Rob Baxter’s Exeter have won nine of their 10 Premiership matches so far this season Gallagher Premiership Venue: Franklin’s Gardens Date: Friday, 28 December Kick-off: 19:45 GMT Coverage: BBC Radio 5 live and local radio; BBC Sport website Premiership leaders Exeter Chiefs have the chance to extend their lead at the top of the table […]
Jono Ross’ Sale are ninth in the Premiership table with four wins from their 10 matches Sale Sharks captain Jono Ross has signed a new deal with the Premiership club until the summer of 2022. The 28-year-old flanker is in his second season with the Sharks and was made captain at the beginning of this […]
Rugby Union Weekly’s team of 2018 It has been a historic year for Ireland, Wales enjoyed a fine run and Scotland showed promise – but England endured a mixed bag of results. Ireland won their third Six Nations title in five years – with what was only their third Grand Slam – then secured a […]
George Kruis (left) and Saracens team-mate Dominic Day have started a business selling CBD Every week, at every Premiership rugby club, players are using cannabis oil products. At Saracens, England international George Kruis and his Wales club-mate Dominic Day take cannabis oils, capsules and balms which they say help “put our bodies back together”. In […]
Freddie Burns’ first-half try gave Bath the lead Gallagher Premiership Wasps (9) 14 Try: Young Pens: Searle 3 Bath (14) 24 Try: Burns, Chudley Con: Burns Pens: Burns 4 Fly-half Freddie Burns scored 19 points as Bath won 24-14 at Wasps to climb into the top six in the Premiership. Burns’ boot ticked the scoreboard […]
Harry Williams scored the second of Exeter’s four tries in their win over champions Saracens Gallagher Premiership Exeter (10) 31 Tries: Cowan-Dickie, Williams, Penalty, Kvesic Cons: Steenson 2, J Simmonds Pen: Steenson Saracens (6) 13 Try: Spencer Con: Farrell Pens: Farrell 2 Exeter ended Saracens’ 22-game unbeaten run and replaced them at the top of […]
Dan Biggar has scored 102 points in 12 games for Northampton Saints since joining the club Gallagher Premiership Worcester (3) 6 Pens: Weir 2 Northampton (12) 32 Tries: Reinach, Burrell Cons: Francis, Biggar Pens: Biggar 6 Dan Biggar kicked six penalties for Northampton Saints as they comfortably won away at Worcester Warriors. The visitors led […]
Scarratt captained Team GB Women’s Sevens at the Rio 2016 Olympics Emily Scarratt, team GB Women’s Sevens captain at the Rio 2016 Olympics, is leaving the England Rugby Sevens programme to play 15-a-side rugby. She joins new club Loughborough Lightning with immediate effect. Scarratt, 28, is among the first three players to be awarded a […]
Players like Lima Sopoaga and Maro Itoje make the Premiership an enticing investment, but a hike in salaries is not expected Premiership Rugby has moved into a “new era” after a deal was concluded for private equity firm CVC Capital Partners to invest more than £200m. CVC have bought a minority shareholding, understood to be […]
Geordan Murphy’s Leicester have lost eight consecutive matches in all competitions Premiership club Leicester Tigers have appointed interim boss Geordan Murphy as their head coach. The 40-year-old, who won eight league titles with Tigers as a player, had been in caretaker charge since Matt O’Connor’s sacking on 3 September. The ex-Ireland and British and Irish […]