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/ 7 years agoRuthless Warriors surge to the top
By SAM JACKSON Zebre …………….10 Glasgow……….42 GLASGOW surged to the top of PRO14 Conference A with a thumping six-try win over...
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/ 7 years agoSteenson not calling time on No.10
GARETH Steenson insists winning silverware comes ahead of pulling pints as Exeter’s most popular landlord targets a fourth successive Premiership final...
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/ 7 years agoChampions book place in last four
By RONAN O’NEILL Leinster ……….19 Cheetahs ……….7 LEINSTER secured a home semi-final with a tight win over Cheetahs. Tries from Conor...
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/ 7 years agoMitchell: Cardiff defeat is blessing in disguise
By GARY FITZGERALD JOHN Mitchell surprisingly suggests Wales may have done England “a nice favour” by bringing them back down to...
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/ 7 years agoFlier Amos returns for underfire Dragons
Preview Dragonsv Ulster Today, Kick-off 3pm DRAGONS head coach Ceri Jones has made nine changes for the visit of play-off chasing...
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/ 7 years agoDallaglio: European game still playing catch-up on Kiwis
By GARY FITZGERALD LAWRENCE Dallaglio fears the present battle for Six Nations supremacy has demonstrated that Northern Hemisphere teams are still...
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/ 7 years agoFollow The Rugby Paper online…
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/ 7 years agoDon’t count England out yet says former All Black
By NEALE HARVEY Prop star: John Afoa FORMER New Zealand prop John Afoa insists England still have a team to rival...
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/ 7 years agoEaling have a ground fit for the Premiership says Ward
By NEALE HARVEY EALING have a stadium on standby and would be able to take a place in the Premiership if...
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/ 7 years agoExiles replace head coach Rouse with Steadman
By JON NEWCOMBE EXCLUSIVE NIC ROUSE is looking for new opportunities after being told he is to be released as London...
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/ 7 years agoCurry can be even better than McCaw insists Ross
By JON NEWCOMBE Hard grafter: England star Tom Curry ENGLAND sensation Tom Curry has the ability to walk into any current...
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/ 7 years agoMitchell up to speed like his idol Dickson
By NEALE HARVEY High tempo: Alex Mitchell brings pace to Saints’ playmaking PICTURE: Getty Images LIVEWIRE Saints scrum-half Alex Mitchell is...
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/ 7 years agoWorld Cup lure as Pisi presses for game-time at Saints
NORTHAMPTON wing Ken Pisi knows he needs a storming end to the season to earn a new contract and keep his...
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/ 7 years agoPacific island players’ union to explore nuclear option of boycotting 2019 Rugby World Cup in light of proposed ‘World League’
Fiji, Tonga and Samoa have all qualified for the 2019 Rugby World Cup
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/ 7 years agoCardiff Blues and Wales flanker Josh Navidi commits to new deal
Josh Navidi has pledged his future to Cardiff Blues by signing a new contract to remain at the Arms Park. The...
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/ 7 years agoWorld Rugby’s 12-team World League proposal shot down for casting away Pacific nations
The story of the year may have just hit the sport
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/ 7 years agoSale Sharks sign Rob Webber to contract extension to solidify strong hooker department
Rob Webber and Akker van der Merwe to be Sale's strike force next season
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/ 7 years agoLeicester’s offer to Manu Tuilagi is ‘fairly stingy’, says ex-Tiger Lewis Moody
Racing 92's megabucks stokes conversation of loyalty towards Leicester and if it works both ways
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/ 7 years agoSchalk Burger to end Saracens stint and return to South Africa
Springboks legend to leave Allianz Park a 'happy man'
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/ 7 years agoLeicester Tigers back Mathew Tait announces immediate retirement from rugby
Full-back/centre has been struggling with an achilles injury all season and brings to an end an outstanding 15-year professional career
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/ 7 years agoRonan O’Gara plotting route to senior coaching job with Crusaders… or All Blacks
'Everything is possible' says former Ireland fly-half
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/ 7 years agoWelsh rugby to keep status quo after crisis meeting in Cardiff between WRU and regions
Project Reset changes knocked back by regions in meeteings, but uncertainty remains
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/ 7 years agoIt’s ‘entertainment’ …but is it Rugby?
NOW that referees routinely ignore the laws of the game, the scrum and line-out have just become a mechanism for restarting...
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/ 7 years agoShut roof is an extra weapon for Gatland
WE had another round of roof wars this week with Warren Gatland canvassing hard for Wales to have the final say...
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/ 7 years agoHerring completes half-hour hat-trick
By STUART MCANDREW Ulster… 54 Zebre… 7 ROB Herring blitzed hapless Zebre with a hat-trick in half an hour as Ulster...
