IN LAST week’s Rugby Paper, Alec Jones, who regularly writes in support of lower league rugby lamented the supposed withdrawal of CS Stags from London […]

WHEN it was revealed Saracens had broken the salary cap and were to be relegated to the Championship two years ago, it shocked the rugby […]

CINDERFORD DoR Paul Morris (TRP Dec 13) described another part of rugby being let down by the RFU. We all know how badly treated are […]

COVID has exposed the ridiculous situation European rugby is in. The revised Champions and Challenge Cups were doomed from the moment teams were stranded in […]

COVERAGE of the Premier 15s is getting better, but I don’t think that it goes far enough to increase the popularity of the game. I […]

IN last week’s paper, Jeff Probyn congratulated Luke Pearce for penalising Saracens for their back-chat. I do wish that referees would punish the same team […]

SOME memorable international matches, but 2021 proved a traumatic year for rugby. While Covid disrupted sport worldwide, rugby faced its own crisis threatening its future. […]

AMONG programmes shown on terrestrial TV last week were horse racing, women’s football, Formula One and Rugby Union (Cardiff v Toulouse on a Welsh language […]

WITH a 13-team Premiership there are going to be free weekends. Looking ahead, Bristol have no game on the weekend of the January 8/9. Surely […]

IF THE Championship is such a good product as Martin Stonecliffe suggested last week, why does its ability to develop players missed by Premiership Academies […]

WHY do TV’s rugby pundits always give the Man of the Match award only to a player from the winning team? I was a ‘neutral’ […]

I DO not like the new law where a goal-line drop out is awarded after the ball is ‘held up in goal’. A goal-line drop-out […]

I AM a long-time season ticket holder at Bedford Blues and last weekend the Championship was at its best. Not only did the Blues put […]

I BELIEVE a major catalyst to making many fans ‘three sheets to the wind’ at rugby games is not the land’s largest public house, the […]