Rugby Union

Northampton won 12 of their 18 games to finish top of the table last season and went on to beat Bath at Twickenham to claim their first title for a decade. But to match that number of victories, they would need to win nine of their 10 remaining league matches …

Exeter are awaiting news on the extent of England winger Immanuel Feyi-Waboso’s shoulder injury. The 22-year-old dislocated his shoulder early in Chiefs’ 28-10 loss at Sale on Saturday. Feyi-Waboso, who has won nine England caps, will not feature in their home Premiership match against Gloucester on Sunday, 29 December. It …

Connacht will play at Mayo GAA’s McHale Park for the first time in the professional era when they take on derby rivals Munster in March. The historic occasion in Castlebar will see the teams compete in an interprovincial United Rugby Championship encounter on Saturday, 29 March. “All the players were …

Ireland and Leinster centre Robbie Henshaw has signed a two-year contract extension with the IRFU until the 2027-28 season. The 31-year-old is one of five players alongside Conor Murray, Cian Healy, Iain Henderson and Peter O’Mahony to have won five Six Nations titles with Ireland. Henshaw has won 77 Test …

Raffi Quirke revealed recently that every autumn his phone’s flashback feature throws up images from 2021, when he scampered in for England’s final try in a dramatic win over world champions South Africa at Twickenham. Relentlessly physical, snappy with his distribution and with a sharp eye for a fringe gap, …

Danny, Chris and Ashy reflect on events at the RFU and the return of the Premiership. Source link

The milestone victory also made an impression on coach Pat Lam, although he was more mindful of getting things right in Friday’s home game against Sale Sharks after the Bears were beaten at Ashton Gate by Exeter Chiefs in last season’s Christmas fixture. Lam said: “We equalled the Saracens 2011 …

Wolfhounds prop Linda Djougang runs from her own half to score a wonderful try in the 33-7 victory over Clovers in the Celtic Challenge Cup opener at Energia Park. Source link

Watch the best of the action from Hampden Park as Glasgow Warriors convincingly beat Edinburgh 33-14 in the first leg of the 1872 Cup to consolidate second place in the United Rugby Championship. Source link

Glasgow Warriors: Rowe; Cancelliere, Jones, S Tuipulotu, Steyn (c); Jordan, Horne; Bhatti, Matthews, Z Fagerson, Brown, Cummings, Miller, M Fagerson, Mann. Replacements: Hiddleston, Sutherland, Schickerling, Samuel, Stewart, Fraser, Dobie, Weir. Edinburgh: Goosen; Graham, Currie, M Tuipulotu, Van der Merwe; Thompson, Price; Schoeman, Ashman, Rae, Sykes, Gilchrist, Ritchie, Crosbie, Bradbury. Replacements: …

Saracens: Daly; Elliott, Cinti, Tompkins, Williams; Burke, Van Zyl; Carre, Dan, Balmain; Itoje, McFarland; Gonzalez, Earl, Willis Replacements: George, Brantingham, Clarey, Wilson, Knight, Simpson, Lozowski, Jackson Sin-bin: Itoje [46] Northampton: Hendy; Freeman, Litchfield, Hutchinson, Ramm; Smith, Mitchell; Iyogun, Langdon, Davison; Lockett, Munga; Coles, Parson, Augustus Replacements: Langdon, Haffar, Millar Mills, …

Sale: Carpenter; Roebuck, R du Preez, James, Reed; Ford, Quirke; Rodd, Cowan-Dickie, Opoku-Fordjour, van Rhyn, Hill, J-L du Preez, B Curry (capt), D du Preez. Replacements: McElroy, McIntyre, John, Bamber, Dugdale, Warr, Nayacalevu, O’Flaherty. Exeter: Wyatt; Feyi-Waboso, Hammersley, Tua, Woodburn; Slade, Townsend; Sio, Frost, Street, Jenkins (capt), Molina, E Roots, …

Newcastle: Redshaw; Radwan, Hearle, Hutchison, Stevenson; Connon, S. Stuart; McCallum, Blamire, Palframan, De Chaves, McDonald, Lockwood, Gordon, Chick (c). Replacements: Fletcher, Rewcastle, Hancock, Van der Walt, Leatherbarrow, O’Sullivan, Wilkinson, O. Spencer. Bath: De Glanville; Cokanasiga, Lawrence, Redpath, Muir; Russell, B. Spencer (c); Van Wyk, Dunn, W. Stuart, Roux, Ewels, Bayliss, …

Defending champions Gloucester-Hartpury delivered a statement 41-12 bonus-point win against league leaders Exeter Chiefs to move level on points at the top of the Premiership Women’s Rugby table. Two tries each from Mia Venner and Pip Hendy and one from Bethan Lewis helped the visitors to 29-0 lead at half-time …

Bristol and England full-back Max Malins is to miss the rest of the season after rupturing his Achilles tendon. The 27-year-old has only played three games for the Bears this season and has been out since early October with a knee injury. Malins had been nearing his return to the …

Edinburgh players and coaches don’t like it when their mentality is questioned, which is fair enough. There’s one way to make those questions redundant, though. And season after season they fail to answer them. On paper, they can win this game, no question. You’d worry about them at 10 and …

Head coach Richie Murphy says he is “bitterly disappointed” as Munster scored a last-gasp try to inflict a fifth defeat in a row on 14-man Ulster. Ulster took the lead through prop Tom O’Toole, who was then shown a red card after Farrell scored the first of his three tries. …

Gloucester: Carreras; Wade, Llewellyn, Atkinson, Hathaway; Anscombe, Williams; Rapava-Ruskin, Blake, Fasogbon; Thomas, Alemanno, Clement, Ludlow, Ackermann Replacements: Singleton, Knight, Gotovtsev, Jordan, Tuisue, Englefield, Harris, Barton Harlequins: Green; Isgro, Beard, Anyanwu, Murley; Smith, Porter; Baxter, Walker, Kerrod; Lamb, Hammond; Cunningham-South, W Evans, Dombrandt Replacements: Riley, Jones, Lewis, Herbst, Chisholm, Care, J …

Saints beat Saracens three times last season on the way to their first title in a decade, including a dramatic 22-20 win in the play-offs, with Sleightholme scoring a try in two of those games. And he already has four in eight appearances this term – plus two against Australia …

Walker was appointed as the WRU performance director in July 2021 and was a strong influence in the first batch of women’s professional contracts awarded later that year. He campaigned alongside former WRU chair Ieuan Evans for governance modernisation, which was passed with a 97% majority at an extraordinary general …