Articles by Derek Williams

Quins were once the second half comeback Kings and the supreme enrertainers but no longer after successive maulings by Bristol Bears and Sale Sharks. So what’s happened? The obvious explanation is that key players like Andre Esterhuizen , Joe Marler and Danny Care have gone and not been replaced. [...]

After the great tactical victory over Saracens we expected far more from Quins yesterday at Sang Park but we were comprehensively blown away by Exeter Chies. Marcus Smith was back to his mercurial worst whilst the Quins scrum could not handle the tough West Country boys. Added to that Henry Slade [...]

Harlequins had a typically close but exciting win over Exeter Chiefs yesterday but the result had to play second fiddle to the farewell of their legendary scrum half Danny Care. Danny notched up 394 appearances for Quins and gained 101 caps for England – all the more remarkable a statistic as [...]

Normally it’s Quins who mount a second half revival but this time Bath, who were in the first half 21 points down, who dominated the second half to win comfortably. This was principally due to bringing on a fresh  from row (Ben Obana, Tom Dunn and Phil de Toit) who totally overpowered Quins who [...]

iI always enjoy watching both the youth of Quins – and beating Sarries – but only the first materialised on Saturday. Quins Marcus Smith, Caden Murley and Fin Baxter were with England, as were Sarries’ Jamie George, Theo Dann, Ben Earl and Eliot Daly. Young Cassius Cleaves, so [...]