200px-Aviva_Premiership_logo

What do Exeter Chiefs need to do for a Premiership semi-final...

8 years ago by Exeter Express & Echo

Exeter Chiefs host Sale Sharks on Saturday in their last game of the regular Premiership season with a first-ever semi-final spot tantalisingly close. But what do Rob Baxter’s men have to do at Sandy...

Premiership weekend review: If Leicester play with same ferocity they did to beat Wasps, Northampton will suffer

8 years ago by The Telegraph

It will not matter what sort of side Northampton select on Saturday, if Leicester play with the same simmering intensity and passion as they did in Coventry, then they will be fiendishly difficult to...

Best of the weekend: upsets aplenty set up tantalising final round across Europe

8 years ago by The Rugby Blog

Playoff race goes down to wire as Tigers and Chiefs win against the oddsWell, it’s a good job I’m not a betting man. Or, perhaps more honestly, this weekend showed why in the past I have been a...

Leicester Tigers need to beat Northampton for play-off place...

8 years ago by Leicester Mercury

Leicester Tigers will need to beat local rivals Northampton at Welford Road on Saturday to book their place in the Aviva Premiership play-offs. A place in the top four would have been guaranteed if Exeter...

Northampton must beware Leicester's habit of finding form at just the right time

8 years ago by The Telegraph

A six-try win against London Welsh ensured that Northampton will finish top of the Aviva Premiership this season and secured the advantage of a home tie in the end of season play-offs. Without a rich...

Baxter heaps praise on Waldrom

8 years ago by Belfast Telegraph: Rugby

10 May 2015Waldrom's tries were his 15th and 16th of this season to cement his position as the league's leading try-scorer. Luke Cowan-Dickie was Exeter's other try-scorer with Gareth...

Saints: Job not done yet

8 years ago by Rugby 365

Victory over London Welsh may have secured Northampton Saints top spot in the Premiership for the first time in their history, but Director of Rugby Jim Mallinder admits that feat will mean little unless...

The State of Play: who will finish where in Europe’s domestic leagues?

8 years ago by The Rugby Blog

As we approach the business end of the season, there is still all to play for in Europe’s three primary leagues. We’ve taken a look at how we think things will end up in terms of play-off places,...

Mallinder hails powerful Burrell

8 years ago by Belfast Telegraph: Rugby

09 May 2015Burrell demonstrated all his power against a Welsh side that showed improvement in defence in the first half, conceding just two tries from Lee Dickson and Ahsee Tuala, before...

Clubs set for neighbourly clash

8 years ago by Belfast Telegraph: Rugby

08 May 2015A crowd of 32,600 - Wasps' first full house since relocating from High Wycombe to Coventry in December - will watch a pivotal Aviva Premiership clash between teams who between...