All posts tagged "England"
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Dream Team
/ 2 years agoDream Team with Peter Scrivener
The former Wasps no.8 chooses the best XV he has played with or against... 1. Paul Rendall – I had the...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 2 years agoEngland need access to their overseas stars
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK ENGLAND and New Zealand, who meet in a two-Test series this summer, find themselves...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoJames relishing the Munster challenge
■By JON NEWCOMBE PREVIEW... Northampton Saints v Munster Today. Kick-off 12.30pm, Franklin’s Gardens IT is games like this after noon’s Champions...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoNtamack back for heavyweight clash
By PAUL REES PREVIEW… Toulouse vRacing 92 Today. Kick-off 3pm, Stade Ernest Wallon ROMAIN Ntamack starts his first match since suffering...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoTime to encourage ambitious clubs
IN a recent issue of The Rugby Paper, Jon Newcombe wrote that the RFU has emphasised its wish to make the...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoCalling all players!
HOW many more England players moving abroad will it take for the RFU to change their selection policy? I feel for...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoUlster set for massive fight
Preview Montpellier v Ulster Today. 12.30pm ULSTER interim head coach Richie Murphy says a ‘massive test’ awaits in Montpellier. Ulster have...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoBundee’s back to boost Connacht
Preview Pau v Connacht Today. 5.30pm IRELAND duo Bundee Aki and Finlay Bealham come into the starting XV as Connacht head...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 2 years agoRed Roses: Saracens outside centre Sydney Gregson
By BEN JAYCOCK Birthplace: Baldock, Hertfordshire Date of birth: 20/01/96 Community club: Letchworth Garden City RFC Red Roses Debut: vs Wales...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoGloucester will battle to the end
By PAUL REES Gloucester may be out of the running for a play-off place, but they will not be coasting in...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoHill looking forward to Edinburgh challenge
England prop Paul Hill will leave Northampton in the summer to join Edinburgh. The tighthead has made 187 appearances for Saints,...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 years agoIt’s all a difficult question of trust
Leicester's latest fine for salary cap irregularities – their second in as many years – throws up an interesting question or...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoJVP ready to prove he’s back to his best
By LUKE JARMYN England and Leicester dynamo Jack van Poortvliet has highlighted in both his actions and words that he’s back...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoUnderhill agrees new contract with Bath
ENGLAND flanker Sam Underhill has signed a contract extension to stay with Bath until the end of the 2025-2026 season. The...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoThe day Crane had final word at Cardiff
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The Millennium Stadium once staged a trio of penalty shoot-outs in four years...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoVile keeps his record as Care steps down
Tommy Vile and Danny Care were born in the same decade of different centuries, the former in Newport during the first...
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Paul Rees
/ 2 years agoIt’s still all to play for in race to the finishing line
Paul Rees predicts a nerve-racking end to the Premiership season where bonus points will prove crucial THE two-month Premiership break has...
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Junior International Rugby
/ 2 years agoGeorgia next as England aim for three in a row
U18 Six Nations By BEN JAYCOCK ENGLAND are looking to retain a 100 per cent record in the U18s Six Nations...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years ago25 years of hurt and counting for Scotland
Scotland fans should look away now but this week – April 10 to be precise – will be the 25th anniversary...
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National League 2W
/ 2 years agoCozens stars for Clifton to silence his ‘bitter’ critics
By BEN JAYCOCK Clifton player-coach Luke Cozens originally planned to take a step back from his fly-half duties but, at 37,...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 2 years agoLondon Irish was just so full of real, good people
David Paice, the former England and London Irish hooker, looks back on his career in the game IT feels like a...
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National League One
/ 2 years agoEaster backing Friday games
By BEN JAYCOCK Chinnor director of rugby Nick Easter has called for more Friday night matches to be played in National...
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National League One
/ 2 years agoYoung Guns: Rams and England U20s fly-half George Makepeace-Cubitt
By BEN JAYCOCK George Makepeace-Cubitt was the only player in England U20s’ victorious Six Nations squad not connected to a Premiership...
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Schools / Universities
/ 2 years agoLondon school shows inclusive values
By BEN JAYCOCK Ravenscourt Park Prep School represented the only mixed-gender team participating in last month’s Rosslyn Park 7s, and head...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 2 years agoMiddleton impressed by Mitchell approach
By NICK POWELL FORMER England Women’s head coach Simon Middleton has praised successor John Mitchell for his approach of winning the...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 2 years agoItaly’s new gladiator is voted best in Six Nations
ITALY centre Tommaso Menoncello, below, has been named the 2024 Six Nations player of the championship, becoming the first player from...
