Four matches into the season and the Guinness Premiership is starting to take shape. The two teams at the top of the league, Sale and Bath are the ones who have taken two different but effective approaches to the introduction of the ELVs.
This weekend, Sale were expected by many to have their first stern [...]
Having predicted six Home wins by very small margins, typically there were one or two unexpected results in the weekend’s Guinness Premiership action.
Friday night saw Wasps end their unbeaten run by defeating Leicester Tigers at Welford Road - normally a feat achieved by few teams and only if they are at the top of their [...]
Friday evening sees the start of a packed schedule of Guinness Premiership rugby over the next eight days, and as always, there are some potentially brilliant clashes.
Leicester and Wasps meet at Welford Road, each with a 100% record so far this season. Danny Cipriani has been making headlines about his possible return to action, [...]
It seems that Tana Umaga’s position as coach of French Top 14 club Toulon is becoming increasingly unstable. According to reports, the former All Blacks captain is in line to be replaced by John Connolly, who used to be in charge of the Australian national team.
Connolly is understood to be heading to Europe this [...]
Height: 1.81m (5′ 10”)
Weight: 93kg (14st 10 lbs)
Date of Birth: 29th March 1987 (age 21)
Birthplace: Wigan, Greater Manchester
Chris Ashton is a rugby league convert plying his trade for newly-promoted Northampton. This 21-year-old try-scoring dynamo is a great hope for English rugby union going into the new Johnson era.
Ashton’s rugby calibre seems to be in [...]
No-one can defy the laws of gravity. What goes up must come down. For the last half decade it seemed that Wasps couldn’t stop winning when it mattered most.
Well, it matters right now and they can’t seem to find a way to win. Their self-proclaimed mission was to “define an era” – they’ve been [...]
After three rounds in the SuperBru Guinness Premiership predictions league, here is a snapshot of the Top 10 in The Rugby Blog’s leaderboard.
Resident GP expert Jon Hobbs (aka Spike) seems to be faring pretty well, just half a point behind ‘Wayne’. Interestingly, he’s a Wasps fan so may even have been predicting their demise!
It’s [...]
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