Aviva Premiership Rugby
Teams >Bath | Exeter | Gloucester | Harlequins | Leicester | London Irish | London Wasps | Newcastle | Northampton | Sale | Saracens | Worcester
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London Irish secure England Age group duo
Wednesday 25 January 2012
Aviva Premiership Rugby club London Irish have secured England Age Group duo Marland Yarde and David Sisi for their foreseeable futures with new contracts.
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England prop Sheridan joins Toulon from Sale
Tuesday 24 January 2012
England prop Andrew Sheridan has agreed to leave Premiership Rugby club Sale Sharks and join big spending Top 14 Rugby club Toulon.
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Skivington joins London Irish from Leicester
Tuesday 24 January 2012
Aviva Premiership Rugby club London Irish have signed former England Saxons captain and lock George Skivington from Leicester in a three-year deal.
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Tigers' Twelvetrees agrees to join Gloucester
Saturday 21 January 2012
England Saxons and Leicester back Billy Twelvetrees has agreed to leave the Tigers and move to Kingsholm to play for Premiership rivals Gloucester.
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Chris Ashton signs long-term Saracens contract
Thursday 19 January 2012
England winger Chris Ashton has signed a long-term contract with Saracens, and the England wing will join the north London club at the start of the 2012/13 season.
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Gold to give Newcastle Falcons 'his best shot'
Thursday 19 January 2012
Former Springboks forwards coach Gary Gold has vowed to "give it his best
shot" as Aviva Premiership Rugby Club Newcastle Falcons director of rugby.
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Roger Wilson to leave Saints and return to Ulster
Wednesday 18 January 2012
Ulster Rugby have been boosted by the news that No.8 Roger Wilson will return to the province from the start of next season on a three year deal.
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Burns extends Gloucester contract to 2014
Wednesday 18 January 2012
Aviva Premiership Rugby Club have signed a new contract with fly-half Freddie Burns which will keep him at Kingsholm until the end of the 2013-4 season.
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Wasps lose Tom Varndell for three months
Tuesday 17 January 2012
London Wasps have been dealt another injury blow with news that winger Tom Varndell will need surgery on a foot complaint keeping him out of the game for up to 12 weeks.
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Qera extends deal with Gloucester for 2 years
Monday 16 January 2012
Aviva Premiership Rugby club Gloucester have confirmed that Fijian international flanker Akapusi Qera has agreed a new two year contract with the club.
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Saracens deal with Ashton all but done : Venter
Friday 13 January 2012
Aviva Premiership Rugby club Saracens Technical Director Brendan Venter says that their deal for England winger Chris Ashton was all but done on Friday.
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Gary Gold given Premiership's toughest task
Friday 13 January 2012
South Africa's Gary Gold has been given one of the hardest jobs in English rugby after being put in charge at bottom of the Premiership Newcastle Falcons.
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Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu avoids rugby ban
Friday 13 January 2012
Eliota Fuimaono Sapolu has avoided an immediate ban from playing rugby but has had the length of his suspension period extend if he gets into further trouble.
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Newcastle sign Gary Gold to replace Alan Tait
Thursday 12 January 2012
Newcastle Falcons have announced that Gary Gold has been appointed as director of rugby for the remainder of the current season.
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London Wasps sign Namibian second rower Koll
Thursday 12 January 2012
Aviva Premiership Rugby Club London Wasps have added to their second-row options by signing Namibian lock Heinz Koll until the end of the season.
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RFU slap double charge on Sale Boss Diamond
Thursday 12 January 2012
Sale Sharks Boss Steve Diamond has been charged by the Rugby Football Union with two counts of verbally abusing match officials
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Gloucester lose Morgan for the rugby seasonLeicester Tigers sign 20 stone Samoan propLondon Wasps lose winger Wade for 3 monthsNorthampton Saints working on Ashton exit plan Saracens forced to work for Bath victory
Overview of the Aviva Premiership
The English Premiership is known as the Aviva Premiership because of the league's sponsorship (by Aviva) is a professional league competition for rugby union football clubs in the top division of the English rugby system.
There are, at present, twelve clubs in the Premiership.
The competition has been played since 1987, and has evolved into the current Premiership system employing relegation to and promotion from the National Division One competition.
Clubs competing in the Guinness Premiership qualify for Europe's two club competitions, the Heineken Cup and the European Challenge Cup.
The 2008/09 champions are the Leicester Tigers .
Team Stadium Capacity City/Area
Bath Recreation Ground 10,600 Bath,
Somerset
Bristol Memorial Stadium 11,750.
Bristol
Gloucester Kingsholm Stadium 16,500
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Harlequins Twickenham Stoop 12,700
Twickenham, Middlesex/London
Leicester Tigers
Welford Road 16,815 Leicester, Leicestershire
London Irish Madejski Stadium
24,161 Reading, Berkshire
London Wasps Adams Park 10,000
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Newcastle Falcons Kingston Park
10,200 Newcastle, Tyne and Wear
Northampton Saints Franklin's
Gardens 13,600 Northampton
Sale Sharks Edgeley Park 10,852 Stockport, Greater
Manchester
Saracens Vicarage Road 19,920 Watford,
Hertfordshire
Worcester Warriors Sixways
Stadium 10,197 Worcester, Worcestershire
Source -Wikipedia
| Pos |
Team |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Harlequins | 13 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 320 | 219 | 47 |
2 |
Saracens | 13 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 278 | 208 | 44 |
3 |
Northampton Saints | 13 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 310 | 204 | 36 |
4 |
Leicester Tigers | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 348 | 3017 | 36 |
5 |
London Irish | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 306 | 298 | 33 |
6 |
Exeter Chiefs | 13 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 231 | 242 | 31 |
7 |
Sale Sharks | 13 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 285 | 312 | 30 |
8 |
Gloucester Rugby | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 275 | 254 | 29 |
9 |
Worcester Warriors | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 175 | 220 | 25 |
10 |
Bath Rugby | 13 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 235 | 252 | 24 |
11 |
London Wasps | 13 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 202 | 286 | 21 |
12 |
Newcastle Falcons | 13 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 197 | 350 | 12 |
Last update : 08/01/12 - Updated each
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