Five clubs from the Gallagher Premiership, the Top 14 and Japan are already on the starting line to open talks with Scotland and Lions superstar Finn Russell when he enters the final year of his £1.2million contract with Bath next July, RugbyPass understand.
Tom Jordan has been rewarded for his impressive debut off the bench in last week's record 57-17 win over Fiji with a place in Scotland's starting line-up against South Africa on Sunday afternoon.
Revitalised Adam Hastings is hoping he has done enough to be named in the Scotland 23 for Sunday’s showdown with world champions South Africa.
Here we are, about to begin another season of Premiership Women’s Rugby. Last season saw Gloucester-Hartpury Women lift the trophy once again, winning a free-flowing finale against Bristol Bears Women.
England out-half Marcus Smith is set to play his first rugby in seven weeks after being chosen to start for Harlequins this Sunday at Racing 92, the day before new Test-level boss Steve Borthwick names his Guinness Six Nations squad.
It should come as no surprise that the attention quickly turned to Scotland's recall of Finn Russell when All Blacks pivot Richie Mo'unga fronted the media on Tuesday afternoon.
The Racing 92 and Scotland fly-half is now one of the most celebrated players in the game but as a raw 20-year-old, he has New Zealand to thank for turning him from a boy to man
Fly-half Russell and captain Hogg have been central to Scotland’s recent resurgence.
Finn Russell has always been an avid user of short attacking kicks to unlock a defence, but the method in which Racing opened up Saracens to win the game is fast becoming the latest trend in professional rugby in 2020.
Fifteen-year-old Jordan Venter was dozing on the back seat when the car carrying his mother, stepfather and two stepbrothers was smashed by a careering coal truck.
