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/ 3 years agoMy blueprint for the future
SOMETIMES the only logical and sensible thing to do is to panic. England’s performance against Fiji was the worst I have...
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/ 3 years agoFarrell was trying to rip possession
REGARDING Owen Farrell’s red card, I can’t be the only one who noticed him trying to rip the ball from Taine...
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/ 3 years agoGive Tier 2 sides opportunity to take on the best
THE Rugby World Cup is one of the three or four biggest sporting events in the world. As a vehicle for...
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/ 3 years agoWoodward’s right, tear up this script
CLIVE Woodward suggests Steve Borthwick should tear apart the squad and start again. A great idea that I’ve been asking for...
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/ 3 years agoWhat a mess, all RFU’s own doing
RATHER than act like gentlemen and play by the rules, England seem to think they can manipulate them for their own...
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/ 3 years agoSo uplifting to read Pearce’s life story
IN these days of the incompetent 12-strong RFU Board, the English 2nd XV’s dismal showing in Cardiff, ring-fenced Premiership, defunct Premiership...
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/ 3 years agoNo sympathy from me
WHY are so many people coming out in sympathy for Owen Farrell and England. Farrell has been playing Rugby Union for...
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/ 3 years agoAlarming indiscipline
A WIN is a win, but England’s indiscipline is alarming a few weeks out from the start of the Rugby World...
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/ 3 years agoEngland must get the ball to the wide men
FOR four years, Sir Clive Woodward in his matchday analysis in his newspaper column always states that the coaches pick the...
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/ 3 years agoTigers turn to Du Plessis for World Cup cover
NEWS EXTRA LEICESTER Tigers have brought in Petrus du Plessis as their interim scrum coach. The South African will remain in...
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/ 3 years agoVan Velze signs on for another season at Bath
NEWS EXTRA GJ van Velze has rejoined Bath for the new season. The 35-year-old South African forward made 10 Premiership appearances...
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/ 3 years agoOspreys put Jones in charge of the defence
NEWS EXTRA MARK Jones is joining the Ospreys as defence coach. The interim Wales U20s head coach has notable experience in...
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/ 3 years agoFrench centre Vakatawa returns for Barbarians
NEWS EXTRA VIRIMI Vakatawa’s premature retirement is over as the former France centre started for the Barbarians against Samoa last night...
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/ 3 years agoKey areas England must find answers
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk SO England boss Steve...
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/ 3 years agoBorthwick’s boys stuck in tactical cul-de-sac of old
ONE is left wondering what rugby planet coach Steve Borthwick and his England side inhabit after witnessing the depressing 20-9 defeat...
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/ 3 years agoSmall price to pay for summer Tests
IN RESPONSE to last week’s letter regarding Summer Series TV coverage, anyone can join Amazon Prime for £8.99 on a one...
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/ 3 years agoCut Championship clubs some slack
THE promotion/relegation play-off set to be introduced next season between the Premiership and Championship is a long overdue step in the...
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/ 3 years agoDrastic measures are required to ensure progress
OVER the last three years, or is it longer, I can’t recall anybody having a good word to say about the...
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/ 3 years agoSad not all fans can watch warm-ups
THE brains at Twickenham have done it again. As we all know, the four consecutive weekends in August are to broadcast...
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/ 3 years agoAmateur game in need of extra help
“PLEASE Sir! Can I have some more?” Oliver Twist’s plaintive cry in Dickensian times. Now, in the 21st century it is...
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/ 3 years agoGlad to see attempts to speed up the game
I WELCOME the new laws in trying to speed up the game, with time limits for conversions, penalties, scrums, lineouts getting...
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/ 3 years agoTime for Champ clubs to lead way
IN last weekend’s Rugby Paper, Chris Hewett wrote how Fiji, Samoa, Georgia, and others are cheated by the way in which...
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/ 3 years agoExeter are just taking a shrewd approach to business
IN response to the comments made by Neil Fissler in last week’s paper and numerous others recently, is there any actual...
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/ 3 years agoDynamic No.9 is a must for England
I HAVEN’T been able to find out why Ben Spencer was sent home from the England camp a couple of weeks...
