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Letters
/ 2 years agoToo easy to blame governing body
Congratulations to Paul Rees for his piece last week offering a reasoned and balanced assessment of the risks associated with a...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoGreat to see a big match on ITV
Big game: Tommy Reffell on the attack for Leicester against Harlequins PICTURE: Getty images WELL said Peter Warren, TRP letters 29/12/2024....
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Letters
/ 2 years ago£10 a month does not seem excessive
Don Pearson in a recent issue of The Rugby Paper complains about having to pay extra for European games on Premier...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoSale Sharks bring Bristol Bears crashing to earth
I fear Bristol’s bid for the title will be derailed by the injury to AJ MacGinty, expeially with Max Malins out...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoBill Beaumont will need all the help he can get
A massive thank you, to the three ex chairs of the RFU Messrs Thomas, Cattermole and Baister and ex CEO Baron,...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoWrong to have so many outsiders at London Scottish
Looking at the London Scottish side in yesterday’s game against Chinnor, I make it nine Harlequins in the starting XV and...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoDual registration needs to be put under microscope
IT IS interesting to read in last Sunday’s TRP Luc Jones’s thoughts on the adverse impact of wholesale dual registrations of...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoDual registration needs to be put under microscope
IT IS interesting to read in last Sunday’s TRP Luc Jones’s thoughts on the adverse impact of wholesale dual registrations of...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoPlease don’t make the game irrelevant
FULL-BACKS and wingers now have to be able to leap in the air, I’ve long ago forgotten what hookers are for...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoPlease don’t make the game irrelevant
FULL-BACKS and wingers now have to be able to leap in the air, I’ve long ago forgotten what hookers are for...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoPromotion still needs too much hoop-jumping
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk I’m very pleased to...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoHundreds of voices cannot be ignored
FOLLOWING Nick Cain’s TRP articles and others in the national press, and the calls from the three former RFU chairmen for...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoPenalise collapsing mauls in open play
THE officiating at the maul needs to be reviewed. When are referees going to penalise collapsing mauls in open play? Twice...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoTV deals are driving fans away from game
HAVING spent large sums of money over the years, attending live rugby and subscribing to Sky Sports and TNT to watch...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoWhat we need is good leadership from the RFU
WE represent 50 former Blackheath Rugby Club players – the world’s oldest open club – including Doug Hursey, President of Kent....
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Letters
/ 2 years agoWorld 7s is a waste of time and money
WHY do we participate in the travelling circus that is the World Sevens Series? Rugby 7s is now very rarely played...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoMartin Johnson would not have put up with it
Danny Care has alleged in his book that Eddie Jones was a bully, confirming what anybody with a half a brain...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoForbidden fruit is now too tempting
Just when you thought that it couldn’t get any worse at the RFU, CEO Billy Sweeney receives a ‘bonus’ of £358,000,...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoGreat to see Coventry doing so well
Last Saturday I went to Butts Park Arena to watch Northampton Saints edge out my team Coventry by 19-10 in the...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoDon’t be in awe of ‘The System’
AS a long-time England supporter I feel compelled to express my concerns about the performances and results of our team. Much...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoWarren Gatland is not the man to blame
As expected, the critics are circling Warren Gatland following the latest Wales defeats. These people, however, often ignore the fact that...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoTough for clubs to get permission for 10,001
I HAVE every sympathy with my old friend Simon Halliday, the outgoing Chairman of the Championship Board, and the Championship clubs...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoWharfedale show the way ahead
Last weekend Wharfedale – currently fifth in National Two North – played league leaders Lymm with 13 homegrown players in the...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoPatience is running out
I DON’T like to say it, but I think that England could be heading for a first-ever Six Nations wooden spoon...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoPaul Sheehan
French show how it’s done AFTER five successive defeats, should England get rid of its overseas player rule? While they’re about...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoWe need an agenda for regeneration and change
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk SACKING head coach Steve...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 years agoKolbe’s majesty is a delight to behold
CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED CHESLIN Kolbe won the “man of the match” award for his two-try contribution to South Africa’s victory...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoParisse deserves place in pantheon
TALKING of “modern greats” – no, we’re not referring to the Oxford University degree course of the same name, which sporting...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoI fear that young players will be lost to the game if chances missed
I REFER to Geoff Stalker’s letter of October 27 regarding schools rugby. Some points perhaps need to be amplified so that...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoEngland look like a clueless rabble
Another one bites the dust: England feel the pain against Wallabies I WATCHED with a g rowing sense of bewilderment as...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoTwo great games in one day
I SAW two of the best matches of the season last Saturday. The first was “live” between Stow on the Wold...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoToo many mistakes
ENGLAND have the players to be successful but they seem to lack the mental fortitude to get over the line. They...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoWhat we can learn from other sports
HAVING watched round one of the Autumn Internationals I revelled in the copying of NFL style referee announcements so the thousands...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoGive Joe Cokanasiga a run on the wing
Steve Borthwick has proven during his career that he is a great coach and he is starting to show that he...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoThe game was ours to lose – and we did
HISTORY really does repeat itself, England’s team selection is proof of that. Why take Marcus Smith off ? He was having...
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Dream Team
/ 2 years agoDream Team – Donovan O’Grady
DONOVAN O’GRADY, THE SWITZERLAND AND BLACKHEATH SCRUM-HALF WHO WORKS FOR THE RPA, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoEngland front row not good enough
I AGREE with Jeremy Guscott and Nick Cain in last week’s article. England’s front row are not good enough. I’ve been...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoThrow plans to segregate fans into the dustbin
THE fact that Premiership administrators are considering segregating away supporters demonstrates that people charged with managing the game have very little...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoWe should shout about what we see
WE have, over the last few weeks, enjoyed a feast of rugby. The matches have been extremely well fought, showed brilliant...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoCut red cards to 10
REGARDING the new 20 minute red card penalty, I feel that 20 minutes is a tad longer than is necessary, and...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoAll stand together
IN this PC, all inclusive, non-exclusive world that we are now supposed to be living in, the very idea of designated...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoBath pushing boundaries
Winners: Francois van Wyk scores a late try to help Bath defeat Harlequins last week PICTURES: Getty Images BATH put on...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoWhy World Rugby has missed the point
IT occurred to me, whilst catching a glimpse of last weekend’s NFL match at Wembley, that the advent of professionalism in...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoSorry, but the RFU’s plan lacks vision
YET again the RFU has woken up in the middle of the night and is shocked by how dark it is....
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Autumn Internationals
/ 2 years agoTommy Freeman can push England to victory against All Blacks
By Jeremy Guscott - Outspoken and unmissable every week... Any analysis of England’s chances of beating New Zealand starts with the...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoWe’ll become Sharks with teeth again, promises Sanderson
ALEX Sanderson vowed to get Sale back on track after they shipped 40 points away from home for the third time...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoRestoration of trio cannot be justified
IT appears to me that the authorities at the RFU have lost their moral and ethical compass in inviting these three...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoThanks, Jeff, your piece was spot on
THE main purpose of this letter is to thank you for your existence and quality. I used to play from 11...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoFigures don’t add up
IN his column in a recent edition of The Rugby Paper, Peter Jackson states that the RFU are set to earn...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoReturn of the big clubs has my vote
I UNDERSTAND the arguments against offering an olive branch to the three ‘Phoenix clubs’, as detailed in Nick Cain’s column last...
