Young at heart as Oundle win thriller

■By PETER CROOT Oundle .....................36 Westcombe Park .33 OUNDLE edged out Westcombe Park in front of their biggest crowd of the...

Brown’s boys are heading the right way – Thornton

■By BEN JAYCOCK Leading the way: Esher No.8 Liam Thornton LIAM Thornton believes Esher’s mid-season appointment of England legend Mike Brown...

Stone the crows! Barney runs riot

■By RHYS COOPE Oxford H ..................28 Sevenoaks ............. 61 SEVENOAKS took the honours in this bottom-of-the-table clash. The visitors opened the...

My Life in Rugby: Will Davis – Everything I dreamed of was in front of me

Will Davis, the former Bristol Bears, Ealing Trailfinders and Northampton Saints prop, who is now player-coach at Blackheath, reflects on his...

Gilmore moves to boost his squad

NEWS EXTRA HARLEQUINS have brought in reinforcements on short-term contracts until the end of the season as the club deals with...

Repeated breaks ‘tricky’

GLOUCESTER head coach George Skivington says repeated breaks in the Prem schedule make it hard to build momentum. After two weeks...

40 years later, and the ladies party on

WE seem awash with anniversaries but one notable landmark we should particularly note is the 40th anniversary today – April 19...

LUCAWOODYATT GLOUCESTER & WALES U20 NO.9

YOUNG GUNS Luca Woodyatt has wasted little time making his mark on the international stage, stepping seamlessly from Wales U18s into...

Results

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League winners Bath on the trail of double

BUCS RUGBY By JOSEPH TERRY BATH will face Loughborough in the BUCS Super Rugby Championship final on Wednesday at Rodney Parade,...

Regional Results

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Exeter pair out on loan

EXTRA NEWS EXETER Chiefs youngsters Ben Coen, 21, and Oscar Beckerleg, 20 have joined Champ outfit Cornish Pirates on loan. The...

New deal for Dolly

ALEX Dolly has extended his contract at Doncaster Knights for the 2026/27 season. The Australian-born scrum-half is set to enter his...

Six clubs move up

AUTOMATIC promotion from Regional 1 to National Two has been confirmed with six clubs moving up to the fourth tier. Heath,...

College which is producing players who can make it right to the top

NEWS EXTRA By BEN JAYCOCK CITY of Oxford College’s Activate ACE Rugby Academy is determined to change perceptions around player development,...

Regional results

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BRITISH RESULTS AND FIXTURES

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Quins, Ravens win through to last eight

Super Rygbi round-up By CARL FIELD A LAST-GASP try from centre Jac Howells snatched elimination play-off victory for Carmarthen Quins as...

Neath storm back to stun Met men

Premiership round-up NEATH backed up their Premiership Cup triumph with a stunning 40-34 comeback win at Cardiff Met. Having defeated Merthyr...

Sititi swoops as Chiefs snatch dramatic win over Hurricanes

Super Rugby Pacific round-up By BEN JAYCOCK WALLACE Sititi marked his return in stunning fashion as Chiefs claimed a dramatic 22-17...

Azema’s on his way back to Toulon

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN TOULON’S search for a head coach to take some of the day-to-day strain off sporting director Pierre...

Cardiff sign Van Zyl on long-term contract

NEWS EXTRA CARDIFF have appointed Corniel van Zyl as permanent head coach with the South African signing a long-term deal. Van...

Forthcoming fixtures

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England’s Honey Kerslake inspired by memory of her dad – All Blacks great Jerry Collins

Almost 11 years on from New Zealand flanker Jerry Collins’ tragic death, his daughter Honey Kerslake is using his memory as...

Welsh clubs in the Prem? Rowe has a point

EXETER chairman Tony Rowe has called for talks aimed at inviting Welsh teams into a 14-club English Premiership. He is the...

New Rugby Paper Roundup: England injury crisis? Ellie Kildunne’s story + Women’s Six Nations Round 2 preview

In this week’s episode of The Rugby Paper Roundup, Assistant Editor Ben Jaycock is joined by journalist Sarah Rendell to break...

What Eddie Hearn’s Rugby Moves Say About the Sport’s Digital Future

Rugby has traditionally relied on loyal but relatively concentrated fan bases, which has limited its mainstream visibility compared to sports such...

