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Brendan Gallagher
/ 10 months agoScotland vs Ireland – The rivalry which is a little one-sided
Rugby Matters - A weekly look at the game’s other talking points, by Brendan Gallagher The history books tell us that Ireland...
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Features
/ 10 months agoYoung Guns – Bath Winger Charlie Griffin
By Conor McLarnon Up-and-coming Bath winger Charlie Griffin hopes to replicate the playing style of senior international Freddie Steward in a...
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Features
/ 10 months agoSix Nations: England need best players on in last 20
By Jeff Probyn - A front row view of the game An exciting time in rugby with the start of the...
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Features
/ 10 months agoI’ve learnt from my mistakes -Skinner
■By MARK STEVENS Trio: Harvey Skinner and inset, Henry Slade, top, and Will Haydon-Wood EXETER fly-half Harvey Skinner aims to put...
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Features
/ 10 months agoTweedy’s aiming high for Archers
■By CONOR MCLARNON UNDER the leadership of flanker Nathan Tweedy, Nottingham are hungry to achieve their best finish in the Championship...
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Features
/ 10 months agoTiatia to stay at Dragons
FILO Tiatia will continue as the Dragons’ head coach next season. Tiatia, a twice capped All Black, arrived at Rodney Parade...
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Features
/ 10 months agoSmith off to Nevers
SECOND row George Smith has left Northampton to join French ProD2 side Nevers. The 24-yearold joined Saints last summer, having been...
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Podcast
/ 10 months agoPODCAST (S4, E21): Six Nations opening round reaction + blockbuster R2 preview with Brett Igoe
Three home wins marked the start of the 2025 Six Nations as France thrashed Wales, Scotland conquered Italy and Ireland saw...
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Features
/ 10 months agoMoney or eyeballs? Once again, that’s the big question
Paul Rees looks at the pressures on the Six Nations to balance reach and revenue Is this the last year when...
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Dream Team
/ 10 months agoDream Team – Michael van Vuuren
Michael van Vurren, the former junior Springbok, Cheetahs, Stade Francais, Kings, Leicester, Bath, London Scottish, London Irish, Northampton, Bedford, Ampthill, Ealing,...
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Features
/ 10 months agoRugby was a passport to travel the world
MY LIFEIN RUGBY MY KENT BRAY THE FORMER HARLEQUINS, QUEENSLAND AND NSW FLY-HALF/FULL-BACK I GREW up in Queensland Country, in a...
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Features
/ 10 months agoI’m surprised by £30m offer to community game
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME England leaders: Maro Itoje and Jamie George and, inset, Bill Sweeney PICTURES:...
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Young Gun
/ 10 months agoYoung Guns – Ralph McEachran
By Dan Robertshaw Sale Sharks academy prop Ralph McEachran is hoping to follow in the footsteps of young loosehead Asher Opoku-Fordjour...
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Features
/ 10 months agoTreadwell heading back to Quins
IRELAND lock Kieran Treadwell will rejoin Harlequins from Ulster for next season. The 29-year-old moved to Belfast in 2017 and has...
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Features
/ 10 months agoCheika to leave Tigers at end of the season
HEAD coach Michael Cheika will leave Leicester Tigers when his contract expires at the end of the season. The 57-year-old, below,...
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Latest News
/ 10 months agoSix Nations Predictions League: Round One with Jeremy Guscott and The Rugby Analyst
Ahead of the 2025 Six Nations opener in Paris tonight the boys from the podcast, alongside this week’s guests, England legend...
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Podcast
/ 10 months agoPODCAST: (S4, E20) – Six Nations Championship Preview with Jeremy Guscott and the Rugby Analyst
Here. We. Go. The Six Nations is just two sleeps away and we can’t wait! Join host Ollie Little and a...
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Features
/ 10 months ago‘Wow,’ I thought, ‘This kid has got something’ – David Ross on Ellis Mee
By Simon Thomas Ellis Mee’s rise to international rugby has been a remarkably rapid one, but it’s come as no great...
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Features
/ 10 months agothe wonderful people What stands out are
MY LIFEIN RUGBY THE FORMER SOUTH AFRICA ASSISTANT COACH WHO WAS IN CHARGE AT STORMERS, WESTERN PROVINCE, ULSTER, NORTHAMPTON, EASTERN PROVINCE...
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Features
/ 10 months agoEngland need to focus on playing the full 80 during the Six Nations
By Jeff Probyn - A Front row view on the game So Steve Borthwick has decided that his England team need...
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Features
/ 10 months agoCAMPBELL RIDL
YOUNG GUNS EXETER CENTRE/WING Campbell Ridl credits Exeter Chiefs for allowing players to balance university studies comfortably alongside their rugby. The...
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Podcast
/ 11 months agoS4, E19: England & Scotland hit by injuries, French clubs fire and South Africans slump
What to make of that Champions Cup weekend? On one hand we saw a classic in Northampton’s victory over Munster, however...
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Dream Team
/ 11 months agoCurtis Langdon’s Dream Team
CURTIS LANGDON, THE ENGLAND, NORTHAMPTON AND FORMER SALE, DONCASTER, WORCESTER, & MONTPELLIER HOOKER, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH...
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Features
/ 11 months agoSteve Borthwick needs to be brutal – and bold – this Six Nations
Paul Rees looks at the tough decisions the England coach has to make ahead of this season's Six Nations It is...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 months agoScotland’s class of 1925 fired by legends
Rugby Matters - A weekly look at the game's other talking points, by Brendan Gallagher Scotland only have three Grand Slams...
