News By The Rugby Paper Team
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoKeys on the brink as dominant Drovers run riot
By TIM LEWIS Llandovery …43 Cross Keys …21 LLANDOVERY moved Cross Keys closer to relegation from the Premiership as they suffered...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoBedwas made to work but take maximum points at Neath
By ROB COLE Neath…3 Bedwas …28 BEDWAS battled their way to a much-needed bonuspoint win to keep alive their hopes of...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoMorgans at the double as Quins romp past Ponty
By TOM PRITCHARD Pontypridd …12 Carm Quins …32 CARMARTHEN Quins produced an impressive display to secure a bonuspoint win over Pontypridd...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoRhydyfelin are down after loss at rivals Trebanos
By JAY BAYFORD Welsh Championship round-up RHYDYFELIN became the second team to be relegated from the WRU National Championship this season....
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoLlandudno clinch title in true champion fashion
By JAY BAYFORD Welsh Division One round-up LLANDUDNO clinched the One North title in style as they dismantled Bethesda. The newly-crowned...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoKockott fizz has Castres bubbling in Bordeaux
DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Abrasive: But Castres scrum-half Rory Kockott got the job done against Bordeaux-Begles “Doomed Perpignan would like to...
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Features
/ 7 years agoArnie’s hopping it after 450 games,
Jon Newcombe talks to a National Leagues iron man who has decided to call it a day Well done, old boy:...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoCoach Williams leaves Quins
TOM Williams, the Quins winger caught up in the Bloodgate scandal, is leaving the club after serving as their transition coach....
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoI had to give Hughes poke in the eye says Dai
By GARY FITZGERALD Back on form: Nathan Hughes DAI Young has revealed he gave Nathan Hughes “a poke in the eye”...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoLetters
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk We don’t want social...
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Features
/ 7 years agoIt’s about time TV pundits gave praise to defences
COLIN BOAG Try time: Rory Hutchinson scores for Saints against Gloucester Did you watch the televised game between Northampton Saints and...
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Features
/ 7 years agoWarm up games essential to get England on track
JEREMYGUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK In credit: Kyle Sinckler was one of the few successes from the Six Nations PICTURE: Getty...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoCipriani masterminds Gloucester fightback
By JAMES CANDY White line fever: Gloucester’s Tom Seabrook avoids touch and Tom Homer to score the winning try PICTURES: Getty...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoDanny: Unselfish team has no egos
DANNY Cipriani believes the collective spirit of this Gloucester squad sets them apart from his previous tilts at the Premiership title....
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoGrayson keeps nerve as Saints stay in hunt for top four
By NICK CAIN Double trouble: Saints’ Rory Hutchinson is tackled by Quins’ Ben Tapuai and Kyle Sinckler PICTURES: Getty Images A...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoThat was hard to take says Gustard
QUINS head of rugby Paul Gustard said they had only themselves to blame for having the match snatched from their grasp....
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoRFU and Saracens condemn Billy Vunipola’s defence of Israel Folau’s views
RFU statement: "We will be meeting with Billy to discuss his social media posts."
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Featured
/ 7 years agoThe Rugby Paper Awards 2019: Who are your rugby heroes?
All the details on how to vote for your club and more information about our ceremony at Twickenham Stoop on May...
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Featured
/ 7 years agoEXCLUSIVE: Michael Cheika identifies ideal replacement for Stephen Larkham
England attack coach under Martin Johnson Brian Smith could take the role with the Wallabies
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Featured
/ 7 years agoJackson column: The mother behind Aberavon’s wizardry
Peter Jackson explores the history of the Mainwarings of Aberavon RFC, son Billy and matriarch Evelyn
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoRugby Australia cast Israel Folau’s future in doubt after full-back ducks calls
Wallabies chiefs intend to tear up Folau's contract with the union
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoPremiership Rugby release statement on salary cap-related investigation into Saracens
Saracens have reiterated their compliance with salary cap rules and willingness to be transparent with PR's investigation
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoHadleigh Parkes aims to get Scarlets back firing
"Diamonds are built under pressure after all"
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years ago‘Hell awaits you’: Israel Folau posts another anti-gay judgement
Folau condemns alcoholics, atheists and fornicators in new controversial Instagram post
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Featured
/ 7 years agoChristian Wade and the Rugby Union Players Who Have Switched Sports
🐝 Club Statement – Christian Wade ➡️ https://t.co/xQIQ20GClg pic.twitter.com/RvHemMkxBs — Wasps Rugby (@WaspsRugby) 24 October 2018 For many rugby union fans,...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoDave Rennie commits to Glasgow Warriors
Sticking at Scotstoun and not replacing Cheika
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoChristian Wade takes big leap towards NFL dream with Buffalo deal
Christian Wade has said he is ‘lost for words’ after being signed to join the Buffalo Bills as part of the...