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/ 3 years agoByrne the go-to man
WITH Johnny Sexton’s absence I can think of nobody better to fill the Ireland number 10 shirt than Ross Byrne. A...
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/ 3 years agoGovernance to blame
I HAVE read numerous articles, listened to many podcasts, TV pundits and debated with friends, and one thing that is a...
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/ 3 years agoHere’s my plan for RFU to save money
IF the RFU and the Premiership clubs want to save money, may I offer a simple solution? Bring their teams into...
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/ 3 years agoWe need to shout about how good our game really is
SINCE the season ended, there has been very little news in the national papers about what is happening at the Premiership...
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/ 3 years agoTime to reward the flair players
WHY are Rugby League coaches so revered in Union? Bashing the ball up like League is not what Union should be...
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/ 3 years agoThis is a torpedo in player welfare claims from WR
THE HUGELY flawed Nations Championship masterplan now scheduled for 2026 is little more than surrendering to commercialism torpedoing World Rugby’s oft...
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/ 3 years agoWade for Sevens
WHAT a coup for France – and the fans – if Antoine Dupont does sign up for next year’s Olympics team....
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/ 3 years agoGreat news for Borthwick
Great player: Luke Cowan-Dickie PICTURE: Getty Images LUKE Cowan-Dickie is a fantastic signing for Sale. His best years are still ahead...
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/ 3 years agoTime to put ban on tactical subs
IN HIS column last week Chris Hewett suggested imposing a weight limit on teams to restore a game for all shapes...
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/ 3 years agoPleased to see Kent enjoying their win
KENT’S recent County Championship final win was admirable, and the picture of their team in The Rugby Paper showed what it...
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/ 3 years agoGreat match but why no female officials?
Up and running: Kelsey Jones scores the first try for Gloucester WHAT a great advert for women’s rugby. Last weekend’s Premier...
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/ 3 years agoStill no openness
SO now we have the Champions Cup draw – or do we? We know which teams are in which group, but...
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/ 3 years agoLeave game alone
OH dear oh dear, World Rugby are at it again, suggesting changes to the laws to “improve” the women’s game which...
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/ 3 years agoThis is how to run a sustainable club
IT IS now time for the RFU to listen to the chairmen and directors of the Championship clubs that have been...
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/ 3 years agoBar takings are key for clubs to make money
RUGBY clubs’ biggest source of income is bar sales, which are dependent on matches being played. So why over the years...
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/ 3 years agoDirectors are to blame
email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk I AM fed up with old former players from the three Gallagher Premiership clubs that have been disbanded blaming...
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/ 3 years agoTime to offer fair treatment to grassroots
LAST week’s Rugby Paper lists next season’s National League fixtures. Among the titbits served up by the RFU’s Competitions Committee for...
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/ 3 years agoI identified the problem in 2018
LOSSES of £21.1m, dependency on benefactors, excessively high wages for players in the Premiership and a Championship unloved – these are...
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/ 3 years agoIt’s not a level playing field in second tier
I WOULD just like to correct a passage in the article with Steve Thompson last week (TRP, June 11), when he...
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/ 3 years agoHow do Saracens survive on gates?
IT was interesting to see the average home attendances for the Premiership clubs for the past season. What I can’t quite...
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/ 3 years agoEngland rugby’s ‘annus horribilis’
THIS season has been an “annus horribilis” for English Rugby Union. Three professional clubs have folded because of financial difficulties. In...
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/ 3 years agoIreland’s time is now
I’VE followed Ireland for some time now and I have seen a massive growth in technique, skill set and depth like...
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/ 3 years agoVote of no confidence
STOW on the Wold RFC held its AGM on Thursday and a motion of “no confidence in the leadership of the...
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/ 3 years agoI can’t wait to see Bath get going
■ Am I just being cynical or, with the demise of London Irish, does this give the RFU and PRL exactly...
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/ 3 years agoTry something new and imaginative
JAMES Harrington reports that the average gate in the French top flight this season was 14,841, with Bordeaux topping the list...
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/ 3 years agoEnforce laws and game will be safer
WORLD Rugby should abandon their ‘player welfare’ platitudes and make the game safer by merely enforcing its own laws. A fortnight...
