They were due to fly to Penzance the following Thursday for Friday's PRC game versus the Cornish Pirates, but the journey never happened. Instead, they were told at dawn that the club was being liquidated and would not take its place in the 2023/24 Championship.
While most of the focus is currently on the Rugby World Cup in France, the 2023/24 BKT United Rugby Championship season gets under way this weekend.
The news that last season's Championship winners Jersey Reds are set to become the fourth club in England to enter administration in the past year has been received like a hit to the solar plexus for English rugby.
Tonga second row Leva Fifita and Ireland winger Adam Byrne have been included on the list of eight players leaving Connacht at the end of the current season.
Every team in the URC has been busy sorting transfers ahead of the upcoming summer break. The Irish provinces have been using their academies...
Connacht have confirmed the names of all twelve players leaving them at end of the current season, adding that a squad of 44 has so far been assembled for next season.
With Premiership clubs starting stage two of the return to play protocols, Sale have confirmed the 33-strong squad they will see out season 2019/20 with.
Budding talents and impressive summer recruitment aplenty, which Gallagher Premiership club currently boasts the best and deepest back row group in the competition?
Matt O’Connor has been talking about the top two being Leicester’s aim this week but their recruitment hasn’t been good enough and I can see them missing out on the play-offs again.
With all but one Gallagher Premiership club having confirmed their senior academy intakes for the 2018/19 season, RugbyPass round-up the fresh faces that will be appearing in their first pre-seasons as professional athletes.