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Welsh Rugby
/ 2 years agoCornborough retires from England
ENGLAND prop Vickii Cornborough has retired from international rugby after giving birth to twins last summer. The 34-year-old Harlequins star won...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoWhat’s in The Rugby Paper: 07/04/24
It’s the weekend of the last 16 of the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup, and you can find reports from 11...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoMitchell winning Red Roses’ “hearts and minds” – Middleton
Former England Women’s coach Simon Middleton has praised successor John Mitchell for his approach of winning the “hearts and minds” of...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoEight-try England turn on the style
By BEN JAYCOCK England ....................46pts Tries: Muir 7, Aldcroft 14, Botterman 23, Atkin-Davies 40, Kildunne 42, 61; Dow 45, Galligan 57...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoDingwall has his eye on All Blacks
By PAUL REES Fraser Dingwall is set on helping Northampton finish the season on a high and putting himself in contention...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoTime we demanded more from players
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER THE other weekend – although it could probably...
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Coach to Coach
/ 2 years agoFree flowing rugby is my prime aim
Former Richmond director of rugby Steve Hill puts the questions to Amy Turner, former Red Roses front rower and current head...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 2 years agoMather inspired me on coaching career – McKenna
By PAUL EDDISON England international Sarah McKenna hailed Giselle Mather as her coaching inspiration, as the Red Roses star seeks to...
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Junior International Rugby
/ 2 years agoEngland fall behind France after opening day
By SAM JACKSON FRANCE ended the first day of matches in the U18 Women’s Six Nations festival being held in north...
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National League 2E
/ 2 years agoEsher set to bounce back to third tier
By BEN JAYCOCK After the National League took a pause over Easter, Peter Winterbottom’s Esher are looking on course to earn...
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National League 2N
/ 2 years agoDeano to step up at Tynedale
Dean Richards will be part of Tynedale’s coaching team next season. Former England No.8 Richards stepped down from his role as...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoWith debts up to £300m, the game has lost its way
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME WITH the international window now over for the men’s game, the focus...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 2 years agoMcNicholl at double as Crusaders break duck
By BEN JAYCOCK Former Wales wing Johnny McNicholl scored a try in each half to help Crusaders coach Rob Penny secure...
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Features
/ 2 years agoRebel life is just the thing for Maunder
By MARK STEVENS Jack Maunder had always been a name synonymous with Exeter Chiefs. Born and raised in the heart of...
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Young Gun
/ 2 years agoYoung Guns: Northampton & England U20 wing Toby Cousins
By BEN JAYCOCK Former Northampton season ticket holder Toby Cousins aims to follow in the footsteps of the club’s youthful backline...
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Six Nations
/ 2 years agoBorthwick now spoilt for choice at 15, says Piutau
By BEN JAYCOCK Charles Piutau feels England’s decision to drop Freddie Steward in favour of George Furbank at full-back shows the...
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Miscellaneous
/ 2 years agoCare to make his Baa-Baas debut against Fiji
DANNY Care will make his Barbarians debut against Fiji at Twickenham in June. The 37-year-old scrumhalf, who announced his international retirement...
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Women's Six Nations
/ 2 years agoRampant England demolish Wales
By SAM JACKSON England scored eight tries against Wales at Ashton Gate to go top of the Six Nations table. John...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoLam: I understand Sinckler decision
By PAUL REES Pat Lam understands Kyle Sinckler’s decision to turn his back on England and join the exodus to France...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoI’ve loved my time at Bath – Gallagher
By PAUL REES Matt Gallagher admits it will be a wrench to leave Bath at the end of the season and...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoExeter flyer on the fast track to top
By MARK STEVENS Rob Baxter has warned opposition defences that England sensation Immanuel Feyi-Waboso will only get better with time after...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoLlewellyn keen to put himself in the frame for Wales
By PAUL REES Max Llewellyn’s form for Gloucester this year will have put the centre in the frame for Wales’s summer...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoSlade: I’m happy to stay a Chief
ON THE BLINDSIDE By MARK STEVENS Henry Slade is set to reject the advances of clubs on the other side of...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoFearn’s in line to boost Knights
By JON NEWCOMBE Darren Fearn is thought to be Doncaster Knights’ first-choice as new forwards coach as the Championship club continue...













