Good Will’s hunting
LIAM WILLIAMS swept over for a hat-trick as leaders Saracens maintained their perfect start to the season with a 50-27 win against Bath.
Tom Homer crossed twice for the visitors.
Danny Cipriani scored a try to put Gloucester ahead but they couldn’t hang on as Marcus Smith’s three second-half penalties secured Harlequins a he’s at the forefront of Toronto’s ambitious bid for Super League status just two years after their formation.
O’Brien said: “It will be crazy to go from League One to the Championship and to Super League at the first attempt.
“If we end up in the Million Pound Game we’ll be playing at home and the Canadian people will really get behind us. They will be aware of how massive it is.”
Meanwhile, Luke Burgess is linking up with his three England superstar brothers again at South Sydney Rabbitohs. But he says it’s a business suit, rather than a tracksuit, that will be his mode of dress from now on. He retired after helping Salford safeguard their Super League status on Thursday.
He said: “My body made the decision.
“I’ve had a couple of bad injuries on the same knee and I promised myself that once I could not perform to the level I wanted I would call it a day.”
Burgess, 31, has a job lined up behind the scenes at Souths, the club he played for between 2011 and 2014 with brothers Sam, George and Tom.
He said: “I won’t
27-25 victory. Dave Ewers scored two of Exeter’s four tries in a
28-11 home triumph against Worcester – their fifth straight win.
Northampton Saints ended their away-day blues, beating Bristol 45-40 in a match where both picked up bonus points.
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be coaching, it’s more on the business and sponsorship side. It should be exciting.
“I love England but all my family have set up stumps in Australia and my daughter Grace is Australian and she starts school there in January.”
While he heads Down Under, his three brothers will arrive here next week ahead of the autumn international series against New Zealand.
Wayne Bennett’s England squad will be named on Tuesday. David Mead made sure Catalans’ season finished with a bang as they battled back to beat Huddersfield 22-12.
The Dragons trailed 12-0 at half-time as Giants’ brothers Louis and Innes
Senior both crossed.
But Papua
New Guinea star
Mead took control after the break to launch the fightback for the Challenge Cup holders.
He nipped in for four tries with Lucas Albert adding three conversions. The
Giants finished in sixth, one spot higher than the
French side.
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