Ealing Trailfinders’ new prop Sam Rodman says he has settled in well at Trailfinders Sports Club after recently signing his first professional rugby contract.
When London Welsh's Guy Armitage comes up against Doncaster Knights and his brother Bevon, any brotherly love will be put to one side as the Greene King IPA Championship gets underway on 5th September.
Winger Josh Drauniniu has unfinished business at London Welsh, where he is heading back to spearhead their attempts to win a third Championship title in four years.
London Welsh have confirmed that they will return to their Old Deer Park ground in south-west London, leaving Oxford's Kassam Stadium, in time for the 2015/16 season.
After two of the most pulsating rugby matches in recent history, the Worcester Warriors booked their place in the Aviva Premiership on Wednesday evening.
Worcester crept into pole position for a quickfire return to top-flight English rugby after they edged an absorbing and dramatic Greene King IPA Championship play-off final first leg at Ashton Gate.
Bristol and Worcester will step up their quest for a prized place among English rugby's elite when they contest the first leg of this season's Greene King IPA Championship play-off final on Wednesday.
The Exeter Chiefs may have just missed out on what would have been a debut trip to the Aviva Premiership playoffs this weekend, but they did secure entrance to Europe’s top tier of rugby for just the second time in their history.
There was no shortage of murmurings last week, as rugby league legend Kevin Sinfield announced he would be leaving the 13-man code and joining Yorkshire Carnegie for the 2015/16 season.
Former Gloucester and Sale boss Bryan Redpath has been appointed as the new head coach of Greene King IPA Championship club Yorkshire Carnegie on a two-year contract.
Ahead of this weekends Semi-final fixtures Worcester have to beat a four year droubt for English sides against Leinster A, and 10th place in the Championship Doncaster take on 2nd Bristol.