Premiership rugby stays on free-to-air TV in new two-year deal September 30, 2024 Premiership rugby will remain available to terrestrial TV viewers after the league extended its deal with ITV to show seven live matches per season. The two-year agreement ensures the Premiership Final will be shown live on ITV, which will also continue to broadcast a weekly highlights programme. “Premiership Rugby is thrilled to extend our relationship [...]
Premiership Rugby 5 things: Bonus points more vital than ever September 30, 2024 Each Premiership side has now played a match at home and one on the road, so what have we learned from the early rounds of domestic rugby? Well Gloucester’s new attacking style started to reward them with results while Saracens and Bath remained the only unbeaten sides. Here are five talking points from round two. [...]
Argentina can humiliate establishment with Rugby Championship win September 28, 2024 As the Rugby Championship reaches its climax, can Argentina upset the apple cart and topple the Springboks? What constitutes a world class rugby team? Is it World Cup wins alone or is in an era of dominance year in, year out? How about a team with fewer resources than the others going into the final [...]
‘Michael Cheika suits the Premiership, he just gets stuck in’ September 27, 2024 I remember when I was a player at Stade Francais in Paris, Michael Cheika wanting to get involved with training at an authentic level. He got absolutely smashed by former French lock Pascal Papé and Italian legend Sergio Parisse, leaving the Aussie at the bottom of a ruck. “F**k yeah, f**k yeah,” the former Wallabies [...]
Plans submitted for Worcester Warriors redevelopment September 25, 2024 Plans have been submitted to redevelop the former home of Worcester Warriors as part of a bid to revive the defunct Premiership Rugby club. Worcester ceased to be a Premiership club during the 2022-23 season having fallen into administration. But with a new Professional Game Partnership agreed to shape the next eight years of English [...]
Premiership rugby: Saints stunned, Cheika heist and TV deal September 22, 2024 England’s domestic rugby league got under way at the weekend and already there have been shocks, surprises and a couple of predictable outcomes. There’s a new coach at Leicester Tigers in former Australia boss Michael Cheika, and a host of new stars across the 10-team Premiership to look forward to across the season, but what [...]
Bath to win Premiership rugby title, Falcons to finish bottom September 20, 2024 It feels as though Northampton Saints only just lifted the Premiership trophy but we’ve already reached the eve of this year’s campaign. We’ve got a new coach in Leicester Tigers boss Michael Cheika, who I worked with at Stade Francais, and renewed ambitions. And we’ve also got the chance of seeing a sixth different winner [...]
Ed Warner: Seb Coe, Gary Glitter and the most powerful job in sport September 19, 2024 Seb Coe, newly confirmed as one of seven candidates for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), is regarded as a serial vote winner. It wasn’t always thus. Witness his single term in office as the MP for Falmouth and Camborne in Cornwall, ousted by Candy Atherton as Labour swept to power in 1997. [...]
Fans: Ludicrous Premiership rugby ticket costs may price us out September 18, 2024 Rugby fan groups have called on Premiership clubs not to price out supporters with “ludicrously high” tickets. Data collected by City A.M. on the eve of the new season reveals that the average adult ticket for a seat on the half-way line in a club’s main stand costs £74, ranging from £48 at Newcastle Falcons [...]
Ireland confirm replacement for British and Irish Lions coach Farrell September 17, 2024 Simon Easterby will take charge of Ireland’s rugby union team while Andy Farrell is away coaching the British and Irish Lions. Farrell will lead the touring side to Australia next summer for a three-Test series against the Wallabies. It means he will not be able to lead Ireland in the 2025 Guinness Six Nations, where [...]