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English Championship

/ 8 years ago

Lam’s lads close in on club record

Preview Bristol v Jersey Today, Kick-off 2pm. Ashton Gate BRISTOLcould break a club-record winning streak if they overcome Jersey today. Pat...

By The Rugby Paper Team

The Rugby Paper

/ 8 years ago

Top flight stitch-up nearing completion

JEFF Probyn wrote in last week’s Rugby Paper about the agreement between the RFU and Premiership Rugby under which ‘the Championship...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 8 years ago

DREAM TEAM

BRETT BEUKEBOOM, CORNISH PIRATES AND CANADA LOCK, CHOOSES HIS BEST XV PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST… 1. Cian Healy – Tough character...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 8 years ago

Ealing beef up Prem bid with Doran-Jones

EALING Trailfinders have issued another statement of intent ahead of next season by swooping for former England prop Paul Doran-Jones. Doran-Jones...

By Jon Newcombe

Columnists

/ 8 years ago

Guscott column: Huw’s that guy? Truly a superstar in awaiting

Jeremy Guscott lauds the performance of Huw Jones in Scotland downing England's Grand Slam hopes

By Jeremy Guscott

Miscellaneous

/ 8 years ago

Gatland ready to call up new blood

By ALEX BYWATER WARREN Gatland says he’ll give Wales’ fringe players the chance to impress in the rest of the Six...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 years ago

Saxons on schedule again ahead of World Cup 2019

By NEALE HARVEY ENGLAND’S second string Saxons will be revived next year with World Cup preparations in mind. Planning is at...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 years ago

Carnegie swoop for ex-Pirates boss Stirling

By JON NEWCOMBE FORMER Cornish Pirates boss Chris Stirling is set to return to the UK with Yorkshire Carnegie in a...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 years ago

Bakewell’s challenge to create new pack legacy

By NEALE HARVEY New generation of prop: Ellis Genge PICTURES: Getty Images NEW Leicester forwards guru Mark Bakewell has vowed to...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 years ago

Lam promises to give youth their chance

FRUSTRATED Bristol supremo Pat Lam says he is sick of his club being used as a bargaining tool as he prepares...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 8 years ago

Beefed up Barrett back after shoulder surgery

NEWS EXTRA By GEORGE LAWRENCE ALL BLACKS full-back Jordie Barrett will make his return to action for the Wellington Hurricanes development...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 years ago

Rival clubs set to swoop for Titans coach Rouse

By JON NEWCOMBE ROTHERHAM face a battle to keep hold of the services of interim head coach Nic Rouse with their...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 years ago

Pirates finally get green light after long rain delay

GREENE KING CHAMPIONSHIP Preview Cornish Pirates v Yorkshire Carnegie Today, Kick-off 2.30pm AFTERweeks of incessant rain, Cornish Pirates finally host their...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League One

/ 8 years ago

Walsh left delighted as Jubb leads way

By KEVIN ROBINSON Darlington MP…0pts Coventry…42pts NICK WALSH was left beaming after his Coventry side recorded a resounding victory over Darling...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 8 years ago

Cardiff Met’s flourish takes title race to final round

BUCS ROUND-UP THE penultimate round ensured a fiercely contested finale to the season. The staggered kick offs in Cardiff and Durham...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 8 years ago

Doncaster Knights prop Ian Williams dies after collapsing at training session

(Photo: Getty Images) By Adam Ellis Doncaster Knights have announced prop Ian Williams has passed away, aged 27, after collapsing at...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 8 years ago

Exeter beat Bath to close in on leaders Northumbria

■By JOE BYRNES BUCS ROUND-UP EXETERvolleyed the Championship ball back into leaders Northumbria’s court on Wednesday night with a bonus point...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 years ago

Owens eager to bring Gats’ ton up in style

By ALEX BYWATER Previous: Ken Owens in action against Ireland last season KEN Owens insists Wales remain in a good position...

By The Rugby Paper Team

The Rugby Paper

/ 8 years ago

Expand to 14 with 3-year moratorium

A COMPROMISE on the ring-fencing row would be to expand the top tier to 14 clubs and retain promotion/ relegation using...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Miscellaneous

/ 8 years ago

Melville: 11-month season is non-starter

By NEALE HARVEY ENGLAND players no longer face the threat of an 11-month season as talks between Premiership Rugby and the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Six Nations

/ 8 years ago

Gatland saga has taken the old hostilities to a new level

BRENDAN GALLAGHER sets the scene for next weekend’s often spikey encounter at the Aviva BRENDAN GALLAGHER Bragging rights: George North scores...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Rugby World Cup

/ 8 years ago

Kiwi Linklater feeling tingly at prospect of World Cup

By JON NEWCOMBE Round-up Challenge: Brad Linklater SPAIN points-machine Brad Linklater admits he has “goose bumps” at the thought of going...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One

/ 8 years ago

One drug test a season is not enough

FIRST the good news. The RPA reports that for last season (2016-17) there was not a single anti doping violation in...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Championship

/ 8 years ago

Sickener for Titans as late penalty costs them a draw

By GUY WILLIAMS ROTHERHAMlost in sickening circumstances as Bedford fly-half Will Hooley struck a successful penalty to clinch the points in...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 8 years ago

MY LIFEIN RUGBY

TONY GULLIVER THE FORMER COVENTRY LOCK AND CURRENT TEAM MANAGER All I wanted to do once I started playing rugby at...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 8 years ago

The magnificent seven rugby clubs in the county of Gwent

Profiling the histories behind Gwent's foremost rugby clubs

By The Rugby Paper Team

Six Nations

/ 8 years ago

Simmonds proves we need strong second tier

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE vapour trail left by Sam Simmonds on his Six Nations debut in...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Six Nations

/ 8 years ago

No laughing matter, Finn – get it right!

