Aviva Premiership

The Aviva Premiership is back into the swing of things and Round 3 is fast approaching. Across the country many teams have points to prove and some are still searching for their first win of the year, all in all it promises to be another cracking round of domestic action.

Premiership Rugby chiefs have confirmed changes to the league's salary cap from next season.

Each week Talking Rugby Union are going to bring you short highlights of the most exciting plays, biggest hits and best tries from the Aviva Premiership.

Wasps and Scotland fly-half Ruaridh Jackson could miss the rest of the season after suffering a serious knee injury during his club side’s victory over reigning Champions Northampton last Sunday.

After being side-lined in March with both shoulder and knee problems the young England flyer is now back in action and once again on the hunt for an England jersey.

While London Welsh can draw some positives from the four-try bonus point they collected at Bath on Saturday, the Exiles must improve their defence says fly half Olly Barkley.

Wasps state their intent early in the campaign, taking a huge scalp in Northampton, knocking them off their pedestals after lash weeks thrashing of Gloucester.

Gloucester staged a storming second-half fightback at Kingsholm to ignite their Aviva Premiership campaign after an opening day debacle against champions Northampton.

Northampton's devastating start to their Aviva Premiership title defence is now a distant memory after they crashed to a 20-16 defeat against Wasps at Adams Park.

London Irish did their homework to come up with a 20-18 win over Newcastle Falcons on their new synthetic pitch at Kingston Park.

Another bumper weekend of domestic rugby has given us plenty to consider for this week’s edition of TRU’s Stock Watch, not least a tight Welsh derby between the Newport Gwent Dragons and Ospreys, or Saracens’ obliteration of a directionless-looking Quins side at The Stoop.

Fresh on the heels of our look at the Aviva Premiership’s best loosehead props last week, we now turn our attentions to their comrades-in-arms, the hookers.

Three Freddie Burns penalties, a conversion and a neat grubber kick through for an Anthony Allen try helped steer Leicester to a 24-20 victory over Exeter at Sandy Park.

Saracens responded to Mike Brown's pre-match taunts by demolishing Harlequins in a highly-impressive Aviva Premiership victory at Twickenham Stoop.

Over the course of 480 minutes of rugby the Aviva Premiership Round 1 delivered 34 tries, 3 hat tricks and 310 points, it was one of the most exciting and prolific starts to any Aviva Premiership season and now it is time to do it all over again.

The 2013/14 season was one of mixed emotions for London Irish: a change of owners, a big-name signing and a somewhat underachieving performance in the league; however, club Captain George Skivington, insists this season will be different.

With the Aviva Premiership now well and truly under way, we are excited to bring you the inaugural edition of a new series of articles putting the spotlight on some of the best players in the tournament

Leicester and England lock Ed Slater has revealed that he will miss the entire domestic season and possibly the World Cup after suffering a ‘horrific’ knee injury.

Players' chief Damian Hopley has reacted to the demands of the new season by questioning what state England internationals will be in at next year's World Cup.

There are compelling signs that a revival of fortunes could be in the offing at Bath and an opening day defeat of Sale did nothing to dispel those expectations.