English Championship
This is where you will find all of The Rugby Paper’s English Championship news, interviews, reports, opinion and other content.
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoMarlen Walker bolsters Wasps front row
WASPS have signed prop Marlen Walker from Championship side Cornish Pirates on a short-term loan deal. The 32-year-old New Zealander has...
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoTier Two clubs set to pull out of season
Neale Harvey reports on the perilous state facing some of the Championship's 12 clubs
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoLions prop Johannes Jonker agrees Ealing move
Director of rugby Ben Ward adds South Africa tighthead to Trailfinders' front row options
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoCrossdale jumps ship for Wasps
Wasps secure the signing of a player who has been on Eddie Jones' radar
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoSmid: Don’t stop us, we’re only getting started
Ealing Trailfinders captain Rayn Smid reveals he would not move to any Premiership club for fear of the Championship winning promotion
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoRotherham and Jersey Reds sing praises for Ed Robinson
Jon Newcombe speak to the coaches who know Ed Robinson, the Jersey Reds coach who will join up with Eddie Jones
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoFight to save Championship: Nick Cain talks to Coventry director Nick Johnston
The managing director of the Championship club fumes over the lack of collective agreement over the TEC and the absence of...
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoFrench system is set up for success – Adamson
Former Bedford Blues wing Dean Adamson is settling in well to life in the second tier of French rugby at Pro...
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoNewcastle show the importance of the Championship, says Pirates’ O’Meara
Alex O'Meara believes Newcastle's time in the Championship has served them well for their strong return to the Premiership
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoExclusive: Relegation scrapped in Premiership this season
Jon Newcombe reports on the increased likelihood that the Premiership will revert to a 13-team league at the end of the...
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoEaling 27-26 Saracens: Passionate Trailfinders prove their point again
Daniel Gallan reports from Vallis Way where Ealing Trailfinders proved their were a match for the three-time champions of Europe
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoWasps grab Doncaster Knight stalwart Robin Hislop
Hislop spent the end of last season in the Premiership on loan at Saracens
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoSaracens agree to release Alex Sanderson to become new Sale Sharks DoR
Sale Sharks formally announce appointment of former captain Sanderson as their director of rugby with immediate effect
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoSaracens scrum-half Tom Whiteley to make Bristol switch
A former Millfield School teammate of Bristol fly-half Callum Sheedy
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoStream all Championship games live to grow the league says Judge
Ex-Cornish Pirates and Saracens prop Christian Judge expects there to be an adjustment period for Championship newcomers
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoSaracens, Ealing and Doncaster to take part in Triangular Cup competition
Trio of Championship clubs to contest pre-season Trailfinders Challenge Cup, with January 16 kick-off date
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoExclusive: Saracens looking to arrange friendlies with incoming South African franchises to PRO14
Neil Fissler reports on Saracens seeking to prepare for the Championship's kick off in March with a series of friendlies against...
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoBok star Van Zyl joins Sarries promotion bid
Saracens have found their replacement to Richard Wigglesworth among the scrum-half options
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoInverdale: February date for League Cup
NCA chair John Inverdale tells TRP when National League clubs can expect to return to action in a new cup competition
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoChampionship consider a return to play-off system
Neale Harvey has the latest on the RFU finalising plans for the new Championship season to kick off in January
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoChampionship consider return to playoff system
NOTTINGHAM chairman Alistair Bow says he would welcome plans for a shorter, conference-based Championship season with the title decided by play-offs....
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoAll levels must support the new National cup, says Albion’s Chris Bentley
Plymouth Albion director Bentley expresses the situation facing National League clubs and below
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoSaracens young stars are chomping at the bit for a start date
Forwards coach Alex Sanderson says the London club are ready to unleash their youngsters on the Championship
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoChampionship clubs want Saracens to ‘sod off’ says Will Greenwood
Will Greenwood says the summary execution of Saracens will be of no benefit to Championship clubs under the current circumstances, nor...
