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Premiership

/ 4 years ago

Team-by-team Premiership Previews: Newcastle

Head Coach: Dave Walder Captain: Will Welch Ground: Kingston Park Capacity: 10,200 PREDICTED FINISH: 12TH The Falcons are getting used to...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Sale Sharks director of rugby Alex Sanderson

Premiership

/ 4 years ago

Team-by-team Premiership Previews: Sale Sharks

Director of Rugby: Alex Sanderson Captain: Jono Ross Ground: AJ Bell Stadium Capacity: 12,000 PREDICTED FINISH: 9th Salfrord is no longer...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 4 years ago

Team-by-team Premiership Previews: Saracens

Director of Rugby: Mark McCall Captain: Owen Farrell Ground: StoneX Stadium Capacity: 10,500 PREDICTED FINISH: 1ST Saracens returned to the Premiership...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 4 years ago

Team-by-team Premiership Previews: Wasps

Head coach: Lee Blackett Captain: Joe Launchbury Ground: Coventry Building Society Arena Capacity: 32,753 PREDICTED FINISH: 10TH Recruitment was put on...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Lions hold nerve to foil game Hornets

By MICHAEL HOWKINS Leicester L........28pts Hornets............... 17pts LEICESTER Lions picked up where they left off last season as they launched their...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Blindside - rugby transfers

/ 4 years ago

Buyers will have to prove they have the money

ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Prospective Worcester Warriors buyers could be asked to produce proof of funds for between £30...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 4 years ago

Potter hits high notes as Tigers march on

Newcastle ........28pts Leicester ..........42pts By BEN JAYCOCK Harry Potter scored a hat-trick as Leicester Tigers ended their pre-season in style with...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 4 years ago

Olowofela helps Nottingham see off Cambridge

Nottingham ..........29 Cambridge ............19 ■By ROB WILDMAN TWO first-half tries from new arrival Jordan Olowofela helped fire Nottingham to victory by...

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Club Rugby

/ 4 years ago

France set to rock with the best league in the world

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW French flair: La Rochelle may be champions of Europe but they finished fifth...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National Leagues

/ 4 years ago

Barber gets ready to cut down his old pal Sneddon

By BEN JAYCOCK NATIONAL 2 WEST Mike Barber is looking forward to locking horns with former teammate Scott Sneddon as his...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 4 years ago

Five-year deal will give Cup boost – Grainger

By JON NEWCOMBE Steve Grainger, RFU director of rugby development, is confident the new five-year partnership between England Rugby and Papa...

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Club Rugby

/ 4 years ago

Stronge aims to be the top scrum-half in his division

By BEN JAYCOCK Ambition: Nottingham’s Michael Stronge Michael Stronge has set a clear goal to become the best scrum-half in the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Hegarty to head home

LEICESTER Tigers’ Bryce Hegarty will leave the club midway through the season to join Super Rugby side the Western Force. The...

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Club Rugby

/ 4 years ago

Van Zyl has his sights set on the World Cup

By GARY FITZGERALD Seeing Billy and Mako Vunipola battle their way back into Eddie Jones’ good books has encouraged Ivan van...

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Club Rugby

/ 4 years ago

URC ‘blown away’ by TV figures as SA join the party

By PAUL REES Chief: Martin Anayi The United Rugby Championship enjoyed record television audiences last season thanks to the inclusion of...

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Club Rugby

/ 4 years ago

We know what went wrong last season, says Lewies

By GARY FITZGERALD Stephan Lewies claims Harlequins “know where we went wrong” last season and is confident they can snatch the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 4 years ago

Tuilagi set for payday in Japan

By NEIL FISSLER Manu Tuilagi is edging towards a move to the Far East to play in the Japan Rugby League...

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Club Rugby

/ 4 years ago

Top four finish is the target for White

By PAUL REES London Irish are in the Heineken Champions Cup for the first time in 10 years, but scrum-half Ben...

