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Latest News

/ 2 months ago

Springbok Deon comes of age

DEON Fourie of the Cape Town Stormers hit the history books in Durban yesterday like a tornado. Four weeks short of...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 2 months ago

All Stars XV: Bedford Blues – Mike Rayer leads brothers with real style

Brendan Gallagher picks his greatest-ever Bedford Blues XV, featuring club legends such as Budge Rogers, Mike Rayer, James Pritchard and Martin...

By Brendan Gallagher

Features

/ 2 months ago

YOUNG GUNS

JAYDEN WROTTESLEY GLOUCESTER BACK ROW GLOUCESTER’S Shed Challenge winner, back-rower Jayden Wrottesley, believes learning to take ownership of his career has...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Bury St Edmunds after winning the National Two East title

Club Rugby

/ 2 months ago

National League One preview: Battle for promotion should go to the wire

Plymouth Albion lead a host of promotion hopefuls into a new National League One campaign, with relegated London Scottish and Cambridge...

By Ben Jaycock

Tom Collins heads an impressive list of new arrivals at Oundle

Club Rugby

/ 2 months ago

National Two East preview: New-look Oundle in a drive for success

Oundle have strengthened significantly after last season’s near miss, but a reshaped National Two East promises plenty of competition for promotion.

By Ben Jaycock

Brendan Gallagher

/ 2 months ago

Brendan Gallagher: Core question is – why were protocols relaxed?

Brendan Gallagher examines rugby’s long history of concussion awareness and questions the suggestion that players were unaware of the potential dangers,...

By Brendan Gallagher

Feature

/ 2 months ago

Dan Cottrell: Five ways to win the race to the gain line

Dan Cottrell continues his coaching series by examining how teams can win the race to the gain line through better passing,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Joe Cokanasiga celebrates scoring for Bath

Club Rugby

/ 3 months ago

Prem 2026-27 preview – Bath: Title odds, key players and transfers

Bath enter the new Prem season among the favourites after finishing second in the league last term.

By The Rugby Paper Team

Feature

/ 3 months ago

Paul Rees: England back rower Henry Pollock’s mission – To smash it like Jonah Lomu

Paul Rees examines Henry Pollock’s growing profile, his potential to become rugby’s next superstar and the lessons the England back rower...

By Paul Rees

Brendan Gallagher

/ 3 months ago

Brendan Gallagher: Are today’s players fit? Not in my book

Brendan Gallagher questions whether modern rugby players are reaching the fitness levels required to perform at their best, comparing the sport’s...

By Brendan Gallagher

Courtney Lawes in training this week at Sale Sharks

Club Rugby

/ 3 months ago

Ernst van Rhyn says Sale Sharks team-mate Courtney Lawes is leading from the front

The veteran England forward has wasted no time making his mark at Sale, with Ernst van Rhyn impressed by his commitment...

By Gary Fitzgerald

Immanuel Feyi-Waboso breaks to score Exeter Chiefs’ fourth try

Club Rugby

/ 3 months ago

Prem review: Rob Baxter tells his Exeter Chiefs that hard work will pay off

Paul Rees continues his summer series reviewing the Prem season, with the focus this week on Exeter Chiefs.

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 3 months ago

George Ford: I want to lead a Prem revival at Sale Sharks

The Sale playmaker is drawing on his experience of Leicester’s dramatic turnaround a few years back as he targets a return...

By Adam Hathaway

Harry Johnson-Holmes in action for the Waratahs

Club Rugby

/ 3 months ago

Harlequins recruit Harry Johnson-Holmes has England in his sights

Harry Johnson-Holmes is open to an England call-up after swapping Australia for Harlequins, with the new Quins prop still harbouring ambitions...

By Gary Fitzgerald

Latest News

/ 3 months ago

Davies leaves Tigers to join Wales coaching team

ALEX Davies is leaving Leicester Tigers to become a kicking coach for Wales. Steve Tandy has appointed the 40-year-old after being...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 3 months ago

Warriors sign up Cripps

WORCESTER Warriors have signed former England U20 back rower Kofi Cripps from Bristol Bears ahead of their Champ Rugby title defence....

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 3 months ago

Scott Forrest: Glasgow Warriors can still compete despite star losses

Glasgow Warriors assistant coach Scott Forrest believes a blend of experienced internationals and emerging talent can help the club go one...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 3 months ago

Mitchell call-ups

ENGLAND head coach John Mitchell has called Daisy Hibbert-Jones and Sophie McQueen into the Red Roses’ training camp ahead of the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Maxime Lucu playing for France against Australia in the Nations Championship.

Columnists

/ 3 months ago

Joe Simpson: Maxime Lucu has the edge on Antoine Dupont in the France scrum-half battle

Joe Simpson weighs in on France’s scrum-half battle between Maxime Lucu and Antoine Dupont, England’s workload concerns, the Premiership’s entertainment challenge...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 3 months ago

DREAMTEAM

TOM WOOLSTENCROFT, THE FORMER SARACENS, BATH, ROSSLYN PARK, WASPS, LONDON IRISH AND ENGLAND U20 HOOKER, SELECTS THE BEST XV HE’S PLAYED...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Chris Hewett

/ 3 months ago

Chris Hewett: Touring is back! But let’s see the best take on the best

Chris Hewett welcomes the return of touring rugby between South Africa and New Zealand but questions why the best provincial players...

