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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoNo decline in playing numbers? Prove it!
THE anecdotal evidence from community clubs across the length and breadth of England is that the numbers of male adult rugby...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoTemper self-interest for big picture
IF EVIDENCE were needed of the self-interest that tends to drive attitudes in rugby, two pieces in last week’s TRP on...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRFU must not waste this chance to reset
IN last week’s Rugby Paper Steve Grainger described how the RFU were meeting rugby’s needs during the coronavirus crisis. The Director...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoI disagree Colin, kick tennis is a snorefest
DID Colin Boag write his ‘modern game is better’ comparison with tongue in cheek to get a response? I had to...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoHow could Brendan forget us Shedheads?
Teak tough: Mike Teague CHRIS Hewett (TRP 19/4/20) was quite right to rail against the omission of Mike Teague from Brendan...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoGary Ella won caps in both codes
IN HIS ‘Iconic Picture’ article about the talented Ella brothers, Brendan Gallagher suggested that only Mark and Glen were capped at...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoGood article wrong date
I WOULD like to point out a small error in Peter Jackson’s interesting article about Peter Larter. The England v Ireland...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoEnjoying TRP more than ever
AMI the only reader of The Rugby Paper who thinks the quality of your publication has improved since the start of...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoFair play? I struggle to see it
A COUPLE of weeks ago a reader stated that before a Championship side could be promoted they must be financially sustainable....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoReform the scrum, fast
WELL done Nigel Owen for speaking out for a straight feed into a scrum. Would Sir Bill Beaumont promise to enforce...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoROOM 101
THE ENGLAND SEVENS INTERNATIONAL TAKES US THROUGH HIS PET HATES FROM THE RUGBY WORLD AND BEYOND RICHARD DE CARPENTIER 1. Poor...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoGUEST COLUMNIST
Cooch not on toughie list? It may get nasty! Jacques Burger? No arguments there. Colin Meads? Wayne Shelford? Bang on. In...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDREAMTEAM
CHARLIE CLARE, LEICESTER AND FORMER NORTH WALSHAM, JERSEY, BEDFORD AND NORTHAMPTON HOOKER, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAY ED WITH...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoAmbitious Pichot aims to gain confidence of Six Nations
From ALEJO MIRANDA in Buenos Aires SHOULD Agustín Pichot become chairman of World Rugby he intends to lead a revolution against...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDenman and Burrows hit the trail to Ealing
ON THE BLIND SIDE BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler EALING TRAILFINDERS have snapped up former Yorkshire Carnegie, Rotherham Titans, Northampton...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWorld Rugby’s hustings are flannel
AND they’re off, predictable as night following day. The runners and riders chasing high office at World Rugby are suddenly saying...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoTHEO BEVACQUA
YOUNG GUNS CARDIFF BLUES LOOSEHEAD Born in London, raised in Heathfield and educated at Eastbourne College, in ordinary circumstances promising prop Theo...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoAshton blames blinkered players for sin-bin failure
By JON NEWCOMBE THE SIN-BIN, rugby’s equivalent of the naughty step, has been around since 1997, to act as a deterrent...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoHooley on his way to new-look Saracens
SARACENS have been busys napping up Championship players ahead of spending next season in the second tier. Blind side understands they...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoVideo nasty for the Scots
ACCORDING to Agustin Pichot, candidate for the World Rugby chairmanship, the sport is in dire need of…wait for it…a video game....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoO’Gara still hates me for the treatment I gave him
MY LIFEIN RUGBY PAUL VOLLEY FORMER WASPS, CASTRES, HARLEQUINS AND LONDON SCOTTISH OPENSIDE I’M sure he won’t like me saying it but...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoYoung close to agreeing terms at Wasps
By NEALE HARVEY NEW Wasps supremo Lee Blackett is confident star flanker Thomas Young will put club before country by pledging...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoTigers must repel raiders for Jonah
Wanted: Jonah Holmes THE DRAGONS are keen on making a cross border raid on Leicester Tigers to sign Wales international winger...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSo how do you fix this mess called the scrum?
