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Time to ban the curse of the caterpillar

8 January 2023 1 comment

NICK CAIN The stop-watches are in play with a view to speeding-up the game by putting time limits on goal-kickers, setting scrums, forming lineouts, and […]

Selection maze the big test for Borthwick

23 December 2022 2 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK STEVE Borthwick’s brave new world, launched on Monday when he was confirmed as England’s head coach, faces […]

Episode 44 – The Sackings Special

7 December 2022 0 comments

In a momentous week for home nations rugby, we bring you a special episode of The Rugby Paper Podcast. Host Ollie Little has rapidly assembled […]

South Africa’s power machine crushes England into submission

27 November 2022 0 comments

By NICK CAIN England…………………………. 13pts Tries: Slade 72 Conversions: Farrell 73 Penalties: Farrell 14, 46 South Africa………………… 27pts Tries: Arendse 33, Etzebeth 50 Conversions: de […]

Johnson’s 2003 team better than Eddie’s lot

20 November 2022 1 comment

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK There are those who believe that today’s international players are bigger, better, faster, and more skilful than […]

England’s all-court game was not good enough

20 November 2022 1 comment

NICK CAIN England showed great dignity – captain Sarah Hunter in particular – after being beaten 34-31 by New Zealand in a cliffhanger of a […]

Time for ruthless focus and an iron discipline

30 October 2022 0 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK The 2022 autumn series is within touching distance, and with it comes a ready-reckoner for Eddie Jones […]

England facing toughest test yet

30 October 2022 0 comments

NICK CAIN England are the favourites to win the Women’s World Cup, but they will only be put to the acid test when the delayed […]

Baron calls for radical review to save game

23 October 2022 0 comments

By NICK CAIN Francis Baron, one of the most authoritative figures in Rugby Union administration, has called for a radical root-and-branch overhaul of the game […]

Ditch the skulduggery and dismantle the cartel

23 October 2022 1 comment

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK The most critical element of any reorganisation of England’s professional club league structure is that we are […]

Waltzing Dempsey’s false step

23 October 2022 0 comments

NICK CAIN Crash ball: Jack Dempsey playing for Australia against Fiji at 2019 World Cup PICTURE : Getty Images The last time I saw Jack […]

Wasps demise a ‘very sad situation’ – Fitzpatrick

21 October 2022 0 comments

New Zealand legend Sean Fitzpatrick expressed his sadness as at the news of Wasps going into administration, on this week’s The Rugby Paper Podcast. Fitzpatrick, […]

Episode Thirty-Six with Sean Fitzpatrick

18 October 2022 0 comments

For episode 36 we have a full house of columnists (Nick Cain, Brendan Gallagher and Chris Hewett) joining host Ollie Little, with plenty to address […]

Make sure the laws are applied fairly

16 October 2022 1 comment

BOTH Nick Cain and Paul Rees addressed (9/10/22) the high scoring nature of games so far this season which includes a ball in hand attacking […]

Amnesia in rugby’s corridors of power

2 October 2022 0 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Then there were 12. Less than a month into the new season, the demise of Worcester has […]

The Rugby Paper Podcast: Episode Thirty-Three with Mark Evans

29 September 2022 0 comments

Some very sad and alarming news this week as Worcester Warriors went into administration amidst a financial crisis in the Gallagher Premiership. Here to discuss […]

In Sunday’s Rugby Paper

23 September 2022 0 comments

It’s a huge weekend of rugby, as the Rugby Championship reaches its conclusion, and there are some big games in the URC and Premiership with […]

Time for England to get Sevens game in order

18 September 2022 1 comment

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK There is no nation in the Rugby Union family that was not disrupted by Covid. However, while […]

Ospreys can reach play-offs – Booth

15 September 2022 1 comment

Ospreys boss Toby Booth has set his sights on the URC play-offs this season, after his side earned a place in the Heineken Champions Cup […]

The Rugby Paper Podcast: Episode Thirty-One with Toby Booth

14 September 2022 0 comments

Ahead of the United Rugby Championship getting underway this weekend, host Ollie Little and columnists Nick Cain and Chris Hewett are joined by Ospreys Head […]

£500m debt could bury 13-club cartel

11 September 2022 0 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK If Premiership owners had made the same mistakes in the multi-million pound enterprises that put them on […]

Time for England to get act together

11 September 2022 0 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK We are a year out from the 2023 World Cup – and three years into England “kicking […]

England’s Jersey trip leaves RFU all at sea

4 September 2022 0 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK English club rugby has never been more in need of coherent, strong, farsighted leadership as it enters […]

In this week’s Rugby Paper – available on Sunday

19 August 2022 1 comment

Though it might seem this has been something of a quiet week for rugby with the new season yet to get underway, there’s plenty still […]

So unfair that Ireland are on this path of pain

31 July 2022 0 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Ireland have become the green giants of the game after doing what no home unions nation, or […]

Mayor ban highlights dangers of HGH

31 July 2022 0 comments

NICK CAIN The four-year ban given to Chris Mayor (right), the former Sale, Northampton and Wasps centre, after the RFU charged him with attempting to […]

