Sharples: Ensure top four and we can go all the way

By NEALE HARVEY Confident: Gloucester flyer Charlie Sharples CHARLIE Sharples is adamant improving Gloucester can turn a solid campaign into a...

Mostert? He’s bloody good warns fiesty Moon

By NEALE HARVEY Must-win game: Alex Moon PICTURES: Getty Images YOUTHFUL Saints lock Alex Moon is relishing taking on Gloucester’s second...

Diamond: Come and watch us – please!

STEVE DIAMOND has urged the north-west sporting public: Come and support us! Sale moved to the AJ Bell Stadium on the...

Sale push ever on as Sinckler and Quins implode

By ROSS HEPPENSTALL Bitten: Byron McGuigan runs in an interception try for Sharks Corner man: Jack Clifford touches down Harlequins’ second...

Deano: We need better officials

NEWCASTLE’S director of rugby Dean Richards believed the importance of the game merited more senior officials. Richards said: “I don’t know...

Error-strewn Sarries wake up just in time

By ROGER PANTING Full stretch: Max Malins scores Saracens’ second try Threat: Owen Farrell set up the final try IF THEY...

No drama in ring-fence

WHILE Premiership owners are cranking up the pressure to end promotion- relegation the rest of the game is absorbed by a...

Don’t make Sexton a special case, chaps

IRELAND found the transition of going from hunters to hunted uncomfortable in the Six Nations, and no-one more so than Johnny...

Irish imports could bring a tsunami of debts

NICK CAIN Reports that Adam Coleman, the Australia and Rebels lock, is set to sign for London Irish next season on...

Solomons: I’m still a believer in survival

ALAN Solomons backed his Warriors to fight their way out of trouble despite suffering a major blow at the Ricoh Arena....

Hurricane Hughes gets the monkey off Wasps

By GARY FITZGERALD Breakthrough: Wasps’ Elliot Daly eludes a tackler PICTURES: Getty Images My ball:Wasps’ Joe Launchbury, right, and Gareth Milasinovich...

Webb may ask Toulon for World Cup ticket

By PETER JACKSON RHYS Webb faces a tough decision if he is to be reunited with Wales this summer in time...

Ford: I’m sure I can help keep Tigers up

By JON NEWCOMBE Confident: Mike Ford MIKE FORD saw at first hand the size of his task at Leicester Tigers yesterday...

Tom Savage to leave Gloucester for Japan’s Top League

The former Cherry and Whites skipper will join Kieran Read and Ryan Crotty in playing in Japan's ten-team league

All Blacks full-back Israel Dagg forced to retire

World Cup-winner ends career at the age of 30 on medical advice

Argentine veteran Marcelo Bosch to leave Saracens

Mark McCall hails 'enormous integrity' of centre

Young Guns: Worcester Warriors fly-half Luke Scully

Learned under Dan Biggar at the Ospreys and now Jono Lance at Sixways

Lima Sopoaga admits it’s been slow progress for him at Wasps

An honest assessment from the Wasps fly-half, but he's stout in his ability and the chance to shine next season

Shane Williams column: Top foreign imports will drive up Welsh standards

Shane Williams argues the case for Johnny McNicholl to be involved with Wales

Tait: Eddie Jones has to be careful about Elliot Daly

Jack of all trades, master of none?

Saracens captain Brad Barritt suffers ankle ligament damage

Forced off against Glasgow Warriors at the weekend

Guscott column: Dean Richards is still my man to take over from Eddie

What succession plan do England have in place post-Rugby World Cup?

Elbow surgery shouldn’t rule Josh Navidi out of Wales World Cup prep, says Mulvihill

Cardiff Blues head coach John Mulvihill gives update on Wales flanker's condition

Darren Cave pens letter to Ulster fans after announcing intention to retire

The Ulster centre will call it a day after 13 years with the province

Danny Cipriani signs bumper deal to commit to Gloucester

Gloucester are set for a first Premiership semi-final appearance in eight years since his arrival last summer

The Rugby Paper Awards 2019: Get voting and honour your rugby heroes

We are proud to announce the first Rugby Paper Awards will be held at the end of this season. It is...

