Premiership told to stop shackling the mavericks

By NEALE HARVEY ENGLISH rugby’s failure to embrace mavericks like Danny Cipriani is one of the travesties of the modern game,...

Big Lift challenge smashes target for NHS

BARNES raised almost £150k in their Big Lift challenge to aid NHS charities. The National Two South club honoured the passing...

Piatau’s brother proves loyalty is possible

ANYBODY reading my ‘stuff ’ over the years will know there is no bigger supporter of the Pacific Island teams but...

South Sea Bubble could provide tonic for rugby

Heroic: Andrew Alolupo scores for Western Samoa in their 35-12 win over Argentina at the 1991 Rugby World Cup PICTURE: Getty...

Gatland has such riches in key area

2021 LIONS A YEAR TO GO NICK CAIN LOOKS AT THE CONTENDERS FOR EACH POSITION THIS WEEK… OPENSIDES OPENSIDE flanker is...

Talent-spotter Dusty is back to help his old club’s revival

World record kicker: Dusty Hare DUSTY Hare remains a Leicester legend despite having spent seven years bringing through a swathe of...

So just what has gone wrong with the once-mighty Tigers?

Director of rugby: Geordan Murphy New head coach: Steve Borthwick Glory days: Lewis Moody salutes a packed Welford Road after Leicester...

Billy wears the crown, others wield the power

Midway through the BBC’s ancient but still mesmerising adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, there is a pivotal discussion between George...

Regan: I was so deaf, at line-outs I read lips

Mark Regan, the charismatic hooker known as ‘Ronnie’ who was part of England’s 2003 World Cup-winning squad, today reveals a remarkable...

Quins recruit Turnbull to coach forwards

NEWS EXTRA By ROB COLE JOSH Turnbull will combine his playing duties at Cardiff Blues with coaching the forwards at Welsh...

No surprise Ireland thrived after they quit the Berkeley!

Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at rugby’s best drinking venues 1. The Berkeley Court (Dublin) The manic Berkeley...

New kicking law will increase excitement

New role: Taulupe Faletau should get more opportunity to carry the ball from deep PICTURE: Getty Images I was really looking...

Street in for Mapletoft

HARLEQUINS Women’s co-head coach Gary Street is taking on a new role to lead the Quins Academy. Current Academy coach Mark...

ON THE BLINDSIDE

BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler Goode will go east for Saracens ‘gap year’ Off: Alex Goode SARACENS full-back Alex...

ROOM 101

RYAN BURROWS COVENTRY’S TRP DREAM XV NO.8 TAKES US THROUGH HIS PET HATES 1. Lorry drivers overtaking on major roads Sometimes...

Kennedy calls for a two-year season

By JON NEWCOMBE FORMER Sale Sharks owner Brian Kennedy believes that completing the current Premiership campaign would be “nigh on impossible”...

Goode off to Japan

PICTURE: Getty Images Alex Goode will quit relegated Saracens for a year in Japan. The fullback is being signed by Top...

All Blacks’ autumn veto will cost £20m

EXCLUSIVE By PETER JACKSON THE All Blacks are set to abandon their three-match British tour this autumn, a decision which will...

Q&A – Stuart Hooper: My mission to make Bath attack and be the envy of the Premiership

Bath director of rugby Stuart Hooper reflects on his first season in charge and how players like Gabriel Hamer-Webb are his...

TRP’s GK IPA Championship 2019-20 Team of the Season

The time has come for us to hand out some honours and honourable mentions to the stars of the Championship

Lions tour contenders RANKED – Courtney Lawes can win showdown with du Toit

Nick Cain explains why Lawes fits what Warren Gatland needs from his No.6

A short history of how the Rugby World Cup was created

Rugby is played on a global level nowadays. Although not as popular as football, it still has thousands of fans worldwide,...

