Posted 951 days ago
Leeds Carnegie launched their Amlin Challenge Cup Pool 4 bid with a 23-9 opening round win at Bucharest Oaks – now they face the star-studded Stade Français Paris side under the Headingly Carnegie floodlights on Sunday night with Andy Key, the Director of Rugby, relishing the chance to take on one of Europe’s top clubs.
The French capital city club –…
Posted 1237 days ago
By Rugby World reader, Kate Bamber
London Wasps vs Newcastle Falcons
Newcastle have never won in eight previous visits to Adams Park, whilst the Falcons only previous win on Wasps soil was 33-30 at Loftus Road on 11 November 2001. London Wasps have won their last four encounters in all competitions since losing 6-22 at Saracens in the Guinness Premiership on…
