News By The Rugby Paper Team
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoSocial media can hurt even the best
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Last weekend saw some of the best rugby we have seen this...
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Young Gun
/ 2 years agoYoung Guns: Bath prop Billy Sela
By BEN JAYCOCK Despite being just 18, Billy Sela is a relatively experienced England age grade player having already twice toured...
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Club Rugby
/ 2 years agoResults
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BUCS Super Rugby
/ 2 years agoBath boys blow race wide open in pursuit of Exeter
BUCS RUGBY By TOM JEFFREYS Bath defeated Loughborough 31-17 in a result that could have huge ramifications in the final Super...
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Club Rugby
/ 2 years agoRegional results
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Schools / Universities
/ 2 years agoRugby celebrate historic win over Baa-Baas
SCHOOLS RUGBY By TOM JEFFREYS Rugby School celebrated the end of their bicentennial season in style with a double win in...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 2 years agoSpears turn up the heat on new boys Mie
JAPAN RUGBY By BEN JAYCOCK Reigning champions Kubota Spears steamrolled past Division 1 newcomers Mie Heat 75-0 to secure their first...
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Club Rugby
/ 2 years agoRegional results
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Welsh Rugby
/ 2 years agoLlandovery made to fight all the way
Premiership round-up By ANDY HOWELL LLANDOVERY remain top of the Premiership following a hard-fought 27-10 victory over Aberavon at Church Bank....
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Welsh Rugby
/ 2 years agoBargoed blast leaders with eight-try blitz
Championship round-up BARGOED cut the gap at the top of Champions East to five points with a blistering, eight-try performance against...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 2 years agoBRITISH RUGBY RESULTS AND FIXTURES
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James Harrington
/ 2 years agoOlympics causing financial headache
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN The new cycle of French senior men’s rugby starts here – a month-and-a-half after the 2023 Rugby...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoPumas lead the way after win over Australia
SEVENS SERIES By BEN JAYCOCK ARGENTINA claimed the Cape Town 7s crown with a clinical win over Australia, a week after...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoNewcastle need help to survive -Varndell
By NICK POWELL TOM Varndell has been “sad” to witness Newcastle’s form at the start of the season and feels the...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoBaron: RFU heading for £59m loss this year
Baron accuses RFU of ‘deliberate obfuscation’ By NICK CAIN Francis Baron has accused the RFU hierarchy of publishing misleading interpretations of...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoBears set to splash cash for Lovejoy
By NEIL FISSLER Bristol have launched a massive recruitment drive for next season, with Harlequins tighthead Lovejoy Chawatama set to become...
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Features
/ 2 years agoJournalism honour for David Emery
David Emery, founder of Greenways Publishing which includes The Rugby Paper, was honoured by the Sports Journalists’ Association last week when...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoWilliams: I’d back call to get rid of Sweeney
By LUKE JARMYN The Championship’s joint top try scorer David Williams has called for Sport England or another organisation to get...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoReed is making his mark at Sale
By LUKE JARMYN A new tattoo and a special changing room rapport between Sale Sharks’ Arron Reed and director of rugby...
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World
/ 2 years agoAussie winger heads to Roosters
Australia wing Mark Nawaqanitawase will switch to rugby league after signing a two-year deal with Sydney Roosters which starts in 2025....
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoVermeulen confident Chiefs will return to top
By PAUL REES Jacques Vermeulen is one of the old hands at Exeter following his arrival from South Africa in 2019...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoDynamic duo put life back into Bath
By PAUL REES Ben Spencer has partnered two of the leading outside halves of their generation, Owen Farrell and Finn Russell,...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoBristol looking to kick on
By PAUL REES What a difference a win makes. Bristol’s frustrating run of five successive Premiership defeats, four by single figure...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoDiamond looking to return
ON THE BLINDSIDE FORMER Sale and Worcester director of rugby Steve Diamond, below, is waiting in the wings with pressure mounting...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoJones set for Japan job
ON THE BLINDSIDE Former England boss Eddie Jones could return to international coaching as early as this week after having a...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoGeorge set to carry on at Saracens
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER England and Lions hooker Jamie George is ready to turn don a lucrative move to...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoCokanasiga a target for Gloucester
Gloucester are understood to have put England winger Joe Cokanasiga on the list of potential replacements for Wales superstar Louis Rees-Zammit,...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoMillard in frame for top Australia post
On the Blindside DoR: Billy Millard HARLEQUINS director of rugby Billy Millard is believed to be on a three-man shortlist to...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoBaxter braced for more to leave
ON THE BLINDSIDE Exeter Chiefs director of rugby Rob Baxter, above, is bracing himself for more departures from Sandy Park at...
