Club Rugby
This is where you will find all of The Rugby Paper’s Club Rugby news, interviews, reports, opinion and other content.
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoPack power fuels second half blitz
By ED WILLIAMS Wharfedale ..........14 Chester ..................19 CHESTER walked away with a win at the Avenue after their tireless forwards delivered...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoTitans left to rue wasted chances
By GUY WILLIAMS Rotherham............24 Bishop's Stort ......31 ROTHERHAM threw away a golden opportunity to improve their chances of avoiding relegation by...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoRemember Bill, Ashton honed his skills in National One
Lethal: Chris Ashton CHRIS Ashton often seemed to spend more time injured or pursuing his media ambitions during his time at...
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoRegionalised leagues would strengthen the club game
MARK NELSON LANCASHIRE COUNTY COACH Change is in the air apparently, the structure of league rugby in the English club game...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoAlbion edge high scoring encounter
By PADDY MARSH Plymouth Albion..34 Darlington MP ......27 PLYMOUTH maintained their run of fine form, emerging victorious against Darlington in a...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoRUGBY SHORTS
Giant Nadolo adds to Tigers’ firepower LEICESTER have recruited outsized Fiji wing Nemani Nadolo and Georgia hooker Shalva Mamukashvili for next...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoEight-try Chiefs show their attacking edge
By MIKE SINCLAIR Heavenly: Olly Woodburn dives over for Chiefs’ seventh try PICTURES: Getty Images EXETER belied the often-peddled but mistaken...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoLaventure try is decisive as Park seize the day
By WARREN MUGGLETON Sheer joy: Rosslyn Park celebrate going over in the important win over Richmond KIERAN Power hailed Rosslyn Park’s...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoMartin’s Lions take permanent residence at the Gnoll
NEWS EXTRA By ALEX BYWATER CLASSIC Lions President Allan Martin is relishing the chance to take one of rugby’s most famous...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoTwinkling Nowell back with star quality
THE return of fans’ favourite Jack Nowell, whose Six Nations was wrecked by injury, put the icing on the Exeter cake....
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National League One
/ 7 years agoWright off as Blood & Sand earn tightest of wins
Cambridge ....13 Moseley ........12 By STEVE JACKSON A RED card for Moseley’s Dan Wright ten minutes into added time at the...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoFlyer Hogg helps raise cash for Bill McLaren Foundation
NEWS EXTRA By SAM PARKHOUSE SCOTLAND captain Stuart Hogg is using his image to raise money for grassroots rugby in the...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoSopoaga helps keep impressive Wasps on right road
By ROGER PANTING WASPS completed a hat-trick of Premiership wins for the first time since September 2018 as Gloucester crashed to...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoDrama as Club fall to late penalty try defeat
Cinderford ......21 Blackheath ....16 By NIGEL WILCE THERE was late drama at Cinderford when the referee awarded the home side a...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoRUGBY SHORTS
Four weeks for Devoto EXETER centre Ollie Devoto has been banned for four weeks for a dangerous high tackle on Harlequins’...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoBlackett: We can do even better
DESPITEWasps winning three on the bounce, their interim head coach, Lee Blackett, wanted more. “We were really clinical but I believe...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoRampant Rams run over OEs
By JON EDWARDS Old Elthamians.....15 Rams........................31 AN IMPRESSIVE Rams were pushed all the way by this Old Elthamians side at College...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoPontypridd enjoy the derby day spoils
Premiership By ROGER THOMAS Merthyr ..........27 Pontypridd ....36 PONTYPRIDD headed back down the A470 with the derby day bragging rights after...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoMako leads the charge to cage Tigers again
By GARY FITZGERALD MAKO Vunipola admitted he was “gutted” at missing out on a 60th Test cap yesterday due to England’s...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoIonians lose in basement fight
By PAUL MARTIN Canterbury............24 Hull Ionians ..........15 CANTERBURY staged a second half comeback to claim victory in the battle between the...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoRavens fall at final hurdle again
By JOHN WILLIAMS Bridgend ........14 Carm Quins ....20 BRIDGEND’S luck ran out once again in the dying embers of yet another...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoNew Sale Sharks lock Lood de Jager hones in on Exiles
The Springboks giant will may his long-awaited debut for Sale Sharks on Friday night
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoNational One Rams are head-butted by RFU points deduction
Rams chief executive tells TRP how the RFU's decision to fine and deduct the club five points was too excessive
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoWorcester’s Ryan Mills to make Premiership switch to Wasps
'He can play in that Jimmy Gopperth mould' - Mills to join Wasps ahead of the 2020-21 season
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoLeicester Tigers wrap up deal for Super Rugby lock
