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Saracens, Europe and McConnochie: What’s in Sunday’s TRP?

17 January 2020 0 comments

Plenty of news, views, action and reaction in issue #592 of The Rugby Paper – here’s what features… SARACENS: Sarries risk automatic relegation to the […]

Varsity: Who was the dashing Cambridge wing in Sherlock mystery?

6 December 2017 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher investigates the man who was Conan Doyle’s hero, Godfrey Staunton

Varsity women’s preview: Oxford will go on the attack to defend crown

5 December 2017 0 comments

Can Oxford produce another shock upset this time around?

Varsity: Seven-timer Briggs is Light Blues brigade history maker

5 December 2017 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher picks out the stars to watch in this week’s Varsity match showpiece

The Ella brothers: the pop stars of Aussie rugby

30 November 2017 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher remembers the wonderful Junior Wallaby side that boasted a fabulous trio…

Brendan Gallagher: Philadelphia is next stop on rugby’s world tour

15 September 2017 0 comments

Globalisation is one of the modern day buzzwords and although sometimes I’m not exactly sure what it means the fact that next Saturday Newcastle Falcons […]

Brendan Gallagher: So why has rugby just gone north in the North?

7 September 2017 0 comments

Sale entertain Newcastle on Friday night in the big northern derby – or the Sharks play the Falcons if you prefer – and both clubs […]

Brendan Gallagher: Will All Blacks be fresh to go again?

17 August 2017 0 comments

New Zealand have lost only two of their 27 Rugby Championship matches to date – there was also a draw against Australia in 2014 – […]

Brendan Gallagher looks back at 150 years of Wasps history

11 August 2017 0 comments

Wasps’ 150th anniversary season isn’t five minutes old and already they have one trophy in the Cabinet having retained their Premiership Sevens title in some […]

Brendan Gallagher previews the Women’s World Cup

3 August 2017 0 comments

The memory of 2014 in France might still be fresh with us but women’s rugby has moved on apace and, a year earlier than normal, […]

Brendan Gallagher: England have only two world class players in their squad

2 August 2017 0 comments

This week heralds the announcement of the 45- strong England EPS squad and it feels like a big staging post, the start of a new […]

Brendan Gallagher: As the pressure ramped up, so cool Gatland kept his nerve

5 July 2017 0 comments

This Test was not only a compelling thriller which instantly claims its place in Lions folklore but a game which neatly combined two of the […]

Brendan Gallagher’s all-time All Blacks Maori XV

16 June 2017 0 comments

1. Billy Bush – William Kingita Te Pohe to give the Napier and Canterbury prop his full name. Wild looking, heavily bearded piratical figure and […]

Brendan Gallagher picks his all-time Lions XV

1 June 2017 0 comments

15. JPR Williams Ever present in 1971 and 1974 and a player who took the fight to the ‘enemy’ more than most. Gave the Lions […]

Brendan Gallagher: Exeter prove patience can be greatest virtue

31 May 2017 0 comments

It was Leo Tolstoy – who doesn’t offer appear on the sports pages – who once remarked that the two most powerful warriors are patience […]

Brendan Gallagher: Premiership final promises to be an absolute cracker

24 May 2017 0 comments

So after 22 rounds and two pulsating skin-of-your- teeth semis Wasps will play Exeter in the Aviva Premiership Final in a game that every neutral […]

Brendan Gallagher: Chiefs to beat Saracens but Wasps for title

18 May 2017 0 comments

There’s no guarantee a cracking regular season will produce two semi-final play-offs to remember next weekend but, frankly, it will be a major surprise if […]