Dupont or Am? They’re both great
JEREMY GUSCOTT I’VE got no complaints with the World Rugby team of the year and Stuart Hogg will be very pleased to have made the side. He’s scored some good…
Ford kicks Tigers to stunning away win
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Bordeaux ……….13ptsTries: Dubie 40 Conversions: Lucu 40 Penalties: Lucu 2, 52 Leicester ……….16ptsTries: Potter 20 Conversions: Ford 21 Penalties: Ford 16, 68, 75EYEBROWS were raised when Steve…
Pity Bears could not cut Scarlets a break
WITH a 13-team Premiership there are going to be free weekends. Looking ahead, Bristol have no game on the weekend of the January 8/9. Surely they could have offered to…
Our best since I joined
FINN Russell had no doubts this impressive victory was Racing’s best since he went to Paris in 2018.“We came here knowing we had to play well and that’s the best…
Maro may have lost but he was star man
WHY do TV’s rugby pundits always give the Man of the Match award only to a player from the winning team?I was a ‘neutral’ watching the Exeter v Saracens game…
Rightly, long-term future of the game is RFU’s priority
IF THE Championship is such a good product as Martin Stonecliffe suggested last week, why does its ability to develop players missed by Premiership Academies depend on the restoration of…
Fabulous Finn puts Saints to the sword
By ROB WILDMAN Northampton ..14ptsTries: Skosan 29, Fraser 48Conversions: Biggar 29, Furbank 49 Racing 92……….45ptsTries: Lauret 8, 42, 64, Imhoff 23, 37 Conversions: Machenaud 9, 23, 42, 64 Penalties: Machenaud…
Eddie makes a U-turn on Itoje
EDDIE Jones has changed his mind on Maro Itoje’s potential as a future England captain, saying he has seen the Saracens lock mature a great deal over the past six…
Privilege to work with them
STEVE Borthwick praised the “magnificent effort” of his team.The Tigers director of rugby said: “When Bordeaux kicked the ball to the corner in that 81st minute, I thought regardless of…