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Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Nadolo to leave Leicester during season

Leicester winger Nemani Nadolo will leave the Premiership champions midway through the season to join the Waratahs in time for the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 4 years ago

Eddie taking fire from all sides after his call to ‘blow things up’

Under fire: ‘I felt the culture was working against us when I arrived’, says England coach Eddie Jones PICTURE: Getty Images...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 4 years ago

Slater finishes gruelling 350-mile bike ride

NEWS EXTRA GLOUCESTER star Ed Slater and his teammates completed a 350-mile bike ride this week in front of crowds at...

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Club Rugby

/ 4 years ago

Falcons preparing to relive the glory days

By PAUL REES The Premiership celebrates its 25th birthday later this month and the inaugural champions, Newcastle, are so determined to...

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Columnists

/ 4 years ago

Jack’s authority shows he’s the lad for England

KYRAN BRACKEN FORMER ENGLAND SCRUM-HALF It's interesting that, in England, scrum-half has traditionally been considered less influential tactically than fly-half, with...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Chris Hewett

/ 4 years ago

It’s Castro’s abilities we should remember

CHRIS HEWETT Back in 2008, when a Labour government was running the country and the Rugby Football Union couldn’t run a...

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Chris Hewett

/ 4 years ago

Suck out the joy and people will turn away

Paul Rees talks to Richmond director of rugby Steve Hill about the game’s future Then it came, the question was why...

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Columnists

/ 4 years ago

Hare’s world record keeps on growing

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Dusty Hare retired more than 30 years ago and yet his world points...

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Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Tiger Jack hangs up his boots for a fresh start

Having played rugby fulltime for 10 years, former Leicester Tigers centre Jack Roberts has retired from rugby at the age of...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Smith: Pal Tommy shows us the way

By BEN JAYCOCK New sensation: Tommy Freeman starred for England in Australia PICTURES: Getty Images Doncaster Knights back row Thom Smith...

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Features

/ 4 years ago

Tiger Jack has all the attributes of a top 9

NEIL DE KOCK THE FORMER SOUTH AFRICA AND SARACENS SCRUM-HALF From a scrum-half perspective there were some real standout performers for...

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Club Rugby

/ 4 years ago

Lam ready to get the Bears roaring back in the big time

Q&A PAT LAM - ON THE RECORD Paul Rees speaks to Bristol director of rugby Pat Lam about changes at Ashton...

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Club Rugby

/ 4 years ago

Western Force in line to sign Rona

Centre: Curtis Rona Western Force have stepped up their efforts to re-sign London Irish outside centre Curtis Rona after snatching Leicester...

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Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Socino heading for life in Spain

FORMER Leicester Tigers centre Juan Pablo Socino has swapped the champions of England for the Champions of Spain after signing a...

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Columnists

/ 4 years ago

A-list West were pride of the north

CLUB0FTHEWEEK BY BRENDAN GALLAGHER WEST HARTLEPOOL Founded: 1881 President: Dave Laycock Home Ground: Brinkburn 1,000 capacity (76 seats) Last season: Durham...

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Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Pivac: We have much to build on

Wayne Pivac insists Wales are heading in the right direction despite getting battered into submission 30-14 by South Africa in Cape...

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Jeremy Guscott

/ 4 years ago

Brilliant to win series but far from perfect

JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK England are clearly in a better place now than they were when they started...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Nick Cain

/ 4 years ago

A veil of secrecy which keeps us all in the dark

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK There is a complete contradiction at the heart of the English Premiership having...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 4 years ago

Rob’s faith inspired a decade of dreams

MY LIFEIN RUGBY PHIL DOLLMAN THE FORMER DRAGONS AND EXETER CHIEFS FULL-BACK/CENTRE ISUPPOSE my claim to fame is that I was...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

All square as England bring down Wallabies

By NICK CAIN Australia............17pts Tries: Tupou 37, Kerevi 48 Conversions: Lolesio 39, 50 Penalties: Lolesio 54 England ............25pts Tries: B Vunipola...

By The Rugby Paper Team