Premiership

English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

London Welsh fail appeal

London Welsh have failed their appeal against the five-point deduction and £15,000 fine they received for fielding an eligible player. They...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Revealed: Major gulf in funding of top clubs

Premier Rugby Ltd is facing serious questions over the huge differences between the funding provided to its ‘founder’ clubs compared to...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Trigger-finger refs stamp out cynicism

Greater vigilance by referees at the breakdown and less tolerance of cynical play has led to a sharp rise in yellow...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Wasps must use Tommy Bell to ring in changes for future, says Kenny Logan

Wasps‘ challenge for a top four spot has defied expectations but club legend Kenny Logan insists the focus has to be...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Matt Stevens is back to his best now he’s 20 stones!

Matt Stevens says piling on the pounds and a change of positions has contributed to him enjoying one of his best...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Dan Braid has the appetite to satisfy Sale hunger

Sale flanker Dan Braid was so confident that 2013 would turn out to be a good year he saw it in...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Little and large are big-time with Bath

Matt Banahan has hailed his ‘little and large’ midfield partnership with Kyle Eastmond, likening their relationship to the 1988 comedy classic...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

London Welsh left bottom with 5-point deduction and £15,000 fine

London Welsh have been deducted five league points and fined £15,000 after being found guilty to have fielded an ineligible player...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Shane Geraghty’s enjoying tough love with London Irish

Playmaker Shane Geraghty puts London Irish‘s recent upturn in form down to a tough new approach. The Exiles may have taken...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Tyson Keats was eligible to play, London Welsh will tell RFU

London Welsh are preparing to launch a powerful defence against the charge that scrum-half Tyson Keats was ineligible to play in...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Saracens go top with bonus-point win over London Welsh

Saracens went top of the Premiership table for the first time in three years following their 35-11 bonus-point win over London...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Live: Saracens v London Welsh

Live running commentary from our man Nick Verdier as Saracens take on London Welsh in the 17th round of the Aviva...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Welcome to hard work, Anthony Allen tells his old pal Ryan Lamb

Leicester centre Anthony Allen believes that Ryan Lamb, a former fellow young pup at Gloucester, will flourish in the Tigers’ dog-eat-dog...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

“I Kahn fight for my place”, says Northampton Lee Dickson

Lee Dickson’s starting spot at Franklin’s Gardens will come under considerable threat when Europe’s most sought-after scrum-half Kahn Fotuali’i joins Northampton...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Huge boost for London Irish with vital win against London Wasps

London Irish have received a huge boost in their relegation battle with a vital 30-19 win against London Wasps at the...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Live: London Irish v London Wasps

Live running commentary from our man Nick Verdier as London Irish take on London Wasps in the 16th round of the...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

London Wasps confirm Top 4 status with win over Gloucester

London Wasps created a clear gap between them and the rest of the pack in the race for the semi-finals with...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Captain Dean Schofield wants a halt to Worcester exodus

Dean Schofield has spoken of the need for Worcester to keep their homegrown players at the club if they want to...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Alex King can help Northampton Saints be kings of England

Alex King is the man to end Northampton‘s reputation as the nearly men of English rugby, according to two men who...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Courtney Lawes’ power hit changed Gonzalo Tiesi’s life

Courtney Lawes made his usual powerful impact off the bench at Twickenham yesterday – bringing painful memories for Gonzalo Tiesi. Outside...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

You should have stayed a Leicester boy, George

George Ford could be making the biggest mistake of his life by quitting Leicester this summer, according to former fly-half prodigy...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Halrequins kids will make it tough for Paul Doran Jones

Paul Doran-Jones might be on his way to Harlequins to replace James Johnston but he will have to get past two...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

You’ve got to join a bigger club, Lewis Moody tells Matt Kvesic

Matt Kvesic needs to leave Worcester to further his international claims, says former England skipper and World Cup winner Lewis Moody....

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Northampton Saints sign Kahn Fotuali’i

Northampton Saints have secured the services of one of Europe’s hottest property as they announced the arrival of Samoan scrum-half Kahn...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Dave Walder loves mad whirl of rugby, Japanese-style

Dave Walder has found playing in Japan ‘mystifying and infuriating’ – but he does not want his Oriental adventure to end....

