European rugby chiefs are driving plans to create a Club World Cup to be played every four years involving eight teams from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres but English officials insist that nothing has been signed or agreed. The Club World Cup is understood to be driven by Mark McCaffery, formerly in charge of Premiership Read More …
La Rochelle boss Ronan O’Gara has admitted captain Victor Vito is in a “massive race against time” to face Leinster in Saturday’s Heineken Champions Cup final in Marseille and is looking at using a hurling glove to allow another All Black Tawera Kerr-Barlow to play despite two broken bones in a hand. Vito, who would Read More …
AJ McGinty, the Sale Sharks outside half, is going to use his experience as a New York bar tender to help deal with the unique atmosphere created at the indoor La Defense arena in Paris against the superstars of Racing 92 in the Heineken Champions Cup quarter-final. Sale have employed lasers and smoke machines allied Read More …
Alex Sanderson, the Sale director of rugby, is not afraid of breaking new ground in a bid to give his team a winning edge and has turned to one of the world’s leading neuropsychologists in a bid to overturn a one point deficit in their Heineken Champions Cup second leg against Bristol on Friday night. Read More …
Alex Goode, the European Player of the Year, believes the constant criticism and claims of salary cap breaches has helped turn Saracens into triple Heineken Cup champions. Saracens defeated Leinster 20-10 in Newcastle, a win that confirmed their status as the best club team in Europe and Goode’s personal award only increased questions about why Read More …
Maro Itoje has set his sights on another Heineken Cup and Premiership double after helping Saracens outmuscle Leinster to become European Champions at St James’ Park. Itoje was yellow carded and saw Leinster move into a 10-0 lead but insisted his 10 minutes off the pitch was “ all part of the master plan” which Read More …
