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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 agoLamb gets the chop
BACK in the 1960s, the scary All Black lock Colin Meads would run around his farm in King Country with a...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoShining star Lewis still beams bright at 89
EVEN now, 70 years after he started blazing trails across the rugby world, Lewis Jones’ achievements still make the average meteor...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSpringboks hold the key to Georgian ambitions
By NEALE HARVEY Driven: Peter Drewett is leading the Lelos’ charge GEORGIA’S ground-breaking link with South Africa can pave the way...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDo me a favour, Colin
COLIN Boag’s column (April 5) showing his utter contempt for, and dislike of, the Championship is going a bit far. He...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoBring back those real tours -by bus and train
How it was and could be again: Leicester’s Clive Woodward tackles New Zealand’s Eddie Dunn at Welford Road in 1979 The...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRed card on debut wasn’t a great start to life in France!
Q&A BEN SMITH ON THE RECORD World Cupwinning New Zealand full-back Ben Smith talks to NEALE HARVEY about the highlights of...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoJones: Welsh backs need quicker service from No.9
By STEFFAN THOMAS FORMER Lions scrumhalf Robert Jones insists Wayne Pivac must be cut some slack and is confident the former...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoReturn to good old days crazy
JEREMY Guscott suggests that a return to the good old days when there were just two substitutes who could only be...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDisgraceful how RFU’s left us to fend for ourselves
NICK CAIN FINDS NOTTINGHAM CHAIRMAN ALISTA AIR BOW WILLING TO PUT HIS HEAD ABOVE THE PARAPET FOR the last 0decade it has...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSophie steps up to help NHS in Scotland
NEWS EXTRA By GARY HEATLY SCOTLAND women’s cap Sophie Anderson has risen to every challenge she has faced on the sports...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoKirsten commits to Chiefs
EXETER lock Jannes Kirsten has extended his contract with the club. The 26-year-old South African has scored three tries in 22...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSolution to scrum mess
JEREMY Guscott is right. The scrum at Test level is a disaster – and boring. The solution is simple. First, and...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoBow on the RFU pay structure…
Alistair Bow, who has closed Nottingham’s Lady Bay ground and placed the players and the majority of the staff on the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoYOUNG GUNS
TOMSTANTON GLOUCESTER CENTRE/FULLBACK Twelve months ago,Tom Stanton was preparing to put his fledgling professional career on hold. A ruptured ACL suffered...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoLaporte’s world club idea is not for me says Nick
Concern: Nick Abendanon “But going back to the Premiership would be my ideal way to finish. “My in-laws live outside Bath,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRing fence is long overdue
AS identified by Mark Evans, the effective ring fencing of the ‘top’ end of English rugby is overdue. The lie of...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoYou’ve sold England’s jewels, RFU are warned
By NICK CAIN A LEADING club chairman has warned the RFU and Premiership clubs of the danger of allowing CVC to...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoBow on why the Championship is invaluable…
Virtually every club in the Premiership has England internationals who have been nurtured in the Championship, and Alistair Bow says its...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoGreat ride despite curse of relegation
MY LIFEIN RUGBY PHIL MacKENZIE THE FORMER CANADA, SALE, LONDON WELSH, ESHER AND COVENTRY UTILITY BACK THE start of my professional career...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years ago‘Second class citizen’ Luke makes U-turn to chase his Olympic dream
By ROB COLE LUKE Treharne is refusing to give up on his dream of finally becoming an Olympian despite the postponement...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoThinking cap back on please, Bernie!
ONE of Rugby Union’s greatest failings is that it often does not recognise the value of what it has until it...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoAbendanon return is hit by the virus lockdown
By NEALE HARVEY NICK Abendanon has spoken of his frustration at potentially having to quit rugby after seeing his hopes of...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoCoventry were just half an hour from closure
Future looks good: Peter Rossborough watches his beloved club A s a supporter, player, captain, coach and leading club official, Peter Rossborough...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoThis old carthorse could run the 100m in 11.4 secs!
