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Latest News
/ 2 years agoSeries 2, Episode 25: Mal O’Kelly on Ireland’s World Cup prospects and Leinster’s end to the season
This week on The Rugby Paper Podcast, joining host Ollie Little, columnists Nick Cain and Brendan Gallagher and Digital Editor Nick...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoAgen on the trail of top Welsh trio
By NEIL FISSLER French ProD2 outfit Agen, who are in the middle of a takeover battle, are courting a trio of...
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Dream Team
/ 2 years agoDream Team with Alan Tait
The former British & Irish Lions, Scotland, Newcastle & Edinburgh centre/wing, chooses the best XV he had played with or against......
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoWillis: I’d never have left Wasps
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER England back row Jack Willis admits that he would never have left Wasps if they...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoWitty looks set to sign for Rouen
ON THE BLINDSIDE Former Newcastle Falcons and Exeter Chiefs lock Will Witty is set for another move this summer with a...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoToulon have No.9 White in their sights
ON THE BLINDSIDE Top 14 giants Toulon are courting a move for Scotland scrum-half Ben White, who has been looking for...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoSale lock still in hunt for new club
ON THE BLINDSIDE Sale Sharks lock Matt Postlethwaite is still looking for a new club, with his contract with the Premiership...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoBoyle turns down Exeter approach
ON THE BLINDSIDE Exeter have failed with their attempts to land young Leinster prop Jack Boyle who has decided that his...
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Features
/ 2 years agoFading myth of invincibility
As the World Cup approaches, Paul Rees reports on why the All Blacks need to hit the ground running For the...
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Features
/ 2 years agoPlayers discuss stresses of life
The times they are indeed changing. It was not so long ago that if a player used the services of a...
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Features
/ 2 years agoHill keeps climbing the peaks in France
Jon Newcombe talks to top coach Richard Hill after he secured yet another promotion in the French leagues Former Bath and...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoEligibility rules are cause for concern
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER These newish eligibility regulations are still open to...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoHoping a phoenix can rise from the ashes…
The London Irish story has taken a horrible, cruel, turn recently but remains an extraordinary tale worth telling and in the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoSensational Jonah, the game’s first global star
Brendan Gallagher looks back at the players who shone on the biggest stage, this time he goes back to 1995 and...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 2 years agoMy Life in Rugby with Nili Latu: ‘Playing for my country was never about money’
The former Tonga, Hurricanes, Chiefs, Newcastle, Green Rockets and Red Dolphins No.8 My playing career with Tonga (a record 54 caps)...
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Young Gun
/ 2 years agoYoung Guns: Ampthill hooker Ben Pogson
Ben Pogson is “ecstatic” he has managed to land a contract at Championship side Ampthill after the difficult news last October...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoSeries 2, Episode 24: European Cup format and reattempting an England XV
This week on the Rugby Paper Podcast, host Ollie Little is joined by columnists Brendan Gallagher, Nick Cain and Chris Hewett...
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Dream Team
/ 2 years agoDream Team with Will Davis
The Blackheath and former Ealing Trailfinders and Northampton Saints prop, talks about his life in the game... 1. Ellis Genge –...
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Features
/ 2 years agoHelping to coach the next generation
Jon Newcombe talks to Matt Williams about the challenges of running coaching academies for up and coming players London Irish junior...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoSnow has his eye on new deal at Chiefs
Exeter Chiefs are set to return to pre-season this week and will see a familiar face trying to earn himself a...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoTeague keen to be heading home
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler Former England attack guru Rory Teague, below, is ready to...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoLoader signs two-year deal with Stormers
Ben Loader is moving to South Africa this summer and will play in the United Rugby Championship after signing for the...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoFighting talk suits Cameron
Northampton Saints have contacted undisputed women’s super-lightweight champion Chantelle Cameron about defending her titles at Franklins Gardens. The Northampton-born boxing queen...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoSanderson visits Warrior world
Sale Sharks boss Alex Sanderson and head coach Paul Deacon were busy last week picking the brains of another North-West coach...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoNeild back on market
Former Sale Sharks back-row Cameron Neild is looking for his third club in a year after his short-term deal with Glasgow...
