To pull wild mountain thyme, all around the bloomin’ heather.” The lyrics of this age-old Scottish stanza give you a real ...

JONATHAN PENDLEBURY, THE FORMER ROTHERHAM, GLOUCESTER AND LEEDS SECOND ROW WHO IS NOW ENGLAND U18S HEAD COACH, CHOOSES THE ...

Fin Smith and his Northampton teammates will sit down tomorrow as coaches Sam Vesty and Phil Dowson unveil their plan to ...

Gloucester are losing 19 players next month, but George Skivington expects to have a bigger squad next season for the same ...

By PAUL REES PREVIEW... Harlequins v Exeter Chiefs Today. Kick-off 3pm, Twickenham Stoop Flyer: Paul Brown-Bampoe scoring ...

GLOUCESTER are a proper rugby club, determined to run themselves properly. That much was made clear by their chairman, Martin ...

By PAUL REES Bath .................................... 43pts Tries: Spencer 4, Obano 20, Roux 37, Dunn 47, Stuart 66, ...

THE rebranding this week of England’s second professional league as Champ Rugby could be a game-changer in English club rugby ...

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points SO NEXT week in Cardiff will be the 30th ...

Taylor 7, Carter 45, Bailey 61 Conversions: Elswood 62 Lancashire ...... 24pts Tries: Turner 16, Stott 26, Clayton 29 ...

By SIMON THOMAS Sharks ................................12pts Penalties: Masuku 39, Fassi 52, 69, 80 Scarlets ................

By JOHN RILEY Zebre ...............12 Connacht ........22 JJ HANRAHAN stole the show as Connacht concluded an underwhelming ...