A position that Geordan Murphy has been keen to bolster at Leicester
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoSpringboks star Pieter-Steph du Toit rejects Harlequins move
Paul Gustard's personal journey to South Africa wasn't enough to lure the Boks star to the Stoop
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoChris Ashton signs for Harlequins after leaving Sale
Well, that didn't take long...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoSaracens allay coronavirus fears over Vunipolas by making Mako available for selection
Mako Vunipola stands in line to play against Leicester Tigers this weekend after returning to the UK via Hong Kong recently
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoMove away from the Premiership on the cards for Bath fly-half Freddie Burns
Burns is unhappy at falling behind Rhys Priestland in Bath's selection plans
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoLeicester Tigers add firepower in wing Nemani Nadolo
Leicester fans who are missing Nemani Nadolo will have another Fijian to fill the void
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoExeter Chiefs sign Aaron Hinkley from rivals Gloucester
Rob Baxter also comments on the signing of Scarlets centre Corey Baldwin
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoChris Ashton leaves Sale Sharks and is heavily rumoured with Harlequins
The former England wing hits the open market after leaving Sale
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoFoden removes Hoppers’ spring
■By STEVE SMITH Chester ………………27 Preston GH …………14 CHESTER came from 11 points down to claim a bonus-point victory on the...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoRef Carley ignores the mind games
THE scrum war instigated by a Welsh campaign to highlight French ‘illegalities’ ahead of last weekend’s clash thankfully failed to get...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoIt’s Crame game as Rams edge the Titans
■By RICHARD ASHTON Rams ………………25 Rotherham ……20 RAMS put a testing week behind them to secure a bonus-point home victory against...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoUlster sign Mathewson
FORMER New Zealand scrum-half Alby Mathewson will join Ulster on a one-year contract in July. The 34-year-old, who has won five...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoJarrod enjoying new voice in Wales camp
NEWS EXTRA ■By STEFFAN THOMAS WALES haven’t had the best of times in the Six Nations, but Jarrod Evans hopes his...
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National League 2N
/ 7 years agoJoe leaves Field with a Stour taste
■By NICK PULLEN Stourbridge………14 Huddersfield………14 HUDDERSFIELD eased their relegation fears after a dogged draw with Stourbridge at Stourton Park. With a...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoMcPhillips ends Tigers bad run against Warriors
■By ROB WILDMAN Away: Tigers’ Telusa Veainu breaks through the tackle of Nick David PICTURES: Getty Images Early hope: Perry Humphreys...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoVillagers Nick it to keep up the chase at the top
■By JACK JOHNSON Diving in: Jason Worrall scores Chinnor’s first try PICTURES: Simon Cooper MATT Williams hailed his Chinnor side as...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoClubs call for EGM
THE WRU will be forced to hold an extraordinary general meeting by clubs over the new funding method introduced. The governing...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoTop 14 shun virus threat to go ahead on schedule
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Hat-trick: Joris Jurand ran in three tries in the first half for Brive Yesterday’s Top 14 matches...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoSolomons slams his ‘ridiculous’ defence
WORCESTER’S Alan Solomons raged at his team’s faulty defence after their fifth successive defeat in the Premiership. “It was ridiculous,” fumed...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoLeaders survive a scare to secure key bonus point
■By TIM FORRESTER Richmond……27 Canterbury……10 LOWLY Canterbury briefly held a two-point lead against Richmond but the league leaders were stung into...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoRochford and Guernsey level pegging
London & South East Premier GUERNSEYmaintained their place at the top of the table following a bonus try 43-3 win at...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoTipuric ends speculation
RUGBY SHORTS WALES flanker and Ospreys captain Justin Tipuric, 30, has signed a new three-year deal with the region to end...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoScotland can pass French test says Bradbury
NEWS EXTRA ■By BRYN PALMER SCOTLAND No.8 Magnus Bradbury is confident his side can derail France’s Grand Slam bandwagon when the...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoKingsholm falls again as Gloucs pay penalty
■By ROGER PANTING Thanks, Dan: Marland Yarde scores Sale’s third try after a Cipriani mis-pass PICTURES: Getty Images Threat: Tom Marshall...
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National League One
/ 7 years agoDarlington ensure that the ship Sales away
■By KEVIN ROBINSON Darlington MP34 Sale FC………………15 DARLINGTON Mowden Park emphatically registered their first win over visitors Sale FC on an...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoBournville get back to business at top
Midlands Premier IT WAS a quiet week in the Midlands Premier that saw four cancellations due to the weather. But there...
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