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Posted 76 days ago
FIVE LEAGUE games to go and there are signs that the performance makeover being applied to Kettering RFC is taking effect. An heroic 19-14 win over high-flying Peterborough Lions brought relief for our Save Your Season winners, who are lying in tenth place in Midlands One East.
Posted 190 days ago
WHEN RUGBY World teamed up with Gatorade to launch Save Your Season, we knew we could have adramatic effect on a struggling club’s ability to win rugby matches and climb the table. And that’s precisely what happened, Eton Manor finishing acreditable sixth in London North One last season after we gave them a performance makeover like no other.
What we didn’t…
Posted 374 days ago
By Bea Asprey, Rugby World Writer
In a nutshell
An error-strewn game saw the scores level on penalties til the final quarter of the game, and with Nick Evans showing his human side, missing two penalties during the game, Quins were left playing catch up. Lee Dickson’s try extended the Saints’ lead to make it 15-23, but a Joe Marler try in…
Posted 376 days ago
By Bea Asprey, Rugby World Writer
THE FIRST of this weekend’s Aviva Premiership semi-finals will see Harlequins and Northampton battle it out at the Twickenham Stoop. Neither team has competed in a league final before, but nor are they strangers to knock-out rugby, with both having competed in European finals last season. And having missed out on the latter stages of…
Posted 413 days ago
Lewis Moody may have retired, but there’s a new flanker in his mould making his mark in the East Midlands – at Franklin’s Gardens. Ben Nutley, who turns 20 this month, made his Northampton debut in 2010, but it was at the start of this season that he really announced his arrival.
Posted 476 days ago
WE’RE USED to seeing Ben Foden running around rugby pitches for Northampton and England, but here’s your chance to see him made of food!
To celebrate his new deal with Multipower Sportsfood, the company commissioned acclaimed food artist Prudence Staite to produce a mosaic of Foden made purely from their products – and here’s the video showing how they did it as…
Posted 619 days ago
When Edinburgh visited Franklin’s Gardens for a 2010-11 Heineken Cup pool tie, they were to be brushed aside. Brian Mujati got the ball rolling but then it became the Paul Diggin show, his four tries being a club European record. His finishing class is much in evidence in this highlights video, but one of the tries was rather handed to…
Posted 773 days ago
NORTHAMPTON ARE excited about playing their Heineken Cup semi-final at stadium:mk.
The Saints beat Ulster 23-13 in front of more than 21,000 fans at the home of MK Dons to reach the last four and will return to the venue on Sunday 1 May to play Perpignan.
Northampton captain Dylan Hartley described the atmosphere as “electric” while Stephen Myler, who contributed 13…
Posted 850 days ago
By Paul Morgan, editor of Rugby World Magazine
No English side since Bath in 2002 had gone through the Heineken Cup pool stage unbeaten, that was until Northampton won here in Castres – a remarkable achievement from what is fast becoming a remarkable side, capable of challenging at the top table in European rugby.
I’ve seen the Saints a few times this…
Posted 857 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…
