Club Rugby

• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 13 years ago

  Chance to have controlling interest lured Shane Geraghty back to Irish

  Fly-half Shane Geraghty has relished the link-up with Brian Smith and says the opportunity to be the fulcrum in London Irish‘s...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 13 years ago

  So far so good for London Irish’s new ‘offloading machine’ Seitaimata Sa

  Plenty of Rugby League converts take months if not years to adapt to the intricacies of Union, but London Irish-bound Setaimata...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 13 years ago

  Top clubs may fight salary cap in court

  The legality of Premiership Rugby’s salary cap is set to be challenged under European Union competition law, according to a leading...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 13 years ago

  Saint-Andre’s regime is to blame for Sale’s slump, says Pete Anglesea

  Former director of rugby Philippe Saint-Andre must shoulder the blame for Sale‘s slump in fortunes, according to forwards coach Pete Anglesea....

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 13 years ago

  Premiership preview (1 day to go): Harlequins, Leicester, Saracens

  With the Aviva Premiership starting tomorrow, we take a look at what lays ahead for the last three of the 12...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 13 years ago

  Aviva Premiership Round 1: Team News and Predictions

  Exeter v Sale Tom Johnson returns to the Exeter team after making his England debut on their summer tour to South...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Featured

  / 13 years ago

  Top14 Round 3: Preview and Predictions

  Bottom of the table Mont-de-Marsan face the daunting prospect of unbeaten big spending Toulon with Jonny Wilkinson in fine point scoring...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 13 years ago

  Conor O’Shea challenges Harlequins to become a great team

  Good teams win titles, but great teams back it up time and again. That is the view of Harlequins‘ head honcho...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Championship

  / 13 years ago

  RFU Championship Preview: team by team

  Bedford Blues The shortening of the play-off format from a top eight to a top four will assist part-time outfit Bedford...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Featured

  / 13 years ago

  Maxime Mermoz joined with Jonny Wilkinson at Toulon to win titles

  After four years at Perpignan, centre Maxime Mermoz says he switched to the other side of the Mediterranean coast to join...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 13 years ago

  Premiership preview (2 days to go): Northampton, Exeter, Sale

  With the start of the Aviva Premiership only two days away, we take a look at what lies ahead for the...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 13 years ago

  Dylan Hartley says Northampton don’t need Chris Ashton

  Northampton captain Dylan Hartley says winger Chris Ashton is gone and forgotten after turning his back on the club to join...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Championship

  / 13 years ago

  “We’ll have fun rising to challenge,” says Newcastle’s Dean Richards

  Dean Richards will warn his Newcastle troops to expect the unexpected when they finally get their Championship campaign up and running...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 13 years ago

  Fijian Josh Matavesi can lead the Worcester Warriors great offensive

  Worcester boss Richard Hill reckons Josh Matavesi could provide the X-Factor to spark the Warriors’ backline into life. Hill’s men struggled...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 13 years ago

  Premiership preview (3 days to go): London Irish, Bath, Gloucester

  With the start of the Aviva Premiership only three days away, we take a look at what lays ahead for the...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 13 years ago

  Loyal Matt Smith content to be an unsung hero at Leicester Tigers

  No player better embodies the qualities of the archetypal Leicester player than Matt Smith – Tigers through and through, massively appreciated...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Championship

  / 13 years ago

  SSE National Leagues preview

  With the National Leagues competitions starting on Saturday, we take a look at how Fylde, Ealing, Caldy and Redruth are preparing....

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Championship

  / 13 years ago

  Championship winners must go up says chairman Geoff Irvine

  Championship clubs’ chairman Geoff Irvine, right, says their Premiership counterparts need worry about only one thing – to avoid finishing bottom...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 13 years ago

  Alex Gray hopes fast start can earn green light at London Irish

  London Irish No.8 Alex Gray is hoping for ‘second season syndrome’ in reverse as he looks to put a disappointing first...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 13 years ago

  Premiership preview (4 days to go): Worcester, London Wasps, London Welsh

  With the start of the Aviva Premiership only four days away, we take a look at what lays ahead for the...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 13 years ago

  “I’m more than just a fast mover,” says Wasps winger Christian Wade

  Wasps winger Christian Wade is sick of being labelled simply a speed merchant and is determined to prove he has more...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 13 years ago

  Saracens Andy Saull working to build same power as Jacques Burger

  English rugby has been crying out for a classic openside who can link play in the loose, turn over the ball...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Championship

  / 13 years ago

  Falcons have strength in depth to make a quick return says Glen Delaney

  With the honourable exception of Bedford’s Mike Rayer, there is no coach with more experience of English rugby’s second tier than...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 13 years ago

  New Exeter signing Ian Whitten is out to prove he’s not just a stop-gap

  Ian Whitten spent last season stepping in whenever needed at Ulster – now at Exeter he intends to make himself part...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Champions Cup

  / 13 years ago

  ERC “dismayed” over Anglo-French threats.

