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Brendan Gallagher

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John Eales, the quiet man who became an inspiring skipper

Brendan Gallagher looks back at the players who shone on the biggest stage, this time focusing on John Eales' leadership in...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 3 years ago

Lamaison brought the house down

The 1999 World Cup was a curate’s egg of a tournament, combining the crass with the truly historic. This was the...

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The Rugby Championship

/ 3 years ago

Jones: We must be multi-dimensional

By PAUL REES The last peak scaled by England under Jones was in Australia last summer when they came from one...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Olympic & Commonwealth Games

/ 3 years ago

GB women clinch sevens spot at Paris Olympics

By SAM JACKSON GREAT Britain’s women’s sevens team won gold at the European Games in Krakow, Poland to clinch a place...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Guest Blogs

/ 3 years ago

The Low-down of the New Rugby World League Format

The world of sports as we know it is changing and new formats are being introduced to change the sporting world....

By Nick Powell

Guest Blogs

/ 3 years ago

Top 6 Sports Complexes in the UK

Did you know the UK has the structures to hold some of the world’s biggest sports events? In fact, some of...

By Nick Powell

English Championship

/ 3 years ago

Ealing add Collins to list of star recruits

By JON NEWCOMBE EXCLUSIVE Big-spending Ealing Trailfinders have come to the rescue of Tom Collins who had been left high and...

By The Rugby Paper Team

U20 World Cup

/ 3 years ago

Fijians push Aussies all way

By TOM RILEY Australia ........ 46 Fiji......................37 The Junior Wallabies laboured to an opening victory over Fiji but made life difficult...

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Features

/ 3 years ago

Fading myth of invincibility

As the World Cup approaches, Paul Rees reports on why the All Blacks need to hit the ground running For the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Shane Williams

/ 3 years ago

Why this merger just might be the way to go

SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Another week in Welsh rugby and another potential drama emerges. They always say the close...

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Brendan Gallagher

/ 3 years ago

Eligibility rules are cause for concern

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER These newish eligibility regulations are still open to...

By The Rugby Paper Team

The Rugby Championship

/ 3 years ago

Foster mixes it up with experience and youth

New Zealand have named five debutants in a 36-man squad for the upcoming Rugby Championship. The squad is a mixture of...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Guest Blogs

/ 3 years ago

An Upswing in Rugby’s Popularity from Niche to Mainstream

Rugby has an exciting and rich history, making it one of the world’s most popular physical sports. It has a massive...

By Nick Powell

Guest Blogs

/ 3 years ago

2023 – Can it change the sport of Rugby? What’s missing?

As the most celebrated event in the oval ball sport comes closer with the Rugby World Cup 2023 in France, we...

By Sam Emery

English Championship

/ 3 years ago

Sirker’s glad he’s moved Down Under

By BEN JAYCOCK Callum Sirker feels Championship players are a victim of Premiership clubs' financial mismanagement, so decided midway through last...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 3 years ago

Who will be next on the production line?

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER The Junior World Cup makes a welcome return after a four-year hiatus next week down in South...

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Features

/ 3 years ago

King Campo was simply the best

World Cup icons...1991 >> Brendan Gallagher looks back at the players who shone on the biggest stage All sorts of players...

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Brendan Gallagher

/ 3 years ago

Samoan underdogs and an Australian masterclass stole the show in ’91

The Rugby World Cup really started to hit its stride in 1991, scaling up from the inaugural event in 1987 in...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 3 years ago

Beale pleads not guilty to assault charges

By DENNIS EVANS AUSTRALIA international Kurtley Beale will go to trial over a number of sexual assault charges after an alleged...

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James Harrington

/ 3 years ago

Garbajosa joins list of axed coaches

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN It has been a busy week in various corridors of power in French rugby – with, in...

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Latest News

/ 3 years ago

Varndell fears for future generation

By BEN JAYCOCK Tom Varndell says that allowing three Premiership teams to go under this season is ‘completely unforgivable’ and urges...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 3 years ago

When Kirk took the All Blacks right to the top of the world

Brendan Gallagher begins a series on the star man at each global gathering Being the first in anything often confers iconic...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Argentina won't host Rugby World Cup in 2027

Brendan Gallagher

/ 3 years ago

How a boat trip on the Seine swung the vote

The IRB took the momentous decision to stage a first World Cup in March 1985 in strange circumstances. Prior to their...

By The Rugby Paper Team

My Life in Rugby

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My Life in Rugby with Wayne Kilford: ‘Moore told me – The work starts now’

The former Nottingham, Leicester, Coventry and Midlands full-back talks about his life in the game My first captain in senior rugby...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Rugby World Cup

/ 3 years ago

Folau call was TV turn-off for Gareth

By NICK POWELL Gareth Thomas “refused” to watch the Barbarians vs World XV match last month due to the “contradiction” of...

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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One

/ 3 years ago

Heroic Brumbies fly the flag for Australia

By CAMERON STEPHENS Super Rugby Pacific round-up The Brumbies produced a heroic goal line stand to book their place in this...

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Latest News

/ 3 years ago

‘England are dark horses for big prize’

By GARY FITZGERALD England can be World Cup dark horses who “sneak up” on the rail and gallop off with rugby’s...

By Gary Fitzgerald

Latest News

/ 3 years ago

Jones can fire up Aussies, says Cooper

By GARY FITZGERALD Quade Cooper is bubbling about Australia’s World Cup chances, now they have Eddie Jones back holding the reins....

By Gary Fitzgerald

Nick Cain

/ 3 years ago

Strewth, mate! Fast Eddie’s cash jackpot

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Eddie Jones returned to Twickenham this week as an RFU-made millionaire coach. Jones,...

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Latest News

/ 3 years ago

Carter and Kata sign for Tigers

NEWS EXTRA LEICESTER have signed Ulster second row Sam Carter and Tonga centre Solomone Kata, following his release by Exeter. Both...

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Letters

/ 3 years ago

Work to do but Bill can meet the challenge

DESPITE efforts to improve the league structures, there are clearly problems that have not been resolved. In restructuring the leagues, the...

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Sevens World Series

/ 3 years ago

GB sevens players pondered boycott

By BEN JAYCOCK Several Great Britain Sevens players thought about refusing to participate in this weekend’s London leg of the World...

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Brendan Gallagher

/ 3 years ago

New Zealand schools side in ’93 was the best ever

The greatest national schools team ever? That debate kicked off on Twitter recently and my mind immediately went back 30 years...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Chris Hewett

/ 3 years ago

Smith has vision to see through the fog

Wayne Smith, who secured a place in the pantheon of great coaches long before his astonishing triumph with the Black Ferns...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Nick Cain

/ 3 years ago

Eligibility laws that need to be changed

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE recent international eligibility law that allows Henry Thomas to be selected by...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Chris Hewett

/ 3 years ago

Nine Lions of Leinster would be in my team

CHRIS HEWETT Mitchell, Aston, Wotherspoon, Rotherham, Bromet, Hammond, Mayfield, Surtees, Thompson: on an early September afternoon in 1891, nine Cambridge University...

By The Rugby Paper Team