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Brendan Gallagher – Who would earn place in Steve Hansen’s Invincibles?

21 October 2016 0 comments

If New Zealand beat Australia in Auckland on Saturday – and they haven’t lost at Eden Park against anybody for 22 years for heaven’s sake […]

Young Gun: Tom Willis – Wasps No.8

16 September 2016 0 comments

As a young player, Tom Willis is like a sponge when it comes to soaking up all the advice on offer, and with a world […]

Brendan Gallagher takes a look at the 1930 tour to New Zealand

16 September 2016 0 comments

In many ways the 1930 Lions tour epitomised everything we have grown to love, and occasionally curse, about the trips down under to New Zealand. […]

Q&A with Gloucester DoR David Humphreys

20 August 2016 0 comments

David Humphreys is entering a defining third season as director of rugby at Gloucester. The Ulsterman tells NEALE HARVEY why it’s time for the Cherry […]

Nick Cain: Fiji were fab but 7s is a glorious sideshow

17 August 2016 0 comments

Congratulations to Fiji for winning their first medal of any sort at the Olympics, and making it gold by dominating the Rio Sevens in scintillating […]

Brendan Gallagher remembers the 1908 Lions who halted the rise of Rugby League

11 August 2016 0 comments

The 1908 ‘Lions’ tour of New Zealand was, at first glance, a miserable failure with humiliating drubbings in two of the three Tests, but strangely […]

Nick Cain column: England’s U20 stars would thrive at Rio Olympics

28 July 2016 0 comments

Here’s hoping that the GB Sevens side for the Rio Olympics which was announced last week come back from Brazil with a medal. If they […]

Brendan Gallagher: The All Black tour that left Olympics in chaos

28 July 2016 0 comments

It’s 40 years pretty much to the day that a rugby tour wreaked havoc with the 1976 Montreal Olympics, a financially precarious Olympiad that could […]

Charlie Hodgson: It’s all so fierce now but guys like Owen Farrell can keep us on top

8 July 2016 0 comments

How did it feel to finish your playing career as a Premiership and Champions Cup ‘double’ winner? It’s what dreams are made of. With the […]

Jeff Probyn column: Eddie Jones is making history with every passing week

24 June 2016 0 comments

As a sportsman, you get the chance to write history every time you take part, whether in the Olympics or your local park. Every game […]

Donncha O’Callaghan battles to give war-torn kids better life

16 June 2016 0 comments

Warrior Donncha O’Callaghan brought down the curtain on a gruelling first season at Worcester and then set off on a more challenging assignment. He is […]

Young Gun: Jacob Umaga – England U18s centre

13 May 2016 0 comments

It has already been a busy season for Jacob Umaga but he is not done yet with a tour to South Africa his next target. […]

Nick Cain column: Saracens can batter down the gates of Europe

12 May 2016 0 comments

Two years ago Saracens hit the wall. Then, as now, there was a European and Premiership double for the taking, but at that time Mark […]

Brendan Gallagher laments the passing of rugby’s great occasion – the Middlesex Sevens

5 May 2016 0 comments

For decades the last weekend of April/first weekend of May always meant the Middlesex Sevens and although time moves on I’m not quite sure rugby […]

Nick Cain column: Andrew Cosslett’s new broom sweeps out Rob Andrew

5 May 2016 0 comments

Rob Andrew’s departure from the RFU as their professional rugby director may have been presented as a long-planned exit, but his so-called “resignation” has been […]

Young Gun: Dino Lamb-Cona: England U18s and Quins forward

22 April 2016 0 comments

The Easter holidays are the perfect period to prepare for A-Levels but revision had to take a back seat for Dino Lamb-Cona as he helped […]

My Life in Rugby: Niall Woods – former Ireland, Leinster, London Irish and Harlequins winger

8 March 2016 0 comments

When the game turned professional I was playing for Blackrock College and Leinster and had a handful of Ireland caps. The IRFU offered me a […]

My Life in Rugby: Peter Squires – former Ripon, Harrogate, England and Lions wing

9 February 2016 0 comments

Ripon born and bred, I was lucky enough to be able to play both county cricket and rugby for Yorkshire. I made 49 first-class appearances […]

Paul Gustard joins Eddie Jones’ England revolution

17 December 2015 0 comments

The RFU have confirmed that Paul Gustard has agreed to join England’s coaching staff as defence coach. Gustard will leave Saracens where he has been […]

Peter Jackson column: Brynmor’s lad is still selling to dummies

9 October 2015 0 comments

The man in Seat 54, Row U of the middle tier of the East Stand looked down on a familiar figure darting along the touchline […]

Brendan Gallagher recounts the intriguing tale of the ‘first World Cup’

2 October 2015 0 comments

The road not taken is an enduring theme in sport and now, right in the middle of a riotously successful World Cup, it’s galling to […]

Laurie Fisher: Can Wallabies win five on the trot?

29 September 2015 0 comments

Gloucester coach questions Wallabies’ ability to turn up for consecutive big games ahead of two gruelling weeks in the Pool of Death.

