All posts tagged "Championship"
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoAshton’s alive and kicking at full-back
Showman: Chris Ashton showed some fancy footwork for Toulon PICTURE: Getty Images Chris Ashton hasn’t always shown the fancy kicking that...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoCut squad bugets… invest in grass roots
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk DUSTY Hare’s comments last...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoPromotion play-off
THE bottom two teams in the Premiership should play each other and likewise the top two in the Championship. The winners...
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Features
/ 8 years agoForget ring-fencing and just cut wages instead
THE price of freedom in Rugby Union, as with freedom in a wider context, is eternal vigilance. Nothing underlines this more...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoItaly get dumped on, but at least they have a great venue
Venue: Velodrome, Marseilles IT’S tough being Italy. Guess who are the one team in this year’s Six Nations required to play...
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Features
/ 8 years agoAmid all the tension and turmoil French rugby had its finest hour
Brendan Gallagher recalls the times rugby exploded in France with the 1968 Grand Slam Heroes: How the French media hailed the...
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Features
/ 8 years agoThe class of 68 – the team that took the Grand Slam in Cardiff
I5 Claude Lacaze (Angouleme): A fixture in the French side during most of the 60s until he retired in 1969 with...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoFrom Jersey journeyman to England contender
By NEALE HARVEY GARY Graham’s potent mix of determination and “edge” will see him thrive on the England stage, according to...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoLeaders of Top 14? Chiefs just blow them clean away
By MIKE SINCLAIR Hard yards: Exeter try-scorer Don Armand trucks it up PICTURES: Getty Images In the thick of it: Sam...
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Features
/ 8 years agoTHE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN RUGBY CLUBS IN THE COUNTY OF GWENT
Abertillery (Founded 1883): Early rugby hotbed, the town boasted five separate rugby teams before they amalgamated to form the one club...
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Features
/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
GLOUCESTER HOOKER HENRY WALKER As a schoolboy cricket all-rounder of some repute, Henry Walker was faced with a tough choice: don...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoHealy heads new coaching team for Germany after axe falls on Potgieter
By JON NEWCOMBE In: Paul Healy Out: Kobus Potgieter GERMANYhave announced a new coaching team on the eve of the Rugby...
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Latest News
/ 8 years ago…while Harrison has strength of Troy on his side
By JON NEWCOMBE Durable: Sale loosehead Ross Harrison ROSS HARRISON will not tear his hair out if he is overlooked once...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoPolledri pushing for Test debut against England
By SAM JACKSON Rising star: Jake Polledri JAKE Polledri was not expecting his Italy call-up so soon but the Gloucester flanker...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoTheRUGBYPaper
‘We’re giving everyone else’s coaches experience’ By NEALE HARVEY FORMER Cornish Pirates director of rugby Ian Davies has branded the RFU’s...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoKenya 7s up the creek after main sponsor pulls plug
Flyer: Nelson Oyoo THE Kenyan Sevens team has always been the standard bearers for the country competing in the World Series...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoFront row warriors bucking the trend
JON NEWCOMBE talks to Carnegie coach Steve Boden about his new endurance athletes Try time: Carnegie hooker Joe Buckle scores against...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoAberavon …71 Skewen …3
■By HOWARD EVANS National Cup ABERAVON gained a 113th win in 47 years of the Welsh Cup, yet it was their...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoLondon Irish urged to keep faith with coaching staff
Former rival coach comes out backing Nick Kennedy and co.
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGuscott column: Obano’s call-up shows Eddie Jones still has vacant spots when picking forwards
Jeremy Guscott gives his thoughts on Eddie Jones' training squad ahead of naming his team for the Six Nations
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Featured
/ 8 years agoThe rugby people we lost in 2017
In a series of obituaries, we remember the former players and club personnel who graced the sport
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoChampionship still needs work despite Melville promises
HERE we go again about ring fencing the Premiership in December 17 edition of TRP. Nigel Melville came in as RFU...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoCoventry residents spoilt for choice
EXCELLENT article on National One leaders Coventry RFC in last week’s edition. The relationship between Cov and Wasps is intriguing, as...
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Features
/ 8 years agoDREAM TEAM
RICKY PELLOW, THE EXETER COACH AND FORMER BATH AND CORNISH PIRATES No.9, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS…PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST…...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER WORCESTER, BRISTOL, ROTHERHAM & DONCASTER SCRUM-HALF CHRIS HALLAM It took me until the final game of my 11-year career...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoKoster in as Pirates target big home win
Preview Cornish Pirates v Jersey Reds Today, Kick-off 2pm PIRATES have lost their last four fixtures against the Islanders and coach...
