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Features
/ 5 years agoMy Life in Rugby – Kevin Maggs: Connolly and Foley ruined my Bath team
The Bristol, Bath, Ulster and Ireland centre discusses his career which had plenty of twists and bends
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoCameron Redpath called up to Scotland’s Six Nations squad
Bath centre among four uncapped players named by Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend in 2021 Six Nations squad
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoExclusive: Relegation scrapped in Premiership this season
Jon Newcombe reports on the increased likelihood that the Premiership will revert to a 13-team league at the end of the...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoEngland skills coach Jason Ryles to miss Six Nations
Eddie Jones will name his England Six Nations squad on Friday
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Guest Blogs
/ 5 years agoHow Many Tests Are Too Many for the All Blacks? Could Investment Be Around the Corner?
If you were given the choice, how many rugby matches would the All Blacks play in a single calendar year? Would...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoRingfence? Think again!
Done it! Alun Walker’s late try seals the deal for Ealing against Saracens PICTURE: PRiME Media Images EALING Trailfinders beat Saracens...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoNo backward steps from these two rugby greats of the past
ENGLISH rugby lost two hugely underrated stalwarts this past week, neither of whom really made the headlines, but whose contributions were...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoOllie eyes another 100…and England
By JON NEWCOMBE Centurion: London Irish prop Ollie Hoskins is aiming for England honours PICTURE: Getty Images OLLIE HOSKINS has declared...
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Features
/ 5 years agoJAMES HARRINGTON
FRENCH COLUMN French pick squad as Six Nations gets the OK Medical joker: Gabriel Ibitoye has finally proved rumours right by...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoIt’s a dilemma: Kill aspiration to save great old clubs?
RUGBY is now a game of the 21st century and has evolved as such. We in England are in the hands...
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoEaling 27-26 Saracens: Passionate Trailfinders prove their point again
Daniel Gallan reports from Vallis Way where Ealing Trailfinders proved their were a match for the three-time champions of Europe
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Features
/ 5 years agoWe stuck with the battle as long as we could says Ward
BEN WARD had assured those who would listen that his club were proof that ring-fencing the Premiership was a bad idea....
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoWasps grab Doncaster Knight stalwart Robin Hislop
Hislop spent the end of last season in the Premiership on loan at Saracens
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Features
/ 5 years agoQ&A – Gavin Cattle & Alan Paver : We’ve had top-flight offers but our loyalty is with Dicky
The Cornish Pirates coaching duo of Cattle and Paver discuss their time in Penzance and the coming Championship season
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoWorcester co-owner: Our budget is on the £7m salary cap limit
Jason Whittingham says there is a 'misconception' over Worcester's spending and their lowly position in the Premiership
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoPremier 15s put on hold by the RFU amid rising Covid-19 cases in England
Rounds 11 and 12 likely to be rescheduled with time to spare with Women's Six Nations delayed until the summer
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoWomen’s and U20s Six Nations postponed until later in 2021
But the Men's Six Nations will go ahead as scheduled
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoCovid points loss is wrong | Nick Cain
Nick Cain argues why the new Premiership regulations on cancelled matches are jeopardising the integrity of the season
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoUS firm Silver Lake in talks with NZ Rugby
Is the southern hemisphere set to get its own CVC?
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoLacroix: We’ll get Euro Cups done | James Harrington
James Harrington reports on what is next for Top 14 clubs after the French government called to the Champions Cup and...
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Challenge Cup
/ 5 years agoFrench call two-week halt to the European Cups
Covid-19 spike in Europe is set to obstruct the upcoming rounds of Champions Cup and Challenge Cup competition
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoWhen the Prince made England Sevens kings
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoSuddenly, Oakham find magic of the Cup
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools Hand-off: Charlie Walker in full flight during Oakham’s 2011 Daily Mail...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoNo rash decisions during lockdown
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk IS NOWreally the right...
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Features
/ 5 years agoPromotion-relegation must be put on ice
COLIN BOAG Going up: Saracens will rejoin the top flight There have been lots of moans about the way points are...
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Dream Team
/ 5 years agoDream Team: Ealing Trailfinders lock Harry Casson
Ealing Trailfinders lock Harry Casson picks a XV comprised of the best he has played alongside or faced as an opponent
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoSaracens, Ealing and Doncaster to take part in Triangular Cup competition
Trio of Championship clubs to contest pre-season Trailfinders Challenge Cup, with January 16 kick-off date
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoJonathan Thomas promoted to head coach at Worcester
"The time is right for us to implement the next stage of the strategic plan which we have in place for...
