Rob Baxter: ‘Our first title was incredible, but it would feel bigger doing it again’ The Premiership’s longest-serving director of rugby brushes off retirement talk as he focuses on returning Exeter to the top
Premiership rugby 2024-25: complete club-by-club guide to the season After five different winners in as many seasons, Bath are fancied to become the sixth by dethroning Northampton
Return of relegation adds intrigue for Premiership as stats back Bath for glory A stiff opening six weeks for last year’s losing finalists will test their title mettle while Saracens start life without Owen Farrell
Lions, laws, live rights: what to look out for in the new men’s rugby union season The Premiership kicks off on Friday but the game’s perpetual flux is sure to punctuate the breathtaking action
Maro Itoje rejects Eddie Jones’ claims he is not suited to England captaincy The former England coach claimed Itoje was ‘very inward-looking’ while the Saracens lock took over the club captaincy from Owen Farrell
Northampton’s Ollie Sleightholme: ‘Any free time, I’ll go fishing. All weather. My missus thinks I’m a bit weird’ Saints’ England wing who hopes to reel in another Premiership title tells Gerard Meagher how angling eases the pressures of elite rugby
Coaches call for rule changes to stop red cards in rugby union ‘destroying game’ Premiership coaches want red-card protocols changed in an attempt to keep more games at fifteen players per side
Premiership gears up for new season with battle for eyeballs never greater The days of clubs recruiting A-list overseas stars are long gone but the domestic game needs to target growth and widen the audience
Sale’s Jonny Hill to meet police and learn fate over incident with supporter Sale’s Jonny Hill will meet police next week to discover his fate over an incident with a supporter at Bath in June
RFU concerned by England exits but gives Steve Borthwick 100% backing The Rugby Football Union has backed Steve Borthwick after the sudden resignations of Felix Jones and Aled Walters
Trepidation as well as triumphalism as English rugby breaks fresh ground New season begins amid concern over whether club and country can cooperate in managing the welfare of players
Joe Marler in fitness race for England’s autumn matches after breaking foot The Harlequins head coach, Danny Wilson, has confirmed Joe Marler will be out for at least 12 weeks with a foot injury
Northampton and Bath prove they are the teams of today and tomorrow Epic Premiership final suggested rugby union may be about to usher in a new order to follow that of Saracens and Exeter
Courtney Lawes relieved to end Northampton career with final victory Courtney Lawes admitted Northampton had ridden their luck against Bath in their Premiership triumph on his final appearance for the club
Another final tarnished as Obano’s red card a blight on rugby’s integrity Northampton suffer as much in the reckoning as question marks will linger over whether they would have won with numbers even