Northampton: Ramm; Freeman, Odendaal, Dingwall (capt), Hendy; Smith, Mitchell; Iyogun, Langdon, Davison, Mayanavanua, Coles, Kemeny, Pollock, Augustus. Replacements: Walker, West, Green, Lockett, Scott-Young, Pearson, James, Hutchinson. Clermont Auvergne: Newsome; Delguy, Simone, Moala, Raka; Belleau, Bezy; Akhaladze, Massa, Ojovan, Simmons, Ceyte, Sowakula, Tixeront, Lee (capt). Replacements: Fainga’a, Falgoux, Ala’alatoa, Hemery, Fischer, Bousquet, Urdapilleta, Fouyssac. Referee: Andrew...
Wales flanker Tommy Reffell has signed a new deal with Leicester Tigers to keep him at the club next season. The 25-year-old made his 100th start in Friday’s 33-0 East Midlands derby win at Northampton. He played for Wales at the 2023 World Cup and has won 27 caps in total, four of them during...
Director of rugby Phil Dowson said Northampton needed to look back “forensically” at the Leicester game to assess exactly why that performance happened. “There’s loads of context around it,” he told BBC Radio Northampton. “We’re a playing group, with a playing style, that requires a high level of connection and cohesiveness and we didn’t have...
Scotland full-back Blair Kinghorn and England wing Tommy Freeman are among the nominees for the 2025 Six Nations Player of the Championship award. Kinghorn made a tournament-high 86 carries and nine line-breaks, while Freeman, who started England’s final-round win over Wales at outside centre, became the first Englishman to score a try in each match...