Russell’s back for revenge mission

Preview Racing 92 v Toulouse Today, Kick-off 3.15pm SCOTLAND fly-half Finn Russell starts for Racing 92 as one of seven alterations...

Byrne takes advantage of Stockdale’s sloppy finish

By RONAN O’BRIEN ROSS Byrne fought off cramp and kicked a touchline penalty to send champions Leinster into the semi-final after...

Barritt injury potentially devastating says McCall

MARK McCall said Saracens had adapted impressively to losing Owen Farrell on the morning of the match after his wife went...

No deception, Dave, Sarries did just score seven tries!

By NICK CAIN Joy: Brad Barritt celebrates with Jackson Wray and Sean Maitland after scoring Saracens’ third try SARACENS were meant...

Earls double tops and tails composed Munster win

By GARY HEATLY MUNSTER showed great resolve and defensive strength to edge out Edinburgh in a cracking last eight tie at...

Deano is still my man for the England job after Eddie

Best qualified: Newcastle director of rugby Dean Richards PICTURE: Getty Images VERY few countries in the international game appear to have...

DREAMTEAM

JOHNNY LEOTA, SALE SHARKS, SAMOA & FORMER MANAWATU, OTAGO AND HIGHLANDERS CENTRE, CHOOSES HIS BEST XV PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST 1....

We’re in for a thriller with everything still to play for

COLIN BOAG Basement battle: Bristol must travel to Newcastle on the final weekend After this Champions Cup weekend, there are just...

The ‘DC’ defence

QUINS demonstrated a new tactic for the smart defence coach – the DC. The DC (Danny Care) defence provokes an attacker...

It’s a joke already

READING your headline last week – World Rugby are ‘turning the game into a joke’ – I wonder if it’s too...

Worrying divide is growing between Wales and Regions

ONE part of Peter Jackson’s excellent article “Regions need to find more Caped Crusaders” struck home in a very big way....

Stop these cringy try celebrations

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk PROFESSIONAL rugby players are...

RFU face mammoth repair bill

THE Rugby Football Union face a multi-million pound bill to replace the roofs of three of the four stands at Twickenham....

X-ray vision ironing out creases in Ant’s game

By NEALE HARVEY Under the microscope: Bath flyer Anthony Watson BATH coach Darren Edwards is convinced a unique system of skeletal...

Solomons sceptical new laws would improve game

Warning: Alan Solomons LAW trials aimed at enhancing player welfare by producing a more freeflowing game risk ruining Premiership rugby, warns...

Tait: Using Daly as a Jack-of-all has risks

By NEALE HARVEY Concern: Mathew Tait Options at 13: Jonathan Joseph and Henry Slade Versatile: Elliot Daly shows his attacking prowess...

Blues are ‘closer’ to keeping Gareth in Wales

>Continued from Page 1 interest in Anscombe but the revelation of Bristol’s interest increases the prospect of Wales’ No. 1 choice...

Gunter on target as Brecon win battle of the leaders in the Plate

Welsh Plate /Bowl s-finals THE top two in One East clashed for a place in the final of WRU National Plate...

Rock ‘n’ roll rugby is on the bill at Racing

DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN The new Parisian home of Racing, the biggest indoor stadium in Europe, was inaugurated by three performances...

Evans’ double boosts One East leaders

■By JAY BAYFORD Welsh Division One round-up GLAMORGAN Wanderers took a huge step towards the One East Central title with a...

Pooler take title with five games to go

■By JAY BAYFORD Welsh Championship round-up PONTYPOOL have successfully defended their WRU National Championship title for a second consecutive season with...

Bedwas still look in trouble as The Gogs run riot

■By ROB COLE Bedwas …17 RGC1404 …45 RGC1404 helped themselves to seven tries as they put Bedwas to the sword and...

Bulls take basement battle by horns with emphatic win

■By GUTO DAVIES Bargoed …55 Neath…13 A CLASH between the bottom clubs in the Premiership proved to be an entertaining affair,...

Whites find true colours as Jeffries bags winner

■By PAUL HOPKINS Carmarthen Q…19 Swansea …21 ALEX Jeffries’ last-gasp try secured victory for Swansea in a Carmarthen Park thriller. It...