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Features
/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Ex-Canada, Sale, London Welsh and Esher utility back Phil MacKenzie
Three relegations haven't dampened the Canadian's outlook on his time in English club rugby
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoMunster prop James Cronin given one-month doping ban after pharmacy mix-up
Wrong medication leads to Cronin testing positive for two prohibited substances
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 rugby hard cases countdown: 20-16
Brendan Gallagher begins his countdown of rugby's hardest men
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoWe can become regulars in the top two, says Northampton Saints No.8 Teimana Harrison
The Northampton Saints No.8 tells Neale Harvey how he is revelling his role as co-captain
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby’s finest rushed to the battlefront and died heroes with VCs
FOR three decades or more before 1914 the young men of Britain and its extended Empire had been fighting generally good...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoJohn Wells to leave Newcastle Falcons for role in Italy
Defence coach John Wells will take up a new challenge with Rugby Colorno
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoCVC £300m investment into Six Nations put on ice
Deal between CVC and Six Nations put on hold until Test calendar becomes clear
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 6 years agoAgustin Pichot wants to see British & Irish Lions tour Americas
Standing to be elected chairman of World Rugby, Pichot has spoken about his thoughts on how Lions tours could expand
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Guest Blogs
/ 6 years agoCoronavirus leads to lull in sports betting
The coronavirus pandemic has ended up delivering a lethal yet unexpected blow to the sports betting industry. According to many industry...
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Guest Blogs
/ 6 years agoRugby betting guide for beginners
Watching sports, including rugby, can make you a happier person, at least if you don’t take losses personally. On the flip...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoPlan to hold Six Nations in full again in autumn
Compensation issue By PETER JACKSON THE Six Nations are in the process of finalising contingency plans for an emergency tournament to...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSalary cap cuts are thrown out by big three
Billy’s boost from Italy By NEIL FISSLER Young: He’s set to stay with Wasps Wales’ flanker Thomas Young seems certain to stay...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoROOM 101
THE ENGLAND SEVENS INTERNATIONAL TAKES US THROUGH HIS PET HATES FROM THE RUGBY WORLD AND BEYOND RICHARD DE CARPENTIER 1. Poor...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDenman and Burrows hit the trail to Ealing
ON THE BLIND SIDE BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler EALING TRAILFINDERS have snapped up former Yorkshire Carnegie, Rotherham Titans, Northampton...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoHooley on his way to new-look Saracens
SARACENS have been busys napping up Championship players ahead of spending next season in the second tier. Blind side understands they...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoTigers must repel raiders for Jonah
Wanted: Jonah Holmes THE DRAGONS are keen on making a cross border raid on Leicester Tigers to sign Wales international winger...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoProp Heffernan keen to stay in England
NOTTINGHAM prop Oisin Heffernan, right, is back on the market after the Championship side hit financial problems. The former Ireland U20...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSharks snare Daley-Mclean
WORLD Cup-winning captain Katy Daley-Mclean has signed for Premier 15s newcomers Sale Sharks Women as a player-coach. The 34-year-old fly-half, who...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoBrutality in Argentina
A GANG of young rugby players have been found guilty of murder in Buenos Aires. Law student Fernando Baez, 19, was...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoAdendorff is almost a Saint
Talks: Adendorff NORTHAMPTON Saints are closing in on a deal to land South African flanker Shaun Adendorff who has been playing...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWALES AND LIONS LEGEND
Riches on offer in Far East spell big trouble THE growing emergence of Japanese rugby at both Test and club level...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoGareth’s right to call a halt to brown envelopes in grassroots
I WAS pleased to see Welsh Rugby Union chairman Gareth Davies urge grassroots clubs in Wales to stop paying their players....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoTakeaway driver Gav epitomises the spirit we all need
I’VE been amazed by the collective spirit shown by Welsh rugby in the midst of coronavirus – so much so I’ve...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDay the Old Boys’ drinking club beat the mighty Sarries
Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at rugby’s biggest upsets 1= Old Reigatians 12 Saracens 10 (John Player Cup, 1987)...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoNarraway to boss Dragons forwards
FORMER England No.8 Luke Narraway and ex-Edinburgh captain Simon Cross have been appointed to Dean Ryan’s Dragons coaching team on a...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSteyn in PRO14 at Cheetahs
SPRINGBOK utility back Frans Steyn is thrilled to be back in Bloemfontein having signed from the Cheetahs from French outfit Montpellier....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoHaag hankers for return to pro game
JON NEWCOMBE talks to Martin Haag, one of rugby’s very best ‘lost’ coaches DEAN RYAN’s tenure at the RFU was a...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoCoaches/Managers ‘lost’ to the game
MARTIN JOHNSON Vowed never to become involved in rugby management again following the 2011 World Cup campaign blighted by off-field misdemeanours....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoGUEST COLUMNIST
Cooch not on toughie list? It may get nasty! Jacques Burger? No arguments there. Colin Meads? Wayne Shelford? Bang on. In...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWorld Rugby’s hustings are flannel
AND they’re off, predictable as night following day. The runners and riders chasing high office at World Rugby are suddenly saying...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoVideo nasty for the Scots
ACCORDING to Agustin Pichot, candidate for the World Rugby chairmanship, the sport is in dire need of…wait for it…a video game....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSo how do you fix this mess called the scrum?
