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Features
/ 7 years agoThe RFU have treated the Championship disgracefully, Nottingham’s chairman explains
'Everyone below the Premiership has been left to fend for themselves', says Alistair Bow
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoHead coach Wayne Pivac confirms three Wales players contracted Covid-19
Pivac reveals a small number of the Wales squad have been affected by the virus
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Dream Team
/ 7 years agoDream Team: Exeter Chiefs flanker Dave Ewers
Fresh from signing a new deal at Sandy Park, we asked Dave Ewers to pick a Dream Team
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Guest Blogs
/ 7 years agoRugby in sportsbooks goes down as event cancellations due to coronavirus continues
Earlier this year all sports events were cancelled or postponed indefinitely due to the coronavirus spreading around the globe. One month...
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoEngland’s battle at No.9 – Alex Mitchell ready to run with big dogs
Training and playing with Cobus Reinach has pushed Mitchell to challenge Youngs and Heinz
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoGareth Davies is losing three-way race for Wales No.9 shirt, says Rob Jones
Two-time Lions tourist Robert Jones weighs in on who can rudder Wales' backline under Wayne Pivac
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoProbyn column: Now Eddie Jones can make up for mistakes at the World Cup
Well I guess it was no surprise that Eddie Jones got his contract extension even if he and many others thought...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 7 years agoTop 20 wasted rugby talents countdown: No 10-6
An All Blacks career derailed and the Caribbean-English trailblazer born in the wrong era
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoWorld Rugby announces eight-figure global relief fund for unions
Together with the Six Nations and Sanzaar, World Rugby are examining the rugby calendar
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 7 years agoTop 20 wasted rugby talents countdown: No 15-11
Brendan Gallagher rankings of talents who didn't fulfil their potential continues...
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Featured
/ 7 years agoQ&A: Ben Smith – All Blacks would be wrong to start selecting Europe-based players
Legendary All Blacks full-back Ben Smith talks at length about his New Zealand career and time in France with Pau
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 7 years agoRugby Matters: The past was a different country for rugby thrills
Brendan Gallagher believes conservative play has etched into modern rugby
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoShining star Lewis Jones still beams bright at 89
The 19-year-old Test Lion would become the subject of rugby's record transfer fee, and played at Lord's
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoSaints sign emerging duo Ollie Sleightholme and Connor Tupai to new deals
England U20 wing Sleightholme has been in prolific form for Northampton since making his debut in 2018
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoArgentina abandon 2027 Rugby World Cup bid, lend backing to Australia
The world will have to wait a little longer for the first Rugby World Cup in South America
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoSaracens ask highest earners to accept partial wage deferrals
Reigning Premiership champions take major measures towards maintaining their sustainability
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Featured
/ 7 years agoLondon Irish building new dynasty around their Fantastic Four
Anthony Watson, Jonathan Joseph, Joe Cokanasiga, Delon Armitage all came through the Exiles pathway. Neale Harvey finds there's four newbies ready...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years ago‘There are some academy players earning £8K’ – RPA’s Christian Day reveals Premiership ‘mess’
Retired lock, now working for the RPA, explains how player cuts are far more complex to impose than they appear
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoJackson column: The hidden Wales aces making life tough for regions
Peter Jackson looks at the lack of playing time regions are getting from their Wales stars
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Features
/ 7 years agoRoom 101: Bristol Bears second row Joe Batley
Batley, spent time on loan at Leicester this season, and picks three of his biggest pet hates
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoWilliams column: Parkes will be missed but Owen Williams bigger loss
After his own experience in Japan, Shane Williams can understand why Hadleigh Parkes would move to Japan
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 7 years agoGatland’s plan for Lions to play at Twickenham ‘nonsense’, says Willie-John McBride
"I think it’s scandalous that the Premiership clubs in England are dictating the future of the sport" - Lions legend McBride
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoWorcester fly-half Jono Lance set to take the Tartan shilling
Billy Searle's pending arrival at Worcester leaves door open for Lance to make PRO14 move
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoCain column: Thinking cap back on please, Laporte!
