Bath 16 Saracens 28, Premiership final match report: Owen Farrell lights up Twickenham with brilliant display
1 decade ago by Telegraph Rugby NewsSaracens created Aviva Premiership history at Twickenham as they beat Bath 28-16 to be crowned English champions for a second time in five years. And in doing so, they became the first club since Premiership...
Preview: England v Barbarians
1 decade ago by Rugby 365Robbie Deans is hoping his Barbarians side can rub salt into the wounds of an England team still reeling from losing two crucial players in Manu Tuilagi and Dylan Hartley four months before the World Cup. The...
Dylan Hartley dropped for World Cup after latest breach of discipline
1 decade ago by The TimesStuart Lancaster’s patience with Dylan Hartley has finally snapped. With trust eroded and the World Cup regulations making it impossible for the head coach to select a suspended player for the tournament,...
Rugby Banter Page weekly round up
1 decade ago by Rugby Banter PageMonday 25th May: Wasps Agree Deal For Veteran Back Row George Smith: Wasps have announced the signing of 111 time capped Wallaby George Smith from Lyon. Smith, 34, will be the newly Coventry based sides...
Jamie George: Who is the man replacing Dylan Hartley?
1 decade ago by Telegraph Rugby NewsIt is one of those twists of fate that sport seems to specialise in that when Dylan Hartley needlessly shoved his head in the face of Jamie George, he was also handing the baton to the hooker who will...
Hartley axed by England
1 decade ago by Rugby 365Dylan Hartley's hopes of playing in the World Cup were all but ended, after England ran out of patience with the volatile hooker - following his latest disciplinary problem - and dropped him from their...
Dylan Hartley dropped from World Cup squad for latest indiscretion
1 decade ago by The TimesDylan Hartley has been dropped from England’s World Cup squad after the latest in a long series of on-field indiscretions. The Northampton Saints captain has been axed by Stuart Lancaster after...
England are right to axe Dylan Hartley from World Cup squad
1 decade ago by The TelegraphStuart Lancaster has often been accused of running a zero tolerance regime: Danny Care, exiled for drink-driving offences; Manu Tuilagi for his conviction for assault. And now Dylan Hartley, cast into...
Hartley dropped from World Cup squad
1 decade ago by BBC Rugby NewsHooker Dylan Hartley has been dropped from England's World Cup training squad after his latest disciplinary breach. The Northampton captain, 29, was banned for four weeks on Wednesday for headbutting...
Dylan Hartley "let himself and everyone down" as he is...
1 decade ago by Leicester MercuryEngland head coach Stuart Lancaster says Northampton Saints hooker Dylan Hartley let "himself and everyone" down and has dropped him from the World Cup squad.Hartley was banned for four weeks...
