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Blindside - rugby transfers

/ 2 years ago

Vunipola trio to depart Saracens

Saracens players Billy, Mako and Manu Vunipola are to leave the North London club at the end of the current campaign....

By Nick Powell

United Rugby Championship

/ 2 years ago

Scarlets pay price for lack of discipline

By SIMON THOMAS Scarlets .............. 20pts Tries: Tuipulotu 60, Lewis 67 Conversions: Costelow 61, 68 Penalties: Costelow 10, 26 Ulster ......................

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

‘Play big matches at neutral venues’

By PAUL REES Danny Wilson’s has backed calls to play Champions Cup semi-finals at a neutral venue after Toulouse and Leinster...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

Graham: Guys were in tears after that defeat but we’ll fight back

Sam Graham believes Northampton can turn the heartache of losing last weekend’s Champions Cup semi-final to their advantage as they set...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 2 years ago

Courtney is so good, both on and off the pitch

CREDIT where it’s due for the Saints’ own Courtney Lawes. For such a big fella he consistently tackles low, plays a...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeremy Guscott

/ 2 years ago

Leicester have the class to rule again

JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK Leicester are not where their fans want them to be – and a minority...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Superior Saints go on 14-try rampage

By BEN JAYCOCK Northampton....................90pts Tries: Furbank 1, Dingwall 12, Sleightholme 21, 56, 66; Langdon 27, 35; Mitchell 39, Waller 47, Matavesi...

By The Rugby Paper Team

United Rugby Championship

/ 2 years ago

Leinster get in the mood for a double triumph

Leinster ........... 61 Ospreys............14 By SAM JACKSON JORDAN Larmour scored a hat-trick as Leinster showcased their credentials of a possible Champions...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

Power of the four musketeers

A common theme of last weekend’s Champions Cup semi-finals was the influence of the four scrum-halves, the catalysts of teams that...

By The Rugby Paper Team

My Life in Rugby

/ 2 years ago

Mine was very much the road less travelled

My Life in Rugby - Mike Ross, the former Ireland, Harlequins and Leinster prop talks about his life in the game...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Lewis-Hughes deal

WALES forward Shane Lewis-Hughes will join Dragons from Cardiff this summer. Lewis-Hughes, who can play flanker or lock, came through Cardiff’s...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

What’s in The Rugby Paper: 12/05/24

The Premiership returns with every team in the top seven heading into this weekend still having a chance of clinching a home semi-final,...

By Nick Powell

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

Saints so close to stunning Leinster

From ADAM HATHAWAY at Croke Park Northampton boss Phil Dowson was left to rue the one that got away after Saints...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Fit-again Ewels enjoying new life under Johann

By PAUL REES When Charlie Ewels suffered knee ligament damage on England’s 2022 tour to Australia, his club Bath were at...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

Quins have to climb very steep mountain

JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK WHEN Harlequins face Toulouse this afternoon in their first European Cup semi-final in south-west...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

Leinster made to fight all the way

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Leinster..............................20pts Tries: Lowe 10, 15, 43 Conversion: Byrne 11 Penalty: Byrne 29 Northampton Saints...... 17pts Tries: Hendy 58,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

What’s in The Rugby Paper: 05/05/24

For only the second time in eight seasons there are two English teams in the Champions Cup semi-finals, and we’ll have action...

By Nick Powell

Feature

/ 2 years ago

How one match at Croke Park changed European Rugby

They say history doesn’t repeat itself but it does rhyme. 15 years since Leinster dominated Munster in front of a world...

By Nick Powell

Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Langdon is quick to make his point

By PAUL REES Northampton have placed an emphasis this season on putting pace in the legs of their players and that...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

Leinster all-stars set for blockbuster battle

By BEN JAYCOCK Having finally toppled their Champions Cup bogey team La Rochelle, next up for Leinster is Premiership pacesetters Northampton...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

Time for Saints to be true to themselves

JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK THE contest between the 9-10 pairings of Leinster’s Jamison Gibson-Park and Ross Byrne and...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 2 years ago

‘For us today, it was do or die’

Quins skipper Alex Dombrandt was delighted after the Londoners' crucial victory over Northampton. “We make it tough for ourselves sometimes," he...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

Leinster’s workload merits little sympathy

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK LEINSTER are worried about the pressure that could prevent them from winning a...