NICK CAIN TALKS TO SCRUM GURU PHIL KEITH-ROACH ABOUT THE PROBLEMS WITH THE GAME’S GREATEST SET-PIECE THE scrum has collapsed. That...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoPoles call for more ranking events
By ADAM ELLIS POLAND head coach Duaine Lindsay has called on World Rugby to increase the number of fixtures Europe’s emerging...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoEllis is living proof of the old 80-minute rule
By PETER JACKS0N Going the distance: Ellis Genge played the full 80 for England against Wales during the World Cup warm-up...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoTigers’ Cup winners produced a brains trust of talent
THERE was more retro heaven recently with BT Sport replaying Leicester’s 34-30 Heineken Cup final win over Stade Francais in 2001....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoPichot has visions of changing the world
I’VE always looked at Gus Pichot, especially when he was in his hirsute phase a few years back, below, as something...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRugby must speak with one voice -like Apollo 13
For the space buffs among you rugby aficionados, this last week has been an extraordinary trip down memory lane as we...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoNEXT WEEK …Don’t miss
Lock stars in contention for Lions 2021 Gallagher’s Top 20: World’s best rugby gounds History of Rugby: Tumultuous Thirties ... Continue...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoNational One in conflict over salary cap reduction
By NEALE HARVEY BATTLE lines are being drawn among National League One clubs after Chinnor chairman Simon Vickers demanded a swingeing...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWasps must play without fear to get the fans behind us
Q&A LEE BLACKETT ON THE RECORD New head coach Lee Blackett tells NEALE HARVEY how he intends rising to the challenge...
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Iconic Pictures
/ 6 years agoShy schoolboys whose talent shook the world
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoAxed star Larter still doesn’t know why
Even now after all these years Peter Larter still stands alone, the one English Lion who took a stand against terrorism...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoThis test of strength can sway the series
2021 LIONS A YEAR TO GO NICK CAIN LOOKS AT THE CONTENDERS FOR EACH POSITION THIS WEEK... TIGHTHEAD Rock of ages:...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoBear cubs can go all the way says Morgan
By NEALE HARVEY BRISTOL’S gifted gang of backline proteges are primed to explode on to the international stage, predicts former Wales...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDREAMTEAM
CHARLIE CLARE, LEICESTER AND FORMER NORTH WALSHAM, JERSEY, BEDFORD AND NORTHAMPTON HOOKER, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAY ED WITH...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoTHEO BEVACQUA
YOUNG GUNS CARDIFF BLUES LOOSEHEAD Born in London, raised in Heathfield and educated at Eastbourne College, in ordinary circumstances promising prop Theo...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoO’Gara still hates me for the treatment I gave him
MY LIFEIN RUGBY PAUL VOLLEY FORMER WASPS, CASTRES, HARLEQUINS AND LONDON SCOTTISH OPENSIDE I’M sure he won’t like me saying it but...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoBig guns will back Bill to save them cash
“What Pichot hopes for is the dream of Tier Two nations, but this can never be achieved” And so it begins,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWakefield leads charge as England claim four Grand Slams in the 20s
Brendan Gallagher continues his expert and authorative look at the history of Rugby Union In the immediate aftermath of World War...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoQUINS DOMINATE THE NEW MIDDLESEX SEVENS COMPETITION
A MAJOR development in the 1920s was the establishment of the end-of-season Middlesex Sevens which were organised by a London Scot...
Autumn Internationals
Jamie George: Henry Pollock’s self-belief is inspiring for England
International Rugby
George North signs off with a try double for Barbarians against Wales
Brendan Gallagher
Brendan Gallagher: Henry Pollock showing us all he’s the real deal
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