I nearly followed Sam Burgess into English union. Fears that Covid-19 could disrupt the looming block of autumn international fixtures are mounting following the withdrawal of Northampton’s Piers Francis from Eddie Jones’s initial England training squad, Worcester have called for answers as to why Sale have been able to pick 13 players who featured against Northampton last week for Wednesday’s controversially postponed Premiership match, The Six Nations are considering putting back the start of next year’s tournament because of the financial consequences of playing matches either behind closed doors, Months of concerted effort by all involved risks being buried beneath off-field confusion surrounding Sale, Sale’s postponed Premiership match has been cast into further doubt after opponents Worcester said they may still boycott the controversial game, The England prop on the psychiatric help that transformed his life, and why Eddie Jones is the most supportive coach he has known, England are set to welcome 28 players for a three-day camp at the Lensbury Club this week but are still not sure how many of them will be available to train after Covid-19 outbreaks in top-flight rugby, The Wallabies’ Eden Park graveyard is set to be filled with All Blacks fans after the New Zealand government announced it would lift restrictions on the Auckland ground, The Rugby Football Union will open an investigation on Monday into the 16 Covid-19 cases among Sale Sharks players. Howley, who was part of the Wales coaching set-up between 2008 and 2019, said he has received "so many messages of support" from the rugby world. But a video of Premiership highlights from the weekend uploaded to the BBC Wales website appeared to have had identical crowd noise added to clips from each game. Howley was sent home from the Rugby World Cup in Japan last year, with an investigation finding he had placed bets on more than 1,000 matches. Current date/time is Fri 09 Oct 2020, 3:04 am, ADMIN, Enforcer, HumanWindmill, Pr4wn, Crimey, Pete C (Kiwireddevil), Ozzy3213, Derbyblue, ncfc_Tooze, RDW, JuliusHMarx, Biltong, Nay, PaulHv2, MtotheC, George Carlin, Notch, bedfordwelsh, BigGee, LondonTiger, rodders, Administrators, You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forum. The corporation have upped their coverage of the semi-professional Premiership in Wales after losing the rights to screen the Guinness PRO14. I know from my perspective as a coach, that players make mistakes, we all have selection and give players an opportunity. News, sport, television shows, radio programmes and digital content for Wales and beyond, from BBC Wales. Wales have named specialist fly-halves Dan Biggar, Rhys Patchell and Callum Sheedy in their autumn squad with Sam Davies and Jarrod Evans missing out. EU exit - So folks what are you all thinking? Six Nations Title chances - Who needs what to win? "He had that injury which was devastating for a guy who wanted to go to a World Cup, and also for the team. Read about our approach to external linking. I am looking forward to being back in the game," he said. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. I think many people have spoken about having a structure to their day. I did a lot of household chores and tried to keep as busy as I could.". We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. The latest BBC Wales sport news plus live scores, fixtures, results, tables, video, audio, features and analysis for all major UK and international leagues. The weekend action from the Principality Premiership was dubbed with fake crowd noise, (Image: Chris Fairweather/Huw Evans Agency), When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. 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