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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWarrior Will targets role as defence commander
By NEALE HARVEY STROKE victim Will Hurrell aims to forge a new career in coaching after revealing how his life might...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoCaptain to Trustee, Lockyer’s been a Chief for 50 years
Colin Boag continues his series on Super Fans, this week Exeter player turned supporter John Lockyer John Lockyer’s association with Exeter...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoKpoku bros pose Maro twin threat at Sarries
By NEALE HARVEY RISING Saracens star Joel Kpoku has boldly laid out his manifesto for usurping Maro Itoje and forcing his...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoAmbitious Pichot aims to gain confidence of Six Nations
From ALEJO MIRANDA in Buenos Aires SHOULD Agustín Pichot become chairman of World Rugby he intends to lead a revolution against...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoAshton blames blinkered players for sin-bin failure
By JON NEWCOMBE THE SIN-BIN, rugby’s equivalent of the naughty step, has been around since 1997, to act as a deterrent...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSlash salary cap and ditch marquee men
COLIN BORGCOL Million pound man: Semi Radradra will be at Bristol next season, exempt from the salary cap With at least another...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoExpand Six Nations to generate extra income
THE recommendation from Bernard Laporte for a Club World Cup is a non starter, especially if it’s only to be played...
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Guest Blogs
/ 6 years agoRugby in sportsbooks goes down as event cancellations due to coronavirus continues
Earlier this year all sports events were cancelled or postponed indefinitely due to the coronavirus spreading around the globe. One month...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoProbyn column: Now Eddie Jones can make up for mistakes at the World Cup
Well I guess it was no surprise that Eddie Jones got his contract extension even if he and many others thought...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoTop 20 wasted rugby talents countdown: No 10-6
An All Blacks career derailed and the Caribbean-English trailblazer born in the wrong era
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSaracens ask highest earners to accept partial wage deferrals
Reigning Premiership champions take major measures towards maintaining their sustainability
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Featured
/ 6 years agoLondon Irish building new dynasty around their Fantastic Four
Anthony Watson, Jonathan Joseph, Joe Cokanasiga, Delon Armitage all came through the Exiles pathway. Neale Harvey finds there's four newbies ready...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Thinking cap back on please, Laporte!
Bernard Laporte made some outlandish claim to ditch the Champions Cup without any evidence of its limitations
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoDeal for Saracens’ Richard Wigglesworth to join Sale Sharks is off
Not making the switch north to Premiership rivals
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: I’m glad Eddie Jones has got the job… who else was there?
The World Cup is the only thing that has eluded Eddie Jones so far
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoOptions are drying up for Nick Abendanon who seeks homecoming from Clermont
After six years in France with Clermont, ex-Bath full-back Nick Abendanon had been planning on a return to England
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoAgustin Pichot promises a new ‘global game’ with late bid to chair World Rugby
Ex-Argentina scrum-half and World Rugby vice-chairman to rival Bill Beaumont in election
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDo me a favour, Colin
COLIN Boag’s column (April 5) showing his utter contempt for, and dislike of, the Championship is going a bit far. He...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoThinking cap back on please, Bernie!
ONE of Rugby Union’s greatest failings is that it often does not recognise the value of what it has until it...
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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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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 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 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 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 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 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 agoIrish building new dynasty around their Fab Four
NEALE HARVEY discovers how four of London Irish’s homegrown backline hitmen are taking the Premiership by storm – and boosting their...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoGreat ride despite curse of relegation
MY LIFEIN RUGBY PHIL MacKENZIE THE FORMER CANADA, SALE, LONDON WELSH, ESHER AND COVENTRY UTILITY BACK THE start of my professional career...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoNow Eddie can make up for those RWC mistakes
Well I guess it was no surprise that Eddie Jones got his contract extension even if he and many others thought...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRugby’s finest rushed and died heroes with to the front VCs galore
Brendan Gallagher continues his expert and authorative look at the history of Rugby Union FOR three decades or more before 1914...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoFord takes charge of Knights backs after Carnegie fallout
By JON NEWCOMBE JOE Ford’s professional coaching career is set to be rejuvenated at Doncaster Knights, three months after his departure...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoTop gong for Toby
RICHMOND flanker Toby Saysell has been named the NCA National League 1 Player of the Season. The prolific back rower, 25,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSpittle’s sprint earns him try of the season
NOTTINGHAM winger Jack Spittle has won the Greene King IPA Championship’s try of the season. Spittle, 24, scored five tries against...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRelegation doesn’t diminish the dizzy highs of a decade
Colin Boag continues his series on Super Fans, this week Saracens’ Jason ‘Large’ Harris Every club’s supporters experience highs and lows,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoLaporte’s world club idea is not for me says Nick
Concern: Nick Abendanon “But going back to the Premiership would be my ideal way to finish. “My in-laws live outside Bath,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoThe modern game is better -and here’s why
COLIN BOAG With no live rugby to watch, the broadcasters have been replaying games from years ago. Sky showed the three...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoI’m glad Eddie’s got the job…who else was there?
THERE were not too many alternatives open to the RFU when it came to reappointing Eddie Jones as England coach through...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSweeney’s balancing act will be true test of his powers
THE measure of a good CEO is not the size or wealth of the organisation he runs, but the quantity and...
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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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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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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 ago50 South Africans in the Premiership reflects badly, says Snyman
How South African players have surged past Pacific Islanders as the Premiership's foremost import
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoNewcastle Falcons Test star to leave despite promotion back to Premiership
Mulling over his options after playing his last game for the Falcons
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoLondon Welsh aim to harness their steeped history in rebuild
The Exiles are putting things in place to climb through the leagues
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Rugby’s quickest ever player? Look no further than the man dubbed ‘Marlon Brando’
Brendan Gallagher pieces together rugby's fastest ever players in a 100m heat - speedster John Young features
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Features
/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Pontypridd, Dragons and Cardiff fly-half Lee Jarvis
Jarvis reveals what it was like for him to practice with Neil Jenkins when he was on the fringe of Pontypridd's...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoRFU have reached a fair outcome says Hill, as Richmond bounce back
Richmond director of rugby Steve Hill has his say on how the RFU's formula to decide league outcomes fared
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoNick Tompkins’ move away from Saracens hits problems
Negotiations stall over the length of deal for Wales international
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: Pity the players who can’t say goodbye to rugby properly
Peter Jackson looks at some of the players who appear unlikely to be able to bring the curtain down on their...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoSpringboks ace Lood de Jager open to idea of switch to Six Nations
The Sale Sharks lock has his say on whether South Africa joining the Six Nations would be beneficial
International Rugby
Heartbreak for England as Thomas Ramos snatches the Six Nations title for France
International Rugby
Toby Flood: Andy Farrell is the kind of leader to inspire England
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