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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoHow many fans can fly to South Africa?
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk SOUTH Africa in Six...
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoMatt: Get set for Super Saturday numbers game
By JON NEWCOMBE Influential: England fly-half George Ford ENGLAND’S 2003 World Cup-winning scrum-half Matt Dawson predicts “a Super Saturday” finish to...
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoCLUB-BY-CLUB: HOW THE CHAMPIONSHIP HAS PRODUCED PREMIERSHIP, PRO14 AND ULTIMATELY ENGLAND PLAYERS
Current team in brackets *dual reg Ampthill Karl Garside (Northampton Saints), Ben Earl* (Saracens), Nick Isiekwe* (Saracens), Ralph Adams-Hale* (Saracens), Samson...
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoHeard about this, Bill? Boks losing to your National League
Brendan Gallagher gives the RFU food for thought with a famous match at Worcester Determination: Duncan Roke, of the National League,...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoWe have to be careful how we spend money
Bill Sweeney, chief executive of the RFU, answers the clubs’ letter Progress: Exeter were champions in 2017, seven years after winning...
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Features
/ 6 years agoMcKenzie stars as Chiefs stay top with big win in Tokyo
Super Rugby WARRENGatland’s Chiefs continued their unbeaten start to the season with a 43- 17 win over the Sunwolves in Tokyo....
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Features
/ 6 years agoPlisson’s revival is down to some TLC
Reborn: Jules Plisson is on the up after leaving Stade Francais for La Rochelle PICTURE: Getty Images It’s astonishing what careful...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBooth in frame for top job at Liberty Stadium
By STEFFAN THOMAS THE OSPREYS have narrowed their search for a new head coach with Harlequins assistant Toby Booth the leading...
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Features
/ 6 years agoDumped Smith on mission to impress Pivac
NEWS EXTRA By STEFFAN THOMA DISCARDED Wales prop Nicky Smith is confident he can turn the Ospreys’ season around as he...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBurnfield try ignites ferocious Saracens retaliation
By TOM HOLMES SARACENS recovered from a poor start to comfortably earn the bonus point against Richmond. Two tries from Jodie...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoChampionship cuts:the great debate…
Give us a two-year moratorium at least Dear Bill Top prop: Harry Williams has gone from Jersey to Exeter and England...
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Features
/ 6 years agoMawi joins champions
SARACENS have signed Fijian prop Eroni Mawi. The 23-year-old joins the club as injury cover for Ralph Adams-Hale and adds an...
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Features
/ 6 years agoCov recruit back three cavalry
COVENTRY have signed Louis Brown and Ryan Olowofela to cover the back three with James Stokes (London Irish) and Henry Purdy...
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Features
/ 6 years agoTyro Tigers look for the hat-trick
NEWS EXTRA LEICESTER Tigers U18s are hunting a third successive national title with London Irish standing in their way at Sixways...
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Features
/ 6 years agoEngland ease past Scotland to go top of table
NEWS EXTRA CHAMPIONS England beat Scotland 53-0 in freezing conditions to go top of the women’s Six Nations table. The match...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoEddie’s insults may have lost the players
It may not have been pretty, but at last England have kickstarted the journey to France 2023 with a much-needed win...
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Welsh Premiership
/ 6 years agoBid to beat the storm fails as rivals slog it out
By TIM LEWIS RGC 1404 ……..15 Carm Quins ….15 THESE rivals braved Storm Dennis to play out a draw in Colwyn...
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Welsh Premiership
/ 6 years agoChampions rocked by first-minute Whites try
By PAUL HOPKINS Merthyr …………5 Swansea ……..10 SWANSEA earned a shock victory over champions Merthyr as The Wern took a storm...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoImpressive Ivybridge make light of wind and rain
South West Premier IVYBRIDGE used the wet and windy conditions to their advantage to send runaway leaders Barnstaple to a fourth...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoBlaydon’s late surge sends them to top
Northern Premier THE positions at the top of the table could not be tighter, with three clubs fighting it out for...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoChannel Islanders lead – but it’s still tight
London & South East Premier IT’s getting ever tighter at the top of the table, with Rochford Hundred and Guernsey battling...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoTraining with Eddie driving U20 standards says Dickens
By NEALE HARVEY England ‘apprentice’: Josh Hodge ENGLAND’S chances of achieving a first U20s Six Nations Grand Slam since 2016 have...
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Features
/ 6 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER SALE SHARKS, NORTHAMPTON AND NOTTINGHAM BACK ROWER MARK EASTER WHETHER he knows it or not, my brother Nick (the...
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National Leagues
/ 6 years agoSix of the best is enough for St Eds
By JOHN CROYSDILL Sutton & Epsom ..12 Bury St Edmunds 36 BURY wrapped up a league double over Sutton & Epsom...
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National Leagues
/ 6 years agoFour-try Owsley seals the glory
By RHODRI MORGAN Worthing …………….10 Clifton ………………..24 CLIFTON secured a comfortable win with the addition of a bonus point over Worthing...
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National Leagues
/ 6 years agoHawks hit the front in bonus triumph
By ALISTAIR BENYON Henley…………..29 Westcliff…………5 HENLEY Hawks had to contend with both Storm Dennis and a resolute Westcliff defence to climb...
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National Leagues
/ 6 years agoHull run amok as winds lift them higher
By RICHARD GORE Hull……………….34 Sheffield T……21 HULL made the most of the first-half winds at their backs to run up a...
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National Leagues
/ 6 years agoCaldy grit extends run to 22 unbeaten
By CHRISTIAN EVANS Fylde………………….7pts Caldy………………..15pts CALDY head coach Matt Cairns lavished praise on his team after a pivotal win against Fylde...
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National Leagues
/ 6 years agoJohnson steals show at Hoppers
By MIKE MITCHELL Preston GH …………..3 Hinckley …………….33 HINCKLEY piled further relegation fears on a young Preston Grasshoppers side as a...














