Brian Moore

Very few people now involved with the newly installed Gallagher Premiership Champions, Northampton, will remember what the club was like in the 1980s.

Clubsound announced that they were going to retire but they’ve been talked into two more of the shows that proved so popular at the Royal Court Hotel in Portrush last summer.

England coach Steve Borthwick should be relishing the chance to tour Japan and New Zealand.

This could be the one chance the side have to face the All Blacks before the World Cup so tour is unlikely to be viewed as developmental

brian moore Japan’s Takuya Yamasawa, rear center, and Rikiya Matsuda, right vie for the ball during the last half of a rugby test match against England in Tokyo, - AFP/Yamazaki Yuichi

Steve Borthwick's England team will find out how far they have developed in their quest to find a more comprehensive style of play when they face

England delivered impressive performances in New Zealand but the key to progress now is turning those narrow defeats into wins

England fell just short , again, in their battle for a rare win on New Zealand soil. On paper, a 2-0 series loss is not good but that does not tell the whole story of this tour.

These Surrey residents will pay it forward for the stranger who drove them home after a fall