By Chris Hewett

Latest News

/ 3 months ago

Drumbeat of doom growing louder

THEY hoped it was all over, but it isn’t. Rugby’s drumbeat of doom – we speak of the lawsuits brought by...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Henry Slade goes over for Exeter Chiefs in their win over Saracens

Club Rugby

/ 3 months ago

Will Chudley: Henry Slade is a great role model for younger players

Former Exeter Chiefs, Bath and Worcester Warriors scrum-half Will Chudley speaks to Ben Jaycock about Chiefs’ resurgence, Warriors’ return, the Champ...

By Ben Jaycock

Columnists

/ 3 months ago

Peter Jackson: Badlands! Another US team bites dust

Peter Jackson questions the USA’s readiness to host the 2031 Rugby World Cup as another Major League Rugby club disappears, with...

By Peter Jackson

Club Rugby

/ 3 months ago

All Stars XV: Coventry – David Duckham leads Cov dynamos

Brendan Gallagher picks his all-time Coventry XV, featuring club legends including David Duckham and Danny Grewcock.

By Brendan Gallagher

Club Rugby

/ 3 months ago

Chris Johnson is banking on Heath to dig deep ahead of National Two North campaign

Chris Johnson admits getting out of bed is becoming harder but is ready to keep playing at 39 as Heath prepare...

By Ben Jaycock

Zoe Aldcroft lifts the Women’s Rugby World Cup trophy for England

Club Rugby

/ 3 months ago

Vicky Macqueen: Putting on WXV in England is another huge opportunity for the women’s game

Vicky Macqueen MBE reflects on England’s continued dominance, the impact of WXV on the women’s game and the changes shaping the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 3 months ago

YOUNG GUNS

TANIELTUMUSIIME SARACENS & ENGLAND U18 WING Saracens’ 17-year-old wing prospect Taniel Tumusiime has set his sights on forcing his way into...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 3 months ago

My Life in Rugby: Kate Zackary – I was so proud to be captain of my country

Kate Zackary, the former Exeter Chiefs, Trailfinders and USA back rower, reflects on her life in rugby.

By Ben Jaycock

Club Rugby

/ 3 months ago

PWR Ins and Outs – Ellie Kildunne and Ruby Tui head the big-name moves as clubs get ready for blast-off

Ben Jaycock looks ahead to the Premiership Women’s Rugby season with a major All Black star looking to give Trailfinders a...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 3 months ago

Sinckler could be back for England

IN long-term recruitment news that may well prick up the ears of England boss Steve Borthwick, Clermont’s international tighthead prop –...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 3 months ago

RFU postpones start of the community game season

The decision follows weeks of dry weather across England, with concerns over player welfare and the condition of pitches forcing the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Chris Hewett

/ 3 months ago

Chris Hewett: It’s too quiet! The decline of the supercoach

Chris Hewett asks whether rugby is losing something as the era of globe-trotting supercoaches gives way to a new generation of...

By Chris Hewett

Club Rugby

/ 3 months ago

Prem review: Champions Cup is the one Johann van Graan wants to add to his collection at Bath

Paul Rees continues his summer series reviewing the Prem season, with the focus this week on Bath.

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 3 months ago

Richard Barrington: George Martin and Alife Barbeary will power Saracens

Former Saracens prop Richard Barrington, below, talks to Ben Jaycock about his move into coaching, the next generation of front row...

By Ben Jaycock

Latest News

/ 3 months ago

Five awarded first England deals

nBy BEN JAYCOCK New look: Asher Opoku-Fordjour, Alex Coles, Guy Pepper, Jack van Poortvliet and Seb Atkinson have all been awarded...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 3 months ago

New Gloucester lock Joe Joyce wants to make friends in The Shed

Joe Joyce is targeting a top-four finish with Gloucester after returning to the Premiership, with the lock enthused by the club’s...

By Gary Fitzgerald

International Rugby

/ 3 months ago

John Mitchell: WXV Global Series will be a World Cup audition for Red Roses

John Mitchell has challenged England to use the new WXV Global Series as an early audition for the 2029 World Cup,...

By Ben Jaycock

Latest News

/ 3 months ago

Jennings returns to the game at Preston

■By MICHAEL GREGORY FORMER Sale Sharks centre Mark Jennings has joined Preston Grasshoppers. Jennings arrives at Lightfoot Green with a wealth...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Bristol Bears scrum-half Kieran Marmion.

Club Rugby

/ 3 months ago

Kieran Marmion predicts big things for Bristol Bears next season

Kieran Marmion believes Bristol Bears can challenge for the Premiership title after injuries hampered their campaign last season, with the scrum-half...

By Gary Fitzgerald