All posts tagged "Jeff Probyn"
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Features
/ 5 years agoJEFF PROBYN
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Breakdown clearouts have made risks worse Change of tactics: Jonah Lomu didn’t run round...
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Features
/ 5 years agoEngland are missing control and leadership
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME JEFF PROBYN Although Eddie Jones has sung the praises of his team as they...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoNice idea Jeff, but nothing will change
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk JEFF Probyn writes in...
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Features
/ 5 years agoAcademies boost the ‘parasitic’ Prem clubs
JEFF PROBYN Double act: Exeter chairman Tony Rowe with director of rugby Rob Baxter PICTURE: Getty Images With the last season...
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Features
/ 5 years agoFunding grassroots should be priority
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Am I the only person who thinks it is a little hypocritical...
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Features
/ 5 years agoFrench had a rule: ‘When at home you never lose.’ They did!
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME The picture of Serge Blanco and Jon Webb at the end of...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoProbyn column: Bill Sweeney’s legacy will hinge on talks with Premiership
Sweeney's skill for collective bargaining will be his biggest test, writes Jeff Probyn
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Features
/ 5 years agoQ&A – Les Cusworth: World Rugby chair is a job that should be rotated between hemispheres
What has former Leicester and England fly-half taken away from 16 years coaching and living in Argentina?
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Features
/ 5 years agoSuper Rugby exit won’t stop Pumas being competitive
LES CUSWORTH ON THE RECORD Q&A Former England and Leicester fly-half Les Cusworth has spent the last 16 years living and...
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Features
/ 5 years agoSweeney’s legacy will depend on Prem talks
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Rich pickings: Players are paid more to represent England than any other...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoProbyn column: Overseas players are both cheaper and always on call
Jeff Probyn analyses Chris Boyd's claim that England's senior Men's team should have more English coaches and how its relative to...
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Features
/ 5 years agoRFU should get grassroots playing again, not the Prem
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME JEFF PROBYN Scrum is danger area: Sixteen players in a tiny space breathng the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years ago‘Heartland’ has chance of success but boost to 14 teams
AS Jeff Probyn wrote last week, if Ed Griffiths' comprehensive proposals for the future of England’s second tier are to have...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoDiversity sounds good – but are the people there?
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME On the climb: Bill Beaumont was elected as one of the first...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoRestarting season is rather ridiculous
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Why play on? Newcastle have been promoted. Here George Wacokecoke scores his...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoDon’t let the gifted little ones get away
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Too small? Jeff Probyn won a record number of caps for an...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoElite clubs are not the only guilty parties
JEFF Probyn’s column last week is rightly scathing about the Premiership and EPCR, citing their lack of concern about the game...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoA League of Nations is an idiotic proposal
JEFF PROBYN No way through: Georgia’s Shalva Mamukashvili is tackled in the defeat to Italy in 2018 PICTURE: Getty Images Democracy:...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoEnjoying TRP more than ever
AMI the only reader of The Rugby Paper who thinks the quality of your publication has improved since the start of...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoThe best England team in the world
Jonny Wilkinson Phil Vickery Steve Thompson Jason Leonard Martin Johnson Maro Itoje Mike Teague Peter Winterbottom ENGLAND have had four teams...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoProbyn column: Rugby has changed so much and largely for the worse
Jeff Probyn has found himself watching old rugby clips on Youtube and sees a more balanced game than the modern day
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoWhat is in Sunday’s edition of The Rugby Paper?
A sneak peek at what awaits you inside this week's TRP...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoCommunity clubs must speak up to instigate change
AS the concerted campaign against funding cuts for Championship clubs has shown, the RFU are sensitive to outside pressures. There are...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoWhat’s in Sunday’s Rugby Paper?
Been a slow news week in rugby, hasn’t it? In that not-at-all-slow, actually very fast-paced and relentless way. Yes, coronavirus is...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoThe Pay-TV Golden Goose may be a turkey
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Over and out: England’s game yesterday will be their last in this...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoFunds aren’t available to follow French route
Decline: Yorkshire Carnegie over-extened to fund huge wage bill PICTURE: Getty Images SO now the answer to English rugby’s problems is...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoDo England need scrum coach? We never did!
Doing it naturally: Jeff Probyn playing for England against Wales in 1991 As we all wait with anticipation for the start...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoBig worry that no English coach wants the top job
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME There are times when I think that nobody really cares or listens...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoProbyn column: Dan Cole will carry the can just like Paul Rendall
Jeff Probyn sympathises with Dan Cole for being made a scapegoat for England's capitulation at the scrum in the World Cup...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoEddie’s insults only mask his own World Cup failure
JEFF PROBYN High earners: Owen Farrell didn’t grow up in a council house with dad Andy PICTURE: Getty Images Eddie Jones...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoEngland must appoint an English coach now
JEFF PROBYN Tired players? England look dejected after losing to South Africa in the World Cup final PICTURE: Getty Images Advisory...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoProbyn column: Stuart Lancaster predicted success at 2019 Rugby World Cup
Jeff Probyn charts the difference between England four years ago under Stuart Lancaster and where they are now with Eddie Jones
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoProbyn column: England favourites but so were All Blacks
Jeff Probyn tells from his own experience how teams look to exploit opponent's weaknesses, especially in the knockout stages
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoTruth about why Mendez decided to punch Ackford
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Flashpoint: Federico Mendez flattens Paul Ackford The first shock result of the...
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Featured
/ 6 years agoProbyn column: Aggressive scrums are a recipe for more injuries
Jeff Probyn airs his view on how the scrum is functioning under the current laws
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoEddie will find Tonga give focus to his men
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME JEFF PROBYN Physical: Tonga’s bruising Castres No.8 Ma’ama Vaipulu England play their first match...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 6 years agoWorld Cup is the ultimate test of mental toughness
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME JEFF PROBYN Early arrival: England players in Tokyo this week PICTURE: Getty Images As...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoProbyn column: Truth about that players World Cup pool in 1991
Jeff Probyn on the monetisation of rugby between the inaugural World Cup and 1995
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoFans love rugby coming to Toon
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk FRIDAY’S game at St...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoTruth about that players World Cup pool in 1991
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Money raiser: Brian Moore celebrates a try against France in the 1991...
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Features
/ 6 years agoFord and Farrell look right call for England
JEFF PROBYN With the warm up games almost done and dusted and the team’s focus set on Japan, what did we...
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Features
/ 6 years agoThis Italy warm-up should be in Yorkshire
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME As the England team head towards their last warm-up game against Italy...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWorld Rugby must act to stem decline in players
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Dwindling band: Schoolboys enjoy a game of rugby for the fun of...
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Features
/ 6 years agoPlay-offs fly in face of player welfare
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME JEFF PROBYN Favourites: Newcastle are expected to earn promotion to the 13-team Premiership PICTURE:...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoEQP system is not working, the figures are a fudge
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME England qualified: Nathan Hughes came to the Premiership before he was capped...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoNorth has become a wasteland
INTRP on May 26, Jeff Probyn bemoaned the fact that the pathway which enabled him to reach the top was no...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoLate developers may be lost if they miss early selection
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME In the balance: England coach Eddie Jones has tough calls to make...
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Features
/ 7 years agoCipriani has to go to Japan insists Guscott
General: Danny Cipriani in action for Gloucester EDDIE JONES has to take Danny Cipriani to the World Cup this autumn, according...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 7 years agoTier Two grassroots need a boost, but so do ours in England
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon, SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk NICK Cain is right...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoEven best club games are no match for Test intensity
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME PICTURE: Getty Images With the...