IT’s not going to be the game either coach, or indeed set of fans, dreamed of – but this afternoon’s ‘auld...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 8 years ago

MY LIFEIN RUGBY

THE FORMER BEDFORD, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY AND ENGLAND LOCK BOB WILKINSON Iwent to Wales versus Scotland with a friend last Saturday –...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Rugby World Cup

/ 8 years ago

Controversy over ‘no try’ as Russia fall to Spanish

By JON NEWCOMBE Round-up RUSSIA’S chances of taking the direct route to Rugby World Cup 2019 were left in tatters after...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 years ago

Pacific is washing in waves of talent

WHILE many T1 nations continue to plunder the South Pacific, it might be timely to highlight France’s increasingly fruitful rugby relationship...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 years ago

RUGBY MATTERS

Trailfinders are on long trek towards Premiership BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points COULD Ealing...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 years ago

Deano will finish job says Falcons boss

By NEALE HARVEY NEWCASTLE chairman Semore Kurdi is confident Dean Richards will finish the job at the resurgent Geordie club. Kurdi,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 years ago

Ring-fence ‘would threaten Carnegie’s future’

ENDING promotion and relegation would place a “huge question mark” over Yorkshire Carnegie’s future, according to chief executive Gary Hetherington. After...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 8 years ago

MY LIFEIN RUGBY

ADRIAN DAVIES THE FORMER WALES, NEATH, CARDIFF, CAMB UNIV AND RICHMOND FLY-HALF In five years of Test rugby I played under...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 8 years ago

We must replace Cup says Connacht coach

NEWS EXTRA By LUKE JARMYN CONNACHT Academy coach Mossy Lawler has called on the Irish Rugby Football Union and other governing...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Columnists

/ 8 years ago

Guscott column: Scotland can beat Wales if they play fast and error-free rugby

Jeremy Guscott pins Scotland's hopes of victory in Cardiff on the axis of Price-Russell and dangerman Huw Jones

By Jeremy Guscott

International Rugby

/ 8 years ago

Six Nations spotlight – Ireland: Joe Schmidt must unleash his terrifying dogs of war

Ireland head coach spoilt by riches of big-name players and new dynamics brought to the table by young up-and-comers

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 8 years ago

Northampton Saints appoint Chris Boyd as new director of rugby

(Photo: Getty Images) By Adam Ellis 2016 Super Rugby mastermind Chris Boyd will leave the Hurricanes at the end of the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Championship

/ 8 years ago

Knights look to hit Notts for six

DONCAST go in search of a sixth successive league win over Nottingham after coming from behind to beat the Green and...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Championship

/ 8 years ago

Buckle braced for another big scrap

YORKSHIRE Carnegie were shocked by the newlypromoted pack when the two sides met earlier in the season and hooker Joe Buckle...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League One

/ 8 years ago

Buckle: Carnegie still have Ealing in sights

NEWS EXTRA JOE BUCKLE believes Yorkshire Carnegie’s high standing in the Championship is testament to the strength of character within the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League 2N

/ 8 years ago

Scotland

■Scotland get the honour of kicking of this year’s Championship, but start it with a tricky Friday-night trip to take on...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League 2N

/ 8 years ago

Briggs is back to guide Irish

Ireland NIAMH Briggs returns to the Ireland set-up after missing last year’s tournament because of injury. The full-back made her comeback...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League 2N

/ 8 years ago

Strange gives Welsh boys licence to thrill

Round-up FRANCE were runners-up last season but must do without 19-year-old fly-half sensation Matthieu Jalibert, who was called up to the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League 2N

/ 8 years ago

Can Wales half-backs hit it off like Gareth and Barry?

AN UNCANNY piece of Celtic history will be repeated in Cardiff next Saturday after exactly 50 years. When Wales and Scotland...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 8 years ago

Clinical Keys ease through to last eight after downing Bedlinog

By PAUL HOPKINS Cross Keys ….41 Bedlinog ……….7 CROSS KEYS booked their place in the Cup quarterfinals with a comfortable victory...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 8 years ago

Jones on song as magnificent Pooler dump Quins out of the Cup

By JAY BAYFORD Pontypool ……23 C’marthen Q ….8 NATIONAL Championship leaders Pontypool shocked Carmarthen Quins to progress to the Cup quarter-finals...

By The Rugby Paper Team