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Features
/ 11 months agoI was astonished when Leicester got in touch
MY LIFEIN RUGBY MICHAEL VAN VUUREN THE FORMER JUNIOR SPRINGBOK, CHEETAHS, STADE FRANCAIS, KINGS, LEICESTER, BATH, LONDON SCOTTISH, LONDON IRISH, NORTHAMPTON,...
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Features
/ 11 months agoREGGIEHAMMICK
YOUNG GUNS SARACENS FLANKER A brasive back row Reggie Hammick has joined Mark Mapletoft’s England U20s set-up aiming to make his...
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Podcast
/ 11 months agoS4, E18: Maro Itoje England captaincy reaction and Niko Matawalu madness
Join Ollie Little, Brendan Gallagher and Chris Hewett for this week’s Rugby Paper Podcast edition, recorded just half an hour after...
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Dream Team
/ 11 months agoDream Team – Matt Corker
MATT CORKER, THE CANTERBURY HEAD COACH AND FORMER WASPS, LONDON WELSH & RICHMOND PLAYER, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED...
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Features
/ 11 months agoInjuries are tough but I’m a fighter – Johnny Williams
Simon Thomas talks to Johnny Williams about beating cancer, life as a Scarlet and his Wales ambitions For Johnny Williams, the...
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Features
/ 11 months agoA spirit of adventure comes at high price
Crowd pleaser: Cadan Murley scores for Quins against Leicester in front of nearly 80,000 at Twickenham PICTURES: Getty Images NO matter...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 months agoHeroes deserve highest accolade
Rugby Matters by Brendan Gallagher - A weekly look at the game’s other talking points The second series of BBC’s SAS...
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Features
/ 11 months agoTom Shanklin – 2005 Grand Slam was pinnacle of my career
My Life In Rugby The former British & Irish Lions, Wales, Cardiff & Saracens centre, who now commentates for Premier Sports...
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Features
/ 11 months agoWe can learn a lot from French
By Jeff Probyn - A front row view on the game There is so much that is wrong with the game...
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Features
/ 11 months agoYoung Guns – Micky Rewcastle
By Ben Jaycock Local lad Micky Rewcastle is enjoying a breakthrough season at Newcastle, determined to help keep his side in...
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Podcast
/ 11 months agoThe Rugby Paper Podcast – S4, E17: Discussing the incredible year of Taqele Naiyaravoro
Happy new year one and all and welcome back to the Rugby Paper Podcast! We hope you had a restful holiday...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 11 months agoTom Parton off to Japan
Saracens full-back Tom Parton has left the club to join Japanese side Panasonic Wild Knights. The 26-year-old, who also plays wing,...
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Dream Team
/ 11 months agoDream Team – Sam Cross
SAM CROSS, THE FORMER GB SEVENS AND NEWPORT, OSPREYS, NEWCASTLE AND TARBES FLANKER, WHO IS NOW AT MERTHYR RFC, CHOOSES THE...
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Features
/ 11 months agoSpringboks and Ireland to still lead the way in 2025
Paul Rees looks forward to 2025 and sees South Africa and Ireland keeping their places at the top of the tree...
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Features
/ 11 months agoSix uncapped Welsh youngsters ready to break out
As the new year gets underway, Simon Thomas looks at six uncapped youngsters who could have big Welsh futures Dan Edwards...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 months agoA Tier Two XV to have you out of your seat
Rugby Matters - A weekly look at the game’s other talking points By Brendan Gallagher You won’t ever see my 2024...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 11 months agoLondon Welsh rise from ashes
Brendan Gallagher remembers when the exiles were the whipping boys - and how things have changed... A tale of redemption, what...
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Features
/ 11 months agoMy office at home is like a shrine to rugby
MY LIFEIN RUGBY THE FORMER MET POLICE, WASPS AND SARACENS NO.8, WHO REPRESENTED MIDDLESEX, LONDON, BRITISH POLICE & THE BARBARIANS LEE...
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Features
/ 11 months agoWe need to see a complete shake-up
By Jeff Probyn - A front-row view of the game A new year and change is on the way across many...
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Features
/ 11 months agoYoung Guns – Will Glister
By Ben Jaycock Having overcome the demise of his beloved boyhood club Wasps, Will Glister has blossomed at Northampton and looks...
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Features
/ 11 months agoWilliams bowing out a happy man
■ By BEN JAYCOCK Probyn: We need complete restructure of way game is run >> Page 27 HAVING taken Cambridge to dizzy...
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Features
/ 11 months agoBarnes boss: It’s tough on refs
■ By BEN JAYCOCK BARNES director of rugby Jack Heald is left frustrated at the RFU’s tackle laws which have made...
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Dream Team
/ 11 months agoDream Team – Dave Lewis
DAVE LEWIS, THE FORMER GLOUCESTER, EXETER AND HARLEQUINS SCRUM-HALF, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST... Forwards 1....
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Features
/ 11 months agoWe need a two -tiered solution
PAUL REES CALLS FOR A RESET, NOT A REVOLUTION, WHEN IT COMES TO SORTING OUT THE PROBLEMS FACING THE RFU WATCHING...
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Features
/ 11 months agoRemembering the days when Cardiff set the standard in club rugby
A new year beckons, one that will mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Cardiff Rugby Club, modestly subtitled The...
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