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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoTakeaway driver Gav epitomises the spirit we all need
I’VE been amazed by the collective spirit shown by Welsh rugby in the midst of coronavirus – so much so I’ve...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoNational One in conflict over salary cap reduction
By NEALE HARVEY BATTLE lines are being drawn among National League One clubs after Chinnor chairman Simon Vickers demanded a swingeing...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoFlyer O’Flaherty extends his stay at Exeter
Rapid: Tom O’Flaherty EXETER director of rugby Rob Baxter believes winger Tom O’Flaherty has a big future after tying the 25-year-old...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoREAD HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK
The hustings buzz with Pichot’s promises AGUSTIN Pichot and Bernard Laporte are peas out of the same pod, and not just...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDay the Old Boys’ drinking club beat the mighty Sarries
Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at rugby’s biggest upsets 1= Old Reigatians 12 Saracens 10 (John Player Cup, 1987)...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWasps must play without fear to get the fans behind us
Q&A LEE BLACKETT ON THE RECORD New head coach Lee Blackett tells NEALE HARVEY how he intends rising to the challenge...
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/ 6 years agoWhitelock inspired by hero big bro Sam
By NEALE HARVEY Test swansong: Luke Whitelock on the charge for New Zealand against Japan in 2018 PICTURE: Getty Images FRANCE-BASED...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSalary cuts could be here to stay for players
IT is an unpalatable truth for most Premiership clubs that rampant wage inflation has played a big part in the perilous...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoNarraway to boss Dragons forwards
FORMER England No.8 Luke Narraway and ex-Edinburgh captain Simon Cross have been appointed to Dean Ryan’s Dragons coaching team on a...
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Iconic Pictures
/ 6 years agoShy schoolboys whose talent shook the world
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoPasty-shop apprentice Luke’s living the dream
Rising star: Luke Northmore HARLEQUINS No.13 Luke Northmore aims to follow teammate Alex Dombrandt in proving why university rugby is becoming...
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/ 6 years agoWedding killer set for power
WORLD Rugby’s influential executive committee could be about to break unwanted new ground with the election of Francis Kean, who was...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSteyn in PRO14 at Cheetahs
SPRINGBOK utility back Frans Steyn is thrilled to be back in Bloemfontein having signed from the Cheetahs from French outfit Montpellier....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoAxed star Larter still doesn’t know why
Even now after all these years Peter Larter still stands alone, the one English Lion who took a stand against terrorism...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoCaptain to Trustee, Lockyer’s been a Chief for 50 years
Colin Boag continues his series on Super Fans, this week Exeter player turned supporter John Lockyer John Lockyer’s association with Exeter...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoPlan to hold Six Nations in full again in autumn
Compensation issue By PETER JACKSON THE Six Nations are in the process of finalising contingency plans for an emergency tournament to...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoHaag hankers for return to pro game
JON NEWCOMBE talks to Martin Haag, one of rugby’s very best ‘lost’ coaches DEAN RYAN’s tenure at the RFU was a...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoThis test of strength can sway the series
2021 LIONS A YEAR TO GO NICK CAIN LOOKS AT THE CONTENDERS FOR EACH POSITION THIS WEEK... TIGHTHEAD Rock of ages:...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoPrem may resume as late as end of August
By NEIL FISSLER PREMIERSHIP bosses are prepared to wait until the end of August to restart the season. They have prepared...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSalary cap cuts are thrown out by big three
Billy’s boost from Italy By NEIL FISSLER Young: He’s set to stay with Wasps Wales’ flanker Thomas Young seems certain to stay...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoCoaches/Managers ‘lost’ to the game
MARTIN JOHNSON Vowed never to become involved in rugby management again following the 2011 World Cup campaign blighted by off-field misdemeanours....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoBear cubs can go all the way says Morgan
By NEALE HARVEY BRISTOL’S gifted gang of backline proteges are primed to explode on to the international stage, predicts former Wales...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoKpoku bros pose Maro twin threat at Sarries
By NEALE HARVEY RISING Saracens star Joel Kpoku has boldly laid out his manifesto for usurping Maro Itoje and forcing his...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoTeimana helps turn Saints into style icons
By NEALE HARVEY FASHIONISTA Teimana Harrison believes Northampton now have the style to challenge for another Premiership title after being transformed...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoThe modern game is better -and here’s why
COLIN BOAG With no live rugby to watch, the broadcasters have been replaying games from years ago. Sky showed the three...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWigglesworth deal with Sale is off
RICHARD Wigglesworth is unlikely to be returning to Sale Sharks in a player-coach role at the end of the season Blindside...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDougie never got the credit he was due
SCOTLAND’S Dougie Morgan, who passed way this week aged 73, was one of those individuals who was underrated as a player...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoFord takes charge of Knights backs after Carnegie fallout
By JON NEWCOMBE JOE Ford’s professional coaching career is set to be rejuvenated at Doncaster Knights, three months after his departure...
