United Rugby Championship

This is where you will find all of The Rugby Paper’s United Rugby Championship news, interviews, reports, opinion and other content.

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Dai Young must target Blues academy says Ring

21 January 2021 0 comments

Welsh rugby great Mark Ring says Dai Young’s main priority in fixing Cardiff Blues lies in a revamping of the region’s academy

Sam Johnson commits to Glasgow Warriors

19 January 2021 0 comments

The 15-cap Scotland centre has agreed an extension at Scotstoun

Wasps’ Ben Vellacott ready to relocate to Scotland?

19 January 2021 0 comments

Dan Robson holds the keys to the Wasps backline and that has seen one PRO14 side contact Vellacott

Glasgow 23-22 Edinburgh: Tyro No.10 Thompson in command for Warriors

17 January 2021 0 comments

Edinburgh pass up on victory at Scotstoun after missed conversion late on by Jaco van der Walt

It’s better, but more to come from Ospreys says Booth

17 January 2021 1 comment

Toby Booth and Dan Lydiate comment on the Ospreys upturn in fortunes, with a resurgent George North key

International A league great idea says Glenn Delaney

16 January 2021 0 comments

A new British, Irish and Italian ‘A’ League is moving closer to being formalised

Liam Williams banned for three games and will miss Wales’ Six Nations opener

14 January 2021 1 comment

The Scarlets wing was given a red card for a high tackle on Shane Lewis-Hughes in the Welsh derby with Cardiff Blues

Scotland flanker Jamie Ritchie signings longest contract in Edinburgh’s history

14 January 2021 0 comments

The 26-cap Scotland forward has joined Hamish Watson in signing lengthy contract extensions at Edinburgh

Toby Booth signals interest in Scarlets No.8 Jac Morgan

14 January 2021 1 comment

As reported in The Rugby Paper last Sunday, the Ospreys want to bring the former Wales U20 skipper to the Liberty Stadium

Steve Phillips isn’t right man for the top WRU job insists Moffett

13 January 2021 0 comments

Current WRU chief executive doesn’t hold the acumen to turn things around in the long-term, according to ex-Welsh rugby boss

Edinburgh raid Harlequins for two of their first-team stars

12 January 2021 1 comment

James Lang and Glen Young will both move north to Edinburgh at the end of the season

Dai Young returns to Cardiff Blues as interim director of rugby

7 January 2021 0 comments

Ex-Wasps director of rugby returns to Arms Park with a view to a longer stay potentially in the offing

Shane Lewis Hughes battling to stay ahead of the pack

7 January 2021 3 comments

HE MAY have ended 2020 on a high by winning three Welsh caps, but the first priority in the New Year for Shane Lewis-Hughes is […]

Scotland flanker Hamish Watson agrees new Edinburgh deal

6 January 2021 0 comments

Edinburgh head coach Cockerill hails Watson’s committment to PRO14 club

Head coach John Mulvihill calls it quits at Cardiff Blues

5 January 2021 0 comments

Australian Mulvihill was in the final year of his contract at Cardiff Blues, who lie fourth in Conference A

Wales loosehead Wyn Jones set to stay at Scarlets

5 January 2021 3 comments

Some good news coming the way of the Scarlets after Jake Ball announced he will depart

Cardiff Blues offer Rhys Priestland a route home from Bath

3 January 2021 3 comments

CARDIFF BLUES are leading the race to land Rhys Priestland when his contract with Bath runs out at the end of the season. The former […]

Leinster 24-35 Connacht: Champions stunned by stone cold Carty

2 January 2021 0 comments

Connacht come away from the RDS with bonus-point win, as Jack Carty stars

Lloyd Williams excited to learn off Wales ace Dwayne Peel

1 January 2021 2 comments

The pending arrival of skills coach Peel at Cardiff Blues can only push the club forward, says scrum-half Williams

Roberts: New South Africa challenge is step up for PRO14

1 January 2021 2 comments

The Wales and British & Irish Lions centre talks about the new Rainbow Cup competition that will see four South African teams join the PRO14

Exclusive: Saracens looking to arrange friendlies with incoming South African franchises to PRO14

30 December 2020 7 comments

Neil Fissler reports on Saracens seeking to prepare for the Championship’s kick off in March with a series of friendlies against the top South African sides

Glenn Delaney desperate to keep hold of Scarlets stars

30 December 2020 1 comment

GLENN Delaney spent years trying to snatch players away from the Scarlets but is now fighting to keep hold of the top talent in his […]

Wales lock Jake Ball to leave Scarlets and return to Australia

29 December 2020 0 comments

49-cap Ball to leave west Wales for family reasons at the end of the season

Ospreys 14-16 Scarlets: Super sub O’Brien swings it to Scarlets

27 December 2020 2 comments

Roger Panting reports from Parc y Scarlets as the Scarlets come back to edge their Welsh rivals

Murphy: First 20 minutes crucial if we are to end poor record at Sportsground

27 December 2020 1 comment

Ulster seek to go unbeaten after being dealt the news that Marcell Coetzee will be departing home to South Africa

Dragons 12-13 Cardiff Blues: Josh Turnbull try completes Blues’ late comeback

27 December 2020 1 comment

James Candy reports from Rodney Parade on a Boxing Day defeat for Dean Ryan’s Dragons

Ex-Wales wing Aled Brew calls time after 17 years

27 December 2020 0 comments

FORMER Wales wing Aled Brew has retired from rugby at the age of 34. Brew’s short-term deal at Scarlets has come to an end and […]

Javan Sebastian is repaying faith of Scarlets coaches

26 December 2020 1 comment

At 26, prop Sebastian seems to be tapping into the potential the Scarlets have long believed the tighthead held

Young bucks helping Dan Evans chase down Shane’s mark at Ospreys

26 December 2020 2 comments

Ospreys full-back Dan Evans is just seven tries short Shane Williams’ tally of 57 for the region

Glasgow Warriors exodus to Premiership continues with Huw Jones set to make switch

20 December 2020 1 comment

After the pending departure of Adam Hastings was announced this week, TRP can reveal another back is set to move to the Premiership

Six more ex-pros join legal fight against World Rugby, RFU and WRU

17 December 2020 0 comments

Former centre Adam Hughes, 30, and Neil Spence, 44, among those to back the traumatic brain injury lawsuit against rugby’s governing bodies

Clear front-runner emerges to lure Exeter’s Tomas Francis back to Wales

15 December 2020 1 comment

Wales tighthead Tomas Francis is set to hold talks with all four regions, as Exeter future hangs in the balance

Scotland fly-half Adam Hastings agrees Gloucester move in 2021

15 December 2020 0 comments

Hastings will leave Glasgow Warriors when his contract at Scotstoun expires next sum