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Saracens in chase for Europe’s top target

Saracens, fresh from signing Billy Vunipola and James Johnston this week, are among a possee of clubs chasing Ospreys scrum half...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Exile Ed Williamson brushes up for life after rugby

London Welsh‘s abrasive back row forward Ed Williamson is developing a name for himself off the pitch – as an artist....

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Saracens snap up Billy Vunipola and James Johnston

As revealed by Neil Fissler in The Rugby Paper back in December, Billy Vunipola will team up with his brother Mako...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

No end to Dan Caprice’s magical mystery tour

Dan Caprice is not one for letting the grass grow under his feet. Over the past three years he has travelled...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Let us help get the refs up to speed, say top clubs

Premiership Rugby want to play a more active role in the recruitment and training of referees in future. At present the...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

David Ellis – “I can turn Danny Cipriani back into an England star”

Defence coach Dave Ellis says he can help Danny Cipriani get back into the England side. Gifted Sale Sharks playmaker Cipriani...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

London Wasps outplay and dominate Bath to go fourth

London Wasps made their way into the Top 4 with a dominant 29-15 win over Bath at Adams Park today. What...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Saints and London Irish claim big wins at Exeter and Gloucester

Northampton confirmed their new-found form with a comprehensive 30-19 win over Exeter at Sandy Park today. A try from Ken Pisi...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Leicester go top of Premiership with win against Worcester

Leicester went top of the Premiership table following their narrow 19-14 victory over Worcester at Sixways tonight. David Lemi with a...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

“Christian Wade must add to his X-factor” – Joe Rokocoko

Joe Rokocoko admits he sees plenty of his younger self in Christian Wade, but the former All Black insists the Wasps...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Sale Sharks still alive with bonus-point defeat at London Wasps

Sale secured a last gasp losing bonus-point against London Wasps to keep their hopes of avoiding relegation alive this afternoon. While...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

London Wasps flyer Tom Varndell firing on all cylinders

When it comes to spare time, tweeting and playing video games rank pretty high on most rugby players’ list of hobbies....

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Premiership round 11: preview and predictions

Bath v Saracens Bath Rugby have made six changes to the starting line-up that beat Calvisano in the Amlin Challenge Cup...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

How a phone revamped Harlequins’ coaching

Never afraid to explore new ways of training, Harlequins have been making giant strides in recent weeks using…a 5.5”-screen mobile phone....

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Brian Mujati is brewing up a storm at Saints

These are hectic days for Northampton‘s former South Africa prop Brian Mujati. Aside from agreeing a move to Paris moneybags Racing...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

“Relegation threat keeps it interesting” – London Irish Ian Humphreys

London Irish may be struggling in the Premiership but fly-half Ian Humphreys is not joining the clamour for relegation to be...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Wasp Tom Varndell hunting down Steve Hanley’s record

With nine tries in nine Premiership games played so far this season, Tom Varndell is in the form of his life...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Autumn Internationals
/ 13 years ago

Fearless Freddie Burns gets his chance – Mike Tindall

Gloucester player-coach Mike Tindall believes 22-year-old Freddie Burns will have no problem stepping into international rugby should he feature against the...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

“We’re getting more and more confident” – Tom Varndell

London Wasps are travelling to Sandy Park tomorrow to face Exeter looking to carry on their good run of form against one of...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Premiership round 10: previews and predictions

Harlequins v Worcester Harlequins have made three changes to the starting XV that played Bath last weekend for the reception of...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Openside gambit from Luke Wallace: “I’ll oust Chris Robshaw”

Ultra-competitive Harlequins flanker Luke Wallace believes he could provide the long-term answer to England‘s search for a genuine openside. And he...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Premiership round 9 review

Bath (beat Harlequins 21-18) While the talk is all about Gloucester in the West Country, Bath are quietly becoming a force...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Spirited London Wasps tame Leicester Tigers

London Wasps remained unbeaten at home with a spirited 14-12 win over the Leicester Tigers at Adams Park today. As a...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

“We stopped doing the hard graft up front” – Northampton’s Ken Pisi

Last week against the Dragons, Northampton ended a four-game losing streak which saw them go from unbeaten at top of the...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 13 years ago

Bryan Redpath is ready to face the Kingsholm abuse

Bryan Redpath will stride through the gates of Kingsholm with his head held high on Saturday, proud of the legacy he...

By The Rugby Paper Team