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Features
/ 5 years agoSanderson: Saracens’ Super Six will be ready for England duty
Nick Cain taps into Saracens' plans for their England stars while they play in the Championship by talking with forwards/defence coach...
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Features
/ 5 years agoYoung Guns: Wasps tighthead prop Jordan Cordice
Cordice explains how the opportunity to go and play in New Zealand in last year
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoExeter Chiefs Women head coach Susie Appleby adds three new signings
USA duo Rachel Johnson and Joanna Kitlinski are added to the pack, while Irish winger Laura Sheehan is a new name...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoSix Nations organisers adamant 2021 tournament goes ahead
The 2021 Six Nations is set to kick off on February 6, amid an escalation in Covid-19 containment policy by a...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoMike Brown may reunite with Dean Richards at Newcastle Falcons
Richards brought Brown through the Harlequins ranks in his time at Twickenham Stoop
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Features
/ 5 years agoMeritocracy is RFU’s need, not chiselled platitudes | Nick Cain
Nick Cain criticises the lack of leadership shown by RFU chairman Andy Cosslett in the face of urgent financial planning needed...
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Miscellaneous
/ 5 years agoCovid points sytem needs urgent review
I FIND the Premiership system for awarding points in a match called off due to Covid-19 somewhat farcical. It is nobody’s...
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Features
/ 5 years agoQ&A – Damian Hopley: Horror year underlined players’ need for the RPA
Neale Harvey talks to RPA chief executive Damian Hopley about the challenges the players' body faced in 2020
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoExclusive: Saracens looking to arrange friendlies with incoming South African franchises to PRO14
Neil Fissler reports on Saracens seeking to prepare for the Championship's kick off in March with a series of friendlies against...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoIt’s time to hand out my gongs for 2020| Shane Williams
Shane Williams also predicts what will happen in next year's Six Nations and the Lions tour of South Africa
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoPoints hit on Exeter Chiefs is far too harsh – change it! | Nick Cain
TRP's chief writer Nick Cain finds moments to treasure – and to question – from a difficult 2020
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Features
/ 5 years agoKyran’s relit the fire in me to become a professional
George Hardy says: THE height of my playing career came at university level with Swansea and my three years there in...
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Features
/ 5 years agoGreats of game, never forgotten
Brendan Gallgher looks back over 2020 and chronicles the outstanding figures lost to rugby Trademark moustache: Mike Slemen with England Mercurial:...
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Features
/ 5 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Try these hidden joys of the Championship BRENDAN GALLAGHER What a cracker:...
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Features
/ 5 years agoJAMES HARRINGTON
FRENCH COLUMN My team of 2020…and nearly all are French! Try time: Cheslin Kolbe was in top form for Toulouse ■...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoSarries must wait until March to start
SARACENS’ England internationals will not play a competitive game before the Six Nations after the new Championship season was delayed until...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoRFU must stamp authority by ruling out ring-fencing
I AM saddened at the numerous TRP reports regarding the ‘ring-fencing’ of the top tier. Do the current executives of the...
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Features
/ 5 years agoDREAM TEAM
CALLUM PATTERSON, CORNISH PIRATES AND FORMER ULSTER, BALLYMENA AND NEWPORT SALOP CENTRE, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoChampion Chiefs sign off superb year with bonus win
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER EXETER Chiefs, understandably rusty in the first half after their recent Covid travails, signed off a momentous year...
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Premiership
/ 5 years agoNewcastle confirm signings of Argentina pair Santiago Grondona and Mateo Carreras
As reported in TRP, Falcons have completed deals for Pumas flanker Grondona and wing Carreras
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European Challenge Cup
/ 5 years agoGeorge Nott eyes top spot to build momentum for Rec visit
By NEALE HARVEY LONDON Irish lineout leader George Nott is confident of backing up last week’s fine 34-8 win at Agen...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoArgentina U20s star Mateo Carreras set to sign for Newcastle Falcons
NEWCASTLE FALCONS are about to sign Argentinean Sevens winger Mateo Carreras. Carreras, who also plays for the Jaguares, has been released...
International Rugby
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