This season has shown that a ringfenced Premiership does not necessarily guarantee opportunities for youngsters. Just last month, Conor O’Shea, the Rugby Football Union’s director of performance,…

All of this poses an interesting follow-up question – could blocks of away fans be the future for rugby? Rugby has always prided itself on meshing fans…

I thought Harlequins were really good against London Irish on Sunday with all their England internationals back, and if they can take that high-tempo game to Montpellier…

Collecting Billy Twelvetrees’ goal-line dropout, Dan Robson set himself and from 45 metres connected sweetly with a drop goal attempt to give Wasps the lead at Kingsholm….

It feels almost sacrilegious to ask the question but in the light of their salary cap crunch it is worth considering whether Bristol Bears are getting value…

Given one of Skivington’s main objectives when taking over at Kingsholm was making Gloucester a feared pack again, he seems to already be succeeding. The fact that…

An explosive, scuttling runner, he has a gait similar to Marcus Watson, the slightly stockier elder brother of Anthony. Cleaves is electric, and full of promise. Against…

All in all, Farrell’s return would have been encouraging for both Mark McCall and Eddie Jones. He will improve, too. You sense England find themselves in a…

All in all, Farrell’s return would have been encouraging for both Mark McCall and Eddie Jones. He will improve, too. You sense England find themselves in a…

Faf de Klerk proved he is human after all in this humdinger of a game. The scrum-half hardly putting a foot wrong when he inspired South Africa…

All attention returns to the Premiership this weekend with the Six Nations over for another year.  Over the course of the season so far, who has been…

Stuck in the dark ages. That was the damning verdict of Joe Marler, the England prop. Commercial commitments ensure it is usually a rare occurrence for any…

There has been a lot of talk this week about the two Championship sides being denied promotion to the Gallagher Premiership because they don’t meet the criteria…

After rapidly and curiously tumbling down the Bristol pecking order, Nathan Hughes has made an all-action beginning to his loan spell at Bath. There were robust tackles…

Stuck in the dark ages. That was the damning verdict of Joe Marler, the England prop. Commercial commitments ensure it is usually a rare occurrence for any…

Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall has returned to the club and will be in charge for Saturday’s top-two clash with Leicester Tigers after a month away…

Guy Thompson, the former Wasps and Leicester back-row now at Jersey, added: “This is a really poor decision. Greedy owners that want to keep a monopoly on…

It has been a long-term aim of several Premiership clubs to turn the A League into the second tier of English rugby at the expense of the…

“Through this new platform, we want to create a deeper relationship with our current fans, who have asked us for this service and make the game as…

Sale Sharks 35 Leicester Tigers 25 You do not often see rugby players remonstrate after being substituted, but Freddie Burns made his views clearly known when he…

Not to be outdone, Gloucester wing Santiago Carreras was the beneficiary of a long pass from Hastings to go over in the corner. When Hastings kicked a…

Saracens have announced that Mark McCall, the club’s long-standing director of rugby, will be taking a medically-recommended short break from his role. The news comes as a…

“We’re beating 99.8 per cent of the 36,000 fans taking part, and outperforming all other public prediction algorithms,” Tozer says. “We also run the model at international…

“We’re beating 99.8 per cent of the 36,000 fans taking part, and outperforming all other public prediction algorithms,” Tozer says. “We also run the model at international…