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English Gallagher Premiership

/ 2 years ago

You write off Saracens at your peril – Grewcock

By BEN JAYCOCK Danny Grewcock has joined Paul Sackey as the second player to be inducted into the Premiership Rugby Hall...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Young guns who are shining for the Chiefs

Paul Rees talks to Exeter DoR Rob Baxter to find out how his investment in homegrown talent is paying off at...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Poor defence cost us, admits Wilson

By NICK POWELL Harlequins head coach Danny Wilson has admitted poor defence cost them a place in the play-offs after a...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Cloete & Van Velze to retire at end of season

Bath's South African forwards GJ van Velze and Chris Cloete will retire from rugby at the end of the season. Van...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 2 years ago

Resting players for big games isn’t on

JEFF PROBYN - A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME It was just a couple of weeks ago that certain people...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Young gun Baxter headlines Premiership Team of the Season

By Ben Jaycock Tyro Harlequins prop Fin Baxter is the headline selection in Premiership Rugby’s 2023/24 team of the season which...

By Cam Stephens

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Slade awarded Premiership Player of the Season

By BEN JAYCOCK Exeter Chiefs and England star Henry Slade has picked up the 2023/24 Premiership Rugby Player of the Season...

By Cam Stephens

Challenge Cup

/ 2 years ago

Ludlow’s up for the Sharks challenge

By BEN JAYCOCK Despite suffering a 14-try whitewash last weekend and finishing second bottom in the Premiership for a second straight...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Championship

/ 2 years ago

Uzokwe: Championship has got tougher to win

By BEN JAYCOCK Despite not getting the chance to secure promotion to the Premiership, back rower Simon Uzokwe says Ealing Trailfinders’...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Williams is still the centre of attention

By PAUL REES When Bristol signed Benhard Janse van Rensburg and Virimi Vakatawa last year to boost their midfield, few would...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Hendy: We want special send off for top Saints

By BEN JAYCOCK Northampton flyer George Hendy has enjoyed a breakthrough year with the table toppers and while the likes of...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

Ex-Wasps buzzing for European glory

By BEN JAYCOCK Thibaud Flament has risen from Loughborough University’s fifth team to become a French international with the intention of...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Dream Team

/ 2 years ago

DREAM TEAM

JAMIE ELLIOTT, THE BEDFORD BLUES AND FORMER NORTHAMPTON AND ZEBRE CENTRE, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST......

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeremy Guscott

/ 2 years ago

Sarries’ star exits generate extra fuel

JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK Saracens are the defending Premiership champions, and Mark McCall’s side are looking more and...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Ruthless Bath crush Saints on perfect day

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Bath .................................... 43pts Tries: Bayliss 7, Muir 14, 63; Dunn 42, Spencer 53, Barbeary 60 Conversions: Russell 8,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Johann savours ‘special’ moment

Bath head of rugby Johann van Graan is proud of his side’s turnaround this season but says the job is not...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Falcons’ misery but hosts restore pride

By PAUL REES Gloucester ....................... 54pts Tries: Mercer 10, Harris 18, C Atkinson 20, Thorley 31, Blake 42, May 48, Hearle...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Nick Cain

/ 2 years ago

Top flight losing its soul, and integrity

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK GLOUCESTER’S 90-0 capitulation to Northampton at Franklin’s Gardens last weekend reflected all that...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Blues coach role for Cruse

NORTHAMPTON hooker Tom Cruse will join the coaching team at Bedford when he retires at the end of the season. The...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Chris Hewett

/ 2 years ago

Too many coaches taking liberties in selection

It should not be difficult to distinguish between a Premiership rugby match and a game of county cricket: one, full of...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 2 years ago

‘We have to manage load’

PAUL REES EXAMINES THE FALLOUT FROM GLOUCESTER’S 90-0 HIDING BY NORTHAMPTON SAINTS George Skivington has had better weeks. He knew his...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 2 years ago

Lawes is level with England’s greatest

RUGBY MATTERS Members of the Rugby Writers club have recently been voting for the Pat Marshall award which we scribes use...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National Leagues

/ 2 years ago

Southend’s Twickenham memories will last a lifetime

By CHRIS PHILLIPS A resurgent Southend Saxons are celebrating a superb league and cup double following their first ever Twickenham triumph....

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

Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Game in England is good, says Ford

By PAUL REES George Ford feels English rugby is on the up after a testing couple of years on and off...

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

Bill Beaumont Cup

/ 2 years ago

Dream Team with Alex Loney

The former Leicester, Nottingham, Avignon, Rotherham and Fylde hooker, now head coach of Fylde & Lancashire, chooses the best XV he...

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

Premiership

/ 2 years ago

We had a job to do and we went out and did it, says Dowson

NORTHAMPTON director of rugby Phil Dowson felt sympathy for Gloucester after their 14-try drubbing but said his side had a job...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Nick Cain

/ 2 years ago

Time to put an end to marquee players

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK ARE marquee players, or coaches, worth it, or are they just a Premiership...

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

National League One

/ 2 years ago

Northampton swoop to sign England U20s fly-half

By BEN JAYCOCK Northampton have signed England U20s fly-half George Makepeace-Cubitt. Having endured the hardship of London Irish folding, the tyro...

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

Southend go out on a high

Regional 2 Championship final Northampton Old Scouts ...26 Southend Saxons ...35 SOUTHEND showed true grit to twice come from behind and...

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

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Ford loving dramatic end to the season

By PAUL EDDISON George Ford is relishing the ‘do-or-die’ nature of the Gallagher Premiership Rugby run-in as his Sale Sharks side...

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

Smith: I’m better at handling mistakes

By JON NEWCOMBE Fin Smith credits his superb form this season to a mental mind-shift that enables him to now take...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Murley admits he’d be tempted to try out league

By STEFAN FROST Cadan Murley has revealed he could cross over codes once he has fulfilled his trophy-winning ambitions at Harlequins....

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