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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoDismayed at these reasons to ring-fence
AMI alone at being dismayed at some of the arguments being used to support ring-fencing (Stephen Rodgers, Jan 27). His reasoning...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoReferees must simply stop ignoring the laws
I WAS RFU President in 2013/14 and spent a few weeks with England U20s as they went on to win the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoWhy should we bail out SANZAAR? It’s their own fault
COLIN BOAG Twitter spat: Brian Moore commentating In crisis: Warratahs’ Jed Holloway on the attack during the Super Rugby semi-final in...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoPremiership self-interest set to repeat
JEFF GAGE Europe’s second tier: Saints skipper Dylan Hartley “It’s time the rest of English rugby woke up to the fact...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoGap getting wider between the tiers
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk WELL done to Colin...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoMaybe we should copy Scots’ lead
I DON’T think Colin Boag has taken his ring-fencing argument far enough. Surely, Scotland, with its two Champions Cup qualifying teams...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoEngland will be up for battle this time
ALL the talk is of Ireland and how close they will get to another Grand Slam. I don’t see them doing...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoMoney talks louder than common sense
IN response to Richard Abbott’s letter last week, in a perfect world all kick off times would be the same and...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoPremiership’s war of attrition has led to failure in Europe
AS the Champions Cup reaches the conclusion of its pool stage we have again, with the exception of Saracens, seen teams...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoExeter deserve to sit on top of table
I THINK Gareth Pitt (letters Jan 6) is missing the point with his comments regarding the bonus point system having big...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoBonus pts bring big incentives
GARETH Pitt (TRP letters January 6) either has a very short memory or has not been following rugby for long. The...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoYellow cards made game a mockery
RUGBY is meant to be a contest between 15 players on each side. The red card given to Bath’s Ross Batty...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoPivac has made errors at Scarlets
I HAVE a season ticket at the Scarlets and I ask what next from our coach Wayne Pivac, the next Welsh...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoYou can’t compare amateur golfers with rugby players
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon, SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk COLIN Boag’s com parison...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoLet’s have earlier kick-offs in winter
IS it really necessary in winter months to start as late as 3pm when invariably the lights have to be switched...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoIf Cips saw red why not de Klerk?
WOULDanyone be able to explain to me why Faf de Klerk was not sent off for his tackle on Billy Twelvetrees...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoSir Beaumont must sort out scrum farce
I WAS pleased to see Bill Beaumont (Sir) in the New Year’s Honours list. His playing recordcertainly deserves recognition as has...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoWard incident will do no good to the game’s reputation
IT’S never a good sign when the major talking point from a rugby match has nothing to do with rugby but...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoNtamack on fast track
WHAT an absolute barnstormer of a try Toulouse scored through Cheslin Kolbe in their thrashing of Toulon – it’s great to...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoBonus point system has big faults
I FEEL that it’s time to radically change the ‘Bonus Point’ issue – I don’t think you should be rewarded for...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoManu’s not the answer
IT strikes me that England have not really taken any big strides in the last few years when I read in...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoProvinces no ‘blight on the game’
COLIN BOAG says the CVC deal is great news for the clubs. For Premiership clubs, he may be right; for the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoPremiership should pay for itself
ON FACEBOOK there is a group that put up photos of days of yore which had an England team with nine...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoTinkering at scrum put me off League
I’M relatively new to Rugby Union being born and bred in St Helens, a staunch Rugby League town. My father, who...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoSorry Colin, I’ll not raise a glass to the leaches of rugby
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon, SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk I WILL not be...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoClassy Lancaster was treated like criminal
JEFF Probyn posed some good questions as to why no English coach seemingly wants to reach the pinnacle (Why does no...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoCVC deal could spell big trouble
NEWS that Premiership clubs have now completed a £220m deal with the private equity firm CVC represents the biggest con job...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoCrying out for festive derbies
RUGBYwatchers of the Midlands and the North are being short changed this festive season This year those fans north of Newport...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoNumbers stack up if you do the maths
I WAS bemused by Trefor Jones’ rant last week about Sarries’ squad size, payment structure and financial behaviour. Sarries’ squad numbers...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoRFU must help the grassroots clubs, not punish them
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon, SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk THE letter from John...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoProfessional game is getting boring
JUST watched the last batch of European Cup games and I’m so, so depressed about the state of rugby. With the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoGrassroots need you!
GREAT letter from Chris Taylor last week, proposing a “Community Game Arrangement” to provide central funding to clubs according to what...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoStance on recruitment smacks of hypocrisy
SOUNDS like sour grapes to me in Nick Cain’s piece entitled “Schools in moral row” in which he described how a...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoRugby must rediscover its identity
RUGBY needs to look seriously at its reason for being. We are not soccer (now resembles contactless sport) or American Football...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoRemarkable job to stay under the cap
SHOCK horror! UEFA suspect Manchester City FC have been contraventing their rules on the amount they spend on players’ salaries. The...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoReward clubs for efforts
AFTER meeting their agreed commitments to the Premiership and Championship, the RFU appear to believe that the best use of their...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoCVC buy-up would hit Premiership in future
I FEEL it is necessary to comment on some of the expectations from the negotiations between PRL and CVC investments. The...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoIf ref didn’t see it, then it didn’t happen
COLIN Boag in his comments about TMOs misses a fundamental aspect of the game – ‘Play to the whistle’, a basic...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoIs Meville wavering over ring-fence?
RFU’s interim chief executive, Nigel Melville, confirmed that relegation from the Premiership would remain for this season. For Melville to even...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoBaa Baas or Springboks?
ARE the Barbarians even remotely considered to be an English club anymore? There were 13 South Africans in yesterday’s squad to...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoBacking grassroots will offer best ‘rugby return’
SO, to address their continuing financial issues, the RFU are belatedly setting in place “financial metrics, against which spending and investment...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoBut Newport used to be in England!
THE assertion in Peter Jackson’s column that Derek Morgan played for England but was born in Wales was factually inaccurate. As...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoUK passports do not differentiate
PETER Jackson refers to the birth place of players who play for international teams but in the case of the UK...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoShort cut shown up
AGREE in principle with Gus Pichot’s remarks regarding the qualification of foreign players, but I believe all he’s done is “lift”...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoPichot’s got a point about qualification
AGUSTIN Pichot, World Rugby’s vicechairman, came in for a lot of criticism this week over his tweet showing the percentage of...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoAmateur game pay high price for East Stand overspend
FRANCIS Baron and John Owen are absolutely right to challenge the financial management of the current RFU hierarchy. The RFU’s commitment...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoDelight to see game played at high tempo
WHAT a pleasure it was to watch Japan play last weekend. The tempo and ball handling skills they show are a...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoLineout problems or illegal tactics?
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk IT HAS been suggested...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoEddie should lead by example and show more respect
THAT Try. For heaven’s sake let’s forget it. As Owen Farrell said immediately after the game: ‘That’s not my decision. It’s...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoHaka is just giving All Blacks a leg up
REGARDING Colin Boag’s comment on the Haka – I have waited a decade to see in newsprint someone who agrees with...
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