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Features
/ 2 years agoMurley races to the top of the try pile
Peter Jackson sees the man overlooked by England lead the way when it comes to try time ENGLAND chose seven different...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoWho will be next on the production line?
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER The Junior World Cup makes a welcome return after a four-year hiatus next week down in South...
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Rugby Matters
/ 2 years agoToulouse play to win…everything!
Toulouse aren’t short of a bob or two and can, if they so wish, buy virtually any player on the planet....
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Features
/ 2 years agoKing Campo was simply the best
World Cup icons...1991 >> Brendan Gallagher looks back at the players who shone on the biggest stage All sorts of players...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 2 years agoMy Life in Rugby with Darren Garforth: ‘Not bad for a stocky centre-forward convert’
The former England, Leicester & Nuneaton prop talks about his life in the game As I write this, a group of...
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Features
/ 2 years agoPut your best foot forward for Matt
THE Matt Hampson Foundation’s Get Busy Living Centre was opened in 2018 in Leicestershire, hosting expert physiotherapy, specialist personal training, support,...
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Young Gun
/ 2 years agoYoung Guns: Sale Sharks winger Alex Wills
Having gone through the heartache of being made redundant by Worcester Warriors, Alex Wills has found a new and improved lease...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoSeries 2, Episode 23: Topsy Ojo on London Irish’s suspension from the Prem
London Irish have officially become the third club to be suspended from the Gallagher Premiership this season. The Exiles demise subsequently...
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Dream Team
/ 2 years agoDream Team with Dan George
The Old Albanian head coach and former Scarlets, London Welsh, Gloucester, Worcester and Bedford hooker, chooses the Best XV he has...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoCardiff in fight for Thomas
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Gloucester have been linked with a move for highly-rated Cardiff coach T Rhys Thomas. The...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoEvans tops wanted list
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Cardiff have made Ospreys full-back Cai Evans their number one summer target. The son of...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoDiamond staying on
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Rugby's Red Adair Steve Diamond is staying at Edinburgh until the end of the World...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoFree agent Odogwu ready for URC
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Former Wasps flyer Paolo Odogwu could finally ply his trade in the United Rugby Championship...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoBorthwick’s plea for Irish boys to stay
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER England boss Steve Borthwick hit the phones last week in a plea to stop London...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoRacing trying to tempt Marcus
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Racing 92 have made England and Harlequins fly-half Marcus Smith an offer of around €500,000...
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Features
/ 2 years agoToo many promises, too little scrutiny
After London Irish became the third club casualty of a brutal season, Paul Rees considers what might happen next If thoughts...
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Features
/ 2 years agoSafety first as red cards rise to an all-time high
Peter Jackson finds that only Ireland kept on the right side of every referee as the game gets to grips with...
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Features
/ 2 years agoWrong to sell the family silver
Francis Baron, former CEO of the RFU, is concerned with rugby's deal with private equity firm CVC THE CVC ACQUISITION OF...
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Young Gun
/ 2 years agoYoung Guns: Saracens & England U18 full-back Jack Bracken
Jack Bracken is hoping to replicate his father Kyran’s career but has switched positions from scrum-half to full-back. Bracken, 17, made...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 2 years agoMy Life in Rugby with Wayne Kilford: ‘Moore told me – The work starts now’
The former Nottingham, Leicester, Coventry and Midlands full-back talks about his life in the game My first captain in senior rugby...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoWe must find a way to stop vicious spiral
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Heaven knows The Rugby Paper has been warning...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoWhen I needed a helping hand…
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER You could fill a noisy bar with the journalists past and present queuing to buy David Emery...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoSeries 2, Episode 22: Nick Abendanon on his career and French vs English domestic rugby, tributes to David Emery
In April earlier this year Bath and Clermont legend Nick Abendanon called time on a stellar 17-year career. Nick joins host...
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Feature
/ 3 years agoStigma, not disease, that is now HIV’s killer – Thomas
Welsh rugby legend Gareth Thomas says it is the stigma around HIV, rather than the illness itself, that poses the greatest...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 3 years agoEaling look to pick up Caulfield
ON THE BLINDSIDE - NEIL FISSLER Ealing Trailfinders are still looking to strengthen their squad for next season despite finding their...
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