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Worcester Warriors director of rugby and lead consultant Steve Diamond sat down with the media on Tuesday morning, as he discussed his team’s performance over the course of this new year. The one key line being how the ‘Warriors getting beat by less’ is progress in the eyes of Worcester’s stakeholders. Diamond covered results against […] READ MORE
After last weekend’s huge statement win over Saracens, London Irish face another big test of the side’s resurgence in 2022. In Manchester on Friday night, it is Sale v London Irish who, like Exiles themselves, are well in the mix of things in the Gallagher Premiership. Despite losing Rob Simmons to a knock on the […] READ MORE
BRENTFORD, ENG – The huge London Irish win over the Saracens showed how resilience was needed in a tense local derby match. The Irish historically had trouble beating the Saracens, however, this game was different as the London Irish won in a thriller over the ‘Sarries. Huge London Irish win over the Saracens FULL-TIME: 𝙊𝙊𝙊𝙊𝙊𝙊𝙊𝙊𝙊𝙎𝙃! […] READ MORE
Having seen his team overturn a 15-10 deficit at halftime into a huge win against Bristol Bears in spectacular fashion last Friday night, London Irish assistant coach Brad Davis sat down the media this week ahead of Saturday’s London Derby clash with Saracens and there were two words that came up regularly but could not […] READ MORE
Harlequins have announced that they have signed South African international centre Andre Esterhuizen from Super Rugby’s Sharks. Esterhuizen will join Quins at the start of the 2020/21 Gallagher Premiership season but the length of his contract for the moment remains unknown. The centre has featured in 72 games for the Sharks having made he debut […] READ MORE
Toulon and Wales International scrum-half Rhys Webb is set to leave the club after agreeing to mutually end his contract early, according to reports in his home country. According to Wales Online, Webb has reached an agreement with the Top 14 club to end his stay with French team earlier than expected. The 31-year-old, who […] READ MORE
Scotland have announced that fly-half Finn Russell will no longer participate in the team’s preparations for their Six Nations opener against Ireland after the player was disciplined for a breach of team protocol. A statement which was released on the team’s official Twitter page reads as follows: STATEMENT | Scotland team spokesperson: “Stand-off Finn Russell […] READ MORE
When Eddie Jones announced his 34-man squad for England’s upcoming Six Nations campaign on Monday, there was always going to be a few surprises (as we have very well learnt since his arrival in 2015). With that said, one surprise this time round in Jones’ squad was the inclusion of Wasps young fly-half, Jacob Umaga. […] READ MORE
Leicester Tigers have announced today that Steve Borthwick will become the clubs new head coach from next season. Borthwick joins the Tigers Borthwick, who has seen his involvement within the England coaching set up come to an end at the climax of the current season, will take over the reigns from Geordan Murphy, who will […] READ MORE
After Premiership Rugby’s decision last night to relegated them at the end of the 2019/20 season, Saracens have broken their silence this morning as the club released a statement stating that they ”accept” relegation and ”unreservedly apologise” for the mistakes they have made. Saracens relegation accepted by club The statement which was released on the […] READ MORE
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