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Latest News
/ 6 years agoCourtney can top the lot for caps
■By NEALE HARVEY Indefatigable: Courtney Lawes in go-forward mood for England against Ireland PICTURE: Getty Images 84 caps: Johnson 85 caps:...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 6 years agoSharks show killer instinct for a third win on the road
■By ADAM ELLIS Try double: On loan Harlequins centre Joe Marchant scored twice for the Blues QUEENSLAND Reds head coach Brad...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoSorrell: All the coaches will stay at Sarries
■By NEALE HARVEY Star turns: Jamie George, Maro Itoje and Owen Farrell, playing against Ireland Loyal: Kevin Sorrell SARACENS backs coach...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoSix Nations to go behind Sky paywall for £300m
■ By PETER JACKSON EXCLUSIVE Taking over? Sky THE Six Nations is in ‘very real danger’ of vanishing from free-toair television...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoBracken: Gatland right for England
■ By GARY FITZGERALD WARREN Gatland would be the best man to succeed Eddie Jones if the RFU decide not to...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoIt’s about time CVC told us what they are up to
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE most visible face of CVC, the private equity firm currently investing huge...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoRecalling Liam and Josh would be panic
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Put him on bench: Wales’ Liam Williams evades the tackle of France’s Gael Fickou PICTURE:...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBok lock Marvin says Yes to Tigers
Lion: Marvin Orie LEICESTER Tigers look to have ended their search for a new second row following talks with Lions ace...
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Features
/ 6 years agoPowerhouse Boks get the French firing
Brendan Gallagher looks at the history of great lock pairings during France’s golden eras of rugby Threat: Bernard le Roux of...
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Features
/ 6 years agoSouth African XV who have adorned the Five/Six Nations
Grand Slams: Pieter de Villiers 1 Pieter de Villiers (France) Native of Malmsbury in the Western Cape. Made 31 appearances for...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoNineties making these men nervous
THESE are hard times for those stuck in the Nervous Nineties. Nobody will have a better idea of how they feel...
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Features
/ 6 years agoFarrell v Biggar: The Testosterone Test
NICK CAIN LOOKS AT THE TWO CENTRAL FIGURES IN NEXT WEEK’S BIG CLASH Farrell special: Elliot Daly dives past Alex Cuthbert...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoSpittle: Late developers may be lost to the game
■By JON NEWCOMBE Record man: Nottingham winger Jack Spittle NOTTINGHAM’s history- making winger Jack Spittle fears more late bloomers like himself...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoGreatest teams have all had special joy of six
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Coal-face hero: Richard Hill helped England win the...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoYoung Exiles wings are on fire warns Naholo
■By NEALE HARVEY Desperate measures: Gloucester can’t stop Ollie Hassell-Collins scoring the second of his four tries for London Irish PICTURE:...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoWhy Justin Tipuric turned down Bristol and the Top 14 to stay in Wales
A huge boost for the Welsh region after a deeply troubling campaign thus far in the PRO14
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: Escape from the Nazis got Olly Kohn his Welsh cap
The extraordinary story of how Olly Kohn's Slovakian ancestors escaped a train bound for Auchwitz and found their way to Shropshire
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Features
/ 6 years agoEddie pins his faith on a new player proto-type – the super hybrid
NICK CAIN TRIES TO UNRAVEL THE LATEST ENGLAND SELECTION RIDDLE THERE are times when Eddie Jones’ spinning and weaving around selection...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoPerhaps it’s time to boycott the top tier
COULD this season get any worse? The whole salary cap saga proved just how poor the administration of the professional game...
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Peter Jackson
/ 6 years agoEscape from Nazis got Olly his Welsh cap
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The Six Nations has never been short on journeys of a miraculous nature but this...
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National Leagues
/ 6 years agoS&E distanced from the drop
By JOHN CROYSDILL Sutton & Epsom ..43 Bournemouth……..19 FOR Sutton it was the rare moment when the sequel was better than...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoChairman Davies may ask to break own rule
By ALEX BYWATER NEWS EXTRA THE WELSH Rugby Union is already head hunting a new chief executive to replace Martyn Phillips...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoHeartbreaker Shaun is the difference
WALES AND LIONS LEGEND SHANE WILLIAMS Crunch: George North collides with Gael Fickou PICTURE: Getty Images Flashback: Emile Ntamack of France...