NICK CAIN TALKS TO SCRUM GURU PHIL KEITH-ROACH ABOUT THE PROBLEMS WITH THE GAME’S GREATEST SET-PIECE THE scrum has collapsed. That...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoBig guns will back Bill to save them cash
“What Pichot hopes for is the dream of Tier Two nations, but this can never be achieved” And so it begins,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSTEVE GRAINGER RFU SUPPORTING COMMUNITY GAME NOW AND IN THE FUTURE
We’re here to help and will do all we can Following the outbreak of COVID-19 the RFU was one of the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoProp Heffernan keen to stay in England
NOTTINGHAM prop Oisin Heffernan, right, is back on the market after the Championship side hit financial problems. The former Ireland U20...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoPoles call for more ranking events
By ADAM ELLIS POLAND head coach Duaine Lindsay has called on World Rugby to increase the number of fixtures Europe’s emerging...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWakefield leads charge as England claim four Grand Slams in the 20s
Brendan Gallagher continues his expert and authorative look at the history of Rugby Union In the immediate aftermath of World War...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSlash salary cap and ditch marquee men
COLIN BORGCOL Million pound man: Semi Radradra will be at Bristol next season, exempt from the salary cap With at least another...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSharks snare Daley-Mclean
WORLD Cup-winning captain Katy Daley-Mclean has signed for Premier 15s newcomers Sale Sharks Women as a player-coach. The 34-year-old fly-half, who...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoEllis is living proof of the old 80-minute rule
By PETER JACKS0N Going the distance: Ellis Genge played the full 80 for England against Wales during the World Cup warm-up...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoQUINS DOMINATE THE NEW MIDDLESEX SEVENS COMPETITION
A MAJOR development in the 1920s was the establishment of the end-of-season Middlesex Sevens which were organised by a London Scot...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoJEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE… EVERY WEEK
May-day for opponents as Jonny just gets better JONNY May’s move back to Kingsholm is great news for Gloucester fans because...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoBrutality in Argentina
A GANG of young rugby players have been found guilty of murder in Buenos Aires. Law student Fernando Baez, 19, was...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoTigers’ Cup winners produced a brains trust of talent
THERE was more retro heaven recently with BT Sport replaying Leicester’s 34-30 Heineken Cup final win over Stade Francais in 2001....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoUSA are shock star turn at two Olympics
IN THE early 1920s the USA proved the unlikely winners of two Olympic rugby titles, beating France on both occasions. In...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoEconomic reality check is required
JEFF Probyn’s article is last week’s Rugby Paper had it just about right as to where Premiership/National League rugby will set...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoAdendorff is almost a Saint
Talks: Adendorff NORTHAMPTON Saints are closing in on a deal to land South African flanker Shaun Adendorff who has been playing...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoPichot has visions of changing the world
I’VE always looked at Gus Pichot, especially when he was in his hirsute phase a few years back, below, as something...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWarrior Will targets role as defence commander
By NEALE HARVEY STROKE victim Will Hurrell aims to forge a new career in coaching after revealing how his life might...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDeans was short, my Gee told me
BRENDAN Gallagher’s recent article about the 1905 All Blacks invoked a memory. My grandfather Morgan only went to one rugby game...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWALES AND LIONS LEGEND
Riches on offer in Far East spell big trouble THE growing emergence of Japanese rugby at both Test and club level...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRugby must speak with one voice -like Apollo 13
For the space buffs among you rugby aficionados, this last week has been an extraordinary trip down memory lane as we...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoHow Stuart Hogged the headlines aged 16
By GARY HEATLY Prodigy: Hogg aged 16 ONE minute his cousin was looking to borrow his boots, the next he was...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoExpand Six Nations to generate extra income
THE recommendation from Bernard Laporte for a Club World Cup is a non starter, especially if it’s only to be played...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoGareth’s right to call a halt to brown envelopes in grassroots
I WAS pleased to see Welsh Rugby Union chairman Gareth Davies urge grassroots clubs in Wales to stop paying their players....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoNEXT WEEK …Don’t miss
Lock stars in contention for Lions 2021 Gallagher’s Top 20: World’s best rugby gounds History of Rugby: Tumultuous Thirties ... Continue...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoBorthwick promises to end the pain at Tigers
NEW Leicester head coach Steve Borthwick says he will work tirelessly to ease the ‘pain’ caused by the club’s recent demise....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSet-piece has gone skewiff
NIGEL Owens asks for referees and players to join forces to sort law breaking regarding the scrum put-in but it is...
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