By The Rugby Paper Team

United Rugby Championship

/ 2 years ago

Leinster manage to stem the flow

By BRIAN FINN Stormers ....... 42 Leinster...........12 LEINSTER suffered another chastening experience in South Africa as their understrenth side were hammered...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Paul Rees

/ 2 years ago

Wales on a mission to survive or decline

Paul Rees asks whether the country which has won 12 Grand Slams can still afford to run four regional sides A...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Peter Jackson

/ 2 years ago

Awayday struggles

Having endured more than their share of hard times in following a club which once described itself in all immodesty as...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

‘Ireland in blue’ will provide stiffest test

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Phil Dowson and Leo Cullen first crossed paths in European action 10 seasons...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One

/ 2 years ago

Brumbies put end to ’Canes winning start

Super Rugby Pacific round-up By BEN JAYCOCK The Hurricanes’ unbeaten start came to an end as the Brumbies breathed life into...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

What’s in The Rugby Paper: 28/04/24

For the third time in a row England and France meet in a Women’s Six Nations Grand Slam decider, and you...

By Nick Powell

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

Be quick! McKellar’s lowdown on Leinster

By PAUL REES Northampton had the chance last night to quiz Dan McKellar about their Champions Cup semi-final opponents Leinster but,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Furbank: We were spoonfed too much

By PAUL REES George Furbank feels Northampton’s rise this season is down to a pre-season meeting when the players resolved to...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Bath agree three-year contract for Pepper

BATH have confirmed the signing of Newcastle openside Guy Pepper on a three-year deal. The 20-year-old, below, who came through the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeremy Guscott

/ 2 years ago

Barrett’s Leinster move seems strange to me

JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK JORDIE Barrett’s signing by Leinster on a six-month contract from December until the end...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Nick Cain

/ 2 years ago

Envious eyes fall on Leinster’s recruits

Leinster's ability to cherry-pick two of the 2023 World Cup final’s biggest stars, signing All Black centre Jordie Barrett to augment...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 2 years ago

So which is the fairer?

JEFF Page wrote last week a letter headlined ‘easier to spot the fairer competition’ in which he compared Leicester unfavourably with...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Chris Hewett

/ 2 years ago

Robertson will cash in on Barrett move

CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED LOOKING at it from Leinster’s point of view, the signing of the world’s best inside centre is...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

Try-fest with big issues below the surface

The Paris Games, more formally known as the XXXIII Olympiad, are almost upon us and the Rugby Sevens schedule is full...

By The Rugby Paper Team

United Rugby Championship

/ 2 years ago

Leinster seconds suffer a mauling

By JIM COUCH Lions ............... 44 Leinster ..........12 LEINSTER crashed to a heavy defeat at Emirates Airline Park. Leo Cullen’s side...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

Outsiders aiming for a place in the final

Paul Rees looks ahead to the Champions Cup semi-finals where Quins and Saints are facing an uphill battle BEFORE this season’s...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Peter Jackson

/ 2 years ago

Barrett, the man for every occasion

As a centre-three-quarter par excellence, there is nothing Jordie Barrett cannot do. Nobody in his position can truck it up the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

Nominees listed for top award

Northampton pair Courtney Lawes and Fin Smith, and Harlequins fly-half Marcus Smith have been nominated for the Champions Cup player of...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

What’s in The Rugby Paper: 21/04/24

The Red Roses return to Twickenham! Find action and reaction from England Women’s second Six Nations standalone fixture at HQ against...

By Nick Powell

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Wales legend Owens retires at 37

Former Wales captain Ken Owens has retired from professional rugby aged 37. The ‘Sheriff’ was the oldest ever-player to hold the...

By Nick Powell

United Rugby Championship

/ 2 years ago

Leinster sign Barrett for 2024/25 season

Leinster have confirmed the signing of experienced All Black utility back Jordie Barrett on a short-term deal from December to the...

By Nick Powell

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

Sparkling Leinster get it right this time

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Leinster............................. 40pts Tries: Lowe 16, 60; Gibson-Park 37, Baird 42, Sheehan 56 Conversions: Byrne 18, 38, 43 Penalties:...

By The Rugby Paper Team