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoUncertainty around Championship season could see Saracens return to Premiership
Ealing Trailfinders could buy their way in to the Premiership as part of potential expansions for the league, according to reports
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoJosh Beaumont volunteers to help keep Fylde afloat
Sale lock Beaumont is going back to where it all began to develop a commercial plan outside of his playing commitments
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoEaling Trailfinders sign Worcester back row target
Ambitious Championship club Ealing sign bulked back row formerly of Southern Kings
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoRFU plans big shake-up to get National Leagues clubs back in action
The three divisions that make up the National Leagues could be set to go regionalised in a truncated 2020-21 season
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoEaling Trailfinders could mix it with Premiership clubs, says Reid
Ex-Trailfinders flanker Jordy Reid, now at Gloucester, believes the club could fill in if financial ruin hit the top flight
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoLucock: Newcastle were the best team I’ve seen come down to the Championship
Jon Newcombe catches up with the new Newcastle Falcons signing who missed much of last season with a knee injury
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoPlayers will go from feast to famine, says Alan Solomons
The Worcester Warriors director of rugby is envisaging development players to bear the impact of unprecedented times in rugby
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoGovernment hits pause button on return of fans to stadiums
Fears for RFU, Premiership and Championship finances as government orders matches to be played behind closed doors
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoWill Hurrell takes first step into coaching after retirement
Former Bristol Bears centre Will Hurrell to embark on coaching career at the age of 30
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoUnpaid Championship players may have contracts cancelled
Leicester Tigers loan signing David Williams, whose parent club is Nottingham, says Championship players are being left in limbo
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoEx-AFL ace Kurt Heatherley hopes to lift Jersey Reds
6'4" Heatherley played at Hawthorn in the AFL, but was brought up in New Zraland loving rugby
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoSaracens sign prop Robin Hislop on loan from Doncaster Knights
Hislop joins as injury cover at loosehead for the rest of Saracens' Prmeiership campaign
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoYorkshire Carnegie renamed and pledge to get ‘back to roots’
Carnegie will become Leeds Tykes once again, says new chairman
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoFrustrated Blackheath director of rugby James Shanahan calls for 2020-21 start
Shanahan wants the governing bodies involved in sport's return to take the brakes off rugby
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoBill Sweeney urged to take the axe to untouched RFU-Premiership fund
Is the RFU chief executive keeping Premiership clubs happy so they release England players this autumn?
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoCanterbury want no part in shortened National League season
The RFU plans to have National League rugby back in November but with much fewer than 30 games to be played
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoJohn Inverdale and RFU director comment on plans to further regionalise grassroots
A vote will be held on October 2 to determine whether clubs reduce schedule demand in National League One and below
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoLevi Davis is London-bound after leaving Bath
Ealing Trailfinders continue to build their squad for the new Championship season
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoNottingham sign fly-half following exit of Shane O’Leary to Rouen
Former Birmingham Moseley fly-half Sam Hollingsworth has joined the Green and Whites from Rotherham
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoPlans for conference-style system in the Championship leads to talks at RFU
Ed Griffiths is leading reform to the structure of the second tier with a 76-page document on how to revolutionise the...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoPlymouth Albion left stunned by RFU points deduction and £20K fine for administrative error
TRP has been given access to the letter written by Plymouth Albion owner Dave Venables to the RFU
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoHow did Ealing academy starlet Harrison Obatoyinbo come to be signed by Toulon?
Obatoyinbo, 19, signed for Toulon last week after being approached by the Top 14 club
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoYorkshire Carnegie academy product Alex Rieder livid at programme’s collapse
Former Wasps flanker Alex Rieder labels the disbandedment of Yorkshire Carnegie's academy 'a joke'
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoExclusive: Championship clubs plan massive shake-up following review by ex-Saracens CEO Ed Griffiths
Is the Championship heading towards a collective bargaining agreement and upheaval of its structure?
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoPreston Grasshoppers head of rugby Gareth Dyer proposes blanket salary cap for National Leagues
Gareth Dyer lays out the options available to National League clubs and why an even salary cap is suitable all round
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoJudge me by my skill not my ethnicity, says Ashley Johnson
Johnson is now pursuing his coaching ambitions at Moseley and wants no prejudice in rugby
International Rugby
Will Genia backs the Henry Pollock hype but feels England need to be more fluid
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