Best of the Weekend: Edinburgh secure home quarterfinal

- January 21, 2019January 21, 2019

It was simple: Edinburgh had to win. Three clubs' (including Glasgow) quarterfinal chances were riding on this, but the Scotsmen were focused more on getting a seemingly impossible home quarterfinal as well as ensuring a complete Scottish presence in the last 8 alongside the Glasgow Warriors. The match was not

Best of the Weekend: Edinburgh bag historic away win in Toulon

- January 14, 2019January 14, 2019

Okay let’s be honest here, Toulon are pretty awful at the moment, they’re bottom of Pool 5 and 11th in the French Top14. However, on a European night and at the Stade Mayol a lot of people would still be reluctant to back Edinburgh against the former three times Champions.

Best Of The Weekend: England Salvage Pride

- June 25, 2018June 25, 2018

May’s try gives England much needed victory A tour in which English rugby has been given a massive dose of reality finished with a ray of light in Cape Town. Two weeks of errors being repeated and repeated and repeated gave way to a more disciplined and controlled performance in their

Best Of The Weekend: Pressure Builds On Jones

- June 18, 2018June 18, 2018

England’s South Africa tour continues to create problems For the second week in a row, England managed to undo the good work they had done in the early parts of their fixture against South Africa. It is a growing concern that they are unable to react to the way a game

Best Of The Weekend: Springbok Comeback Stuns England

- June 11, 2018June 11, 2018

South Africa lay waste to England’s foundations Watching the opening 20 minutes of England’s opening fixture on their tour to South Africa, you’d have been forgiven for thinking that the clock had reversed and taken you back to late 2016/early 2017. Back then, Eddie Jones’s side were looking to topple the

Best Of The Weekend: Might Of Exeter And Sarries To Collide In Final

- May 21, 2018May 21, 2018

Premiership semis leaves two heavyweights standing The 2018 Premiership semi-finals had a weekend ideally suited to running rugby, with both matches played on a scorching May Saturday. As last week’s European final proved, sometimes knockout rugby can be a little attritional, but the semi-finalists made light of that idea. In the first

Best Of The Weekend: Deano’s Falcons Win At Welford Road

- April 30, 2018

Legendary Tigers coach returns to curse former side Newcastle Falcons made the premiership playoffs for the first time to cap what has been a significant season for the squad. I say ‘cap’… The way that, whilst playing poorly for most of the game, they stole the game in the last play

Best Of The Weekend: Leinster And Racing To Meet In Bilbao Final

- April 23, 2018April 29, 2018

Leinster smash Scarlets, Thomas brilliance leaves too much for Munster to do The semi-finals of the Champions Cup may have had no English participation, but it didn’t lack for interest for the neutral as Leinster kicked off proceedings with a hammering of the hopeful Scarlets. The Welsh region, masters of entertainment,

Best of the Weekend: Saints complete a shock Derby Double

- April 16, 2018April 16, 2018

Saints stun Tigers to get Derby Double On a lovely Saturday afternoon (the 1st in a while), the Northampton Saints spoiled Tigers' party as they beat them 27-21 at Welford Road. Despite a horrible head injury sustained to Captain Rob Horne 18 seconds into the match, the Saints were a determined

Best Of The Weekend: England Consigned To Fifth As Ireland Win Grand Slam

- March 19, 2018March 18, 2018

Twickenham witnesses the cold efficiency of Irish And so the 2018 Six Nations passes into the history books and there will be two notable features when analysing the final table: Ireland won only their third ever Grand Slam and England succumbed to their worst ever finish in the present format. This