Jonny Hill: I’m my worst critic, when I watch myself on TV I cringe

With a Premiership title and Champions Cup knockout stage to fight for, Exeter lock Hill is full of optimism

I knew this would be my last season at Newcastle and there’s comfort in that, says Italy-bound John Wells

The Falcons defence coach shares the conversation he had with Dean Richards

Rugby Matters: ’57 old farts’ and one nauseous reporter

Brendan Gallagher recalls when the RFU top brass went for the jugular at Will Carling's dig at humour

Saracens signing wants to opt out of five-year agreement with Premiership champions

Stormers lock Cobus Wiese now wishes to renege on his agreement with the Championship-bound club

Sam Parry stays on at Ospreys amid strong interest from Cardiff Blues

The hooker has committed to the Ospreys, who will have Toby Booth join them as head coach in the summer

Jackson column: Pandemic ends Brock James chance at fitting farewell

Synonymous with the Top 14, Peter Jackson finds how La Rochelle's Brock James is in esteemed company with other No.10s

Prospect of 100 caps won’t deter Courtney Lawes from interest abroad

The Northampton Saints lock talks to Neale Harvey about his where his focus lies beyond his Lions tour hopes

Cain column: Steve Hansen still sucking sour grapes over Lions

Reversal of penalty against Ken Owens in the third Test still rankles with the Kiwis three years on

Ex-Harlequins wing Charlie Walker opts for homecoming after stint with Zebre

Walker had been a target to replace Jonny May for Leicester Tigers

Guscott column: Bath need a 9-10 combination which gives them quick ball

Jeremy Guscott analyses how Bath can produce a style of rugby to take them to being regular play-off challengers in the...

Williams column: Enforced rest period will boost Wales team

The downtime in rugby will be welcome to players who toured with the Lions in 2017, with rest hard to come...

England prop Mako Vunipola let playing waiting game on Saracens future

The loosehead prop reflects on a 'bizarre' nine months in his life

Top 20 rugby shock wins and upsets

Brendan Gallagher recalls rugby’s biggest ever shocks, at club and internaitonal level, and ranks each for the magnitude of the upset....

Exclusive: Plan for rugby’s global calendar sees Six Nations run into May

Peter Jackson exclusively reports on how the club and international calendar could be about to shift its axis

Leinster’s Joe Tomane to head to Dragons in the summer

The Dragons continue to recruit some impressive players for their squad next season

RFU chief Bill Sweeney gives honest account of financial peril game faces

Sweeney spoke to the DCMS committee on Tuesday to discuss the shape of finances

Ten of Premiership Rugby’s 13 member clubs consider breakaway

BT Sport's deal with PRL is up next year and has hastened talk of a breakaway to allow club's outright control...

Canterbury and Adidas lose out to rival as England confirm new kit sponsor deal

England Men's team, Red Roses, Sevens and age grade teams will no longer wear Canterbury

All Blacks name flanker Sam Cane as new captain

Ian Foster has named his successor to Kieran Read as captain of New Zealand

Leicester Tigers go full rebuild to back three department, as 21 set to exit

Will Tigers bring in more firepower to add to Nemani Nadolo's arrival?

Room 101: Ampthill fly-half Louis Grimoldby

You better have your passport ready at airport security...

Dream Team: Bath and England lock Elliott Stooke

The Bath second row picks a XV based on the best players he has played alongside or faced as an opponent

My Club – Otley: Nigel Melville looks back on where it all started

Nigel Melville recalls watching Roses matches at Cross Green as a boy with his father

British & Irish Lions 2021 tour could be cancelled to preserve home unions finances, report claims

Lions 2021 tour to fall victim to backlogged Test calendar?

Ireland and Leinster wing Fergus McFadden to retire at season’s end

"They say the best time to leave a party is when you're still having fun" - McFadden

No decline in playing numbers? Prove it!

THE anecdotal evidence from community clubs across the length and breadth of England is that the numbers of male adult rugby...

Hansen’s still sucking on sour grapes over Lions

NICK CAIN ONE of the more rewarding rugby pastimes during these strange days is digging into the game’s history and finding...

Ludicrous to let Marler off

SURELY it is time for suspensions to cover a set number of matches rather weeks (as happens in several other sports)....