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Latest News
/ 6 years agoScarlets ace Jac gets the captain’s armband
By SAM JACKSON WALES U20 head coach Gareth Williams has named a 33-man squad for the Six Nations including eight players...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoDeans gets one over his old rival Hansen in Top League
FORMER All Blacks coach Steve Hansen remains winless in the Japan Rugby Top League after his Toyota Verblitz side were beaten...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoCollier signs on at Quins
HARLEQUINS prop Will Collier has renewed his contract with the club. The length of the 28-yearold's new deal has not been...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoLillicrap buoyed by succesful autumn campaign
By ALEX BYWATER WALES women’s next generation are ready to roar in the Six Nations after being handed the chance to...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 6 years agoBotterman bombs past Warriors’ defences
Worcester ......26 Saracens ........48 By MARTYN DAVIES HANNAH Botterman scored two tries in Saracens’ emphatic victory over Worcester Warriors at Sixways....
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 6 years agoSharks breached by five-star Jess
Harlequins......68 DMP Sharks ......0 By WILLIAM TRIMBLE HARLEQUINS’ battle with Saracens at the summit of the table intensified after their emphatic...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 6 years agoWasps leave Bears Crakeing in their boots
Wasps FC ........34 Bristol Bears ..20 By MARK DAVEY TWO Liz Crake tries helped Wasps continue their unbeaten start to the...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 6 years agoCherries blossom after early blitz
Richmond ..........0 Glouc’r Har’y ..20 By LORRAINE SPALL GLOUCESTER-HARTPURY produced a dominant firsthalf performance to secure a bonus-point victory away at...
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Women's Premier 15's
/ 6 years agoLethal Lightning strike more than just twice
Waterloo ........5 Loug’r L’ning ..74 By SAM WILLIAMS LOUGHBOROUGH Lightning received an early wake-up call before putting 12 tries past bottom...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoNot even bogey ground can stop Ponty
Welsh Championship round-up By CARL FIELD PONTYPOOL enjoyed their first victory at the Gnoll since December 1991 – running in eight...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoQuins blast Cardiff aside as title race heats up
Premiership Carmarthen....29 Cardiff RFC ......7 By PAUL HUNTINGDON CARMARTHEN extended their unbeaten home run this season as they strode to a...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoEvans on target as Wizards stay in hunt
Aberavon ........19 Merthyr RFC ..13 By MARK LAWSON ABERAVON stayed in the title race as they completed the double over the...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoToo little too late for Ravens as Drovers seal win
Bridgend ........14 Llandovery ....35 By PAUL HOPKINS LLANDOVERY held off a late fightback to secure a bonus-point away victory. The first...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoVale boost survival hopes with vital victory
Ebbw Vale ......18 Pontypridd ......5 By IAN GOLDEN EBBW Vale hauled themselves off the bottom of the Premiership with victory over...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSeventh heaven for Gogs in much-needed win
RGC ..................43 Llanelli ............21 By ROB COLE RGC ran in a magnificent seven tries to notch their first win since December...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSevens circuit helps get Rosser up to speed
News DRAGONS speedster Jared Rosser is lighting up the PRO14 with the everimproving Dragons and his team have two American Sevens...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoGahan’s double does the job for Bridge
Welsh Division One round-up By CARL FIELD NEWBRIDGE went ten points clear in One East after they won 28-16 at home...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoWorld Cup hero focused on European domination
By ALEX BYWATER South Africa enforcer: Eben Etzebeth EBEN Etzebeth ended 2019 on top of the world and South Africa’s giant...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoDo England need scrum coach? We never did!