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Dream Team
/ 2 years agoDream Team with Rob Webber
The former England, Leeds, Wasps, Bath and Sale hooker, and Jersey Reds head coach who is now forwards coach in the...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoFrench power will be so tough to overcome
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK English clubs are up against it in the Champions Cup because they are competing...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoSaracens make it too easy for Bulls
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Bulls ................................... 27pts Tries: Kriel 2, Swanepoel 39, Moodie 48 Conversions: Daly 61, McFarland 71 Goosen 3, 39,...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoMcCall: Goode yellow ‘harsh’
SARACENS director of rugby Mark McCall said he thought Alex Goode was at the end of a harsh yellow card decision...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoBordeaux blitz and Hansen injury add to Connacht woes
By JOHN FALLON Connacht ............ 5pts Tries: Hurley-Langton 18 Bordeaux .......... 41pts Tries: Buros 10, 54, Uberta 43, 78; Penaud 25,...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoIce-cool Sheedy the hero for Bears
By TOM BRADSHAW Bristol ................................ 36pts Tries: Lane 5, Luatua 23, Thacker 30, Randall 48, Oghre 53 Conversions: Sheedy 6, 24,...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoRampant Bath storm to the winning post
By PAUL REES Bath .................................... 37pts Tries: Cokanasiga 27, 73; Dunn 45, du Toit 69, Gallagher 79 Conversions: Spencer 46, 70;...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoRussell: We must keep calm
FINN Russell urged Bath’s fans to be patient after they backed up last weekend’s big home victory against Exeter by overwhelming...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoMillard confident Quins are ‘in a good place’ to take on Racing challenge
By JON NEWCOMBE PREVIEW... Racing 92 v Harlequins Today. Kick-off 5.30pm, La Defense Arena, Paris WITH key players back from injury...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoSeven-try Toulouse too swift for Cardiff
By SIMON THOMAS Toulouse .......................... 52pts Tries: Lebel 5, Arnold 9, Kinghorn 26, 80; Jelonch 38, Retiere 46, Placines 70 Conversions:...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoSlade leads Chiefs on smash and grab raid
By MARK STEVENS Toulon ................................ 18pts Tries: Gigashvili 20, White 24 Conversion: Herve 21 Penalties: Herve 35, 38 Exeter ................................. 19pts...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoBaxter toasts stunning victory
BEER in hand, Exeter director of rugby Rob Baxter toasted what was a famous European victory in France. He said: “In...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoSkipper Beirne unhappy after Munster let winning hand go to allow Bayonne to steal draw
■By JOHN FALLON Munster ............ 17pts Tries: McCarthy 10, Coombes 19 Conversions: Crowley 11, 19 Penalties: Crowley 55 Bayonne............ 17pts Tries:...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoFreeman double has Saints on the march
By BRYN PALMER Glasgow............................. 19pts Tries: Cancelliere 4, Smith 68, Penalty 77 Conversions: Thompson 69 Northampton................... 28pts Tries: Lawes 13, Freeman...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoSmith full of praise for the defence
FLY-HALF Fin Smith hailed his side’s defence and feels they have turned a corner. “We shocked ourselves with how well we...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoWe’re not the whipping boys Sanderson
■By JON NEWCOMBE Sale v Stade Francais PREVIEW... Today. Kick-off 1pm, AJ Bell Stadium ALEX Sanderson is relishing Sale’s novel status...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoChampions La Rochelle face tough challenge against former finalists Leinster
By PAUL REES PREVIEW... Leinster v La Rochelle Today. Kick-off 3.15pm, Stade Marcel Deflandre Centre: Garry Ringrose THE match of the...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoFit-again Henderson out to grab his chance
■By LUKE JARMYN PREVIEW... Leicester v Stormers Today. Kick-off 3.15pm, Welford Road CAMERON Henderson is relishing the start of Leicester Tigers’...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoLions set to ring the changes
■By BEN JAYCOCK Preview... Perpignan v Lions Today. 1pm LIONS head coach Ivan van Rooyen will be banking on the strength...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoFour-try Lake guides Ospreys safely home
■By ROB COLE Ospreys ............................. 43pts Tries: Lake 7, 26, 46, 56; Thomas 17, Morris 76 Conversions: Williams 8, 19, 27,...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoClermont dominate to see off Edinburgh
By BEN JAYCOCK Clermont........... 31pts Tries: Moala 25, Newsome 31, 62; Bibi Biziwu 69 Conversions: Belleau 27, 32, 64, 70 Penalties:...