  As exclusively revealed by Peter Jackson in The Rugby Paper on May 6th, English and French clubs have given an ultimatum...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Championship

  / 13 years ago

  Age is no worry for new Esher coach Ollie Smith

  Having made his Leicester debut a few months after leaving school and toured with the Lions, aged 22, Ollie Smith’s appointment...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 13 years ago

  Prop stars give Worcester’s Matt Mullan best of both worlds

  Mentored by Phil Vickery at Worcester and Graham Rowntree with England – Matt Mullan doesn’t have to look too far for...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Championship

  / 13 years ago

  New funding deal for Championship clubs revealed

  As revealed in our The Rugby Paper on August 5th, the RFU has unveiled today a new four-year funding deal for...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 13 years ago

  “I’ve come South to toughen myself up,” says Scotland giant Richie Gray

  Richie Gray wants to emulate boyhood hero Martin Johnson and become a master of the dark arts of forward play following...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 13 years ago

  ‘Battered’ Sale Shark flanker Hendre Fourie in battle to play again

  England flanker Hendre Fourie has suffered another setback in his comeback from a debilitating shoulder injury. The 32-year-old admits that the...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Champions Cup

  / 14 years ago

  Henry Thomas relishing Andrew Sheridan Heineken Cup rematch

  Henry Thomas is eager for the chance to turn the tables on former tutor Andrew Sheridan this season after Sale‘s graduation...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 14 years ago

  Cipriani and Gray to make Sale debuts

  Danny Cipriani and Richie Gray are set to make their Sale debuts after being selected among the replacements for tomorrow’s friendly...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 14 years ago

  Waldouck handed first Saints start against Leinster

  New Northampton Saints signing Dominic Waldouck has been selected to make his home debut for his new club in tomorrow’s pre-season...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 14 years ago

  Gary Gold and Bath look at tie-up with Super Rugby side

  Bath are considering forming an alliance with a Super Rugby side in a groundbreaking move which could involve trans-hemisphere player swaps....

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 14 years ago

  Reformed Shark Andy Powell is the new ‘Sebastien Chabal’

  Sale Sharks are to extend Andy Powell’s contract in recognition of the Welshman’s emergence as ‘the new Sebastian Chabal.’ The Premiership‘s...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 14 years ago

  Elliot Daly’s rise means Dai Young won’t miss Dominic Waldouck

  The emergence of Elliot Daly as a star for Wasps this year made director of rugby Dai Young‘s decision to let...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 14 years ago

  Step aside you Brownlees rugby has the Claassens

  The Brownlee brothers have provided no shortage of excitement with their Olympic triathlon exploits but rugby will be able to enjoy...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 14 years ago

  London Welsh: “We’ll stick to our principles”

  Ed Jackson believes the culture at London Welsh this season will not change despite the arrival of a host of foreign...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 14 years ago

  Let me wing it like Alesana says new Tiger Adam Thompstone

  Alesana Tuilagi racked up more than a half-century of tries for Leicester at an average of better than one every three...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Featured

  / 14 years ago

  Lock of ages? French turn back clock for Brits

  The burgeoning British colony in France hurls itself into Top 14 action next weekend, an assault force headed by surely the...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 14 years ago

  London Welsh capture hard men Kirill Kulemin and Paulica Ion

  London Welsh have plunged into the European transfer market and signed a pair of international forwards born behind the then Iron...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Champions Cup

  / 14 years ago

  Serge Blanco lets me know if I’m kicking too much says Iain Balshaw

  World Cup winner Iain Balshaw knows all about instinctive rugby and would love England to show more of it. We meet...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Championship

  / 14 years ago

  Final offer from RFU would see Championship clubs receive £4.3m backing

  Championship clubs are close to agreeing a funding deal for the next four seasons after receiving what has been described by...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 14 years ago

  Ben Ryan asks: Can Ashton adapt to Sevens in time?

  Chris Ashton and Alex Goode’s interest in being included in Great Britain’s Sevens squad for the 2016 Olympics Sevens has been...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 14 years ago

  Saracens talisman Schalk Brits is hooked on helping talented young guns

  Saracens hooker Schalk Brits says he expects to take an occasional     backseat at the club this season to accommodate the development...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 14 years ago

  Long wait is over for new Gloucester prop Huia Edmonds

  Hedging his bets in trying to reach the Premiership and play for Australia in the World Cup almost scuppered Gloucester hooker...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• Champions Cup

  / 14 years ago

  Moment in Time: Northampton Saints and the 2000 Heineken Cup final

  Few people had rated Northampton’s chances of lifting the Heineken Cup. Still fewer gave them a prayer after they had lost...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 14 years ago

  Rugby League ace Martin Gleeson ready to switch to Rugby Union

  Great Britain Rugby League centre Martin Gleeson is ready to switch codes and follow the Union trail blazed by Jason Robinson...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 14 years ago

  George Ford has the attitude to be a truly great No10 says Dave Alred

  In just under 18 months Dave Alred had transformed golfer Luke Donald from world No 32 in the rankings to world...

  By The Rugby Paper Team
• English Gallagher Premiership

  / 14 years ago

  Bath call in Jason Robinson to mentor Kyle Eastmond

  Cross-code legend Jason Robinson is mentoring Kyle Eastmond in a bid to help the former St Helens and England RL man...

  By The Rugby Paper Team

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