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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoCoventry were just half an hour from closure
Future looks good: Peter Rossborough watches his beloved club A s a supporter, player, captain, coach and leading club official, Peter Rossborough...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoBow on why the Championship is invaluable…
Virtually every club in the Premiership has England internationals who have been nurtured in the Championship, and Alistair Bow says its...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoBow on the RFU pay structure…
Alistair Bow, who has closed Nottingham’s Lady Bay ground and placed the players and the majority of the staff on the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDisgraceful how RFU’s left us to fend for ourselves
NICK CAIN FINDS NOTTINGHAM CHAIRMAN ALISTA AIR BOW WILLING TO PUT HIS HEAD ABOVE THE PARAPET FOR the last 0decade it has...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoBring back those real tours -by bus and train
How it was and could be again: Leicester’s Clive Woodward tackles New Zealand’s Eddie Dunn at Welford Road in 1979 The...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoLamb gets the chop
BACK in the 1960s, the scary All Black lock Colin Meads would run around his farm in King Country with a...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoBeware of changing too much, Eddie
EDDIE Jones bagged himself another set of headlines by anticipating a 60 per cent change in the make-up of his England...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoJamie the one who must beware bolters this time
2021 LIONS A YEAR TO GO NICK CAIN LOOKS AT THE CONTENDERS FOR EACH POSITION THIS WEEK... HOOKER THE shakedown at...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoKings of the Jungle where wild beasts come to play
Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at rugby’s feared enforcers 1 Jacques Burger (Namibia) The King as far as...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoParkes will be missed but Owen’s bigger loss
RUGBY IS A very fickle business. One minute you’re a Grand Slam winner, starring at the World Cup, and top of...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoJono set to take the Tartan shilling
WORCESTER Warriorsfly-half Jono Lance is in advanced talks with Edinburgh about moving to the Scottish capital this summer. Canberra-born Lance, 29,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDeano’s a copper again
DEAN RICHARDS has returned to his first job in the police after volunteering to help Northumbria Police during the coronavirus outbreak....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWigglesworth deal with Sale is off
RICHARD Wigglesworth is unlikely to be returning to Sale Sharks in a player-coach role at the end of the season Blindside...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoAussie aces bid to beat the pay-cuts
PREMIERSHIP clubs are taking a keen interest in events Down Under after Rugby Australia asked players to take a 65 per...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSteenson fancies another year at Chiefs
Staying? Steenson EXETER CHIEFS legend Gareth Steenson could put off his retirement for another year and pen another contract extension with...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoROOM 101
JOE BATLEY THE BRISTOL SECOND ROW TAKES US THROUGH HIS PET HATES FROM THE RUGBY WORLD AND BEYOND 1. Boys that...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoAbendanon return is hit by the virus lockdown
By NEALE HARVEY NICK Abendanon has spoken of his frustration at potentially having to quit rugby after seeing his hopes of...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoYou’ve sold England’s jewels, RFU are warned
By NICK CAIN A LEADING club chairman has warned the RFU and Premiership clubs of the danger of allowing CVC to...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoJonny May leaves Leicester, agrees homecoming at Gloucester
The England wing will be returning to Kingsholm next season
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Featured
/ 6 years agoTop 20 try saving tackles of all time: No.5-1
We reach the end of our countdown of the best individual moments in defence from the history of international rugby
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoLions Tour contenders RANKED – England’s No.1 Joe Marler can stymie Malherbe
Ireland prop Cian Healy does not make the list of looseheads...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoRFU chief says England tour of Japan could be moved to October
Bill Sweeney has said the RFU may look to rearrange fixtures into packed October and November schedule
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoWill Hurrell, 30, announces retirement following stroke playing for Bristol
Find out what Pat Lam did for Hurrell after telling the Bristol DoR he would have to retire
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoTRP’s 2019-20 Premiership Team of the Season… so far
Eight Englishmen and seven others from over the border or signed from overseas make up Nick Cain's XV
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoDave Gallaher drilled his touring New Zealand team like a fighting machine
Brendan Gallagher recalls the early and outstanding All Blacks and Australian tours
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Features
/ 6 years agoRoom 101: Bedford Blues wing Rich Lane
The Bedford Blues wing/full-back picks three things which grinds his gears
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoProbyn column: Marquee players could take bigger hit to wages
Jeff Probyn writes why top earners at Premiership clubs should go the extra mile in wage cuts
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 try saving tackles of all time: No.10-6
An expert tackle from All Blacks great Ben Smith on Manu Tuilagi
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Featured
/ 6 years agoQ&A: Gareth Steenson – I don’t know why there aren’t many Exeter players in the England squad
Read our in-depth interview with the Exeter Chiefs stalwart, who doesn't know if he'll be at Sandy Park next season
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoWasps finalise their coaching team following Dai Young’s exit
Lee Blackett given head coach role permanently by Wasps in reshuffle














