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Resistance to the ring-fence fading

16 September 2018 1 comment

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk THERE’S talk of the Premiership becoming rugby’s first […]

Ring-fence would help Premiership clubs blood kids, says Northampton boss Chris Boyd

13 September 2018 0 comments

The Northampton Saints head coach lauds the academy products available to him at his new club

Ring-fence would help blood kids says Boyd

9 September 2018 0 comments

By NEALE HARVEY Keeping them happy: Chris Boyd works with his Saints squad PICTURES: Getty Images James Grayson Alex Mitchell Ehren Painter NEW Northampton supremo […]

Nobody wants to help clubs like us say Ealing

26 August 2018 1 comment

By NEALE HARVEY EALING managing director Ben Ward admits he is “frustrated” by Premiership Rugby’s dismissive attitude towards the Championship and has called for an […]

Boring? That’s what people used to say about Tigers!

19 August 2018 1 comment

Q&A ROB BAXTER ON THE RECORD Rob Baxter In possession: Joe Simmonds must battle Gareth Steenson and Henry Slade for the No.10 jersey PICTURES: Getty […]

Englishgamemay stagnate if top-flight are untouchable

5 August 2018 0 comments

Jeff Gage, rugby expert and author of Rugby‘s Blazered Buffoon Questions: Former All Black prop Ben Franks during his time with London Irish PICTURE: Getty […]

Looks like it’s up to OEs to rectify Kent’s under-achievement

29 July 2018 0 comments

NEALE Harvey’s article on Page 1 last week ought to cause the Kent RFU to sit up and take notice. Sadly, it probably won’t; it […]

Seamless domestic structure? We have the exact opposite

24 June 2018 0 comments

THE RFU seem to have allowed ring-fencing issues to pervade all aspects of English rugby where the Premiership is concerned. 1. Creating an official ring […]

McCafferty’s put his head in the Lions’ den

10 June 2018 0 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK HAVING spent most of the season refusing to comment on matters pertaining to the Premiership, such as […]

Mystery that Eddie has not cut Quins boys adrift

13 May 2018 0 comments

COLIN BOAG My reaction to the England squad was a mixture of delight and disappointment. Delight because so many of ‘yesterday’s men’ were finally missing, […]

Jackson column: Fans bring the glory days back to Pooler

3 May 2018 0 comments

Pontypool’s unbeaten season is being celebrated with a trophy tour after winning 22 games out of 22

Fans bring the glory days back to Pooler

29 April 2018 1 comment

Saying thanks: Ben Jeffreys takes the trophy to see Pooler volunteer Pat Sheppherd During the half-century since his Pontypool debut as a 17-year-old schoolboy, Graham […]

If Exiles struggle, it will be easier to ring-fence

22 April 2018 1 comment

Going down: London Irish are about to be relegated COLIN BOAG After all of the indications that Premiership promotion and relegation would be dumped, it […]

We can’t wait to play Exeter now says Pirates boss Dicky

22 April 2018 0 comments

By NEALE HARVEY Ambition: Dicky Evans DICKY Evans, director of the Cornish Pirates and a driving force behind the Stadium for Cornwall, insists the Pirates […]

We’re aiming for Prem, Ealing warn ring-fencers

22 April 2018 1 comment

BEN WARD, rugby director of ambitious Ealing, has hailed the achievement of Cornish Pirates. And he has maintained his own club’s ambition to upset Premiership […]

Clubs needs to get costs in sync with their revenue

8 April 2018 2 comments

JEFF PROBYN Wise words: former Harlequins CEO and Saracens director of rugby Mark Evans PICTURE: Getty Images You can tell we are getting to the […]

Why not expand Premiership but split conferences?

25 March 2018 0 comments

ANY reformatting of the Premiership has to take into account many conflicting requirements. Ring-fencing the league is an aim for many and unpopular with as […]

Top flight stitch-up nearing completion

4 March 2018 0 comments

JEFF Probyn wrote in last week’s Rugby Paper about the agreement between the RFU and Premiership Rugby under which ‘the Championship cannot supply any players […]

Expand to 14 with 3-year moratorium

18 February 2018 0 comments

A COMPROMISE on the ring-fencing row would be to expand the top tier to 14 clubs and retain promotion/ relegation using a penalty points system […]

Lower league talent will be missed until the RFU take action

4 February 2018 1 comment

NICK CAIN reports (TRP 28/1) that ‘Premiership ring-fencers are mobilising again for another big push aimed at ending promotion and relegation’. As he wrote, once […]

