United Rugby Championship

United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

High-five as Cardiff seal first league win of 2024

By LUKE JARMYN Sharks .............. 14pts Tries: Appollis 24, Bosch 76 Conversions: Cronje 25, 77 Cardiff ..............34pts Tries: Lawrence 14, Donnell...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Deadly Davies does Italian job for the Scarlets

By LUKE JARMYN Zebre.................. 18pts Tries: Licata 3, Hasa 51 Conversions: Montemauri 4 Penalties: Montemauri 23, 27 Scarlets ............ 22pts Tries:...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Munster make it eight in a row

By BRYN PALMER Edinburgh ....... 26 Munster........... 29 Munster head coach Graham Rowntree insists his side have the belief to repeat...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Iceman Cooney lands late killer blow for Ulster

By JIM SHORT Ulster ............... 23 Leinster........... 21 John Cooney was the hero when his last-minute penalty secured victory for Ulster...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Bulls book home play-offs spot after Benetton battering

Bulls .................56 Benetton......... 35 The Bulls booked a home tie in the play-offs with a nine-try demolition job at Loftus Versfeld....

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Libbok books spot in play-offs

By JOHN FALLON Connacht ........ 12 Stormers.......... 16 Connacht coach Pete Wilkins lamented his side’s failure to fire a shot in...

By The Rugby Paper Team
News Extra
/ 2 years ago

Addison and Ewers among Ulster leavers

Will Addison will be among nine players to leave Ulster at the end of this season. The 31-year-old arrived from Sale...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Scarlets pay price for lack of discipline

By SIMON THOMAS Scarlets .............. 20pts Tries: Tuipulotu 60, Lewis 67 Conversions: Costelow 61, 68 Penalties: Costelow 10, 26 Ulster ......................

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

It’s been a crazy six months, says new Welsh star

By SIMON THOMAS Alex Mann is the first to admit his “crazy” journey over the past six months hasn’t really sunk...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Glasgow gunning for top two spot

By BRYN PALMER Bulls ................40 Glasgow......... 34 GLASGOW salvaged two bonus points from a stirring last-quarter comeback to maintain their hopes...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

We blew our chances to win, admits Thomas

By SIMON THOMAS Lions................. 34pts Tries: Venter 7, Q Horn 18, Tshituka 73, 79 Conversion: Nohamba 8, 19, Lombard 74, 80...

By Simon Thomas
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Flanagan can’t believe it as Dragons fall away

By ROGER PANTING Dragons.............21pts Tries: Keddie 14, Wainwright 59 Conversions: O’Brien 59 Penalties: Reed 7, 26, 49 Stormers.......... 44pts Tries: Davids...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Munster make it seven in a row

Munster ......... 47 Connacht......... 12 By JOHN WILKINS MUNSTER made it seven wins on the spin with a seven-try victory over...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Leinster get in the mood for a double triumph

Leinster ........... 61 Ospreys............14 By SAM JACKSON JORDAN Larmour scored a hat-trick as Leinster showcased their credentials of a possible Champions...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Everitt set for Irish crunch

Edinburgh .......40 Zebre.................14 By BRYN PALMER EDINBURGH head coach Sean Everitt believes another five points will seal a URC play-off place...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Davies, 36, open to offers

Wales centre Jonathan Davies is leaving Scarlets at the end of the season and hopes for one final opportunity with another...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Peter Jackson
/ 2 years ago

Davies the leading light in Welsh quartet

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Four international fly-halves took flight from Wales last year, understandably so given the...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Challenge Cup
/ 2 years ago

Am: Chance to win silverware shows we’re on right track

By BEN JAYCOCK The Sharks have endured an emotional rollercoaster this season but, after booking their place in the Challenge Cup...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Scarlets move in to sign Hepburn

Scarlets have signed Scotland prop Alec Hepburn from Exeter for next season. The Australian-born 31-year-old helped the Chiefs win the Champions...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Champions Cup
/ 2 years ago

Leinster all-stars set for blockbuster battle

By BEN JAYCOCK Having finally toppled their Champions Cup bogey team La Rochelle, next up for Leinster is Premiership pacesetters Northampton...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Connacht work hard for valuable five points

By ROGER PANTING Dragons.............27pts Tries: Hughes 5, R Williams 40, Dyer 54 Conversions: Evans 5, 40, 54 Penalties: Evans 49, 62...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Leinster manage to stem the flow

By BRIAN FINN Stormers ....... 42 Leinster...........12 LEINSTER suffered another chastening experience in South Africa as their understrenth side were hammered...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Cardiff left in a mess by lively Edinburgh

By ROGER PANTING Cardiff ................... 7pts Edinburgh.......... 24pts Tries: Carre 43 Conversions: de Beer 43 Tries: Schoeman 26, Ashman 62, Venter...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Kok hat-trick swings nail-biter Sharks’ way

By SIMON THOMAS Scarlets ............27pts Tries: Elias 18, Mathias 51, Nicholas 76 Conversions: Costelow 19, 52, 77 Penalties: Costelow 3, 9...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

