Dec 23, 2000: The defending champions and the current leaders of the Zurich Premiership predictably gained their 10th victory at Clifton Lane this afternoon when they beat the league's bottom side by three tries to none
Dec 23, 2000: Bath set themselves up nicely for the Boxing Day visit of Premiership leaders Leicester with a seven-try thrashing of London Irish
Dec 23, 2000: Bristol snatched victory in the dying minutes after trailing Sale for most of the game
Dec 23, 2000: Ardrossan's BT Cellnet Cup dream died when they lost to a rampant Aberdeen GSFP side
Dec 23, 2000: Holders Boroughmuir were made to work hard before they eased through to the quarter-finals of the BT Cellnet Cup
Dec 22, 2000: Gloucester captain Kingsley Jones today criticised team-mates who have had "their own agendas" during back-to-back Premiership defeats against Leicester and Northampton
Dec 22, 2000: The ticket touts that ply their trade in the streets of Twickenham before England internationals could have had their day after the RFU vowed to crack down on the misuse of tickets
Dec 22, 2000: Wendell Sailor is being lined up for his possible switch to rugby union by Super 12 outfit ACT Brumbies
Dec 22, 2000: Trevor Leota has delivered a festive message to Wasps fans ahead of Saturday's crunch encounter with London rivals Saracens at Vicarage Road
Dec 21, 2000: Former All Black and Otago Highlanders star Jeff Wilson has hit out at England in his newly released autobiography entitled "Seasons of Gold"
Dec 21, 2000: Currie secured a place in the BT Cellnet Cup quarter-finals with a workmanlike success over luckless Watsonians at Myreside
Dec 21, 2000: Scotland captain Budge Pountney believes that his side can match the physical presence of all the Six Nations packs this season
Dec 20, 2000: News of Pat Howard's imminent return to Australia to bolster his case for a Wallaby World Cup place has sparked of a great deal of interest from those parties hoping to claim his signature
Dec 20, 2000: Wasps director of rugby Nigel Melville has urged the RFU to speed up it's disciplinary procedure because he fears it is detrimental to the game
Dec 20, 2000: Gloucester coach Philippe Saint-Andre will accept nothing less than victory when his side take on the Newcastle Falcons at Kingsholm on Saturday
Dec 20, 2000: Murrayfield Wanderers have been handed another awesome BT Cellnet Cup challenge after shocking Gala at the weekend
Dec 20, 2000: Reports from Australia have suggested that Australian rugby league super star Wendell Sailor could switch codes as early as next year
Dec 20, 2000: Bristol coach Dean Ryan is to press for extra powers to be granted to Rugby Football Union disciplinary panels after England lock Garath Archer received an early Christmas present in Coventry last night
Dec 20, 2000: The Rugby Football Union disciplinary panel has ruled that no further action will be taken against two players and also upheld the appeal of the third
Dec 20, 2000: Ellery Hanley has quit Premiership club Bristol following his appointment last month as assistant coach of England A, along with Leicester forwards coach John Wells and new team manager Ged Glynn