George North’s Guide To Improving Agility & Mobility

21 September 2015 0 comments

Want to know how George North uses agility and mobility training to stay speedy and elusive on the pitch? Read MaxiNutrition’s guide now… To become […]

Brendan Gallagher’s feature Time for Rugby World Cup to make another Quantum leap

18 September 2015 0 comments

Far be it from me to heap the pressure on the already overworked organisers but RWC2015 is probably the most important tournament in the game’s […]

My life in Rugby: Bleddyn Bowen – former Wales captain and Swansea centre

8 September 2015 0 comments

Captaining Wales to the 1988 Triple Crown was a huge honour. Not only was it Wales’ first for nearly a decade but we achieved it […]

Nemani Nadolo plans Pool of Death opener shock for England

1 September 2015 0 comments

Fijian juggernaut Nemani Nadolo has England in his sights and intends to blow the World Cup wide open with victory on the opening night. Nadolo […]

Brendan Gallagher recalls the biggest World Cup upsets in history

28 August 2015 2 comments

Shock results – upsets – are not a common occurrence at World Cups where generally thing go very much to form. Indeed only five teams have […]

Brendan Gallagher’s feature: Record-breaker Richie McCaw was on a different level from the start

20 August 2015 1 comment

It was a dirty Dublin night in November 2001 when our shambles of a taxi driver eventually located the Killiney Castle Hotel in the wastelands […]

My Life in Rugby: Roger Shackleton – former Harrogate and England fly-half

18 August 2015 0 comments

Receiving a letter from then secretary Robin Prescott inviting me to play for England a few days after I’d broken my leg and been stretchered […]

England v France teams

14 August 2015 1 comment

Sam Burgess, Henry Slade and Calum Clark all starting to make Test debut with Luke Cowan-Dickie on the bench.

Lions announce 2017 tour schedule

10 July 2015 0 comments

The British and Irish Lions have announced the details of their 2017 tour of New Zealand with seven provincial games and three Tests against the […]

Brendan Gallagher’s feature: A gentle boot-camp and warm-up for the Cup? Tell that to the Marines

8 July 2015 0 comments

The thing about World Cup camps is that the handbrakes come off and, especially among Tier One Nations, the notoriously tight-fisted Union treasurers can finally […]

Brendan Gallagher speaks to Firebrand Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu about preaching the message of alofa

2 July 2015 0 comments

As well as being a cracking Test centre and fly-half and a ‘have boots will travel’ professional for a decade or more, Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu has […]

Brendan Gallagher’s feature: Bionic Jacques Burger is on his last crusade

19 June 2015 2 comments

After the best part of ten months at the coal face on behalf of Premiership champions Saracens, Jacques Burger is taking June off and intends […]

Nick Cain discusses the political dangers which are threatening Championship clubs

11 June 2015 1 comment

Chris Pennell’s superb two-try contribution to the thrilling 30-30 draw in the second-leg of the Championship final at Sixways on the last Wednesday in May, […]

Jeff Probyn’s column: World Cup wage cap would promote level playing field

22 May 2015 0 comments

With the domestic season more or less over and sights set firmly on the World Cup, we are once again forced to confront the realities […]

Elliot Daly and Joe Simpson among seven extensions at Wasps

19 May 2015 0 comments

Wasps have today announced that seven players have put pen to paper to remain at the club – including Elliot Daly and Joe Simpson. The […]

Brendan Gallagher: Clear the air? No, Fartgate only left a very nasty smell!

7 May 2015 0 comments

It was 20 years ago today – the Sunday of the early May Bank Holiday – that one of the strangest cameos of the fast […]

Nick Cain talks to Wasps No.8 Nathan Hughes about his international choices

6 May 2015 0 comments

Nathan Hughes is a wanted man. Wanted by England as well as Fiji, the land of his father, and where he was born and raised. […]

Brendan Gallagher’s feature on Alan Hancock’s try against Scotland in 1965

13 March 2015 2 comments

Everybody is famously allowed 15 minutes of fame, but for Northampton wing Andy Hancock that was abbreviated to 15 seconds. That’s pretty much the time, […]

Brendan Gallagher’s feature: Big Clive Norling back in charge after the long dark years of battle

27 February 2015 0 comments

Depression – proper full blown depression – can do strange things to the mind as Clive Norling discovered during the seven or eight years when […]

Brendan Gallagher’s feature: When Scotland v Wales filled Murrayfield to the max

13 February 2015 0 comments

It’s always intrigued me, that six digit figure of 104,000 from a Five Nations match 40 years ago. What was that all about? How and […]

WIN Wales v England tickets

3 February 2015 0 comments

The Rugby Paper has teamed up with Official Formalwear Partner to The Welsh Rugby Union T.M.Lewin, to give away two pairs of tickets to see […]

Jeff Probyn: Progress? Surely not if we are still relying on Manu Tuilagi

19 December 2014 1 comment

Hype, hope and more than a little desperation seems to be the recipe for English rugby as Stuart Lancaster plots the future course of his […]

Brendan Gallagher: Those magnificent seven victories

4 November 2014 1 comment

England have beaten New Zealand seven times in 39 meetings, which sounds like a modest enough record until you appreciate that they are the only […]

Nick Cain talks to Joe Worsley about Bordeaux-Begles, Wasps and England

23 October 2014 0 comments

Joe Worsley had an expertise in rocking opposing teams which is unsurpassed in pro rugby. Worsley was the chop-tackler par excellence, the Wasps and 78-cap […]