New low for Ospreys as Bulls go on rampage

By LUKE JARMYN Bulls ...................61pts Tries: Grobbelaar 7, Kriel 21, Arendse 29, 54, Moodie 38, 42, Papier 44, Penalty 61, Le...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Lions …………….13 Munster ………33

By KEVIN FALLON GRAHAM Rowntree was extremely proud of his men as the champions wrapped up a second bonus point in...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Ulster …………..38 Benetton ……. 34

By JOHN FALLON ULSTER interim coach Richie Murphy is hopeful they have turned a corner and are poised to secure a...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Glasgow finally get act together

By BRYN PALMER @therugbypaper Zebre ................. 9 Glasgow..........40 GLASGOW overcame a stodgy first half in Parma to maintain their pursuit of...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Paul Rees
/ 2 years ago

Wales on a mission to survive or decline

Paul Rees asks whether the country which has won 12 Grand Slams can still afford to run four regional sides A...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Peter Jackson
/ 2 years ago

Awayday struggles

Having endured more than their share of hard times in following a club which once described itself in all immodesty as...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Edinburgh comeback too much for Scarlets

By BRYN PALMER Edinburgh.......... 43pts Tries: Goosen 18, Van der Merwe 44, Currie 61, Schoeman 67, Bennett 72, Mata 76 Conversions:...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Summer Tours
/ 2 years ago

Domachowski has his eye on top spot

By SIMON THOMAS Corey Domachowski is a man on a mission to be Wales’ number one No.1. The Cardiff prop now...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Nick Cain
/ 2 years ago

Envious eyes fall on Leinster’s recruits

Leinster's ability to cherry-pick two of the 2023 World Cup final’s biggest stars, signing All Black centre Jordie Barrett to augment...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Chris Hewett
/ 2 years ago

Robertson will cash in on Barrett move

CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED LOOKING at it from Leinster’s point of view, the signing of the world’s best inside centre is...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Long wait for away win goes on for Dragons

By SIMON THOMAS Benetton...........36pts Tries: Smith 7, Lucchesi 30, Uren 35, Ratave 45, Iachizzi 71, Lamaro 75 Conversions: Albornoz 8, 36,...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Goosen red card is game changer

By BRIAN FINN Bulls ................22 Munster ..........27 GRAHAM Rowntree was pleased with the way his men came from behind to carve...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Faletau injured again in gutting defeat to Ulster

By SIMON THOMAS Ulster .................19pts Try: McCann 58 Conversion: Cooney 59 Penalties: Doak 28, 35, Cooney 65, 79 Tries: Cabango 11,...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Leinster seconds suffer a mauling

By JIM COUCH Lions ............... 44 Leinster ..........12 LEINSTER crashed to a heavy defeat at Emirates Airline Park. Leo Cullen’s side...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Warriors miss out on bonus point

By SAM JACKSON Glasgow .........21 Sharks ............ 10 GLASGOW kept themselves firmly in the playoff hunt with a convincing win at...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Morgan at the double for Ospreys history boys

By SIMON THOMAS Stormers...........21pts Try: Du Plessis 13, Roos 43, Penalty 80 Conversions: Libbok 14, 44 Ospreys.............27pts Tries: Morgan 8, 40;...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Livewire Devine the star of show

By JOHN FALLON @therugbypaper Connacht ...... 54 Zebre ..............16 CONNACHT skipper Dave Heffernan said they need to build on this easy...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Peter Jackson
/ 2 years ago

Barrett, the man for every occasion

As a centre-three-quarter par excellence, there is nothing Jordie Barrett cannot do. Nobody in his position can truck it up the...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Peter Jackson
/ 2 years ago

The Sheriff will be sorely missed

PETER JACKSON The gods played a dirty trick in denying Ken Owens a farewell appearance for his beloved Wales and...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Latest News
/ 2 years ago

Wales legend Owens retires at 37

Former Wales captain Ken Owens has retired from professional rugby aged 37. The ‘Sheriff’ was the oldest ever-player to hold the...

By Nick Powell
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Leinster sign Barrett for 2024/25 season

Leinster have confirmed the signing of experienced All Black utility back Jordie Barrett on a short-term deal from December to the...

By Nick Powell
Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years ago

Another year for O’Mahony

Ireland skipper Peter O’Mahony has signed a new one-year contract at Munster after speculation he was set to retire. The 34-year-old...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Leicester ace adds power to Ospreys midfield

By SAM JACKSON Ospreys have signed Phil Cokanasiga from Leicester Tigers for the 2024-25 season. Cokanasiga, the younger brother of England...

By The Rugby Paper Team
United Rugby Championship
/ 2 years ago

Loader still has England in sight

Ben Loader still dreams of playing for England and is hoping his performances in Cape Town for the Stormers will one...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years ago

Montpellier lead chase for Munster ace Frisch

Montpellier are leading the chase for Munster centre Antoine Frisch, who has declared his allegiance to France over Ireland. Born in...

By The Rugby Paper Team
Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years ago

Kitshoff set for return to Stormers

After weeks of speculation South Africa’s two-time World Cup winning prop Steven Kitshoff has decided to leave Ulster at the end...

By The Rugby Paper Team