This Sunday at the Memorial Stadium, Bristol (ko 3pm), the Cornish Pirates have yet another mightily interesting Championship encounter, it a top of the table clash between second-placed Bristol Rugby and league leaders the Pirates. The Cornish side have not yet beaten ‘Bris’ away in a Championship match, so there’ll be a deep desire...
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Rotherham Titans have signed Scottish Sevens star Dave McCall on a one month loan deal from Glasgow Warriors, with a view to making the deal permanent. McCall, 24 years-old, prefers to play at outside centre, although he has previously played on the wing and at full back. McCall trained with Rotherham on Wednesday and...
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The Welsh entrants to the B&I Cup make their tournament bow this weekend with games between Llanelli and London Scottish, Swansea and Rotherham Titans, Bristol Rugby and Neath, Nottingham and Pontypridd, Cross Keys and Moseley and London Welsh entertaining Aberavon. It’s the matchup between high flying London Welsh, coached by Lyn Jones and table-topping...
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Robin Copeland, (pictured) Titans’ man of the match in their 44-6 demolition of league leaders Bristol, believes his side are now serious Championship contenders! The 24 year old former Leinster Academy and Plymouth Albion back-rower is proving to be a key member of Andre Bester’s new look squad. Copeland is enjoying his time at...
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Brett Davey has made five changes to his starting line-up to face Nottingham this weekend as the Knights aim to make it six games unbeaten at Castle Park. The Director of Rugby has picked a new-look front row as Doncaster target revenge for their narrow B&I Cup defeat to their Midlands rivals, whilst maintaining...
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Doncaster Knights have moved swiftly to announce the new signing of centre Fred Burdon ahead of round 8 of the Championship season. The club have added 23-year-old Newcastle born Burdon to their squad after the double blue caught the eye of Director of Rugby, Brett Davey while playing for National League One side Blaydon...
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It’s first against second as London Welsh take on Championship leaders Bristol at the Memorial Stadium on Friday (7:45pm) in front of the live Sky Sports cameras. The Exiles’ defeat at home to Rotherham last weekend saw Bristol leapfrog Welsh at the top of the table following their away win at Esher. All of...
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Iain Grieve returns to the starting line-up ahead of Bristol’s top-of-the-table clash with London Welsh at the Memorial Stadium on Friday (7.45pm KO). The captain has fully recovered from an ear infection that kept him out of action since the victory over Bedford Blues and replaces Marco Mama at no.8. Head Coach Liam Middleton...
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As Rotherham Titans tremendous victory away to London Welsh starts to sink in, stand in skipper Sean Dougall explains how it didn’t come as a shock to the squad. Dougall said, “It was all about work rate and belief; it’s as simple as that. We did our homework throughout the week, we probably worked...
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Bedford Blues will be turning pink on Saturday afternoon as Doncaster Knights and the Sky cameras descend on Goldington Road for round seven of the Championship. For the fourth year in a row, the Blues will be donning a specially made pink kit for Ladies Day which is once again in support of Breast...
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