Premiership

Premiership
/ 6 years ago

Hogg holds tight to add finishing touch

By ROGER PANTING No mistakes: Stuart Hogg holds on tight to score for Exeter PICTURES: Getty Images TEAMS GLOUCESTER: Banahan 6,...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

We have to keep the faith, say Glos

GLOUCESTER head coach Johan Ackermann accepted that his side were their own worst enemies. “The stats will show that we had...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

Young gun Coles aims to make a statement against experienced Bristol pack

By NEALE HARVEY TYRO lock Alex Coles is relishing his chance to shine against a gnarly Bristol pack as Northampton aim...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

Exiles back up Saints win with Stoop bonus

By ADAM ELLIS Powerplay: Oli Hoskins crashes over for the Exiles’ bonus point try PICTURES: Getty Images Consolation: Cadan Murley scores...

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Championship
/ 6 years ago

Harlequins hunt Ealing Trailfinders front-row trio

Harlequins scrum coach Adam Jones set to have more than just Wilco Louw coming into the front row

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

World Cup man Mark Wilson back on track with Sale Sharks

Wilson knows there's plenty of work to be done to add to his 18 England caps

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

Ben Youngs told to take pay cut if he wants to stay at Leicester

The scrum-half is out of contract at Welford Road at the end of the season

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

Jamie George to stay at Saracens when club is relegated to Championship

George signals his intention to stay put with GK IPA Championship-bound Saracens, even with 2021 being a Lions year

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

Harlequins announce signing of Stormers tighthead Wilco Louw

Quins have found their replacement in the pack when Kyle Sinckler heads to Bristol

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

Harlequins line up Springboks star Pieter-Steph du Toit to replace Robshaw

Also, Simon Zebo appears to be on his way out of France but an Ireland homecoming might not be on the...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

Bracken: Saracens’ Lions tour hopefuls should be looking to leave

Kyren Bracken believes Saracens' elite players should move elsewhere next season

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

RFU and PRL slash funding to the Championship by 50%

Championship clubs hang on a cliff edge as funding from central power is cut from £8.1 to £4.3m

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

WRU target homecoming for two Welsh exiles currently in the Premiership

Leicester's Tommy Reffell and Bristol's Mat Protheroe are targets to bring to a Welsh region for the WRU

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

Dai Young steps back from Wasps director of rugby role

Wasps take action after underwhelming start to Premiership season and Challenge Cup exit

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

Sale and England hooker Rob Webber makes retirement call

Webber won 16 caps for England, all of which came under Stuart Lancaster

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

Sharks let rip in first half feeding frenzy

By ROSS HEPPENSTALL FOR a club as ambitious as Sale, a first piece of silverware in 14 years would do nicely...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

Diamond: Four big games to book our playoff place

STEVE Diamond expects a tougher test when Sale travel to Saracens in the Premiership on Saturday. Diamond said: “We’re in the...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

CLOSE-UP

ROB DU PREEZ Sale fly-half V ALEX GOODE Saracens fly-half Rob du Preez is a class act and has become a...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

Dombrandt stars again as Quins march on

Exeter ………………22 Harlequins ……49 ALEX Dombrandt scored two tries as Harlequins ended Exeter’s hopes of winning three trophies with a thumping...

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Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

Callum Braley to leave Gloucester after six years at Kingsholm

Italian PRO14 club Benetton will be Braley's destination at the end of the season

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

Transfers: Wasps lose flanker Thibaud Flament to Toulouse

News regarding the packs of Wasps and Harlequins

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

Leicester Tigers lead the chase for Ross Moriarty

Leicester seek to bolster front row and back row for next season, with Wales flanker Moriarty just one of their targets

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

Specifically our Terry was simply one of the very best

TERRY Cooper was an old-fashioned reporter with an innate love of the game he wrote about. As Rugby correspondent of the...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

Gustard: Eddie won’t ignore us much longer

By JON NEWCOMBE Outstanding: Alex Dombrandt scores for Quins against Worcester PICTURE: Getty Images TEAMS EXETER: Dollman; Bodilly, Wyatt, Hendrickson, Short;...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

Skinner makes his return to lead charge for Chiefs

SCOTLAND international back-rower Sam Skinner, right, makes his first start of the season after injury to captain an Exeter side showing...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