Kennedy speaks out of self-interest

4 February 2018 2 comments

WOULD Nick Kennedy of London Irish have been keen on ring-fencing the Premiership last year? His opinions, given London Irish’s current precarious position, could display […]

Ring-fence ‘would threaten Carnegie’s future’

4 February 2018 0 comments

ENDING promotion and relegation would place a “huge question mark” over Yorkshire Carnegie’s future, according to chief executive Gary Hetherington. After seven seasons outside the […]

Championship still needs work despite Melville promises

31 December 2017 2 comments

HERE we go again about ring fencing the Premiership in December 17 edition of TRP. Nigel Melville came in as RFU director of professional rugby […]

Ward in blast at 13-team Premiership discussion

17 December 2017 2 comments

By NEALE HARVEY BEN Ward, rugby director of high-flying Ealing, has slammed Premiership proposals for a 13-team, ringfenced Premiership and claims Championship sides are being […]

Maybe it’s time for central contracts

1 October 2017 0 comments

WITH both Gloucester and Worcester seeking investment to secure their futures, who in their right mind would put money in any Premiership rugby club ? […]

Part-time would be end of promotion

7 May 2017 0 comments

IN TRP last Sunday, Jon Newcombe quoted Richmond director of rugby Steve Hill as suggesting more Championship clubs will choose the ‘parttime model’. Given Richmond’s […]

Wage cap plan ‘will harm potential England players’

26 March 2017 0 comments

By NEALE HARVEY ROSSLYN Park managing director Shaun Justice fears the development of England players will be stymied by new proposals before the RFU Council. […]

Buddies? No, these are Championship’s worst enemies

12 February 2017 0 comments

THE buddy-system between Championship and Premiership clubs being proposed by the RFU looks to me like a deadend for the second tier if they accept […]

Ian Davies blasts RFU as Tier Two attendances dwindle

7 May 2016 0 comments

Outgoing Cornish Pirates rugby director Ian Davies has accused the RFU of “paying lip service” to the Championship. Davies insists there must be a root […]

Jeff Probyn’s column: So, is the ‘Old Boys’ Club’ in control of rugby again?

10 July 2015 1 comment

Training camps, past managers views and the World Cup have taken the focus off the biggest decision the game faces in the very near future, […]

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, […]

Martin Haag: Don’t stop clubs from daring to dream

9 May 2015 0 comments

No clubs should be denied the chance of ‘doing a Bournemouth’.

Five years? That’s a prison term argue Championship bosses

6 May 2015 2 comments

Championship clubs react furiously to suggestions of a five-year moratorium on promotion and relegation in Premiership.

Moment in Time: The day London Irish avoided relegation

8 August 2014 0 comments

It would be no exaggeration to say that the future of London Irish was at stake. Powergen Cup winners and fourth in the Zurich Premiership […]

Nick Cain: Nothing small about Justin, especially his ambitions

23 July 2014 1 comment

Justin Burnell would be hard to beat if there was a prize for the greatest comeback of last season. There is nothing undersized about the […]

Nick Cain: Wembley bonanaza shows the way ahead

2 April 2014 0 comments

If anyone had had the temerity to suggest 20 years ago that a game between Saracens and Harlequins would set a world record attendance for […]

Nick Cain: No, Kenny your call to ring-fence is so wrong

11 December 2013 0 comments

Exeter finished bottom of National 3 and were relegated to National 4 along with Clifton in 1995, the year that the game was declared professional. […]

Room 101: Paul Arnold – Fylde player/coach

30 August 2013 1 comment

1. Relegation from the Premiership Controversial, I know, but as a massive fan of the type of expansive rugby you get in the Super 15. […]

Second tier expect end to ‘cartel’ of Premiership

23 April 2013 1 comment

The Championship expect a deal to be thrashed out soon that will put promoted clubs on equal central funding with the existing Premiership elite. The […]

Jeff Probyn: Five-year ring-fence could destroy our game in North

7 November 2012 1 comment

Last week I wrote about the newly formed Rugby Coaches Association (RCA) and how it could be good for the game by stopping the merry-go-round […]

Relegation is a must, Garry Schofield tells Ian McGeechan

6 November 2012 1 comment

Rugby League legend Garry Schofield has rubbished suggestions by Sir Ian McGeechan that relegation from the Aviva Premiership should be abolished. McGeechan argues that by scrapping […]

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