RICHARD Phillips’ letter last week described all front fives in the 90s as cart horses. Obviously, I suggest he takes another...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoApprentice Alex ready to run with the big dogs
By NEALE HARVEY NORTHAMPTON scrumhalf Alex Mitchell is determined to make the most of his shock Six Nations call-up by continuing...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRFU relief amounts to not much
THE RFU have promised a package of £7m to help clubs during the lockdown, but there is precious little detail of...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoROOM 101
JOE BATLEY THE BRISTOL SECOND ROW TAKES US THROUGH HIS PET HATES FROM THE RUGBY WORLD AND BEYOND 1. Boys that...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoExeter and Sale to join women’s top flight
NEWS EXTRA EXETER Chiefs and Sale Sharks will join the top division of women’s rugby for three years at the expense of...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoNow Eddie can make up for those RWC mistakes
Well I guess it was no surprise that Eddie Jones got his contract extension even if he and many others thought...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoHeinz: We’ve identified our kryptonites
AFTER what he describes as an “unbelievable nine months”, spring-heeled No.9 veteran Willi Heinz has no intention of surrendering his England...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoGap’s just too big, Warren
WARREN Gatland’s suggestion of a ‘decider’ between the Lions and the All Blacks before the tourists leave for South Africa is...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSteenson fancies another year at Chiefs
Staying? Steenson EXETER CHIEFS legend Gareth Steenson could put off his retirement for another year and pen another contract extension with...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoThe past was a different country for rugby thrills
Classic: Philippe Bernat-Salles scores as France stun the All Blacks in 1999 I’ve watched a couple of cracking matches recently and...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRugby’s finest rushed and died heroes with to the front VCs galore
Brendan Gallagher continues his expert and authorative look at the history of Rugby Union FOR three decades or more before 1914...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoBlackett gets the nod for top job at Wasps
WASPS have appointed interim boss Lee Blackett as their new head coach. The 37-year-old has been in charge since director of rugby...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoAussie aces bid to beat the pay-cuts
PREMIERSHIP clubs are taking a keen interest in events Down Under after Rugby Australia asked players to take a 65 per...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoGatland’s All Blacks tiebreak plan is not so daft after all
WARREN Gatland loves to bowl us a googly from time to time and was having fun with the New Zealand media...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWestern Front was ‘meeting mates on tour’
Brendan Gallagher describes how rugby played such a tragic part in the Battle of the Somme The Battle of the Somme...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRing: Patchell can plug the Parkes gap in midfield
By ALEX BYWATER Physical fly-half: Rhys Patchell RHYS Patchell is tipped to be the man to get Wales’ backline moving, but...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoInverdale’s demand for grassroots shake-up
‘Financial models are broken’ By NEALE HARVEY JOHN Inverdale has called for a root and branch review of how community rugby...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoHere’s the best of the all-English Prem brigade…
A BACK row of Jack Willis, Ben Earl, and Alex Dombrandt is one which threatens to be even better on the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoExiles aim to build on Welsh legacy
Steffan Thomas finds out London Welsh have gone back to their roots to mount a recovery Ambitious: Cai Griffiths, inset, coaching...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDavies plans for future as Carnegie say call us Leeds
By SAM JACKSON New era: Phil Davies YORKSHIRE Carnegie will revert back to their former name of Leeds following confirmation of...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWales’ All Blacks tour faces the axe
NZ virus lockdown In the balance: Nick Tompkins’ move to Cardiff Blues has hit a problem – see Blindside P10 PICTURE:...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years ago…and a team of ‘outsiders’ who could beat them
AT tight-head there are four of the world’s best strongmen to select from – including cap centurians Owen Franks (Northampton and...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoKingsholm’s poet waxes lyrical about superstar Sinbad
Colin Boag starts his series on Super Fans with Gloucester’s Alfred Lord Tension To support your club for more than 70...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoEnd the 50:22 sideshow and sort subs and scrum
WHAT is the point of World Rugby considering making a new law change like the proposed 50:22 rule – which has...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoROOM 101
RICH LANE THE BEDFORD BLUES WINGER/FULL-BACK TAKES US THROUGH HIS PET HATES FROM THE WORLD OF RUGBY AND BEYOND 1. Covid-19...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSuper-sub Rhodes gets the 50 up for South Africa
Jon Newcombe talks to Andre Snyman about South Africans’ rising stock in England T his season an unprecedented number of South...
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