News By The Rugby Paper Team
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/ 6 years agoSpray cans can stop the cheats
REFEREEING at the highest level has never been more professional which makes what happened in Wellington last weekend all the more...
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Features
/ 6 years agoComing back to Sarries I saw the youngsters were now world class
Q & A DAVE STRETTLE ON THE RECORD Finished in style: Dave Strettle Long-serving former England winger Dave Strettle reflects on...
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/ 6 years agoPellow turns to quarterback skills to give his Chiefs an edge
By NEALE HARVEY USA traveller: Ricky Pellow coaching at Exeter EXETERattack coach Ricky Pellow has revealed why he is arming the...
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Features
/ 6 years agoHola’s hit ended my World Cup
MY LIFEIN RUGBY AL CHARRON – HALL OF FAMER FORMER CANADA, BRISTOL, MOSELEY, PAU AND DAX LOOSE FORWARD So proud of...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWorld Rugby must act to stem decline in players
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Dwindling band: Schoolboys enjoy a game of rugby for the fun of...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoTyrrells challenge tougher this time
By ADAM ELLIS Graduation: Carys Williams of Loughborough Lightning played in her first Six Nations for England THE new Premier 15s...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoDREAM TEAM
CLAIRE ALLAN, ENGLAND WOMEN’S 7s AND FORMER ENGLAND 15s, RICHMOND, WASPS, WORCESTER AND SARACENS UTILITY BACK, CHOOSES HER BEST XV PLAYED...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoLionesses could roar but only if done right
CATHERINE SPENCER FORMER ENGLAND WOMEN’S CAPTAIN Lion kings: Danny Grewcock and Jason Leonard after the first Test win in Brisbane 2001...
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/ 6 years agoJPR blasts warm-up games as injury threat
By STEFFAN THOMAS Blow: Rhys Webb injured against Italy 2015 Horror: Morgan Stoddart breaks his leg against England in 2011 Big...
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/ 6 years agoBath boys aiming to dodge the cut-price breakfast!
By NEALE HARVEY BATH No.9 Will Chudley claims his side were “miles behind” last season and that the club’s rigorous new...
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Features
/ 6 years agoYOUNG GUNS
JAC MORGAN SCARLETS AND ABERAVON NO.7 When Wales U20s pulled off a remarkable 8-7 victory over their New Zealand counterparts at...
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/ 6 years agoWelsh stars swap pints for glory run
By JAMES CANDY Giant strides: Josh Adams. Inset: Gareth Davies scores against England in 2015 PICTURE: Getty Images TWO KEY members...
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/ 6 years agoHorsman’s boys hunt big game in South Africa
HEAD COACH Chris Horsman takes his Wales squad to South Africa this weekend for the U18 International Series for what will...
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/ 6 years agoThe French get big on cheese and wine!
Former Bath prop Kane Palma-Newport talks about his experiences in French rugby, one year after his move to Colomiers KANE PALMA-NEWPORT...
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/ 6 years agoHill’s back to put the pain of England behind him
By STEFFAN THOMAS CORY Hill has warned England that Wales will be going hell for leather when the two rivals clash...
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/ 6 years agoCricketers have shown us the way says Daly
By GARY FITZGERALD No easing up: Elliot Daly will be going flat out in the warm-up matches PICTURE: Getty Images Schoolmate:...
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/ 6 years agoElias desperate to win place on that plane to Japan
WALES are heading to Japan to win the Rugby World Cup, but for Ryan Elias even booking his place on the...
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/ 6 years agoWelsh greats vie to be president of the WRU
By ALEX BYWATER Contenders: Gerald Davies and Tommy David TWO OF Welsh rugby’s glittering stars of the 1970’s, Gerald Davies and...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWas our game of rugby truly better in 1991?
JEFF GAGE YES How it was: North beat the All Blacks Colin Boag labels those who have the temerity to be...
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Features
/ 6 years agoMy players love pulling on their NO county shirt
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk I HAVE heard and read some comments regarding the Bill Beaumont County Championship that I...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWord’s out… the All Blacks no longer look invincible
JEREMY GUSCOTT Big finish: Herschel Jantjies scores for South Africa to draw against the All Blacks PICTURE: Getty Images OUTSPOKEN AND...
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/ 6 years agoMoody: Curry can prove he’s world class in Japan
By GARY FITZGERLAD Choice: Lewis Moody TOM Curry celebrated his 21st birthday earlier this summer but it will be on Japan’s...
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/ 6 years agoWheelchairs or rucks is rugby’s choice
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Even at this advanced and supposedly enlightened stage of our development as a species, sport clings to...
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/ 6 years agoNo Celts needed for lady Lions
RUGBY-Union craves a bigger international footprint, so the move towards the establishment of a female version of the British and Irish...
