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
/ 7 years agoImproving Scottish eye another big scalp
By NEALE HARVEY No.15: Joe Luca-Smith FRESHfrom morale-boosting victories over Jersey and Bedford, London Scottish are intent on claiming another big...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoCornish Pirates bring in Worcester back rower
Just back from an arrangement which saw him play club rugby in New Zealand
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoScanlon scorcher is clincher for Nottingham
By ROB WILDMAN AN OUTSTANDING try by full-back Sean Scanlon gave Nottingham the winning edge over Doncaster for the first time...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoBlues scrum gamble fails to pay off against Scots
By MARK WOOD A GUTSY late call to go for a 5m scrum from a penalty failed to pay off for...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoQuick-fire Reds get season underway
By TOM INNES JERSEY Reds claimed their first win in four Championship outings this season after a powerful display in their...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoJones sparkles in Rich six-try display
By JONATHAN LANDI Richmond 38 Hartpury 12 RICHMOND are hardly known as extravagant try scorers but they gave that assertion short...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoBig Pirates fightback puts Ealing fans on edge
By OLI SHAPLEY EALING Trailfinders got their fourth consecutive win in a try-fest with Cornish Pirates at Trailfinders Sports Club. Ben...
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/ 7 years agoLast-gasp Macken the hero for Irish
By PAUL SMITH Touchdown: Sam Tuitupou scores for Coventry Winner! Brendan Macken races through the Coventry defence in the 74th minute...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoUSA forward Cameron Dolan set to join Nottingham
New signing to add extra ballast to the Green and Whites' pack
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoCutthroat Pirates shoot for perfection
Preview Cornish Pirates v Richmond Today, Kick-off 2.30pm WING wizard Robin Wedlake aims to maintain his rich vein of form and...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoCozens puts the boot into Coventry’s fight-back
By ANDREW BEACHAM HARTPURY deservedly edged a tense encounter against newly-promoted Coventry. On a wet and gloomy afternoon, conditions dictated it...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoFirst half mistakes let Ealing get away
By GUY WILLIAMS EALING earned their third successive bonus point win of the season with three first half tries opening up...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoSlow starts giving Carnegie mountains to climb
By JON NEWCOMBE BRENDAN COPE knows Yorkshire Carnegie cannot afford another poor start if they are to preserve their unbeaten home...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoExiles secure maiden win with Selway in the bin
By LUKE JARMYN A SILKY period in the second half by London Scottish saw them grab a first win of the...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoNo sulking, Luke out to prove he’s worth recall
By NEALE HARVEY LUKE McLean still harbours hopes of an Italy recall if he can steer London Irish into the Premiership....
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoStrong gets nod to do battle with Bulumakau
Cornish Pirates v Coventry Preview Today. Kick-off 2.30pm CORNISH Pirates co-coach Gavin Cattle has made just one change to the side...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoDickson has no complaints with ‘boring’ winning rugby
By MATT WRIGHT A LAST-GASP penalty try gave Bedford a dramatic victory over Jersey and ensured their forward dominance did not...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoKnights go riding high with late power play
By GUY WILLIAMS A STRONG second half performance by Doncaster at Castle Park in their first home match of the campaign...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoEight-try Exiles bring in the bonus by half-time
By RAY CHILD LONDON Irish forwards coach George Skivington was delighted with his side’s resounding eight-try bonus-point victory at the Madejski....
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoEaling hold on in face of fierce Exiles fight-back
By LUKE JARMYN FIVE tries and a man-of the- match display from flanker Andrew Durutalo got Ealing back on track after...
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/ 7 years agoJake finds Leeds as good as advertised
By JON NEWCOMBE CANADIAN international Jake Ilnicki is delighted to be following in the footsteps of his international coach Mike Shelley...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoWe’ll need time for new men to gel says Paver
By MIKE SINCLAIR PREVIEW… September 2. Kick-off 2.30pm. Mennaye Field Cornish P v Doncaster Warning: Alan Paver CORNISH Pirates have played...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoRayer: This could go down to wire
Preview Nottingham v Bedford Sept 2. Lady Bay. 3pm TWO new recruits will be making their Bedford debuts when the Blues...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoDetermined Cov defy late fightback by Jersey
By TOM BRANSTON COVENTRY Rugby returned to life in the second tier with a lively win over Channel islanders Jersey Reds...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoIrish put a marker down with power play
By GARY FITZGERALD Hero: James Cordy gets a hug on scoring Rock and roll: Benjamin Meehan’s try celebration PICTURES: Lissy Tomlinson...
