Premiership Rugby News
Lack of clarity about what will happen at the end of the season is unfair to clubs, players and spectatorsAnyone who watched the Premiership game between London Irish and Leicester on Sunday would have been struck by a few things. The first was the ven…
Harlequins 3-33 ExeterSimmonds scores three tries in inspired displayIf double champions are there to be shot at, no one told Harlequins. No one told Exeter. It feels as if there has been no off-season at all, so familiar and complete was this latest C…
Emails and bank statements will also be examined this seasonChampions will be subjected to a ‘forensic’ extended auditPremiership Rugby will have access to WhatsApp messages as well as players’ bank statements and tax returns following the introduction…
Coaches may have scant scope to change in a season like no other, and Exeter will take some stoppingOut with the old and in with the new. It has been more of a post-season than a pre-season for most Premiership players with the 2020–21 campaign startin…
Domestic rugby’s return feels more like the resumption of a tennis match after rain than a whole new seasonLess than a month after the conclusion of the 2019-20 Premiership season, English domestic rugby cranks itself up again this weekend for the star…
Leicester’s director of rugby leaves by mutual consentMurphy ‘most proud’ of respect earned from teammatesGeordan Murphy has left Leicester with immediate effect a year before his contract was due to expire. The director of rugby’s departure, which the…
Plans for new Premiership season plunged into disarrayLeicester’s international players not thought to be affectedLeicester’s preparations for the new Premiership season have been plunged into disarray after a Covid-19 outbreak forced the Tigers to shu…