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Guest Blogs
/ 6 years agoHow Will the Saracens Squad Look in the Championship?
The story of Saracens rugby club being relegated to the Championship and fined for breaking the wage cap has dominated club...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: 2020 is no comparison to the thuggery of 1980
Brendan Gallagher recalls the most brutally physical of Five Nations championships in 1980
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoObano recalled for Ireland showdown as Mako Vunipola is ruled out
Beno Obano in line for first England cap with Saracens star Mako overseas due to family reasons
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoChampionship cuts: Concerned chairmen issue open letter to Bill Sweeney
The Championship Clubs Committee (CCC) write to RFU CEO Bill Sweeney in The Rugby Paper
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Features
/ 6 years agoYoung Guns: Leicester Tigers scrum-half Jack van Poortvliet
One of the young scrum-halves at Leicester forming a line behind senior man Ben Youngs
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoStick with George, he’ll come good against France
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Unfair criticism: George North in action against Italy PICTURE: Getty Images IN WALES we don’t...
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Features
/ 6 years ago2020 is no comparison to the thuggery of 1980!
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Clash: Wales lock Geoff Wheel, left, and England...
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Features
/ 6 years agoIrish high-ball bombardment will test out the fumblers
Keeping your nerve: George Furbank is challenged for the high ball by France centre Gael Fickou ENGLAND’S Six Nations campaign is...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoHalfpenny hopes for a repeat of 2013
By ALEX BYWATER LEIGH Halfpenny insists Wales can repeat their heroics of 2013 and bounce back from a defeat to Ireland...
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National Leagues
/ 6 years agoNEWS EXTRA
Fatialofa on feet again WORCESTER lock Michael Fatialofa has taken his first steps after a serious spinal injury. Fatialofa spent four...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoChampionship cuts:the great debate…
Give us a two-year moratorium at least Dear Bill Top prop: Harry Williams has gone from Jersey to Exeter and England...
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Features
/ 6 years agoMcKenzie stars as Chiefs stay top with big win in Tokyo
Super Rugby WARRENGatland’s Chiefs continued their unbeaten start to the season with a 43- 17 win over the Sunwolves in Tokyo....
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoMatt: Get set for Super Saturday numbers game
By JON NEWCOMBE Influential: England fly-half George Ford ENGLAND’S 2003 World Cup-winning scrum-half Matt Dawson predicts “a Super Saturday” finish to...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoHow many fans can fly to South Africa?
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk SOUTH Africa in Six...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoJubilee made it three
IN his column last week Peter Jackson stated that the Lions had broken their unwritten rule about not playing at home...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoBen Youngs told to take pay cut if he wants to stay at Leicester
The scrum-half is out of contract at Welford Road at the end of the season
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoJamie George to stay at Saracens when club is relegated to Championship
George signals his intention to stay put with GK IPA Championship-bound Saracens, even with 2021 being a Lions year
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Features
/ 6 years agoVickery: Embrace being England and show what you are made of
"I am still excited by this team, and also by the talent coming through in English rugby" - Phil Vickery
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoHarlequins line up Springboks star Pieter-Steph du Toit to replace Robshaw
Also, Simon Zebo appears to be on his way out of France but an Ireland homecoming might not be on the...
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National League 2E
/ 6 years agoGrey hat-trick has wolfpack howling
By SIMON LORD Bury St Ed’s ……….29 Leicester Lions….28 ALEX Grey scored a hattrick as Bury St Edmunds edged past Leicester...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoBracken: I’d be looking to leave Sarries
By GARY FITZGERALD KYRAN Bracken would be looking to switch clubs if he were still a Saracens player and expects Eddie...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 6 years agoGatland adds Crusaders to his KO’d list
By ADAM ELLIS WARREN Gatland’s continues to make his mark in Super Rugby as his Chiefs side pulled off yet another...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoBournville march on to parade as scrap for second intensifies
Midlands Premier LEADERS Bournville kept their outstanding unbeaten streak alive with a thoroughly one-sided 50- 0 thrashing at home to Kettering....
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Peter Jackson
/ 6 years agoVincent aims to be in the Paris spotlight
ARTHUR Vincent could lay claim to be the invisible man of the Six Nations, no mean feat given that he appeared...
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Sevens World Series
/ 6 years agoRUGBY SHORTS
Braley signs for Benetton GLOUCESTER scrum-half Callum Braley is to join Benetton at the end of the season. The former England...
International Rugby
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