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/ 7 years agoYes, they have proved they are the greatest Welsh team of all time
SHANE WILLIAMS Fist-pumping: Alun-Wyn Jones WHAT a match, what a win, what a team! The question now is whether this is...
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/ 7 years agoProfessional sport must not have such amateur handicaps
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon, SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk IN no other sport...
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/ 7 years agoIrish charge for a second Grand Slam gathers pace
By DAVE MURPHY Star man: Craig Casey Late try: Marco Butturini ONLY Wales and France stand in the way of a...
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/ 7 years agoEdinburgh stunned by Harries double
By STEFFAN THOMAS Edinburgh… 17 Cardiff Blues… 19 JASON Harries came back to haunt Edinburgh with a brace of tries as...
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/ 7 years agoEngland toppled by penalties and poor kicking
CHARLIE HODGSON Consistent: George North Ican’t help feel a little deflated after that performance. Obviously because I am an England fan...
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/ 7 years agoModern day scrum farce makes me cry
WITH obvious tongue in cheek, I would like to propose the following law change. Watching the Six Nations, the Premiership, PRO14...
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/ 7 years agoSmith’s try in stoppage time swings it for Wales
By ROB COLE Jubilation: Wales celebrate at the final whistle PICTURES: Getty Images Over he goes: England’s Ollie Hassell-Collins is tackled...
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/ 7 years agoStill all to play for insists Cassiem
Preview Scarlets v Cheetahs Today, Kick-off 1pm LEIGH Halfpenny will play his first game since November against the Cheetahs with his...
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/ 7 years agoJoseph’s late brace kills off Scotland comeback
By GARY HEATLY FRANCEbossed the second half of this 11-try thriller in Pau after Scotland had forged a fight-back following a...
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/ 7 years agoFollow The Rugby Paper online…
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/ 7 years agoScott takes charge of new-look England
By SAM JACKSON Captain’s call: Harlequins second row Abbie Scott ENGLAND centre Emily Scarratt will sit out the women’s Six Nations...
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/ 7 years agoManu cash may be too much for us – Murphy
LEICESTER supremo Geordan Murphy is banking on loyalty to trump cash after admitting his club cannot compete with the big money...
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/ 7 years agoScots have no answer to a top treble from Vernier
France Women… 41 Scotland Women… 10 A HAT-TRICK from inside centre Gabrielle Vernier kept France well and truly in the three-way...
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/ 7 years ago‘World class’ Minozzi can plug Le Roux gap says Masi
By NEALE HARVEY X-factor: Italy full-back Matteo Minozzi MATTEO Minozzi is an “incredible talent” whose dancing feet and pace will ensure...
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/ 7 years agoConsidine double in vain as Italy earn maiden win
Italy Women… 29 Ireland Women… 27 EIMEAR Considine scored twice but Ireland fell to their first ever women’s Six Nations defeat...
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/ 7 years agoDennis enticed by European carrot
Ready to commit: Exeter Chiefs back row bruiser Dave Dennis PICTURE: Getty Images EXETER enforcer Dave Dennis is ready to turn...
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/ 7 years agoHated losing to Wales, it’s one my lowest moments
CATHERINE SPENCER FORMER ENGLAND CAPTAIN One to watch: Hannah Bluck can unleash the Welsh flyer Jasmine Joyce England coach Simon Middleton...
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/ 7 years agoDREAM TEAM
ALEX LEWINGTON, SARACENS, ENGLAND SAXONS AND FORMER LEICESTER, NOTTINGHAM AND LONDON IRISH WING, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH...
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/ 7 years agoCare staying positive that top form will deliver recall
By NEALE HARVEY Upping his game: Quins No.9 Danny Care PICTURES: Getty Images Leading the way: Dan Robson, left, and Ben...
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/ 7 years agoBurrell ‘buzzing’ to go back to League roots
By JON NEWCOMBE In the blood: Luther Burrell is ready to tackle a new challenge in Warrington PICTURES: Getty Images Coach:...
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/ 7 years agoMarshall: Thorley will be a star, he carries like a Tongan
Brute: Ollie Thorley ENGLAND prospect Ollie Thorley carries as hard as any Pacific islander and is destined to become a worldclass...
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/ 7 years agoOpen season as rivals swoop on troubled Carnegie
RIVAL Championship clubs are poised to raid Yorkshire Carnegie’s squad while budgets at Headingley for the 2019/20 season remain unknown. In...
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/ 7 years agoFrancis on standby for another call from Eddie
FIT-AGAIN centre Piers Francis has vowed not to become one of England’s forgotten men by spearheading Northampton’s charge for the play-offs....
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/ 7 years agoPolitics could keep Cobus from Japan
By NEALE HARVEY Form of his life: Cobus Reinach scores for Saints against Sale PICTURES: Getty Images NORTHAMPTONboss Chris Boyd believes...
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