The Saints Stand-out stand-off He helped himself to 18 points in a 28-16 victory, controlled the tactics and tempo with a superb kicking game and won the Peter Deakin Medal…
Glasgow Warriors
Guinness Pro12 final preview: Glasgow Warriors v Munster
WE ALL want a free-running Guinness Pro12 final, don’t we? The obvious question has to be asked because when both Glasgow Warriors and Munster pick themselves off the Ravenhill turf…
Saints and Sinners: The weekend’s talking points
The Saints Centre of attention Glasgow Warriors made the rest of Europe sit up and take notice as they put to the sword a Bath side which has been earning…
European Champions Cup player analysis: Henry Pyrgos, Glasgow Warriors
As Paul Ackford pointed out in his typically forthright column in Saturday’s Times, three of the five men to captain their country to a Rugby World Cup victory have been…
European Rugby: Weekend’s talking points
Sarries need that final step The 46-6 demolition job that Saracens did on Clermont Auvergne in last April’s Heineken Cup semi-final felt like a seismic shifting of Europe’s tectonic plates. It…
Saints and Sinners: The weekend’s talking points
The Saints The Bee team Having seen reigning champions Northampton cruise past 50 points against Gloucester in the Aviva Premiership’s opening match, Wasps might have been a tad nervous about…
Start of season talking points
Gloucester to pack a punch Gloucester simply weren’t at the races last season, with a porous defence leaking 60 tries and finishing a lowly ninth. It served to be the…
Saints and Sinners: Rugby’s weekend talking points
The Saints Classic clash Some people are calling it the best Aviva Premiership game ever and the Northampton v Leicester semi-final certainly had drama, skill, physicality and passion by the…
Fastest man in world rugby drops ball
Carlin Isles had only touched down in Glasgow a matter of weeks when he had the chance to get some game-time under his belt in a game in a game…
Saints and Sinners: The weekend’s talking points
The Saints Selfless Scarlet Josh Turnbull may be leaving the Scarlets to join the Cardiff Blues at the end of this season, but he is still showing 100% commitment to…