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International Rugby

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New Zealand 57-23 Fiji: Four-try Coles is too much to handle for battling Fiji

Four tries from replacement hooker Dane Coles push the All Blacks ahead of fighting Fiji

By The Rugby Paper Team

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Peel: In my heart I knew I had to join Scarlets

Scarlets role was the one Dwayne Peel always wanted, even if it meant upsetting the capital

By The Rugby Paper Team

Former Saracens utility back Chris Wyles

Latest News

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Wyles: Saracens will make top-flight tasty next season

Former Saracens Premiership winner Chris Wyles says the club have 'done their time' and should expect to challenge once again

By The Rugby Paper Team

International Rugby

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England 43-29 USA: Underhill leads way for Eddie’s all-sorts

ENGLAND awarded so many new caps, Twickenham seemed like a millinery, but it was hats off to an older hand given...

By The Rugby Paper Team

International Rugby

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Wales 68-12 Canada: Halfpenny injury takes the gloss off Wales’ ten-try romp

DESPITE a ten-try thrashing of Canada, an injury to Leigh Halfpenny marred the afternoon for Wales. On his 100th...

By The Rugby Paper Team

International Rugby

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What carnage as All Blacks hit a century against the troubled Tongans

■By BEN JAYCOCK New Zealand..102pts Tries: McKenzie 2, Papalii 5, 37; Weber 7, 16, 50; Jordan 9, 20, 47, 55, 68;...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

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Analysis: Marcus Smith must step up and shine the light ahead for Eddie

The last time England played the United States, in sultry Kobe, it was the start of a cycle that...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

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Heineken Cup tiers revealed ahead of pool draw

NEWS EXTRA THE ROAD to next season’s Heineken Champions Cup final in Marseille will begin to be mapped out when the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

The Rugby Paper

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Capturing is as important as victory

Nick Cain on the underlying essence of today’s England A clash with Scotland A PREVIEW... England A v Scotland A Today....

By The Rugby Paper Team

The Rugby Paper

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Attack was king amid madness

PAUL REES gives his verdict on a Premiership season like no other It was a Premiership campaign unlike any other, even...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Chris Hewett

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Is the rash of red cards truly making game safer? | Chris Hewett

"Brave boy,” said Ugo Monye, admiringly, as he watched his beloved Harlequins close in on their famous Premiership semi-final victory over...

By Chris Hewett

Latest News

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Youngs set for ref duty

TOM Youngs has accepted a charge of disrespecting a match official during Leicester’s game with Bristol. The 34-year-old hooker has been...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

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Dream stay at Pirates delivered big break

MY LIFEIN RUGBY BRISTOL BEARS WOMEN’S HEAD COACH AND FORMER BATH, NORTHAMPTON, SALE, CORNISH PIRATES, HARLEQUINS AND AMPTHILL HOOKER/FLANKER DAVE WARD...

By The Rugby Paper Team

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Exeter 38-40 Harlequins: Underdogs? Quins roar like big dogs in a classic

WHEN it comes to long runs from the back there is nothing in the annals of English club rugby to match...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

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Verdict: Quins have taught Eddie Jones a lesson in how to attack

SO a season that started with Eddie Jones arguing it was almost impossible to play attractive attacking rugby under the current...

By The Rugby Paper Team

The Rugby Paper

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Wrong for table toppers to wind up with nothing

WE’RE at the end of the rugby season and once again, the complete travesty of justice that is the Premiership playoffs...

By The Rugby Paper Team

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Harlequins ace Alex Dombrandt steps up defence for Eddie

Dombrandt isn't interested in resting up from Harlequins' play-off run as he goes in search of a first England Test cap

By The Rugby Paper Team

Columnists

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Jerry Flannery knows the sad side of the Lions | Peter Jackson

The last time the Lions took off for South Africa, Jerry Flannery had been booked into business class for the overnight...

By Peter Jackson

Columnists

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Ealing’s drubbing should not open ring-fence door | Jeff Probyn

Ealing Trailfinders’ dream didn’t so much fade away last week as completely collapse against the might of a fullstrength Saracens team, revealing...

By Jeff Probyn

Columnists

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Car crash European Cup rules will wreck a great Cup | Nick Cain

THE European Cup is on a slippery slope. It is rapidly being downgraded from a competition which was about becoming champions...