2026 Super Rugby Americas – Round Seven summary: Pampas dominate Peñarol as Yacare stun Dogos

In round seven of the 2026 Super Rugby Americas, Pampas clinically dispatched defending champions Peñarol 34-3 in Buenos Aires as the tournament...

Robbie Deans joins Barbarians coaching team for Wales clash at Twickenham

Robbie Deans will return to the Barbarian F.C. coaching team this summer for their blockbuster clash with Wales at Allianz Stadium,...

England beat Ireland in front of a record Women’s Six Nations crowd

England secured a bonus-point victory over Ireland in front of a Women’s Six Nations record crowd of 77,120, but John Mitchell’s...

Leinster edging closer to fifth star after Champions Cup quarter final victory

Leinster moved a step closer to pinning a fifth star on their jersey after dismantling Sale Sharks 43-13 at Dublin’s Aviva...

George Furbank: Harlequins will take my game to a new level

George Furbank believes Harlequins have the talent to be big players in the Prem after signing a deal at The Stoop...

Women’s Six Nations 2026: Courtney Keight urges Wales to play for their pride

Courtney Keight admits the Women’s Six Nations still gives her the same buzz as her first call-up as Sean Lynn’s Wales...

Plymouth Albion 68-24 Sedgley Park Tigers: Super Albion confirm play-off spot

Hosts Plymouth Albion guaranteed themselves a place in the play-offs after a ten-try rout over Sedgley Park Tigers.

Paul Rees: Duelling French aristocrats! Toulouse and Bordeaux-Begles clash in the Champions Cup

Rugby in France has never been more popular. The television audience for the final Six Nations match against England peaked at...

Brendan Gallagher: Sorry, Mako Vunipola, but you can’t play for Tonga

The rumbustious heart on his sleeve, no-nonsense Mako Vunipola has always been a favourite player of mine since I first saw...

U18s Six Nations Festival: Italy add England to their list of scalps

England finished their Six Nations Festival with a disappointing one win from three outings after falling to a 46-26 loss to...

Worcester Warriors 14-28 Bedford Blues: Mike Rayer’s men stun Warriors to move up to second

Bedford Blues secured their first ever victory at Sixways to leapfrog Worcester Warriors into second position in the Elior Champ Rugby...

Peter Jackson: I’d love to offer help to WRU, says Kingsley Jones

Twenty years have come and all but gone since a Welshman from Blaina prepared Manchester’s champions-elect for their coronation in one...

Nick Cain: Harlequins lacking the launchpad George Furbank needs

George Furbank is a gem of an attacking full-back with the skills and elusive running to spark a backline.

Leinster 43-13 Sale Sharks: Alex Sanderson’s side buried by a second-half try landslide

Alex Sanderson wore a resigned look as his Sale Sharks’ Champions Cup hopes were buried by a landslide of second-half Leinster...

Glasgow Warriors 19-22 Toulon: The Scottish side are stunned by the brilliant Nacho Brex

Toulon will head to Dublin’s Aviva Stadium to face Leinster in the European Champions Cup semi-finals after inflicting a first home...

Bath 43-41 Northampton Saints: Ted Hill steps up to get Johann van Graan’s side over the line in a thriller

Bath, not without controversy, survived an extraordinary early Northampton Saints blitzkrieg to mount a stirring comeback and reach the Champions Cup...

Jeremy Guscott: French rivals are showing England the way ahead

No-one is really surprised by the magnitude of the heavy defeats suffered in the European Cup Round of 16 last weekend...

Wales 19-24 Scotland: The Scots stay cool to keep the Welsh out

Scotland withstood a ferocious late onslaught to spoil Sean Lynn’s first Six Nations game in charge of Wales with a hard-earned...

England 33-12 Ireland: Sarah Bern at the double to power Red Roses into life

The Red Roses enjoyed a happy homecoming to Allianz Stadium, Twickenham, in their first outing since the World Cup, as Meg...

Exeter Chiefs centre Henry Slade ‘doing everything’ to get back in the England side

Henry Slade hopes England coach Steve Borthwick will return to his tried and tested midfield partnership this summer to give the...

England’s Helena Rowland is putting her best foot forward at the 2026 Women’s Six Nations

England playmaker Helena Rowland played last year’s World Cup knowing there was a chance it would be the swansong of her...

Ernst van Rhyn commits to Sale Sharks as Courtney Lawes joins up

Ernst van Rhyn has committed himself to another three years with Sale Sharks, having found his second home in Manchester.

>> Guscott: French rivals showing England the way

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