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/ 6 years agoDREAMTEAM
DAVE EWERS, THE EXETER AND ENGLAND SAXONS BACK ROW, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST... 1. Mako...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDeano’s a copper again
DEAN RICHARDS has returned to his first job in the police after volunteering to help Northumbria Police during the coronavirus outbreak....
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/ 6 years agoNEXT WEEK …Don’t miss
Gallagher’s Top 20: Greatest Upsets Most talented coaches ‘lost’ to the game History of Rugby: Recovery after Great War ... Continue...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoTop gong for Toby
RICHMOND flanker Toby Saysell has been named the NCA National League 1 Player of the Season. The prolific back rower, 25,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoI’m glad Eddie’s got the job…who else was there?
THERE were not too many alternatives open to the RFU when it came to reappointing Eddie Jones as England coach through...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoJono set to take the Tartan shilling
WORCESTER Warriorsfly-half Jono Lance is in advanced talks with Edinburgh about moving to the Scottish capital this summer. Canberra-born Lance, 29,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoHurrell forced to call time after suspected stroke
BRISTOL Bears centre Will Hurrell has retired from rugby after suffering a probable stroke in January. The 30-year-old was withdrawn with...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSpittle’s sprint earns him try of the season
NOTTINGHAM winger Jack Spittle has won the Greene King IPA Championship’s try of the season. Spittle, 24, scored five tries against...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSweeney’s balancing act will be true test of his powers
THE measure of a good CEO is not the size or wealth of the organisation he runs, but the quantity and...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoParkes will be missed but Owen’s bigger loss
RUGBY IS A very fickle business. One minute you’re a Grand Slam winner, starring at the World Cup, and top of...
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/ 6 years agoDejected Otley go on the offensive after relegation
By WARREN MUGGLETON OTLEY chairman of rugby Peter Clegg is livid that his side were relegated from National 2 North based...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoExtra-time needed to avoid Lions anti-climax – Brooke
By GARY FITZGERALD THE Lions and Springboks should get the chance to fight it out until there is an outright winner...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years ago‘The Bish’ deserved so much more
I THOROUGHLY enjoyed Brendan Gallagher’s piece about wasted talents, especially about David Bishop. I followed the All Whites during the 80s...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoKings of the Jungle where wild beasts come to play
Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at rugby’s feared enforcers 1 Jacques Burger (Namibia) The King as far as...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoIrish building new dynasty around their Fab Four
NEALE HARVEY discovers how four of London Irish’s homegrown backline hitmen are taking the Premiership by storm – and boosting their...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoBen lifts lid on life as a professional journeyman
Jeremy Blackmore talks to Ben Mercer about rugby life just below the top level For some, professional sport is about glory,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoAussie League template is cause of all rugby ills
THERE was always the risk that when “Union” went professional, all those pre Covid-19 years ago, there would be an overwhelming...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoJamie the one who must beware bolters this time
2021 LIONS A YEAR TO GO NICK CAIN LOOKS AT THE CONTENDERS FOR EACH POSITION THIS WEEK... HOOKER THE shakedown at...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoGibbs makes his mark and Lions take series
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRelegation doesn’t diminish the dizzy highs of a decade
Colin Boag continues his series on Super Fans, this week Saracens’ Jason ‘Large’ Harris Every club’s supporters experience highs and lows,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoLoyalties will be divided
HELP! Born in Penzance in 1942, the family quickly moved to London settling in Trent Park, Cockfosters. When my brother brought...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoBeware of changing too much, Eddie
EDDIE Jones bagged himself another set of headlines by anticipating a 60 per cent change in the make-up of his England...
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