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Letters

/ 3 days ago

The Old Pals’ Act strikes again

WHEN Prem newcomers Worcester Warriors were turfed out of that league for encountering financial problems, they were victims of the biggest...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Bill Beaumont Cup

/ 3 days ago

Lancashire 38-18 Yorkshire: Alex Looney’s side control round one showdown

Bill Beaumont Division One By Gareth Lyons Lancashire........38pts Tries: Giliand 5, Ellam 21, Deans 29, Freeman 44, Sturgess 58, Rylance 67...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 3 days ago

Champions Cheshire are put to the sword

Bill Beaumont Division Two round-up By CÓILÍN DUFFY CHESHIRE’S defence of their Division 2 Bill Beaumont County Championship title began on...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 3 days ago

Quartet get off to a flying start

Bill Beaumont Division Three round-up By GEORGE WELLBELOVE IT WAS a day of big scorelines in Division 3 as Leicestershire, Middlesex,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 3 days ago

White Roses go in search of fifth title

Gill Burns Championship preview By BEN JAYCOCK YORKSHIRE Women head into the new Gill Burns County Championship campaign as the team...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 3 days ago

Wyggs have week to remember

By BEN JAYCOCK OADBY Wyggestonians enjoyed what the club are now proudly calling the “Week of the Wygg” after both the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 1 week ago

Royston celebrate back-to-back promotions

By BEN JAYCOCK ROYSTON head coach Jamie Green has hailed his side’s remarkable rise after back-to-back promotions, three county cups and...

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News Extra

/ 1 month ago

Mixed ability match making history

NEWS EXTRA By BEN JAYCOCK LANCASHIRE and Yorkshire will mark a historic moment on April 19 at Sedgley Park as the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 1 month ago

My father was the kind of man the game needs

out with polite suggestions from the touch line. THANK YOU for your publication’s diligent journalism over the last few years in...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Alex Woolford playing for Northampton Saints

Features

/ 2 months ago

My Life in Rugby: Alex Woolford – I’d love to get 100 caps for Bedford Blues

Former Northampton Saints, London Welsh and Coventry second row Alex Woolford, who now plays for Bedford Blues, reflects on his life...

By Ben Jaycock

Club Rugby

/ 2 months ago

Sam James expects Redruth young guns to aim for biggest finish

Redruth inside centre Sam James relishes the challenge of the tightness of the National Two West table and reckons his side’s...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 3 months ago

Harrison helps his Tigers win again

By ANDREW SMITH Sheffield Tigers....38 Otley.............................0 SHEFFIELD Tigers’ sparkling mid-season form continues to gain momentum with another highly impressive Yorkshire derby...

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National League One

/ 3 months ago

Blackheath blitz to a top Kent double

■ By GARETH WITHERS Tonbridge J ........... 19 Blackheath ............ 31 BLACKHEATH maintained their position in the upper echelons of National...

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Latest News

/ 4 months ago

Talented duo who shared the same dream

PETER JACKSON HUGH Morris, below, grew up in the Seventies hoping to play No.10 for Wales at Cardiff Arms Park and...

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Latest News

/ 4 months ago

Greenwood’s got the Will to take Fylde to next level

■By CHRIS COLLYER Step up: Fylde back rower Will Greenwood PROMISING young blind-side Will Greenwood has soared to new heights since...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 4 months ago

The WRU missed a trick with Morris

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER TALKING of sliding doors moments, I can’t help thinking that one of the many opportunities the WRU...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 5 months ago

Ward: It was well worth missing Christmas for that

■By MIKE SINCLAIR C Pirates ...........14pts Tries: Pritchard 57, Heaney 79 Conversions: Sinclair 57, 79 E Trailfinders ..41pts Tries: Gwynn 5,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 6 months ago

Yorkshire, the great under-achievers

A GENERATION ago, Coventry were the leading club in England, providing a stream of Test players, and providing most of the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 6 months ago

Wilson wants to lead the Billingham rise by example

By BEN JAYCOCK BILLINGHAM’S new skipper Luke Wilson is pleased with their start to the season as they target a long-awaited...

