Tag Archives: English Premiership

A late change sees Juan Pablo Estelles playing today for Northampton. The 29-year-old was a last minute replacement due to the withdrawal of Wales’ George North. He is to feature from the bench for today’s match against the Sale Sharks. The fixture is a round three match in the Anglo-Welsh …

The Home Unions of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales are focused on the Six Nations. As such with the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup having completed their regular season fixtures this weekend sees no matches in the Aviva Premiership or Guinness Pro 14. There is still, nonetheless, room for the …

A PladAR success story is now Los Jaguares’ captain. Confirmation out of Argentina is that the national Super Rugby franchise will not be captained by Joaquín Tuculet but, rather, by Pablo Matera. The 24-year-old Matera officially replaced Agustín Creevy as the Jaguares captain today. The change enables Creevy to focus on …

Former US Eagles captain and long-time Saracens star Chris Wyles will retire from rugby at the end of the 2017-18 Aviva Premiership season. Ending weeks of speculation, the 34-year-old confirmed the news on Wednesday. It brings the curtains down on a glittering career than has seen him reach the heights …

The announced of the 2018 Jaguares roster earlier this month revealed that there are big names missing for the upcoming Super Rugby season. Yet overall 26 players from the inaugural season in 2016 remain. The team, however, ought not to be considered as settled. The reason for this is that …

Up and Under is a weekly feature on Americas Rugby News which reviews the best and worst from games involving the Americas teams over the previous week.   UP Uruguay The final hurdle for Uruguay was successfully negotiated. A week before facing Canada in Vancouver Los Teros defeated the Houston …

Federico Torres Giliberti charged into the posts to score a try in the Challenge Cup. Playing for Russian side Enisei-STM the former Pucára winger went over for a first half try. The score came following a solid tackle on former England test fly half Toby Flood. The tackle dislodged the …

Marcelo Bosch scored his 10th Champions Cup career try as Saracens humiliated the Northampton Saints on Saturday. The Aviva Premiership clubs squared-off in a final round fixture in Europe. The Argentine outside center crossed for what the the third try for Saracens. The London-based side went on to score seven tries …

The sixth and final round of the Challenge Cup pool stages takes places this weekend. The round will confirm the Quarter Finals play-off’s for the 2017-2018 competition. The opening match of the round will be Gloucester hosting Pau. The Trinidad & Tobago born Steffon Armitage starts in the back-row while Ignacio …

This weekend marks the final round of the pool stage for the European Champions Cup. It is to confirm which eight clubs are to be the Quarter Finalists. Taking to the field in matches are to be a number of players from the Americas. Below is a preview of those …