RU Today: Premiership, PRO14 previews & Video of the Week

David Skippers
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Another busy day in the rugby union game as we publish more Premiership and PRO14 previews, and also bring you the Video of the Week.

What’s on the site

We bring you team news for the Premiership games taking place on Saturday as well as from Saturday’s and Sunday’s PRO14 action. There are several derbies lined up in the latter tournament with Leinster’s clash with arch rivals Munster the pick of the bunch.

Elsewhere, we bring you our Video of the Week which features the young players that lit up the recent Super Rugby Aotearoa tournament.

There is also a match report of the Super Rugby AU game between the Western Force and the Reds which was played on the Gold Coast.

What’s in the news

Crusaders head coach Scott Robertson has revealed that he has approached British and Irish Lions boss Warren Gatland about assisting him on next year’s tour of South Africa.

Meanwhile, New Zealand Rugby have postponed their North v South encounter by a week due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

What’s on social media

Today, we turn back the clock to 2003 to take a look at one of the best-ever tries scored at a Rugby World Cup.

What’s on TV

Super Rugby AU flies the southern hemisphere flag this week and Sky Sports will be showing the Brumbies v Waratahs on Saturday. In the Premiership there’s a full fixture list on BT Sport while Channel 5 will also televise London Irish v Northampton. If that’s not enough, the PRO14 restarts on Friday on Premier Sports, with the big game coming on Saturday when Leinster take on Munster.

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