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Letters

/ 6 months ago

Time to scrap Prem ring fence

NEWCASTLE are already adrift at the bottom of the Prem. Five matches played; five defeats, with a negative points difference of...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League 2W

/ 7 months ago

Richie relishing Redruth’s real rise up the rugby ranks

By BEN JAYCOCK Match winner: Will Riglesford scoring against Lucs REDRUTH director of rugby Richie Kevern is proud to be leading...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Robin Wedlake playing for Cornwall in the 2016 County Cup final

Features

/ 7 months ago

My Life in Rugby: Robin Wedlake – Cornwall’s where my story starts and where it ends

Robin Wedlake — former Redruth, Plymouth Albion, Cornish Pirates, Jersey Reds and Cornwall centre — now plays for Camborne in National...

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National League 2W

/ 8 months ago

Larkins lays down a lofty Cherry and Whites target

■By BEN JAYCOCK Driven: Camborne full-back Harry Larkins CAMBORNE full-back Harry Larkins insists the Cherry & Whites are determined to go...

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National League 2N

/ 8 months ago

Heroic half-backs provide the delight

Preston G.................20 Fylde.........................24 ■By LUKE JARMYN LANCASHIRE U20s star Gabriel Maguire showed why he’s one of the county’s best young scrum-halves...

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Miscellaneous

/ 8 months ago

Soak up the best bits from across all sports

Coach to coach Steve Hill talks to Matt Albinson, below, the director of rugby at Stamford RFC who last season won...

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Club Rugby

/ 9 months ago

Zoe Dare confident she can add spark to Exeter Chiefs

Exeter Chiefs signing Zoe Dare feels her recent experience in the England Students set-up has given her a fresh perspective on...

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English Championship

/ 9 months ago

Champ Rugby has much to offer says Gloucester scrum-half Mike Austin

Gloucester's new scrum-half Mike Austin is out to prove that the Championship remains one of English rugby’s most underrated breeding grounds....

By Ben Jaycock

Features

/ 9 months ago

Try to see things from a player’s perspective

Coach to coach Steve Hill puts the questions to Steve Collins, below, head coach at Rochdale What is your rugby playing...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 9 months ago

Stewart McKinney recalls the brutal Lions days of ’74

Long before the Lions failed to turn up in Sydney for their shot at something historic, one of their Old Invincibles...

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Latest News

/ 10 months ago

Make it enjoyable so players come

Coach to coach Steve Hill puts the questions to Sam Goatley, below, head coach at Newent RFC What is your playing...

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Latest News

/ 11 months ago

Bowman’s boys set for a big show

Division 2 final preview Cheshire v Devon Today 3pm CHESHIRE and Devon clash at HQ today to determine who takes the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 11 months ago

Charity sets record for long game

RUGBY’S mental health charity LooseHeadz have surpassed the Guinness World Record for the longest games of men’s and women’s rugby, subject...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 11 months ago

Stu Wilson, a Rolls Royce wing with a smart swerve

THOSE of a certain age will fondly remember All Black Stu Wilson, who died suddenly this week aged 70, as a...

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Latest News

/ 11 months ago

One Way to Win: The Heol-y-Cyw Way

“There is only one way to succeed at anything: to give everything.” This powerful quote, the mantra of Heol-y-Cyw at the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 11 months ago

Devon get set for Cheshire clash

Bill Beaumont County Championships Division 2 DEVON sealed their place in the Bill Beaumont Division 2 final with a thrilling 27-20...

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Latest News

/ 11 months ago

Eastern Counties set sights on Twickenham

Gill Burns County Championship ■ By BEN JAYCOCK EASTERN Counties head coach Tom Harding says his players are fired up ahead...

By Ben Jaycock

Features

/ 12 months ago

Sussex school’s growing the game

By BEN JAYCOCK KIT Claughton has enjoyed introducing rugby to a huge number of foreign students at Buckswood School and hopes...

By Ben Jaycock

Latest News

/ 12 months ago

Herts force Leicestershire to battle to finish

Gill Burns County Championship ■ By MOSHER LEICESTERSHIRE booked a semi-final place in the third tier of the Gill Burns Cup...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 12 months ago

I really like the idea of Cup competitions

Coach to coach Steve Hill puts the questions to Rudi Kochanowski, below, the head coach of Hampshire Men’s County XV (Division...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 12 months ago

Leicestershire and Herts on the march

■By GEORGE WELLBELOVE Division 3 LEICESTERSHIRE and Hertfordshire extended their unbeaten runs. Surrey and Essex also registered their first victories of...

By The Rugby Paper Team