Doing it naturally: Jeff Probyn playing for England against Wales in 1991 As we all wait with anticipation for the start...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoCodling calls on U20s lads to take lead
News By NEALE HARVEY Challenge: Alex Codling ENGLANDU20s forwards guru Alex Codling has challenged his Red Rose stars of the future...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoLeg fracture puts Green under knife
BATH scrum-half Max Green will have surgery after fracturing his leg in their European Champions Cup defeat by Harlequins. Green, 23,...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoGray back to Glasgow as brother exits
RICHIE Gray has agreed a two-year deal to return to Glasgow next season and replace his brother Jonny who has signed...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoEvans is the future in Wales 10 shirt – Hook
By STEFFAN THOMAS JAMES Hook backs Jarrod Evans to be Wales’ long-term No10 and believes Stephen Jones is the man to...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSearch begins for Phillips’ successor
WELSHRugby Union chief executive Martyn Phillips is to leave his role this summer after five years in charge. WRU chairman Gareth...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoEastmond: Ford still has best years ahead of him
By NEALE HARVEY KYLE Eastmond believes George Ford’s best form in England’s No.10 shirt is yet to come – and expects...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoBig Dom will stay with Quins
HARLEQUINS back row Alex Dombrandt has extended his contract by two years.. The 22-year-old graduate of Cardiff Met University has made...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoWales lose prop Carre
SARACENS prop Rhys Carre will miss Wales’ Six Nations opener against Italy after being banned for three weeks. Carre, 21, was...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoStormers sign up Roberts
FORMER Wales centre Jamie Roberts has left Bath with immediate effect to join Super Rugby side Stormers. Roberts was in his...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoFresh terms for Balmain
GLOUCESTER tighthead prop Fraser Balmain has signed a new undisclosed- length deal with the club. The 28-year-old has made 57 appearances...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoPRL behaving like an arrogant dictatorship
Letters IN regard to the front page headline in last week’s TRP which covered comments from Lord Dyson – the senior...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoJamie’s sad death brings local clubs rallying to help
SOMETIMES things happen in life that make you realise that rugby, the game we all love to play, coach and support,...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoDoes Wray really deserve the boos?
DOES the salary cap truly benefit English rugby? Every season more and more players not qualified for England are signed by...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoLaw change will simply mean more kicking
Views COLIN BOAG Really? Scotland crash to Japan, but chief exec Mard Dodson, inset, sees pay soar This is the time...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoDREAM TEAM
LEE BLACKETT, WASPS BACKS COACH AND FORMER ROTHERHAM AND LEEDS CENTRE/WING, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE’S PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST 1....
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoAmor can get England to become more instinctive
Game-changer: Simon Amor, right, talks to his England Sevens squad in Dubai PICTURE: Getty Images SIMON Amor should start his stint...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoIt’s sweet sixteen for No.1 seeds Leinster
European Champions Cup By JAMES LLOYD LEINSTER battled hard to overcome a resolute Benetton side to claim a valuable home quarter-final...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoFurbank and Fish hook the big one in Lyon for super Saints
By NICK CAIN GEORGE Furbank is one of the young tyros putting a spring back in Northampton’s step, and it was...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoResult is just awesome, says Teimana
Criticism: Chris Boyd TEIMANA Harrison saluted the efforts of his Saints teammates after the bonus point put the club within reach...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoWarriors play waiting game after bonus win keeps dream alive
By ROSS HEPPENSTALL Job well done: George Turner scores Glasgow’s final try PICTURE: Getty Images CLINICAL with every chance that came...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoSaracens, Europe and McConnochie: What’s in Sunday’s TRP?
Plenty of news, views, action and reaction in issue #592 of The Rugby Paper – here’s what features… SARACENS: Sarries risk...
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Champions Cup
/ 6 years agoTEAMS: Who Gloucester have turned to in place of injured Danny Cipriani for trip to Toulouse
Full Champions Cup team news for Round 6, as Lloyd Evans is preferred to Owen Williams at Gloucester
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSaracens call crisis meeting with whole squad to outlay relegation threat for breaching salary cap
Saracens faced with serious threat of relegation to the Championship after failing to comply with salary cap again
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: England game provides Sergio Parisse with perfect curtain fall
Italy's talismanic No.8 can bow out on his own terms, with a stock of flourishing back rows ready to pick up...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoInflux of South Africans puts the squeeze of Europe’s Pacific Islanders, warns union chief
Dan Leo points out the shift in recruitment by European clubs from Pacific Islanders in the 80s, 90s and 2000s, to...
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Featured
/ 6 years agoDavies is the right man to salvage Yorkshire Carnegie, says Stuart Lancaster
The former England head coach says the appointment of Phil Davies is perfect for his old club
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Featured
/ 6 years agoDan Robson interview: I’m still waiting for Eddie Jones to call
"I won't play like a robot for England" - Wasps scrum-half Robson hopes to be the answer for Eddie
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoEngland hopeful Alex Dombrandt extends Harlequins deal
Harlequins head of rugby Paul Gustard describes the back row as 'exceptional'
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoWales lock Adam Beard hands Ospreys much-needed boost
The Wales forward has signed a new deal at the Liberty Stadium
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Featured
/ 6 years agoRoom 101: Richmond No.8 Jake Parker
Parker is not a fan of the hot-box Central Line carriages during London's summer
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoBristol boss Pat Lam demands crackdown on slow play by scrum-halves
It's not the players' fault for the slow play, but change needs to happen to speed play up
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