Show us the money men in Premiership

24 July 2022 0 comments

NICK Cain wrote about ‘the complete contradiction at the heart of the Premiership of having a salary cap at the same time as allowing a […]

Lawes the enforcer as England take series

17 July 2022 0 comments

By NICK CAIN Australia…………17pts Tries: Wright 25, Fainga’a 66 Conversions: Lolesio 26, 67 England …………..21pts Penalties: Lolesio 31 Tries: Steward 40+1, Smith 55 Conversions: Farrell […]

A veil of secrecy which keeps us all in the dark

17 July 2022 0 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK There is a complete contradiction at the heart of the English Premiership having a salary cap at […]

All square as England bring down Wallabies

10 July 2022 0 comments

By NICK CAIN Australia…………17pts Tries: Tupou 37, Kerevi 48 Conversions: Lolesio 39, 50 Penalties: Lolesio 54 England …………25pts Tries: B Vunipola 5 Conversions: Farrell 6 […]

Beware promises in the land of the free

10 July 2022 0 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE USA may bill itself as “the land of the free, and the home of the brave” […]

Life in the front row is tough for Stuart

10 July 2022 0 comments

NICK CAIN All Test props have to relish the head-to-head confrontations with their opposite number, and the chance physically and psychologically to put their team […]

England need to rewrite the script quickly

26 June 2022 1 comment

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK The roll call for England’s three-Test tour of Australia reads as follows: two old guard rejects, eight […]

Eddie beware! This beast holds all the keys

5 June 2022 0 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK IN the last fortnight Eddie Jones and his England squad have had a rude awakening. The ‘future […]

France are the giants, Prem just sleeping

5 June 2022 1 comment

NICK CAIN THE English Premiership has just been described as a “sleeping giant” of sport by Simon Massie-Taylor, its chief executive. He got the ‘sleeping’ […]

Sale Sharks centre Manu Tuilagi has pulled out of the England squad

Plan for life without Manu

5 June 2022 0 comments

NICK CAIN MANU Tuilagi’s latest knee operation, which rules him out of England’s summer tour to Australia, shows just how precarious it is for Eddie […]

Europe’s elite clubs are facing trip into unknown

29 May 2022 0 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE European Cup final in Marseille was not billed as a watershed moment, but Europe’s elite club […]

Europe’s best too hot for England

15 May 2022 0 comments

NICK CAIN IT took the 2022 European Cup until the quarter-finals before it delivered in terms of the quality and drama that have made it […]

Bucketloads of tries not a winning formula

8 May 2022 1 comment

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK AT the same time as Bath collapsed to a record 64-0 defeat against Gloucester last weekend, Premiership […]

Overseas players leave little room at 12

8 May 2022 0 comments

NICK CAIN IF you are perplexed by England’s lack of choice when it comes to big inside centres as potential replacements for Manu Tuilagi look […]

No place in the game for abuse of officials

1 May 2022 0 comments

NICK CAIN THERE was a recent commentary that referees are over-protected and should not be immune from criticism, particularly by pro players. It argued that […]

Shake up tired Six Nations fixture list

24 April 2022 1 comment

NICK CAIN THE Six Nations chief executive, Ben Morel, is not slow to pat himself on the back, over-hyping the last round of the 2022 […]

What to find in Sunday’s The Rugby Paper

15 April 2022 0 comments

The Rugby Paper returns this Easter Sunday as we once again focus on the European Champions and Challenge Cups. What can you find in Sunday’s […]

What to find in Sunday’s The Rugby Paper

8 April 2022 1 comment

The Rugby Paper returns this Sunday as we focus on the European Champions and Challenge Cups. What can you find in Sunday’s newspaper? Expert views […]

BRITISH RUGBY RESULTS AND FIXTURES

3 April 2022 0 comments

Host Oliver Little is joined by regular Rugby Paper columnists Nick Cain and Brendan Gallagher plus former England fly-half Toby Flood to review the Six […]

Chairman Ilube is our only hope now

3 April 2022 1 comment

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EUemail: newsdesk@the rugbypaper.co.ukI AM in total support of Nick Cain’s views […]

Toby Flood asks England fans to give Marcus Smith space to develop game ahead of World Cup

31 March 2022 0 comments

Toby Flood feels that England supporters need to give Marcus Smith some space to develop his game his game ahead of the 2023 Rugby World […]

The Rugby Paper Podcast: Episode Nine with Toby Flood

30 March 2022 0 comments

The Rugby Paper Podcast returns for another great episode with special guest Toby Flood. The former England fly half is joined by host Oliver Little […]

No obvious replacement for Eddie Jones, says David Flatman

22 March 2022 0 comments

DAVID Flatman feels that a lack of an obvious replacement is a key reason as to why England won’t replace Eddie Jones as head coach. […]

The Rugby Paper Podcast: Episode Eight with David Flatman

21 March 2022 0 comments

Former Bath, Saracens and England prop David Flatman joins host Oliver Little and The Rugby Paper columnists Brendan Gallagher and Nick Cain to dissect the […]

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