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Columnists

/ 5 years ago

Pivac could use some of Warren’s mindgames | Shane Williams

Shane Williams delves into how Warren Gatland made the 'underdogs' tag work for Wales in their endeavour to win the Six...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 5 years ago

Worcester had the antichrist of rugby

MY LIFEIN RUGBY ROB SIGLEY THE FORMER MOSELEY AND PERTEMPS BEES PROP AND BOURNVILLE DIRECTOR OF RUGBY Brothers in arms: Rob...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 5 years ago

Griffiths plan can save our game says Notts’ Smith

NOTTINGHAM operations director Steve Smith has urged Premiership, RFU and Championship officials to shelve self-interest and collaborate for the betterment of...

By The Rugby Paper Team

The Rugby Paper

/ 5 years ago

I refuse to put cash into ring-fenced pot

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk I WISH I could...

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Features

/ 5 years ago

Q&A – Lance Bradley: League place is no concern, George is key to our plans

Gloucester CEO Lance Bradley discusses the exit of Danny Cipriani mid-season and why he has total faith in George Skivington

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Championship

/ 5 years ago

Smid: Don’t stop us, we’re only getting started

Ealing Trailfinders captain Rayn Smid reveals he would not move to any Premiership club for fear of the Championship winning promotion

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 5 years ago

Mako: I can still play a part in England’s Six Nations title defence

Neale Harvey talks to the England & Lions prop about whether his rehabilitation from an achilles injury will be completed in...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 5 years ago

Williams fears for a lost generation of Wales U20s

TRP Probyn: Saracens must stay down for two seasons By ALEX BYWATER Promise: Wales U20 beat France last season WALES U20...

By The Rugby Paper Team

The Rugby Paper

/ 5 years ago

Is copying the Prem best way to achieve self-sustainability?

IS the formation of a company “overnight” really the route to salvation for the Championship, as Coventry’s Nick Johnston suggests last...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 5 years ago

Could Ealing be viable in the Prem in London?

COLIN BOAG Up-and-comers: Ealing Trailfinders beat Saracens last weekend When Saracens lost last weekend to the Premiership pretenders, Ealing Trailfinders, it...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Chris Hewett

/ 5 years ago

The Boks are all deserting their barren rugby land | Chris Hewett

Chris Hewett bemoans the overloading of South African talent across European teams, and the effects on rugby in South Africa itself

By Chris Hewett

Dream Team

/ 5 years ago

Dream Team: Northampton Saints and Fiji hooker Sam Matavesi

Sam Matavesi, Northampton, Fiji and former Toulouse, Cornish Pirates, Plymouth Albion, Redruth and Camborne, hooker selects a XV based on the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Coventry managing director Nick Johnston

English Championship

/ 5 years ago

Fight to save Championship: Nick Cain talks to Coventry director Nick Johnston

The managing director of the Championship club fumes over the lack of collective agreement over the TEC and the absence of...

By Nick Cain

English Championship

/ 5 years ago

French system is set up for success – Adamson

Former Bedford Blues wing Dean Adamson is settling in well to life in the second tier of French rugby at Pro...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Championship

/ 5 years ago

Newcastle show the importance of the Championship, says Pirates’ O’Meara

Alex O'Meara believes Newcastle's time in the Championship has served them well for their strong return to the Premiership

By A Wood

English Championship

/ 5 years ago

Exclusive: Relegation scrapped in Premiership this season

Jon Newcombe reports on the increased likelihood that the Premiership will revert to a 13-team league at the end of the...

By Jon Newcombe

English Championship

/ 5 years ago

Ealing 27-26 Saracens: Passionate Trailfinders prove their point again

Daniel Gallan reports from Vallis Way where Ealing Trailfinders proved their were a match for the three-time champions of Europe

By The Rugby Paper Team

The Rugby Paper

/ 5 years ago

Ringfence? Think again!

Done it! Alun Walker’s late try seals the deal for Ealing against Saracens PICTURE: PRiME Media Images EALING Trailfinders beat Saracens...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 5 years ago

JAMES HARRINGTON

FRENCH COLUMN French pick squad as Six Nations gets the OK Medical joker: Gabriel Ibitoye has finally proved rumours right by...

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The Rugby Paper

/ 5 years ago

It’s a dilemma: Kill aspiration to save great old clubs?