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/ 6 years agoItaly give Boks boost
ACCORDING to Jake White, the South African coach who knows a thing or two about winning World Cups, the Springboks are...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoBayliss: Bath youth brigade ready to prove their able back row stock
Josh Bayliss, 21, has total faith in Bath's young guns to step up in place of the World Cup absentees
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoMartyn Wood hunts 32 new players at bare-bones Yorkshire Carnegie
Carnegie's new director of rugby talks to TRP about the sizeable task on his hand rebuilding the squad
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoCipriani can inspire me to get back to my best, says Newcastle’s Dominic Waldouck
Varsity Cup winner Waldouck talks about his time spent at Wasps with Danny Cipriani
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World Rugby Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoCan anyone stop the All Blacks at the Rugby World Cup?
New Zealand have been installed as the clear favourites to win a third consecutive World Cup when they march into battle...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoTaulupe Faletau World Cup dream with Wales is over
A major blow to Wales and Warren Gatland
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Featured
/ 6 years agoMike Friday Q&A: Premiership clubs have shown interest in me
The Englishman across the Pond enjoyed a fantastic season with USA Sevens
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Featured
/ 6 years agoJackson column: Welsh regions need British & Irish League to attract fans
Peter Jackson shares his thoughts on how a British & Irish League would also help clubs who play in the second-string...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoSonny Bill Williams issues retort to critics doubting his All Blacks spot
"Get your priorities right" - Sonny Bill makes fierce riposte to New Zealand media
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Featured
/ 6 years agoRoom 101: Harlequins fly-half Brett Herron
The former Jersey Reds and Bath no.10 offers three entries to Room 101
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years ago‘A British & Irish League has to happen urgently’ – former PRO14 club chairman
How might CVC's strategy for a British & Irish League may work, according to former Cardiff Blues chairman Peter Thomas
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoName change for Premier 15s runners-up Harlequins
“Our name is our identity, it’s what we stand for and what we are about"
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoArgentina star Diaz Bonilla aims to join compatriots in the Premiership
Fly-half Joaquin Diaz Bonilla and prop Enrique Pieretto want to leave the Super Rugby finalists Jaguares
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoA British League is ‘urgently needed’
By PETER JACKSON THE MAN whose millions kept Cardiff Blues afloat for more than 20 years today calls for the creation...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoRichmond demand Carnegie review
By SAM JACKSON RICHMOND are demanding a review of the RFU’s decision to allow Yorkshire Carnegie to play on in the...
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Features
/ 6 years agoHerschel can spark the Boks warns Kruger
By STEFFAN THOMAS HERSCHEL Jantjies can be South Africa’s secret weapon and lead them to World Cup glory, says former Springbok...
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Features
/ 6 years agoChristian salvation for worried Cheika
By GARY FITZGERALD Inside dart: Reece Hodge scores for the Wallabies PICTURE: Getty Images CHRISTIAN Leaiifano enjoyed a happy and successful...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWe had to dog that one out says happy Hooper
MICHAEL Hooper praised the Wallabies solid and resilient defence for helping them “dog out” a muchneeded, if unspectacular, Rugby Championship victory....
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Features
/ 6 years agoKolisi so close to a return
INJURED South Africa captain Siya Kolisi is showing positive signs of returning to action in the coming weeks after wrestling with...
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/ 6 years agoMaitland: Scots are running personal bests
By GARY HEATLY SCOTLAND winger Sean Maitland has revealed that squad members have been smashing their personal fitness goals as the...
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Features
/ 6 years agoInvasion of the Boks will just keep growing
By NEALE HARVEY Imposing: London Irish’s Franco van Der Merwe battles in the lineout with Bath’s Luke Charteris PICTURES: Getty Images...
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/ 6 years agoGill demands minimum of play-off place for Blues
By STEFFAN THOMAS RHYS Gill has warned nothing but a play-off place in this season’s Guinness PRO14 will do for Cardiff...
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Features
/ 6 years agoIs our country in good hands at No.10, Eddie?
A simple question: what is the most significant difference between Danny Cipriani and Boris Johnson, apart from hair colour and a...
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Features
/ 6 years agoKingsley set to give Canucks new ideas
CANADA head coach Kingsley Jones has praised the value of the Pacific Nations Cup as the Canucks renew their rivalry with...
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Features
/ 6 years agoEmotional as Japan bless their new venue
By ADAM ELLIS Hitting back: Sam Matavesi scores for Fiji JAPAN blessed the first Test match to be played at Kamaishi...
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/ 6 years agoSin bins spell the end of Tonga’s resistance
By ADAM ELLIS SAMOA got the better of their Polynesia neighbours in the mudbath of Apia. The playing surface in the...