Lineen led the way for Six Nations invasion

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Trail-blazer: Sean Lineen playing for Scotland in 1990 The entire cast for the...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

Posponed game puts a sudden spoke in Les’ bicycle wheel

AS A WING for Aberavon and Wales, Les Keen always knew where to go, hard and fast, ideally along the line...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

Bath ready to offer Saracens centre Alex Lozowski a new challenge

Neil Fissler reveals which clubs have marked Saracens players as targets

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

Clamour for Saracens’ free agents may start a slaughter, says Joe Simpson

The Gloucester scrum-half believes the market will impact players at other clubs when want-away Saracens stars become available

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

Ed Griffiths steps down at Saracens after just 26 days

Interim chief executive Ed Griffiths resigns days after news emerges he is being investigated by the ECB

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

Bristol Bears hunt Matt Kvesic after wrapping up Sinckler deal

And Exeter have already found a replacement from a fellow Premiership club

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

Diamond savours his rare triumph at Exeter

By MIKE SINCLAIR STEVE Diamond believes his Sharks are in good shape to mount a serious attack on a Premiership play-off...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

Sharks go third, ‘doing it right way’

VICTORY took Sale into third place in the Premiership table and rugby director Steve Diamond said: “Our investment – like Exeter’s...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

Young tells England to keep an eye on Willis

By GARY FITZGERALD Comeback: Ollie Lawrence goes over for Worcester DAI Young claimed Eddie Jones should have picked Jack Willis after...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

We’re kicking ourselves for losing that says disappointed Duncan

Frustrated: Duncan Weir DUNCAN Weir hopes for better luck with Scotland next weekend after failing to sign off from club duty...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

Salary cap fallout pours more fuel on feisty rivalry

By NEALE HARVEY Loyal: Will Collier Eager: Richard Barrington HARLEQUINS prop Will Collier insists his side need no extra motivation as...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

Porecki’s the hero as Saints implode

By ROGER PANTING Shock and roar: Dave Porecki dives over in the last minute to seal victory for Irish PICTURE: Getty...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

PRL lynch mob make Sarries climb scaffold

HOW can a Premiership Rugby organisation which preaches the moral virtues of a level playing field in salary cap funding –...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

Stuttering Bears finally remember their lines

By NICK CAIN In at the corner: Henry Purdy scores the opening try for Bristol PICTURES: Getty Images BRISTOL have had...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

Hughes ‘needs to be 80 minutes’

BRISTOL boss Pat Lam said he had mixed emotions after his team recorded their biggest Premiership tally over Gloucester, mainly because...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

Struggling Tigers put down by Homer’s try-double

By ALEX BYWATER TOM HOMER’S moment of brilliance lit up a turgid clash to give Bath a vital win as Taulupe...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Premiership
/ 6 years ago

Murphy calls for more bravery

GEORDAN Murphy bemoaned a slow Leicester start as his team were pipped at the post by Tom Homer’s second try, after...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

George Ford still has his best years ahead of him, says Eastmond

Kyle Eastmond has watched Ford grow from his time at Bath and Leicester

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

Nigel Wray issues apology to Saracens as Premiership releases report into salary cap breach

Nigel Wray speaks out to clarify co-investments with players revealed in finer detail by the Dyson report

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

Harlequins sign Andre Esterhuizen after meeting lofty wage demands

Quins win race for Springbok centre's signature after facing competition from rival Premiership club

By The Rugby Paper Team
English Gallagher Premiership
/ 6 years ago

Premiership Rugby finally break cover over Saracens farrago

Chief executive Darren Childs says Premiership Rugby acted to protect the integrity of the league

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

Lyon offer an escape route to trio of Saracens superstars

What will this mean for their England careers?

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

Northampton Saints strengthen front row with Nick Auterac signing

The Harlequins prop will leave The Stoop after two seasons in London

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

Saracens have ‘tainted’ their success and should ‘repent’, says Bristol owner Lansdown

Bristol Bears owner Steve Lansdown lifts the lid on his displeasure at Saracens flouting salary cap rule

By The Rugby Paper Team
Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago

Leicester confirm coaching restructure which will see Steve Borthwick join Tigers

What will Borthwick's arrival mean for Geordan Murphy?

By The Rugby Paper Team