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/ 9 years agoHarlequins sign Pau loosehead
Harlequins have confirmed the signing of 21 year-old loosehead Cameron Holenstein from Pau. Growing up in South Africa, Holenstein began his...
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/ 9 years agoGiles handed first Ospreys professional contract
The Ospreys have handed 18-year old winger Keelan Giles his first professional contract. The teenager has put pen to paper on...
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Dream Team
/ 9 years agoDream Team: Tom Savage – Gloucester lock
1. Richard Barrington – I played with Baz at Hartpury. He’s now at Saracens and has gone on to win the...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoEngland name provisional EPS
Eddie Jones has announced a provisional 45-man elite player squad (EPS) for England’s pre-season training camp in August. The squad will...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 9 years agoQ&A with Harlequins head coach Mark Mapletoft
Understand you recently went on a globe-trotting expedition? Correct. I went to Sydney and Auckland and spent time with a number...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 9 years agoI’ll have to earn my place, says Matt Symons
Wasps lock Matt Symons is relieved to have been given a second Premiership chance after the nightmare of relegation at London...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Yes-No interlude for Shaun Edwards
Shaun Edwards could have been forgiven for not knowing whether he was coming or going in recent weeks, an observation which...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 9 years agoJeff Probyn column: Global season would be no aid to player welfare
Am I the only one who doesn’t understand the continual call for a global season and how moving a couple of...
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Shane Williams
/ 9 years agoShane Williams column: Senseless Gatland’s Law should be binned
I wonder how many Rugby Paper readers can give me a definitive explanation of ‘Gatland’s Law’. I know I certainly can’t....
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoNick Easter announces retirement
Harlequins’ most professionally capped player Nick Easter has announced he has retired from the game. Easter, who made 281 appearances across...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 9 years agoTom Youngs in pledge to bring back glory days at Leicester
New Leicester captain Tom Youngs reckons the pain of three successive Premiership semi-final defeats will drive his side towards next season’s...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Built on sand, but Fiji’s Olympics bid will be rock solid
When it comes to stand-out Olympic performances, David Hemery’s 400m hurdles gold for Great Britain in 1968 is right up there...
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Nick Cain
/ 9 years agoNick Cain column: England’s U20 stars would thrive at Rio Olympics
Here’s hoping that the GB Sevens side for the Rio Olympics which was announced last week come back from Brazil with...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 9 years agoBrendan Gallagher: The All Black tour that left Olympics in chaos
It’s 40 years pretty much to the day that a rugby tour wreaked havoc with the 1976 Montreal Olympics, a financially...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoThree more years at Sale for Bryn Evans
Former All Black lock Bryn Evans has agreed a new three-year deal with Sale Sharks. The 31-year-old from Biarritz before the...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoHarlequins sign Connacht No. 8
Harlequins have secured the signing of Connacht No.8 George Naoupu for the forthcoming season. During his two spells at the Sportsground...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoBath reveal new coaching structure
Bath have today confirmed the appointment of Todd Blackadder as director of rugby and Tabai Matson as head coach. A former...
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Featured
/ 9 years agoJames Haskell: I’d risk my career again to beat the Aussies 3-0!
James Haskell has revealed he needed complicated surgery on his big toe to save his rugby career and now faces up...
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Nick Cain
/ 9 years agoNick Cain talks to Nigel Wray and Simon Halliday about the Club v Country crisis
When the new club-country accord between the RFU and the Premiership is announced on Monday, unless there is a cast-iron clause...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 9 years agoJeremy Guscott column: Gregor Townsend would make a fine Lions attack coach
As amazing as a 2017 Lions coaching team of Warren Gatland, Joe Schmidt and Vern Cotter sounds they are all bosses ...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoSale sign Chief Byron McGuigan
Sale Sharks have secured the signing of Byron McGuigan from Exeter Chief on a two-year deal. The Namibian-born full-back has previously...
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Featured
/ 9 years agoTeam GB ‘too small to match big guys’ in Rio
Mike Friday, head coach of USA 7s, believes Team GB’s Olympic medal chances have been damaged by not picking more stars...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 9 years agoClubs face meltdown in spite of cash boom
Gloucester chief executive Stephen Vaughan fears Premiership clubs face financial meltdown unless steps are taken to curb rampant wage inflation. Vaughan’s...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoHarlequins confirm US pre-season tour
Harlequins has today confirmed they will travel to San Francisco later this week for a pre-season training camp to prepare for...
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/ 9 years agoNew Sale contract for Mike Haley
Sale Sharks have announced that Mike Haley has signed a new three-year deal with the club. The 22-year-old full-back started playing...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoGeorgian international joins Bristol Rugby
Bristol have secured the signing of Georgian international Giorgi Nemsadze ahead of the new campaign. The experienced lock has made over...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoRFU & Premiership Rugby sign new Professional Game agreement
The Rugby Football Union (RFU) and Premiership Rugby Limited (PRL) have agreed a progressive new partnership for the next eight years...
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Features
/ 9 years agoJenkins reminisces about Lions battles
By Matt Lloyd His displays against New Zealand last month suggest evergreen prop Gethin Jenkins could yet make a remarkable fourth British...
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Featured
/ 9 years agoKay: Tigers can roar again with Toomua and Tuilagi
World Cup winner turned BT Sport pundit Ben Kay talks to NEALE HARVEY about how he anticipates the new season unfolding...
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Columnists
/ 9 years agoJackson column: Somme hero Williams was the perfect wing
By Peter Jackson Some of the biggest names in the game have given it their best shot at the most elusive...