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Features
/ 8 years agoJoost faced death with defiant courage
JOOST VAN DER WESTHUIZEN (Blue Bulls and South Africa) Died February 6 aged 45 One of the best scrumhalves the game...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years ago‘Old Elthamians can bridge top-flight gap in Kent’, says Mike Friday
The USA 7s head coach on taking on the head of academy role at the National One side
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International Rugby
/ 8 years agoHow to make money on rugby betting
Rugby union is one of the world’s oldest team sports. From its origins in the British Isles, the game has spread...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoCoventry on the roll again after Wasps gave them a sting
Brendan Gallagher on why 15 wins from 15 for the National One side is not the only reason for Coventry to...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoHappy Christmas to all our readers
NEXT WEEK: The Rugby Paper will be out as usual next week on December 31 covering all the games in the...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoFriday: OEs can bridge top-flight gap in Kent
By NEALE HARVEY Academ y boss: Mike Friday AMBITIOUS Old Elthamians will push the boundaries to create a player pathway to...
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Features
/ 8 years agoCov on the roll again after Wasps gave them a sting
BRENDAN GALLAGHER REPORTS ON THE WELCOME REVIVAL OF A ONCE-MIGHTY CLUB IT probably hasn’t escaped your notice that once mighty Coventry...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoVui banks on Bristol to make him a world star
By NEALE HARVEY Powerhouse: Chris Vui in action for Bristol against Doncaster PICTURES: Gareth Lyons ULTRA-CONFIDENT Samoan Chris Vui aims to...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoKey sacked after Titans crash to 12th league defeat
By GUY WILLIAMS Rotherham …19pts Tries: Cheshire 16 Conversions: Ryan 16 Penalties: Ryan 20, 25, 31, 51 Doncaster…36pts Tries: Owen 10,...
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English Championship
/ 8 years agoCarnegie capitalise on Everard red card
By JOHN NICHOLS York’ Carnegie …12pts Tries: Mayhew 68, Buckle 78 Conversions: Davies 68 Nottingham …10pts Tries: McConnell 4 Conversions: Eden...
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Features
/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
JAMES DUN BRISTOL FLANKER When your dad played in the back row for Bristol, Wasps and England, Chris Robshaw attended the...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWage cap cheats have been able to prosper
Huge win: Josh Adams is mobbed by Worcester team mates after scoring his second try against London Irish on Friday night...
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Features
/ 8 years agoRFU must Scotch this idea of tartan Warriors
THE notion of Worcester Warriors being bought by the Scottish Rugby Union is one that the RFU, the Premiership, and European...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoTwelvetrees can do great job for England says Taylor
ENGLAND’S coaches should begin taking notice of Gloucester, according to Kingsholm backs guru Tim Taylor, who reckons a number of the...
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British & Irish Cup
/ 8 years agoEden’s late strike saves Nottingham
By TIFFANY JONES Ospreys PS……15 Nottingham ….17 NOTTINGHAM head coach Ian Costello believes his side got out of jail as they...
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Features
/ 8 years agoLoughborough put on the style to pull plug on Bath
By JOE BYRNES BUCS ROUND-UP LOUGHBOROUGH celebrated Christmas early on Wednesday with a handsome victory 35-24 over Bath. The manner in...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoGraham glad to resume family affair with Falcons
JON NEWCOMBE talks to Gary Graham about emulating father George’s team of ‘98 Stepping up: Gary Graham breaks past Christian Wade...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoMiddle Matavesi brother swaps ships for Pirates
By NEALE HARVEY ROYAL Navy back rower Sam Matavesi has revealed his ambition to follow brothers Josh and Joel into the...
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Features
/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
ISAAC CURTIS-HARRIS LONDON IRISH BACK ROWER As a member of the London Irish youth side that became Premiership U18s champions in...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoWilliams confident of filling Webb role for Wales
CRACKERJACK Bristol scrum-half Rhodri Williams believes Rhys Webb’s defection to Toulon will offer him a route back into a Wales jersey...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoGame needs the odd giant killing
TOTALLY agree with Jake Smith’s letter last week. The Championship clubs deserve more exposure and must be given regular games against...
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Features
/ 8 years agoAre Game Board now plotting a ten-team Premier?
WE could be heading back into the shadowlands of clandestine decisionmaking, with the idea being floated that the Premiership could be...
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Features
/ 8 years agoTownsend is showing Wales the way to play
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW PETER JACKSON Gregor Townsend last appeared in Cardiff on Six Nations business a long time...
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