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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoYes, Danny deserves another chance
I AGREE wholeheartedly with Phil Vickery’s comments (about giving Danny Cipriani a chance). I would take it a stage further. England...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoSorry Ben, Ealing won’t get Prem help
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk BEN WARD please wake...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoNew Zealand let their club players face Test stars
MANY ask why NZ are so dominant. They suggest their success is because rugby is the national sport. Others say that...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoHow is a driving maul not blocking?
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk I HAVE looked up...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoProbyn was spot on with defence of grassroots game
HAVING crossed verbal swords with Jeff Probyn last season, when I thought he was not giving community rugby its full credit,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoGrow up Danny, and stop drinking
EVERYONE deserves a second chance after a silly mistake, but giving Danny Cipriani another chance is not the answer, he has...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoUp the intensity by reducing schedule
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk COLIN Boag rightly states...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoIcebergs lie ahead if the RFU continue on this course
IN last Sunday’s Rugby Paper, Jeff Probyn refers to how the ‘nuclear option’ button may need to be pressed with regard...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoPumas need a leg up, not the Kiwis
YET again the Rugby Championship fixture draw is skewed towards the All Blacks. They are the only team to get three...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoHow can Mitchell be defence coach?
I’M totally at a loss as to why England would look to bring in John Mitchell to replace Paul Gustard when...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoOld guard let you down Eddie, now leave them out!
I READ with total dismay that Eddie Jones is going to recall the old guard. Surely the old guard crashed and...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoLack of pool stage spoilt World Sevens
MOST people seem to agree the recent Sevens World Cup was a great success, but there was one element that caused...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoShame Foden’s off, he still offers a lot
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email:newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk GOOD luck to Ben Foden...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoGet rid of the body armour and teach kids how to tackle
THE rise in head incidents in the game have been brought about inadvertently by the law makers. They allowed protective gear...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoAcademy boys key to OE’s success
I READ with interest in the July 22 edition that Old Elthamians are putting in place a plan to challenge for...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoLooks like it’s up to OEs to rectify Kent’s under-achievement
NEALE Harvey’s article on Page 1 last week ought to cause the Kent RFU to sit up and take notice. Sadly,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoBe careful or the game will go soft
I’M all for player welfare but the way our game is going, it will soon be touch football and all the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoGreat if Ealing stop this Irish yo-yoing
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk WHAT is the problem...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoHard job replacing world class talent
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk SHOCKED and saddened to...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoCommentators’ use of metaphors for violence must end
ONE of the pleasures of the summer internationals were the calm and informative commentary performances by John Beattie and Chris Patterson...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoAlternative to the dismissal system
COLIN Boag (July 15) is rightly against replacing the red card system (dismissal) by something like the Rugby League on report...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoWasps’ great entertainers need proper forward clout
NICK CAIN ANALYSES THE WASPS SET-UP AND HIGHLIGHTS KEY AREAS THEY MUST IMPROVE TO BECOME CHAMPIONS AGAIN Key signing: former England...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoAshton return will up heat on Brown
GREAT to see Chris Ashton sign for Sale and open the door for an England return. Unlike with Steffon Armitage four...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoRFU must nurture grassroots before they wither away
JEFF Probyn is bang on regarding the scandal of RFU junior staff and grassroots rugby being squeezed following apparent incompetence in...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoDual-registration system is a mess
IT is totally unfair that some National League sides can benefit from close ties with Premiership clubs while others simply cannot....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoVeteran Saints must earn their shirts says Vesty
NEWS EXTRA SAM Vesty insists youth will be given a chance at Northampton and says there are no sacred cows as...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoCrane confident Lam’s assembled a pack that can go toe to toe with the Premiership’s best
By NEALE HARVEY All Black wrecking ball: Steven Luatua JORDAN Crane reckons Bristol’s back row can be the foundation of a...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoIrish lifeline rescues Tom from the rugby wilderness
By NEALE HARVEY SARACENS hooker Tom Woolstencroft is ready to fight Lions star Jamie George for his place after being handed...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoWorld rankings bit of a mystery to me
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk THE World Rugby rankings...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoEddie’s shown too much faith in his out-of-form players
TOO many players seem untouchable in this current England set-up. It took losing the series for Eddie Jones to give Danny...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoModern day giant bashing is turn off
I’M afraid that due to the style of modern play, I have to call it a day watching the professional game...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoSeamless domestic structure? We have the exact opposite
THE RFU seem to have allowed ring-fencing issues to pervade all aspects of English rugby where the Premiership is concerned. 1....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoAnswers found, but still more questions
THE South Africa tour had answered a few questions. First, hysterical haranguing of referees is not the hallmark of a good...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoRoot of all problems come from the pack
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU Email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk WHENat school in thbe...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoChiefs better not try and crack America
I SINCERELYhope that World Rugby read Colin Boag’s column in last week’s Rugby Paper. Colin described the present silly plans for...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoHow many more like Francis could be lost to England?
IN last week’s My Life in Rugby column, Jamie Salmon writes how, in the early 1980s, he went from being rejected...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoYoungs responsible for setting tempo
LIKE against Wales in the Six Nations, England started like a train in the first Test against the Boks and then...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoDrowning Eddie needs a life raft
NICK CAIN SPELLS OUT WHAT YESTERDAY’S DEFEAT MEANS FOR ENGLAND Dejection: Owen Farrell, right, and Denny Solomona lead England off yesterday...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoBrexit doesn’t seem to be affecting UEFA
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk SO Heineken will return...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoPlayoffs essential while clubs still lose internationals
IN response to Jeff Probyn’s article about him not understanding why there are four team play-offs at the end of the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoIs Bok takeover at Glos necessary?
FOLLOWING the retitling of Bristol Rugby as Bristol Bears, with six out of eight of their likely first team forwards next...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoZulu war cry sends new Rainbow Boks into Test battle
NICK CAIN IN JOHANNESBURG SETSTHE SCENE AS THE RASSIE ERASMUS CRUSADE BEGINS Springboks’ first black captain: Siya Kolisi PICTURES: Getty Images...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoFiji triumph as Irish win surprise bronze
LONDON SEVENS WRAP FIJI made it four wins on the bounce in the Sevens World Series, overcoming South Africa 21-17 in...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoTwo-horse race to decide World Series
By ADAM ELLIS PARIS SEVENS Class act: Fiji’s Sevuloni Mocenacagi dives in to score against Samoa FIJI and South Africa will...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoCherry’s late try secures crown for Australia
WOMEN’S SEVENS DISAPPOINTING Paris campaign for England ended in anti-climax after they booked a place in the Cup quarter-finals. On the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoWalker’s positivity inspired Coventry
HARRY WALKER, England’s oldest surviving international, passed away earlier this week aged 103 but hopefully his ‘can do’ spirit will continue...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoBeaumont must go into bat for smaller nations
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Man in charge: World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoRFU should make it easier to join the league structure
IT IS hard to disagree with Jeff Gage’s letter in last week’s TRP, when he writes of the alarm bells that...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoTop six playoff just sounds bonkers
I’VE read some tripe over the years, but Todd Blackadder’s call to expand the Premiership playoffs to six as reported by...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoRemember Adams was cut by regions
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk I FIND the comments...
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