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Welsh Rugby
/ 3 years agoHarvey hat-trick sparks Ravens triumph
By NIGEL HARDY Llanelli.............. 12 Bridgend.......... 47 REPLACEMENT hooker Gareth Harvey notched a hat-trick of tries as his Bridgend Ravens side...
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/ 3 years agoBRITISH RUGBY RESULTS AND FIXTURES
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/ 3 years agoThe Thomas brothers take different routes on Principality road
Cup finals round-up By ROB COLE THERE were mixed fortunes for the Thomas brothers at Principality Stadium as Steve saw his...
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/ 3 years agoRisca cut down to make it 16 on the bounce
Division One round-up NEWBRIDGE booked their ticket to the home of Welsh rugby last weekend with a 43-35 win over Ammanford...
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James Harrington
/ 3 years agoNon-stop season to challenge the best
JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN No-one has ever denied – no-one has ever been able to deny – that the French rugby...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoUnbeaten Knights charge on against the Rams
Japan League One round-up By BEN JAYCOCK SHOTA Horie celebrated his 150th game for Saitama Wild Knights with a try to...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoRayasi double puts Hurricanes on top
Super Rugby Pacific round-up By CAM STEPHENS THE Hurricanes moved top of the table as winger Salesi Rayasi’s double powered Jason...
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/ 3 years agoSpringbok stars help Blue Bulls end torrid losing run
Currie Cup round-up By BEN JAYCOCK THE Blue Bulls ended a horror run of 10 consecutive defeats with a convincing 40-3...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoPrem will keep its eight clubs in Europe
By PAUL REES The Gallagher Premiership will continue to supply eight clubs to the Heineken Champions Cup next season despite two...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoBrown agrees new deal with Leicester
By PAUL REES Patience finally paid off for Mike Brown two months ago when the former England full-back’s determination to show...
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International Rugby
/ 3 years agoEx-Ireland full-back Jones joins Borthwick
Former Ireland full-back Felix Jones will leave South Africa’s coaching set-up and join England as an assistant coach after the 2023...
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International Rugby
/ 3 years agoHaskell: Billy can still star for England
By BEN JAYCOCK James Haskell feels the door could be open for an international recall for his former England teammate Billy...
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Premiership
/ 3 years agoLam dismisses Goode criticism of club spirit
By PAUL REES Pat Lam dismisses claims by former England fly-half Andy Goode that some of his Bristol players, including prop...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 3 years agoRegions agree six year deal
A new six-year deal between the Welsh Rugby Union and the nation’s four professional teams has been signed. The deal involving...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoI reckon there are three sets of laws…
I HAVE followed all the correspondence and the various comments by your contributors to The Rugby Paper over the interpretation of...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoThis ‘mish-mash’ does nothing for the game
LAST week’s TRP lists a bewildering array of cup, shield, bowl and plate competitions for grassroots clubs. Some are Round 1...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoKicking obsession is so boring for us all
I HAVE a revolutionary template to improve England’s rugby… try playing some! This obsession with kicking possession away makes for a...
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National League 2E
/ 3 years agoBlackheath delight as they go back up
By BEN JAYCOCK Blackheath bounced back up to National 1 last weekend with a resounding victory over Westcliff and free scoring...
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Dream Team
/ 3 years agoDream Team with Jack Andrew
Jack Andrew, the Cornish Pirates and former Exeter and Plymouth prop, chooses the best XV he has played with or against......
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoSaracens show they can thrive in adversity
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK The European Champions Cup doesn’t get mentioned very much when you’re living in Bath...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoGloucester so close to stunning triumph
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER La Rochelle ...................... 29pts Tries: Bourgarit 21, Thomas 25, 77; Kerr Barlow 45 Conversions: Hastoy 23, 46, 79...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years ago‘I’m very proud – and gutted’
Gloucester coach George Skivington had nothing but praise for his team after their narrow loss to reigning European champions La Rochelle....
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoToo little, too late as Quins wilt in the sun
By GARY FITZGERALD Stormers........................... 32pts Tries: Fourie 1, 28; Kitshoff 8, Willemse 47, Engelbrecht 74 Conversions: Libbock 2, 76 Penalties: Libbock...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoMatson: We were not at our best
Tabai Matson refused to blame the South African heat for Quins’ latest Champions Cup demise. “We’ve been here all week, acclimatising...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoLeinster get the job done against Northern rivals
By KEVIN FALLON Leinster..............................30pts Tries: Baird 19, Gibson-Park 54, Porter 63 Conversions: R Byrne 19, 55, 64 Penalties: R Byrne 12,...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoPoor discipline bites Munster in Shark tank
By TOM SHEEDY Sharks .............50pts Tries: Mbonambi 45, 49, Hendrikse 17, Etzebeth 25, Kok 54, Bosch 58, Mapimpio 64 Conversions: Bosch...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoUnjustifiable to banish players like Willis
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Jack Willis is an inspirational new force for England, but he looks to...
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Nick Cain
/ 3 years agoHeartfelt tributes paid to The Judge
NICK CAIN Paul Rendall, known as “The Judge”, is one of the game’s great characters and props, and on Thursday the...