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/ 7 years agoHill delighted by hard-fought win over big rivals
By GEOFF NORDEMANN A PERFECT start for Richmond, beating local rivals and ground-sharers London Scottish at the Athletic Ground, much to...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoCozens on target to see Hartpury get winning start
By ANDREW BEACHAM HARTPURY took a morale-boosting win from this hard-fought openingnight encounter on a mild, still evening in Gloucestershire. With...
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English Championship
/ 7 years agoEaling can push the favourites close
Former Nottingham boss Ian Costello, now Wasps attack coach, runs the rule over this season’s Championship clubs Livewire: Doncaster’s Fijian scrum-half...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoHarlequins release former Hartpury star Jonas Mikalcius
27 tries for Hartpury when they won promotion to the Championship
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoMark Flanagan adds steel to Bedford Blues’ pack
It's been a summer of impressive recruitment by Mike Rayer at Goldington Road
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years ago10 Championship players who have gone on to become Premiership stars
Brendan Gallagher takes a look at the conveyor belt...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoWhy Jersey is an island of rugby dreams
Brendan Gallagher takes a trip to the Channel Islands to find the Reds are in success
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoTJ Ioane brings Samoan pedigree to London Irish
Declan Kidney has added a prop, a lock, and now the double-barrel guns of a back row
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoHartpury sign five Gloucester players on dual registration
'He's got a big future in the game' says Hartpury head coach Mark Cornwall of one of the quintet
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoRichie Vernon brings Test pedigree to London Scottish
By Neale Harvey Marquee signing Richie Vernon is ready to spearhead London Scottish‘s charge for a top six Championship place after...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoStephen Myler relishing new challenge at London Irish
After the release of the GK IPA Championship fixtures last week, Exiles fly-half Stephen Myler talked to Neale Harvey
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoSteve Boden banking on that Yorkshire grit
“There are a lot of teams out there spending a lot of money and, for one of the first times in...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoDeclan Kidney appointed director of rugby at London Irish
Declan Kidney takes the top job at London Irish
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoThe Rugby Paper’s Championship Team of the Season
Bristol dominate our XV, but there are some worthy mentions for other stars who were certainly in with a shout...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoDouble at the death sees Tupai off in style
By MARK WOOD A GRANDSTAND finish saw Bedford score two tries at the death to claim a bonus point victory and...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoSlow start lets Slowik set pace for Jersey
By GUY WILLIAMS Tense: Thomas James beats Kieran Hardy to score IN AN extraordinary end of season game at Castle Park,...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoWilliams bolts from the blocks but Carnegie hit back
By ROSS HEPPENSTALL MATT WILLIAMS scored one of the fastest tries in rugby history but it was Yorkshire Carnegie who ended...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoMerciless Bristol give Premiership performance
By EMMA SMITH PROMOTED Bristol enjoyed a champagne send-off as they hit back from 17-7 down to romp to a 61-24...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoNottingham run riot to secure first half bonus
By GEORGE LAWRENCE Nottingham …41 Bedford …21 NOTTINGHAM secured a big bonus point win over Bedford at The Bay on Tuesday...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoNotts give Costello the perfect send off
By ROB WILDMAN NOTTINGHAM capped their campaign by winning a second game in four days at Lady Bay. After the 41-21...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoMagnificent 7 for resurgent Pirates
On fire: Chris Morgan of Cornish Pirates surges for the try-line PICTURE: JackDawe Photography By RHOD MITCHELL IT WAS a magnificent...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoFans bring the glory days back to Pooler
Saying thanks: Ben Jeffreys takes the trophy to see Pooler volunteer Pat Sheppherd During the half-century since his Pontypool debut as...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoAndy’s right, we don’t know what’s going on!
THERE are still eight months to go but the prize for the most ironic quote of the sporting year looks as...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoGreen is the hero with late Ionians penalty
By WARREN MUGGLETON Rosslyn Pk …36 Hull Ionians ..37 ISAAC Green’s late penalty gave Hull Ionians a vital victory against battling...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoReds weather early storm to bring up half ton in style
By TOM INNES JERSEY battled back from a 22-point deficit to claim an eventually comfortable win in their final home league...
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