Red Roses dominance is bad omen for women’s game (but they’re great to watch) opinion Having beaten Italy 48-0 with 14 players in their Women’s Six Nations opener, it is fair to say England’s Red Roses continue to be one of rugby’s most dominant teams ever. Yes, that makes successive World Cup failures harder to stomach but the England national team are otherwise seemingly unstoppable. However, their impressive win in [...]
Premiership rugby: Saracens make £5m loss and clubs to battle government? latest England’s top-flight Premiership rugby clubs are at loggerheads with the government over the repayment of loans worth over £150m from the Covid-19 pandemic. The first raft of repayments are due imminently, according to the Mail, and clubs are hoping to get repayment dates pushed back. The government is said to have provided low interest loans [...]
English rugby ref body ‘regret’ events that saw Premiership TMO get ‘distracted’ by pundits curious English rugby chiefs have described an incident whereby it looked as if a Television Match Official (TMO) was influenced by TNT Sports commentary as “regrettable”. In the second half of the Premiership match between Saracens and Harlequins, TMO Stuart Terheege was heard stating that his officiating team couldn’t look at a potential foul play incident [...]
Investec Champions Cup Barometer: Saracens up for Spurs repeat March 26, 2024 In the lead up to the 2023-24 Investec Champions Cup Round of 16, City A.M. has put together a barometer in partnership with Investec to assess which teams are hot – and which are not – ahead of April’s knockouts. Team of the week: Saracens, England In one of just two fixtures at the weekend [...]
Red Roses: England will fix Six Nations errors, says captain Packer March 24, 2024 The Red Roses’s centurion captain Marlie Packer insisted her side will fix what went wrong in their Women’s Six Nations opener despite her England side beating Italy 48-0 yesterday having been down a player for 69 minutes. England overcame an 11th minute Sarah Beckett red card for a dangerous rucking move on Italy centre Michela [...]
Premiership Rugby: Saracens dominate and full table after round 13 March 24, 2024 It may have been 54 days between round 12 of the Premiership and round 13 of English rugby’s top-flight but the league returned with a bang across the weekend. Saracens won the battle for London while Leicester Tigers were defeated at home by struggling Gloucester for the first time in 17 years, so here’s what [...]
‘We want to put on a show’: England’s Hannah Botterman on Women’s Six Nations March 22, 2024 The England prop explains why photo shoots can help the Red Roses bloom.
Every single Premiership Rugby match to be broadcast live from next season March 21, 2024 Some matches will continue to be shown on free-to-air channels.
Manu Tuilagi’s England career over as centre agrees to leave Sale for Bayonne March 18, 2024 Tuilagi has agreed a two-year deal with the French club.
Investec Champions Cup Barometer: Munster boosted by Murray move March 18, 2024 In the lead up to the 2023-24 Investec Champions Cup Round of 16, City A.M. has put together a barometer in partnership with Investec to assess which teams are hot – and which are not – ahead of April’s knockouts. Team of the week: Munster, Ireland With almost no competitive club rugby across Europe at [...]