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In this Sunday’s TRP (19/02/23)
Though the Six Nations settling down for the first of two rest weeks, there is plenty of action and features still to look forward to in...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 2 years agoIn this Sunday’s Rugby Paper (22/01/23)
After a week where Eddie Jones was named Australia boss and England named their Six Nations squad, and with an exciting...
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/ 3 years agoIn this Sunday’s Rugby Paper: Alphonsi, Worcester, and Red Roses opener
It’s been a dark and painful week not just for Worcester Warriors fans, but for English Rugby in general, as part...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 3 years agoIn Sunday’s Rugby Paper
It’s a huge weekend of rugby, as the Rugby Championship reaches its conclusion, and there are some big games in the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 3 years agoIn this week’s Rugby Paper – available on Sunday
Two huge upsets have thrown the Rugby Championship wide open, and you can find reports and analysis from both of those...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 3 years agoIn this week’s Rugby Paper – available on Sunday
Though it might seem this has been something of a quiet week for rugby with the new season yet to get...
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/ 3 years agoThe Rugby Paper’s Rugby Stadium World Cup
Following Sunday’s twitter poll that saw 2,081 people vote for their favourite Premiership stadium, the Rugby Paper will this week conduct...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoSevens was thrilling, give us more on TV
THE Olympic Sevens was a wondeful event and I would like to congratulate New Zealand and Fiji for winning the gold...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoErasmus did a job on everyone, that includes Gatland
I’M incandescent with rage at how easily the referee was influenced by Erasmus’ on-line rant, about how easily the ref ’...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoEddie’s rolling the dice with Gleeson
YES, Wasps’ attack has been pretty good over the last couple of years but I do not understand how former Rugby...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoHeart sinks when I hear Greenwood
I AGREE with Colin Boag, there is too much analysis on television before and after each Lions game. At least we...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoWorcester bring in big guns to achieve lift-off
Brendan Gallagher looks at how the Premiership squads are shaping up for the new season What with pandemic considerations – not...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoMINUTE-BY-MINUTE THE LIONS ON TOUR
THE Lions used 31 players throughout the series yet only two players went the distance from the first Test to the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoAgreeing to Prem divorce amounts to rugby treason
I COULDN’T agree more with Ian Stein’s letter of last week regarding Exeter chairman Tony Rowe. So Mr Rowe now wants...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoGB Sevens players did nation proud
SUCH a shame neither Team GB’s men nor women could take home a medal. All players deserve huge credit for putting...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoDREAM TEAM
GEORGE ORAM, DONCASTER’S NEW SIGNING AND FORMER ENGLAND COUNTIES, BLACKHEATH, ROTHERHAM, BIRMINGHAM MOSELEY & COVENTRY LOCK, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoBomb squad blow out as Nienaber’s subs go pop
BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT What a strange if memorable game down in Cape Town. Nothing quite panned out as we might have...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoLions expose Boks’ Vermeulen loss
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: [email protected] THERE can be no...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoI’ll believe it when I see Premiership helping Tier Two
MR ROWE’S comments in last week’s TRP regarding funding for the Championship almost indicated a slight change of heart from a...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoSofter warm-ups limited injuries
IT’S a vastly different Lions tour for many reasons, especially with only very few ‘warm up’ games against weak teams leading...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoDREAM TEAM
WILL CHUDLEY, THE WORCESTER AND FORMER EXETER, BATH, NEWCASTLE AND BEDFORD NO.9, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoFiji favourites but anything can happen
Jon Newcombe looks ahead to the men’s rugby Sevens competition at the Olympic Games which gets underway in Tokyo on Monday,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years ago2021-2022 NATIONAL 1 FIXTURES
Round 1 - Sat 4 Sep Moseley v Darlington MP Blackheath v Cinderford Caldy v Old Elthamians Chinnor v Sale FC...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years ago2021-2022 CHAMPIONSHIP FIXTURES
Leader: Ealing’s Craig Hampson THE prospect of at least two years battling the big boys in the Premiership adds more spice...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years ago2021-2022 NATIONAL 2 NORTH FIXTURES
Round 1 - Sat 4 Sep Stourbridge v Sheffield Tigers Hull v Luctonians Chester v Hull Ionians Tynedale v Fylde Loughborough...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years ago2021-2022 NATIONAL 2 SOUTH FIXTURES
Round 1 - Sat 4 Sep Henley v Old Albanian Hinckley v Barnes Redruth v Leicester Lions Clifton v Barnstaple Westcliff...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoThis Springbok scrum was a pale imitation of itself
