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Sevens World Series
/ 12 years agoEngland Sevens win in Bucharest
England Sevens will go into the HSBC World Series as the reigning European champions after a strong display in Bucharest. For...
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Young Gun
/ 12 years agoYoung Gun: Tom Chapman – Worcester wing/scrum-half
Tom Chapman is only 19 but the speedster has already been on the books of Saracens, Bath and Blackheath. But after...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoBen Ryan appointed Fiji Sevens coach
Ben Ryan has been named as Fiji Sevens head coach, it was announced today. The 42-year-old stepped down from the England...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Ah You Irish? Well, that’s complicated, Rodney!
Rodney Ah You arrived in Belfast as a hefty member of the baby All Blacks in 2007 and duly went home...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Self-interested coaches should not scrutinise refs
While I have sympathy for Premiership Rugby‘s bid to secure a more meritocratic Heineken Cup, the initiative by PRL, the administrative...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoAviva Premiership round 3: teams
Leicester v Newcastle Leicester: Blaine Scully; Vereniki Goneva, Manusamoa Tuilagi, Dan Bowden, Adam Thompstone; Toby Flood (Capt.), Ben Youngs; Boris Stankovich,...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoRadoDirect Pro12 round 3: teams
Cardiff Blues v Zebre Cardiff Blues: Leigh Halfpenny; Alex Cuthbert, Owen Williams, Dafydd Hewitt, Chris Czekaj; Rhys Patchell, Lewis Jones; Taufa’ao...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoGK IPA Championship round 2: teams
Bristol v London Scottish Bristol: Adam D’Arcy; Charlie Amesbury, Andy Short, Luke Eves, Ryan Edwards; Adrian Jarvis, James Grindal (Capt.); Kyle...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 12 years agoJames Haskell: I’ll never give up fight to play for England
James Haskell was quick to brush off his latest England snub and with Tom Croft now ruled out for the season,...
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Room 101
/ 12 years agoRoom 101: Ruairi Cushion – Plymouth Albion captain
1. Facebook These days it seems that every time I scroll down my news feed on Facebook all that comes up...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoVIDEO: Matt Garvey – “Bath can achieve big things”
Bath flanker Matt Garvey talks exclusively to The Rugby Paper about the West Country team’s great start to the season and...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Biting, refs row, Euro battle…yes, the season’s back!
The season is off and running and once again it’s not the rugby on the field that grabs the headlines. As...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Will tickets be banana skin that upsets RWC 2015?
Two years out from the 1987 World Cup the competition didn’t exist, it was just a concept being kicked around by...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoVIDEO: Ian Humphreys – “I don’t bother reading the pundits’ predictions”
In an exclusive production by The Rugby Paper, London Irish fly-half Ian Humphreys analyses the 20-18 win at Worcester and what...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 12 years agoAndy Gomarsall: Freddie Burns can give England vital spark
Now is the time for England to let Freddie Burns off the leash, according to World Cup winner Andy Gomarsall, who...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 12 years agoGloucester to face Japan in November
There will be a battle of the cherries at Kingsholm in November as Gloucester announced today they will face Japan on...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoNick Wood hit by eight-week ban for stamping
Nick Wood was tonight suspended for eight weeks by a RFU Disciplinary Panel. The Gloucester prop was found guilty stamping on Saracens...
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20 Questions
/ 12 years ago20 Questions: Russell Earnshaw – former England Sevens coach
You left England 7s last month. Why? A family decision. Last year I was away 140 days and in my last...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain talks to Saracens coach Phil Morrow about the amazing Billy Vunipola
Billy Vunipola is a tank, and at Twickenham two weeks ago London Irish found him virtually unstoppable. The pulverising charges of...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 years agoJeremy Guscott: Referee Poite got it wrong over Du Plessis sending off
The winners of New Zealand versus South Africa were going to be ranked as the No.1 team in the world. For...
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Featured
/ 12 years agoA red wave rolls off the Solent to remember Cliff
Towards the end of an inspirational life, Cliff Morgan found himself confronted one day by the question of mortality and his...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 12 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Jamie Noon – former Newcastle, Brive and England centre
My defence was always good but my attack was sometimes questioned. But that’s what I did, I was known as a...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 12 years agoBOD named in Joe Schmidt first Ireland squad
Ireland boss Joe Schmidt has included Brian O’Briscoll in his first squad ahead of the Autumn internationals. The 34-year-old veteran is...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoFREE Season Guide to the Aviva Premiership & RaboDirect12
The Rugby Paper, the UK’s leading Rugby publication have produced a FREE guide for the start of the upcoming season. To...
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Champions Cup
/ 12 years agoWelsh clubs urged: Join Heineken breakaway
The four Welsh regions are being invited to break Celtic ranks and join the Anglo-French plan for a new Europe.
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 12 years agoNick Wood to know his fate tomorrow
Nick Wood will appear in front of a RFU hearing panel tomorrow (Wednesday) following his sending off against Saracens on Sunday....
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Dream Team
/ 12 years agoDream Team: Leon Lloyd – former Leicester, Gloucester and England centre
1. Graham Rowntree – When I first went to Leicester as a 17-year-old Graham took me under his wing – for...
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Young Gun
/ 12 years agoYoung Gun: Ed Hoadley – London Irish scrum-half
There are not many better places to learn your trade as a scrum-half than at London Irish and Ed Hoadley does...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Front rows must discover the lost arts – or perish
I was at Twickenham this week and found myself at a Press conference outlining the new scrum engagement call, along with...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Ten years on, Coombs is overnight sensation!
When it comes to recurring rejection in pursuit of a professional career, Andrew Coombs deserves to be out on his own...