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Featured
/ 7 years agoMunster head coach Johann van Graan to stay until 2022
The South African wants to secure new deals for his coaching assistants next
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoFord: I’m sure I can help keep Tigers up
By JON NEWCOMBE Confident: Mike Ford MIKE FORD saw at first hand the size of his task at Leicester Tigers yesterday...
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoWebb may ask Toulon for World Cup ticket
By PETER JACKSON RHYS Webb faces a tough decision if he is to be reunited with Wales this summer in time...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoHurricane Hughes gets the monkey off Wasps
By GARY FITZGERALD Breakthrough: Wasps’ Elliot Daly eludes a tackler PICTURES: Getty Images My ball:Wasps’ Joe Launchbury, right, and Gareth Milasinovich...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoSolomons: I’m still a believer in survival
ALAN Solomons backed his Warriors to fight their way out of trouble despite suffering a major blow at the Ricoh Arena....
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoIrish imports could bring a tsunami of debts
NICK CAIN Reports that Adam Coleman, the Australia and Rebels lock, is set to sign for London Irish next season on...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoDon’t make Sexton a special case, chaps
IRELAND found the transition of going from hunters to hunted uncomfortable in the Six Nations, and no-one more so than Johnny...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoNo drama in ring-fence
WHILE Premiership owners are cranking up the pressure to end promotion- relegation the rest of the game is absorbed by a...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoError-strewn Sarries wake up just in time
By ROGER PANTING Full stretch: Max Malins scores Saracens’ second try Threat: Owen Farrell set up the final try IF THEY...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoDeano: We need better officials
NEWCASTLE’S director of rugby Dean Richards believed the importance of the game merited more senior officials. Richards said: “I don’t know...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoSale push ever on as Sinckler and Quins implode
By ROSS HEPPENSTALL Bitten: Byron McGuigan runs in an interception try for Sharks Corner man: Jack Clifford touches down Harlequins’ second...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoDiamond: Come and watch us – please!
STEVE DIAMOND has urged the north-west sporting public: Come and support us! Sale moved to the AJ Bell Stadium on the...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoMostert? He’s bloody good warns fiesty Moon
By NEALE HARVEY Must-win game: Alex Moon PICTURES: Getty Images YOUTHFUL Saints lock Alex Moon is relishing taking on Gloucester’s second...
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Premiership
/ 7 years agoSharples: Ensure top four and we can go all the way
By NEALE HARVEY Confident: Gloucester flyer Charlie Sharples CHARLIE Sharples is adamant improving Gloucester can turn a solid campaign into a...
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Features
/ 7 years agoClubs eye Warrior Kirwan
Options: Carl Kirwan WORCESTER Warriors back row Carl Kirwan is attracting interest from Premiership clubs with his time at Sixways coming...
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Features
/ 7 years agoSaints chase prop Josh
NORTHAMPTON Saints are set to raid Premiership rivals Harlequins to strengthen their front row next season by moving for tight-head prop...
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Features
/ 7 years agoLam ‘no interest’ in MacGinty
BRISTOL coach Pat Lam says that he is happy with his fly-halves after being linked with a move for Sale Sharks...
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Features
/ 7 years agoON THE BLILD SIDE
BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler ■EXETER CHIEFS have re-signed two more players in winger Tom O’Flaherty and Welsh international...
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Features
/ 7 years agoPolota-Nau ready to go back to Oz
Loan spell: Tatafu Polota-Nau with the Waratahs LEICESTER TIGERS hooker Tatafu Polota-Nau could depart the relegation threatened Welford Road side and...
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Features
/ 7 years agoOspreys make Anscombe bid
THE OSPREYS are the latest club to offer Wales playmaker Gareth Anscombe a contract to join them after the World Cup....
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Features
/ 7 years agoTop agent Hood loses his clients
AGENTS have been circulating like sharks around clients of disgraced Scottish agent Gordon Hood who has been been placed on the...
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