DANIEL GALLAN VERDICT Destroyer: Pieter-Steph du Toit The Springboks have tasted defeat before. Despite a widespread perception among many fans and...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoMarcus continues to live the dream as joker in the Lions pack
BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT Fast tempo: Scrum-half Ali Price OK, it was ‘only’ a seriously under-strength Stormers, shorn of all their South...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoRef Peyper was too soft on South Africa
IF the Lions tour is of such a huge boost to the economy of the host nation why are we putting...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoLions need Joe’s prowess up front
HEADING into first Test week, the big question remains: Can the Lions pack get parity at the set-piece. Warren Gatland has...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoRadwan’s on fast track to World Cup
IT’S fascinating how small margins make such a difference at the very highest level. Take Adam Radwan for example. The Newcastle...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoFarrell at fly-half yells ‘whitewash’
AS much as I want the Lions to do well on their tour of South Africa, I just cannot see it...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoWelsh show their warrior spirit after Deaves’ red
By SAM JACKSON Scotland ..........24pts Tries: Harrison 10, Gray 18, Muncaster 49 Conversions: Scott 11, 19, 50 Penalties: Scott 3 Wales...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoGritty England grind way to Grand Slam
By ADAM ELLIS England ............27pts Tries: O Bailey 5, Bates 15, Relton 43, 70 Conversions: Mathews 6, 16 Penalties: Mathews 10...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoBielle-Barrey spins in to quell Irish uprising
Ireland ............28 France..............34 FRANCE recorded their fourth-straight win against Ireland to secure second place in the table, with a well-executed try...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoLions given wake-up call as Boks light get heavy
By NICK CAIN South Africa A..17pts Tries: Nkosi 12, Am 31 Conversions: Steyn 13, 33 Penalties: Steyn 5 Lions ..................13pts Tries:...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoMurray must put muzzle on De Klerk
KYRAN BRACKEN THE Lions must wrap up Faf de Klerk and cut off the supply line of his dangerous aerial bombs...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoEngland’s Jack van Poortvliet named U20 Six Nations player of the tournament
The England captain has become the inaugural winner of the U20 Six Nations player of the tournament
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British and Irish Lions
/ 4 years agoAlun Wyn Jones could make shock return to Lions squad
Warren Gatland to make call on whether to have tour captain fly out to South Africa once Wales hold a training...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoKendellen carries Ireland over the line
By CORMAC ROONEY Italy ........................23 Ireland....................30 IRELAND U20 head coach Richie Murphy heaped praise on captain Alex Kendellen for inspiring a...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoWales U20 3-45 England U20: England on brink of a Grand Slam
ENGLAND made it four wins on the bounce with a dominant display against Wales to clinch the Triple Crown and set...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoMarlborough’s frontiersmen helped take the game global
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools RUGBY School often take most of the plaudits for spreading the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoWily Tanner outfoxed RFU for Schoolboy Sevens expansion
MENTION of the Tanner family calls to mind one of the unsung heroes of grassroots rugby, Tony’s father Derek, who was...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoThis twilight zone rugby is no fun, but I know it will come good
BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT Dazzling: Anthony Watson SOMETIMES you just have to keep the faith. I defer to nobody in my abiding love...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoRFU must take heed of Baron’s warning
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: [email protected] YOUR recent ‘Baron Files’...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoWhat were Lions doing in Gauteng in the first place?
THERE can be nothing but sympathy for the Lions squad and coaching staff for being sent into a trap in Gauteng...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoBill’s bum was big hit at Twickenham
BRENDAN Gallagher’s ‘Iconic Pictures’ is a firm favourite of mine in TRP. It was only a matter of time before Erica...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoDREAM TEAM
CHRIS WOLFE-ELDER, THE FORMER WASPS ACADEMY, PLYMOUTH ALBION, LONDON WELSH, YORKSHIRE CARNEGIE, CHINNOR & RICHMOND FULL-BACK, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoFlyers in fine fettle but scrum is still the Lions’ biggest concern
By NICK CAIN Sharks ..................7pts Tries: Venter 50 Conversions: Bosch 51 Lions ..................54pts Tries: Adams 2, 56, 78; Van der Merwe...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 4 years agoScotland fall short against French 14
By CARL LEE France ....................45 Scotland ................21 SCOTLAND failed to take advantage of playing against 14 men for more than an...
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