Premiership Rugby News
The England second-row, who chose a new contract at Northampton over a payday abroad, has enjoyed spending time with the family but is now ready for contact in trainingCourtney Lawes has spent the past 14 weeks making the most of the unexpected time he…
Chances of centre continuing international career boostedTuilagi did not accept reduced contract with LeicesterManu Tuilagi can make a straightforward claim against Leicester for compensation and damages after he was stood down by the club, according t…
England internationals have signed new contracts with TigersPremiership play-off final set for 24 October but venue unknownPremiership clubs will resume full training on Monday before the season’s restart next month and the play-off final will be held …
George Skivington had been forwards coach with the ExilesLondon Irish suggest breach of code has occurredLondon Irish insist they will “consider all options” after Gloucester announced the appointment of their forwards coach, George Skivington, as the …
Simon Halliday claims idea has solid supportPlans still fluid ‘but there is a lot of dialogue going on’Simon Halliday hopes a world club championship will start in 2022 following a groundbreaking World Rugby conference this month that involved delegate…
Premiership and European finals pencilled in for OctoberWorld Rugby’s revised international calendar may overlapEnglish and French clubs have put themselves on a war footing in the lead-up to World Rugby next week publishing the revised Test windows fo…
Confusion over contracts, scheduling and the return to training have all added up to create one big mess and the Premiership is struggling to deal with itIf you were to highlight the biggest problem in English club rugby at the moment you would have pl…
PricewaterhouseCoopers to assist season’s resumptionPwC will look at legal issues, risk factors and Covid testingPremiership Rugby has called on the services of PricewaterhouseCoopers to guide its plans to restart the season, the Guardian understands.H…
The man who led the review into the Saracens salary cap scandal says the Premiership must work with players as the realities of post-coronavirus economics start to unfoldThere are weeks – and this has been another one – when rugby union finds itself on…
Clubs feel players’ union has ‘sown division and uncertainty’RPA calls argument a sad day in the history of rugby’A fresh war of words over pay cuts in English rugby has erupted, with the Premiership clubs and the players’ union engaged in a furious sl…
Two successful coaches discuss the grave shortage of BAME backroom staff among England’s Premiership clubsCollin Osborne still wonders why the call to coach representative rugby never came. Osborne worked for Harlequins for more than 20 years, arriving…
Chief executives rather than owners must plot way forward as pandemic forces hard decisions to be made across EuropeLord Myners had it in one in the introduction to his report on the Premiership’s salary cap. “A lack of transparency,” he wrote, “is an …
‘Individuals being pressurised to sign amended contracts’Premiership Rugby seeks agreement for permanent cutsEnglish rugby is facing another serious row, with its players threatening legal action over enforced wage cuts. The Rugby Players Association c…
All 13 clubs vote for reduction for 2021-22 seasonHarlequins hold off contact training to save moneyPremiership rugby clubs have unanimously agreed to reduce the salary cap to £5m for the 2021-22 season, the Guardian understands. All 13 clubs agreed th…
With clubs in crisis in England and the game booming in the Far East, the current trickle of exports may become more of a floodAfter England’s last match, back in March, Eddie Jones was asked to say a few words about George Kruis, whose impending move …