RUGBY is now a game of the 21st century and has evolved as such. We in England are in the hands...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Championship

/ 5 years ago

Wasps grab Doncaster Knight stalwart Robin Hislop

Hislop spent the end of last season in the Premiership on loan at Saracens

By The Rugby Paper Team

Columnists

/ 5 years ago

Covid points loss is wrong | Nick Cain

Nick Cain argues why the new Premiership regulations on cancelled matches are jeopardising the integrity of the season

By The Rugby Paper Team

Columnists

/ 5 years ago

Lacroix: We’ll get Euro Cups done | James Harrington

James Harrington reports on what is next for Top 14 clubs after the French government called to the Champions Cup and...

By James Harrington

The Rugby Paper

/ 5 years ago

No rash decisions during lockdown

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk IS NOWreally the right...

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Features

/ 5 years ago

Promotion-relegation must be put on ice

COLIN BOAG Going up: Saracens will rejoin the top flight There have been lots of moans about the way points are...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Championship

/ 5 years ago

Stream all Championship games live to grow the league says Judge

Ex-Cornish Pirates and Saracens prop Christian Judge expects there to be an adjustment period for Championship newcomers

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 5 years ago

Meritocracy is RFU’s need, not chiselled platitudes | Nick Cain

Nick Cain criticises the lack of leadership shown by RFU chairman Andy Cosslett in the face of urgent financial planning needed...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Miscellaneous

/ 5 years ago

Covid points sytem needs urgent review

I FIND the Premiership system for awarding points in a match called off due to Covid-19 somewhat farcical. It is nobody’s...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 5 years ago

Sarries must wait until March to start

SARACENS’ England internationals will not play a competitive game before the Six Nations after the new Championship season was delayed until...

By The Rugby Paper Team

The Rugby Paper

/ 5 years ago

RFU must stamp authority by ruling out ring-fencing

I AM saddened at the numerous TRP reports regarding the ‘ring-fencing’ of the top tier. Do the current executives of the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 5 years ago

DREAM TEAM

CALLUM PATTERSON, CORNISH PIRATES AND FORMER ULSTER, BALLYMENA AND NEWPORT SALOP CENTRE, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 5 years ago

Champion Chiefs sign off superb year with bonus win

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER EXETER Chiefs, understandably rusty in the first half after their recent Covid travails, signed off a momentous year...

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Premiership

/ 5 years ago

Newcastle confirm signings of Argentina pair Santiago Grondona and Mateo Carreras

As reported in TRP, Falcons have completed deals for Pumas flanker Grondona and wing Carreras

By The Rugby Paper Team

European Challenge Cup

/ 5 years ago

George Nott eyes top spot to build momentum for Rec visit

By NEALE HARVEY LONDON Irish lineout leader George Nott is confident of backing up last week’s fine 34-8 win at Agen...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 5 years ago

RUGBY MATTERS

A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Dyanti ban tops off bad year for Boks BRENDAN GALLAGHER Fall from...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 5 years ago

French mean machine generate masterpiece

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 5 years ago

Luther’s arrival has boosted confidence – Walder

■By JON NEWCOMBE DAVE WALDER has paid tribute to the old hands in the backline who have helped Newcastle get off...

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Features

/ 5 years ago

Carreras joins Glos

GLOUCESTER have signed Argentina back Santiago Carreras on a deal that runs until the end of the current season. The 22-year-old...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 5 years ago

I’d love to play for Tonga with my brother Charlie

Daniel Gallan talks to Bristol Bears star Siale Piutau about passion and punch-ups There are few professions where a punch-up between...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Columnists

/ 5 years ago

RFU must not cave in to Prem pressure

WITH strong rumours of an attempt to ring-fence the top league at the end of this campaign persisting, it is time...

By The Rugby Paper Team

The Rugby Paper

/ 5 years ago

Wallabies finish last after Hodge fires wide again

By SAM JACKSON Try scorer: Bautista Delguy breaks clear for Argentina PICTURE: Getty Images REECE Hodge’s lastminute penalty flew wide to...

By The Rugby Paper Team

The Rugby Paper

/ 5 years ago

Records fail to hide Tri-Nations letdown

MATT McILRAITH SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE EXPERT So, what did we learn? While many aspects of the 26th edition of the annual southern...

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The Rugby Paper

/ 5 years ago

Sebastien is France’s unsung strategist

FRENCH COLUMN JAMES HARRINGTON Architect of success: Sebastien Piqueronies coaching the U20s Sebastien Piqueronies is not a name many will instantly think...

By The Rugby Paper Team