By Nick Cain

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Lam: We had our chances to win it

HARLEQUINS served up one of the greatest fight-backs in Premiership history to book themselves a date with Exeter Chiefs in Saturday’s...

By The Rugby Paper Team

England and Jersey Reds coach Ed Robinson

English Championship

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Exclusive: Robinson lands the job as Wasps’ new attack coach

RISING coaching star Ed Robinson has been chosen by Wasps to become their new attack coach. Wasps have a vacancy because...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

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Women’s Game in Focus: Wales captain and Bristol back row Siwan Lillicrap

Wales captain Siwan Lillicrap would love to see Welsh teams introduced into the Premier 15s when the league re-tenders in two years’...

By The Rugby Paper Team

The Rugby Paper

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Springbok props are part of my ‘woldwide front row family’ says Furlong

By ADAM HATHAWAY Making waves: Tadhg Furlong TADHG Furlong will be ‘keeping it in the family’ in the recesses of the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

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Sean O’Brien urges Ireland to blood players in Premiership

SEAN O’Brien believes Ireland should relax their rule which all but bars players being selected for the national squad if they...

By The Rugby Paper Team

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Siale Piutau hopes Bears’ love will conquer all in Premiership

“LOVE” is the answer to Bristol’s prayers to be crowned English champions for the first time. And departing centre Siale Piutau...

By The Rugby Paper Team

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Touchline fiasco should never have happened

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE touchline row between Steve Borthwick and Pat Lam in the clash between Leicester...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

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Eddie Jones interview: England captain’s role for ‘other’ Curry?

EVER since Eddie Jones became England head coach the question of leadership among the country’s elite players – or the lack...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

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Women’s Game in Focus: DMP Sharks fly-half Jess Dadds

DMP Sharks fly-half Jess Dadds says her first season in the Premier 15s has been a huge step up from university rugby....

By The Rugby Paper Team

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Harry Wells is the epitome of Borthwick’s new Tigers

HARRY Wells has enjoyed his breakthrough season at the age of 27, an almost ever-present in an improving Leicester side the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

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Boyd predicts big summer for tenacious flank Ludlam

By ADAM HATHAWAY Back in the frame: Saints flanker Lewis Ludlam LEWIS Ludlam forced his way back into the England fold...

By The Rugby Paper Team

The Rugby Paper

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Bristol got a yellow and benefitted!

REFEREE Ian Tempest had no option last week but to give a yellow card to the Bristol prop Nahuel Chaparro after...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

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No club has thrown in towel – even Worcester

COLIN BOAG When the moratorium on relegation from the Premiership for this season was announced in mid-February, a new word entered the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

The Rugby Paper

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DREAM TEAM

JACK PREECE, THE CINDERFORD AND FORMER BIRMINGHAM & SOLIHULL, COVENTRY, ROTHERHAM, MOSELEY, AND ENGLAND SEVENS AND COUNTIES OPENSIDE, CHOOSES THE BEST...

By The Rugby Paper Team

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Jonathan Davies leads new-look Wales into battle

JONATHAN Davies will captain Wales in their summer Tests against Canada and Argentina. Coach Wayne Pivac has named five uncapped players:...

By The Rugby Paper Team

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Leicester 23-26 Bristol: Tempers fray as Bears thwart Tigers’ big finish

A late sin-bin to prop Nahuel Chaparro leads to controversy around contested scrums and allowing John Afoa back onto the field...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

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Pint-sized players can often house huge talents

PAUL REES SAYS SMALL CAN STILL BE BEAUTIFUL IN THE MODERN LAND OF THE GIANTS The size of rugby players has grown...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

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Young Guns: Worcester Warriors wing Harri Doel

Harri Doel is hell bent on becoming the latest Welsh sensation to shine for Worcester after pulling on the No.11 jersey not...

By A Wood

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Kessell returns in Pirates half-back exchange

NEWS EXTRA By MIKE SINCLAIR IT’S all-change at No.9 for the Cornish Pirates with Tom Kessell returning after six years away...

By The Rugby Paper Team

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Eddie wants extra Currys to keep England on the boil

EDDIE Jones has already marked the card of his young guns telling them to gain inspiration from Tom Curry as their...

By The Rugby Paper Team

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Tigers fans help drive our recruitment says Youngs

By ADAM HATHAWAY Crowd pleaser: Leicester scrum-half Ben Youngs BEN YOUNGS welcomed back the Leicester faithful claiming the fanatical Tigers support...

By The Rugby Paper Team