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Champions Cup
/ 3 years agoWiese comes to the rescue for Leicester
By ROB WILDMAN Leicester ...........................16pts Tries: Wiese 51 Conversions: Pollard 51 Penalties: Pollard 4, 59, 70 Edinburgh............................ 6pts Penalties: Boffelli 42,...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoBlair: We blinked first on the night
EDINBURGH boss Mike Blair summed up his team’s disappointing night: “We blinked first,” he said in describing a wet and muddy...
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/ 3 years agoSimmonds relishes battle with Mercer
By JON NEWCOMBE Today. Kick-off 12.30pm, Sandy Park SAM Simmonds is relishing his personal head-to-head battle with Zach Mercer, the man...
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/ 3 years agoEurope’s acid test awaits for Bulls
By BEN JAYCOCK Preview Toulouse v Bulls Today. 3pm THE Bulls’ first appearance in the Champions Cup knockout stage sees them...
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/ 3 years agoIt’s win or go home now, says Christie
By JON NEWCOMBE PREVIEW... Saracens v Ospreys Today. Kick-off 3pm, StoneX Stadium AS an Arsenal fan, scoring and being on the...
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/ 3 years agoTipuric: We love being underdogs and we’ll fight hard
OSPREYS will be significant underdogs against the Premiership leaders but they have revelled in being this season’s surprise package. They beat...
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Shane Williams
/ 3 years agoOspreys have the talent to pull off a big surprise
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND I HOPE the Ospreys of 2023 have learned the lessons of their predecessors of 2008...
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European Challenge Cup
/ 3 years agoBattling Cardiff grab the glory in magnificent triumph over Sharks
By ROGER PANTING Cardiff ........................... 28pts Tries: Domachowski 19, Adams 33, 40+2, Conversions: J Evans 20, 40+3 Penalties: J Evans 9,...
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European Challenge Cup
/ 3 years agoLions ……………. 51 Racing 92 ……28
LIONS battled to victory in their first ever Challenge Cup knockout stage game in Johannesburg, crushing Racing 92 despite being down...
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European Challenge Cup
/ 3 years agoStade F ………. 24 Lyon ……………..41
CHALLENGE Cup holders Lyon had to come from behind twice to win at Stade Français and earn a place in the...
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European Challenge Cup
/ 3 years agoHigh five for Matthews as Warriors crush Dragons
By BRYN PALMER Glasgow............73pts Tries: Horne 2, Matthews 15, 22, 26, 33, 42; Turner 55, Forbes 57, Jones 59, Steyn 72,...
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European Challenge Cup
/ 3 years agoScarlets grit it out to set up clash with Clermont
By ROGER PANTING Scarlets ........... 19pts Tries: Fifita 50, Shingler 78 Penalties: Costelow 3, 15, 28 Brive.................... 7pts Tries: Olding 47...
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European Challenge Cup
/ 3 years agoFormer Wasps star for Treviso
By JOHN FALLON Benetton ........41 Connacht ........ 19 CONNACHT could have few complaints as yet another Challenge Cup campaign fizzled out....
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European Challenge Cup
/ 3 years agoEasy for Clermont as Bears stumble
By TOM BRADSHAW Bristol ................................ 26pts Tries: Randall 34, Radradra 38 Conversions: MacGinty 35, 39 Penalties: MacGinty 11, 18, 49, 78...
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European Challenge Cup
/ 3 years agoBiggar keeps Toulon on track
Toulon ............36 Cheetahs ........ 21 DAN Biggar helped steer Toulon past the Cheetahs at Stade Mayol. Thomas Salles cut through the...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoIt’s time to get back to shifting the piano
CHRIS HEWETT Not long after helping the All Blacks to victory over the Lions in 1993, the formidable wing John Kirwan...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 years agoGood, but Hogg not quite top of the list
CHRIS HEWETT WHAT are we to make of the Strange Case of Stuart Hogg? The scorer of more international tries than...
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Women's Six Nations
/ 3 years agoFrance are too strong for Irish
Ireland .............. 3 France..............53 France shrugged off the blow of an early red card to notch nine tries in a thumping...
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Women's Six Nations
/ 3 years agoBurns gets chance to make her case
By BEN JAYCOCK PREVIEW... England v Italy Today. Kick-off 3pm, Franklin’s Gardens New faces: Bristol’s Delaney Burns starts in the second...
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Women's Six Nations
/ 3 years agoWales weather late storm to see off Scotland
By JAMES SKELDON Scotland ...........22pts Tries: Skeldon 33, Grant 48, Rollie 65 Conversions: Nelson 34, 49 Penalty: Nelson 38 Wales................ 34pts...
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/ 3 years agoPacker takes charge as new-look team emerge
ROCKY CLARK ENGLAND WORLD CUP WINNER Emotional: Sarah Hunter, middle, and Marlie Packer before last week’s match against Scotland PICTURES: Getty...
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Young Gun
/ 3 years agoYoung Guns: Gloucester hooker Finn Theobald-Thomas
Hooker Finn Theobald-Thomas is a devastating force in defence but wants to improve on his attacking contributions for both club and...
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