{"id":731786,"date":"2026-06-12T12:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/731786\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:05:15","slug":"prem-rugby-semi-finals-predictions-teams-kick-offs-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/731786\/","title":{"rendered":"PREM Rugby semi-finals: Predictions, teams, kick-offs, how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Barbarians<\/a><\/p>\n

The PREM Rugby play-offs are here, with Northampton Saints, Bath, Exeter Chiefs and Leicester Tigers the final four teams left in the title hunt.<\/p>\n

The knockout round begins on Friday night with an eagerly anticipated East Midlands derby between Saints and Tigers, with the West Country pair meeting a day later on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Check on all the\u00a0PREM<\/a>\u00a0team news, our predictions, how to watch and more below.<\/p>\n

Friday<\/p>\n

Northampton Saints v Leicester Tigers<\/p>\n

Prediction: Northampton Saints by 7<\/p>\n

Northampton Saints: 15 George Furbank (c), 14 Tommy Freeman, 13 Tom Litchfield, 12 Rory Hutchinson, 11 George Hendy, 10 Fin Smith, 9 Archie McParland, 8 Henry Pollock, 7 Tom Pearson, 6 Josh Kemeny, 5 Ed Prowse, 4 Alex Coles, 3 Elliot Millar Mills, 2 Curtis Langdon, 1 Emmanuel Iyogun
Replacements: 16 Craig Wright, 17 Danilo Fischetti, 18 Luke Green, 19 JJ van der Mescht, 20 Tom Lockett, 21 Callum Chick, 22 Jonny Weimann, 23 Fraser Dingwall<\/p>\n

Leicester Tigers: 15 Freddie Steward, 14 Adam Radwan, 13 Will Wand, 12 Orlando Bailey, 11 Ollie Hassell-Collins, 10 Billy Searle, 9 Jack van Poortvliet, 8 Joaquin Moro, 7 Tommy Reffell, 6 Hanro Liebenberg, 5 Ollie Chessum (c), 4 George Martin, 3 Joe Heyes, 2 Jamie Blamire, 1 Nicky Smith
Replacements: 16 Charlie Clare, 17 Archie van der Flier, 18 Will Hurd, 19 Cameron Henderson, 20 Olly Cracknell, 21 Tom Whiteley, 22 Solomone Kata, 23 Izaia Perese<\/p>\n

Venue: Franklin\u2019s Gardens
Kick-off: 19:45 BST
Referee: Luke Pearce
Assistant referees: Anthony Woodthorpe, Adam Leal
TMO: Stuart Terheege
How to watch: TNT Sports, HBO Max<\/p>\n

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Northampton v Leicester teams: Henry Pollock among 11 changes for Saints as England man one of two key Tigers returnees<\/a><\/p>\n

Saturday<\/p>\n

Bath v Exeter Chiefs<\/p>\n

Prediction: Bath by 2<\/p>\n

Bath: 15 Tom de Glanville, 14 Joe Cokanasiga, 13 Ollie Lawrence, 12 Max Ojomoh, 11 Henry Arundell, 10 Santi Carreras, 9 Ben Spencer (c), 8 Alfie Barbeary, 7 Sam Underhill, 6 Josh Bayliss, 5 Charlie Ewels, 4 Quinn Roux, 3 Thomas du Toit, 2 Tom Dunn, 1 Beno Obano
Replacements: 16 Kepueli Tuipulotu, 17 Francois van Wyk, 18 Vilikesa Sela, 19 Ross Molony, 20 Ted Hill, 21 Bernard van der Linde, 22 Cameron Redpath, 23 Miles Reid<\/p>\n

Exeter Chiefs: 15 Olly Woodburn, 14 Paul Brown-Bampoe, 13 Henry Slade, 12 Len Ikitau, 11 Campbell Ridl, 10 Harvey Skinner, 9 Stephen Varney, 8 Greg Fisilau, 7 Christ Tshiunza, 6 Tom Hooper, 5 Andrea Zambonin, 4 Dafydd Jenkins (c), 3 Josh Iosefa-Scott, 2 Max Norey, 1 Scott Sio
Replacements: 16 Joseph Dweba, 17 Ethan Burger, 18 Bachuki Tchumbadze, 19 Rusi Tuima, 20 Ross Vintcent, 21 Tom Cairns, 22 Zack Wimbush, 23 Ben Hammersley<\/p>\n

Venue: The Rec
Kick-off: 15:00 BST
Referee: Christophe Ridley
Assistant referees: Karl Dickson, Sara Cox
TMO:\u00a0Andrew Jackson
How to watch: TNT Sports, HBO Max<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Northampton Saints v Leicester Tigers: Combined XV as award winners and breakthrough stars dominate selection<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PREM Rugby play-offs are here, with Northampton Saints, Bath, Exeter Chiefs and Leicester Tigers the final four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,17345,39989,818,39694,44,39992,7708,20248,760,85],"class_list":["post-731786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bath","tag-exeter-chiefs","tag-home-page","tag-leicester-tigers","tag-news","tag-northampton-saints","tag-predictions","tag-premiership","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}