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December 17, 2023

Sanderson: Ford and Tuilagi will stay at Sale

ALEX Sanderson is confident England outside-half George Ford will be at Sale next season, along with Manu Tuilagi.

2 mins

Russell: I've come here to win titles

WHILE Henry Arundell has chosen to stay at Racing 92 and turn down a move to Bath, Finn Russell is in no mind that he made the right decision in swapping the Parisian high life for more genteel Somerset surrounds.

4 mins

Henry's French leave wont hold him back

IT’S time for the RFU/Premiership to wake up and go, ‘Wow, what’s wrong with us that a young player with the talent of Henry Arundell can opt out of playing for England by signing a two-year contract with a French Top 14 club like Racing 92?’

5 mins

Gonzalez is enjoying his new lease of life

JUAN Martin Gonzalez proved he is another diamond to come out of the wreckage of London Irish as Saracens ended their two-match losing streak and got their Champions Cup campaign back on the road.

2 mins

Bordeaux put Bears through the mixer

BORDEAUX-Begles confirmed their status as dangerous floaters in this year’s Champions Cup but there was no disgrace in defeat for a very makeshift Bristol Bears.

2 mins

Cardiff push Bath's all-stars to the limit

THIS was a game for the ages, European Rugby at its’ best, with neither side deserving to end up as losers.

2 mins

Quins out to collect another big scalp

FULL of confidence after their brilliant 31-28 win away to Racing 92, Harlequins are now looking to take down another big French team at the Twickenham Stoop today.

3 mins

Lockett's late score has Saints believing

A FEW more thunderous nights like this one and Northampton look assured of keeping hold of Courtney Lawes next season.

2 mins

Hunt is on for next generation of props

FIVE years ago there was a scrum feature in The Rugby Paper which forecast that unless England developed a world class scrum in the year leading up to the 2019 World Cup they would not be world champions.

4 mins

Tenth defeat in a row for battling Falcons

LIONS blindside Emmanuel Tshituka scored two second-half tries as Newcastle were taken back to school by a brutally powerful South African side in Johannesburg.

2 mins

Toulouse’s victory over Quins is top of my list

THE greatest single performance in the Heineken Cup? That’s a tricky one, there have been so many, but when pressed I normally opt for Toulouse’s 51-10 annihilation of Harlequins in the quarter-finals of the 1997-98 competition.

2 mins

Each day was filled with song, fun and laughter

WHEN I hit the last year of High School, my coach at St Peter’s College, the legendary Eric Kohlhase said I wasn’t tall enough to continue playing No.8 but that I’d make a really good front rower, and that set me on the path for higher honours.

6 mins

Gloucester top to deny come out on battling Chiefs

DEFENDING champions GloucesterHartpury thwarted a superb Exeter fightback to maintain their 100 per cent record in a thriller at Sandy Park.

2 mins

Carter earns number one a festive for hosts

CHINNOR put in a mammoth second-half defensive display during a boisterous derby clash to take the National One lead for the first time this season.

2 mins

Championship Is a class competition Hammond

DESPITE the lack of jeopardy at both ends of the Championship, Nottingham head coach Craig Hammond relishes battling the full-time outfits and enjoys the competitiveness of the division.

2 mins

Olympics causing financial headache

THE new cycle of T French senior men's rugby starts here - a month-and-a-half after the 2023 Rugby World Cup ended, and a month-and-ahalf before the 2024 Six Nations kicks off.

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