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Dan Johansson
Sweden
Bargain Hunting: 3 high performing Premiership Fantasy League forwards who won’t break the bank
We went rooting through the bargain bin to find five high performing players you could add to your team with whatever loose change…
Gallagher Premiership Fantasy League Team of the Week: Round 4
It’s been a blistering display of high quality rugby and the kind of emotional storytelling that only comes from elite sport. Ta…
Transfer Tips: Gallagher Premiership Round 4
Ahead of this weekend’s action, we offer some pointers on who to sign and who to cut in order to make your Fantasy team bring ho…
Gallagher Premiership Fantasy League Team of the Week: Round 3
The new season of the Gallagher Premiership has reached Round 3 and is starting to find its rhythm, settling into the groove like …
Fantasy League Team of the Tournament: Rounds 1 & 2
After far too long, the English Premiership is back once again with the ill behaviour and suffice to say the first couple of weeks…
RugbyPass Premiership Fantasy: 4 tips on how to absolutely smash it this season
It's been about three months since last season's Premiership ended and a lot has happened in the world in that time.
What the George North Northampton Saints controversy tells us about professional rugby
It is difficult to ascertain exactly what the trouble on the Northern Line is without the benefit of first-hand experience or insi…
Eddie Jones: Abuse, identity and the challenges of rugby fandom in the modern game
This conflict between old attitudes and modern pressures is central to the discussion about the Jones incident. Whether we like…
Friday Night Lights - a history
The Six Nations is probably the biggest annual international sporting competition in the world.
What the Bastareaud incident tells us about rugby today
French centre Mathieu Bastareaud could be out of the Six Nations after being cited for audibly directing a homophobic slur towards…
On This Day: Ali Williams makes his debut...in the English second tier
Depending on who you ask, Ali Williams is either one of the greatest rugby players of the last twenty years, or an absolute muppet…
Watchability Rankings: December 2017 - a strange time of year
December is a strange time of year for rugby, especially in the Northern Hemisphere.
Club by club - How many head coaches has the Premiership had in 10 years?
After a string of disappointing results, Director of Rugby Jim Mallinder has left Northampton Saints in a move that, dependin…
"Not our problem": Looking after rugby’s struggling nations is everyone’s problem
The saga revolving the perilous finances of Samoa (and indeed other Pacific Island unions) rumbled on this week, as the RFU issued…
Watchability Rankings November 2017
While the Autumn Internationals dominated rugby headlines in recent weeks, we thought we’d cast the net a little wider and inclu…
Rugby Rewind - England vs the Wallabies, 13th November 2010
This autumn’s Old Mutual Wealth series continues this weekend, with England taking on Australia at Twickenham on Saturday in a h…
On This Day: Sam Burgess is unveiled at Bath
Oh, what could have been. On this day three years ago, Bath unveiled the next big hope of English rugby union, former league super…
Premiership Watchability Rankings October 2017
With so much rugby on nowadays, it can be hard to decide exactly which matches to watch, which to wait for the highlights of, and …
Rugby World Cup 2023: The State of Play - France
With the bidding process for the 2023 Rugby World Cup hotting up, we continue our look at the potential host countries and break d…
RWC 2023: The State of Play – South Africa
After our profile on rival bidders Ireland, it’s time to turn our attention to the sole entrant from the Southern Hemisphere and…