Bernard Laporte made some outlandish claim to ditch the Champions Cup without any evidence of its limitations
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoDejected Otley go on the offensive after relegation by RFU
Otley are seething at their relegation from National League Two North under the RFU's formula
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoPremiership clubs keen to offer Australia aces way out
Recruitment hasn't been shut down for some Premiership clubs
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Columnists
/ 7 years agoThe briefest argument for why the Championship is invaluable to English rugby
Nottingham chairman Alistair Bow explains how some Premiership clubs still want to keep links with the Championship - but others aren't...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 7 years agoTop 20 wasted rugby talents countdown: No 20-16
Brendan Gallagher ranks the players who could have achieved so much more in the game
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoDeal for Saracens’ Richard Wigglesworth to join Sale Sharks is off
Not making the switch north to Premiership rivals
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoBill Beaumont outlines vision for World Rugby amid election challenge from Pichot
The former England captain is seeking another term as World Rugby chairman
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Guest Blogs
/ 7 years agoWhy cryptocurrency could be a gamechanger for the rugby world
Most rugby fans will have heard of cryptocurrencies by now. A cryptocurrency is a virtual digital currency that can be traded...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoOptions are drying up for Nick Abendanon who seeks homecoming from Clermont
After six years in France with Clermont, ex-Bath full-back Nick Abendanon had been planning on a return to England
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoScottish Rugby furloughs hundreds of staff and asks players to take wage cut
Employees earning over £50,000 face reduction of wages
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Features
/ 7 years agoYoung Guns: Northampton Saints winger Josh Gillespie
Dropped by Bath, Northampton came calling for the Australia-born wing
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoLeicester coaching restructure to take effect in July with arrival of Borthwick
Tigers confirm when Steve Borthwick will be joining the club as head coach
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoAgustin Pichot promises a new ‘global game’ with late bid to chair World Rugby
Ex-Argentina scrum-half and World Rugby vice-chairman to rival Bill Beaumont in election
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoYou’ve sold England’s jewels, RFU are warned
By NICK CAIN A LEADING club chairman has warned the RFU and Premiership clubs of the danger of allowing CVC to...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoAbendanon return is hit by the virus lockdown
By NEALE HARVEY NICK Abendanon has spoken of his frustration at potentially having to quit rugby after seeing his hopes of...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoROOM 101
JOE BATLEY THE BRISTOL SECOND ROW TAKES US THROUGH HIS PET HATES FROM THE RUGBY WORLD AND BEYOND 1. Boys that...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoSteenson fancies another year at Chiefs
Staying? Steenson EXETER CHIEFS legend Gareth Steenson could put off his retirement for another year and pen another contract extension with...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoAussie aces bid to beat the pay-cuts
PREMIERSHIP clubs are taking a keen interest in events Down Under after Rugby Australia asked players to take a 65 per...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoWigglesworth deal with Sale is off
RICHARD Wigglesworth is unlikely to be returning to Sale Sharks in a player-coach role at the end of the season Blindside...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoDeano’s a copper again
DEAN RICHARDS has returned to his first job in the police after volunteering to help Northumbria Police during the coronavirus outbreak....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoJono set to take the Tartan shilling
WORCESTER Warriorsfly-half Jono Lance is in advanced talks with Edinburgh about moving to the Scottish capital this summer. Canberra-born Lance, 29,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoParkes will be missed but Owen’s bigger loss
RUGBY IS A very fickle business. One minute you’re a Grand Slam winner, starring at the World Cup, and top of...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoKings of the Jungle where wild beasts come to play
Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at rugby’s feared enforcers 1 Jacques Burger (Namibia) The King as far as...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoJamie the one who must beware bolters this time
2021 LIONS A YEAR TO GO NICK CAIN LOOKS AT THE CONTENDERS FOR EACH POSITION THIS WEEK... HOOKER THE shakedown at...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoBeware of changing too much, Eddie
EDDIE Jones bagged himself another set of headlines by anticipating a 60 per cent change in the make-up of his England...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoLamb gets the chop
BACK in the 1960s, the scary All Black lock Colin Meads would run around his farm in King Country with a...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoBring back those real tours -by bus and train
How it was and could be again: Leicester’s Clive Woodward tackles New Zealand’s Eddie Dunn at Welford Road in 1979 The...
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