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Columnists
/ 6 years agoHewett column: Bill Beaumont wears the crown, others wield the power
Chris Hewett shares his view that World Rugby's governance makes FIFA look like a beacon of democracy
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: New 50:22 kicking law will fuel more drama
The 50:22 kicking law to be trialled by World Rugby will heighten the importance of positioning, writes Shane Williams
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWhat has gone wrong with the once-mighty Leicester Tigers?
The Premiership's most successful team are still well supported, but their DNA has changed
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: South Sea Bubble could provide tonic for rugby
Brendan Gallagher looks at how Pacific Island countries were left behind at the turning of amateurism to professional
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Featured
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: Premiership clubs will need to take this time to reset goals
Financial pressures aside, there is a need for squads to be in suitable condition for when rugby returns
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: Global game? Germany are decades behind
Given Germany's size and appetite for sport, what are the chances of them making a World Cup?
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Bill’s right, Six Nations owe Sanzaar nothing
Nick Cain slams the revolutionary-styled bid of Agustin Pichot, geared towards a Sanzaar bias borne out of envy
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoSpringboks ruled the roost in Second World War POW camp contest
Brendan Gallagher tells the fascinating story of Stalag 1VB, the prisoner of war camp housing captured soldiers from all over the...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoTRP’s GK IPA Championship 2019-20 Team of the Season
The time has come for us to hand out some honours and honourable mentions to the stars of the Championship
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoLions tour contenders RANKED – Courtney Lawes can win showdown with du Toit
Nick Cain explains why Lawes fits what Warren Gatland needs from his No.6
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJonny Hill: I’m my worst critic, when I watch myself on TV I cringe
With a Premiership title and Champions Cup knockout stage to fight for, Exeter lock Hill is full of optimism
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: ’57 old farts’ and one nauseous reporter
Brendan Gallagher recalls when the RFU top brass went for the jugular at Will Carling's dig at humour
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: Pandemic ends Brock James chance at fitting farewell
Synonymous with the Top 14, Peter Jackson finds how La Rochelle's Brock James is in esteemed company with other No.10s
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Steve Hansen still sucking sour grapes over Lions
Reversal of penalty against Ken Owens in the third Test still rankles with the Kiwis three years on
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: Bath need a 9-10 combination which gives them quick ball
Jeremy Guscott analyses how Bath can produce a style of rugby to take them to being regular play-off challengers in the...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: Enforced rest period will boost Wales team
The downtime in rugby will be welcome to players who toured with the Lions in 2017, with rest hard to come...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby shock wins and upsets
Brendan Gallagher recalls rugby’s biggest ever shocks, at club and internaitonal level, and ranks each for the magnitude of the upset....
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoExclusive: Plan for rugby’s global calendar sees Six Nations run into May
Peter Jackson exclusively reports on how the club and international calendar could be about to shift its axis
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoTen of Premiership Rugby’s 13 member clubs consider breakaway
BT Sport's deal with PRL is up next year and has hastened talk of a breakaway to allow club's outright control...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoLions tour contenders RANKED – Itoje can compete with Bok giants
Nick Cain ranks the locks who can form a formidable second row to unsettle the Boks in 2021
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoPicking a greatest England team from the four World Cup squads to have reached finals
Nick Cain selects a composite XV mined from the four England teams to have reached a Rugby World Cup final
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: Easy does it when we finally get green light
The Welsh rugby icon contemplates rugby's return to training and matchdays
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Don’t mess up this crucial changeover
Brendan Gallagher points out that no-one from rugby's professional era has chaired World Rugby
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: WRU hard ball killed Test dreams of Steven Shingler
Peter Jackson sheds lights on the 'injustice' which came the way of fly-half Steven Shingler
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoWorld Rugby election: Agustin Pichot could be five votes short of winning
Pichot appears unlikely to win chairmanship as European powers stands behind Beaumont's bid
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Our Golden Goose is an endangered species
Nick Cain says rugby can come through its most precarious challenge if it becomes more transparent
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Featured
/ 6 years agoSpecial report: Question time at Twickenham
The RFU has been accused of showing 'disrespect' towards Championship Clubs by a former chair of the management board
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: Empty stadiums? You would be surprised by the chatter
How can the remainder of the Six Nations be played in a safe manner?
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoEllis Genge’s rare feat in the Six Nations shows how props are changing
Willie John McBride told TRP last week props weren't built like they used to
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoAnalysis: So, how do you fix this mess called the scrum?
TRP's mailbag is teeming with letters regarding the scrum every week. Nick Cain examines what's wrong and how it can be...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoHarrington column: Presidents scrap over playoff principle
The 'hellscape' facing France's Top 14 with TV and player welfare ramifications
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby hard cases countdown: No 5-1
The hard men who wouldn't take a step back on the rugby pitch
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoLions tour contenders RANKED – test of strength at tighthead could sway series
Nick Cain looks at the depth available to Warren Gatland at tighthead for the Lions
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoProbyn column: Big guns will back Bill Beaumont to save them cash
Jeff Probyn contemplates what Bernard Laporte's running for World Rugby vice-chairman means for Bill Beaumont's bid to be re-elected
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoRFU column: We’re here to help and will do all we can
Direct from the RFU, director Steve Grainger outlines the work they are doing to prevent clubs from going to the wall
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby hard cases countdown: 10-6
British & Irish Lions icon Willie John McBride enters the list, as we near revealing No.1
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: Axed star Peter Larter still doesn’t know why
Peter Jackson journeys back to The Troubles when England went where others at the time feared to tread: Dublin
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: The hustings buzz with the promises of Agustin Pichot
Nick Cain says the campaign to become World Rugby chairman is verging on ageism
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: Riches of Japan spell big trouble for players in England and Wales
Growth of game in the Far East will leave unions short given selection criteria, writes Shane Williams
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Gus Pichot has visions of changing the world
Talk of revolution is in the air as Pichot's invokes Che
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby hard cases countdown: No 15-11
Trouble seemed to find its way to Bakkies Botha on the rugby pitch...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: May-day for opponents as Gloucester-bound Jonny just gets better
Jeremy Guscott analyses Jonny May's move to Gloucester and what it means for his England career
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby hard cases countdown: 20-16
Brendan Gallagher begins his countdown of rugby's hardest men
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby’s finest rushed to the battlefront and died heroes with VCs
FOR three decades or more before 1914 the young men of Britain and its extended Empire had been fighting generally good...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 wasted rugby talents countdown: No 5-1
Out countdown reaches its conclusion...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoLions Tour contenders RANKED – Jamie George faces challenge from bolters
Nick Cain ranks the five hookers leading the way to start for the Lions against the Springboks in 2021
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoProbyn column: Now Eddie Jones can make up for mistakes at the World Cup
Well I guess it was no surprise that Eddie Jones got his contract extension even if he and many others thought...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 wasted rugby talents countdown: No 10-6
An All Blacks career derailed and the Caribbean-English trailblazer born in the wrong era
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 wasted rugby talents countdown: No 15-11
Brendan Gallagher rankings of talents who didn't fulfil their potential continues...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: The past was a different country for rugby thrills
Brendan Gallagher believes conservative play has etched into modern rugby
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