Premiership

/ 10 months ago

Cam Neild: We need to see return of promotion in Premiership

By Gary Fitzgerald Cameron Neild is a “big fan” of the old automatic promotion and relegation, and wants it brought back...

By Gary Fitzgerald

Features

/ 10 months ago

Ryan Lamb’s backing pair of 10s to be England aces

Jon Newcombe talks to the Plymouth coach who says Fin and Marcus Smith will be in charge for the next two...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 10 months ago

George Kloska gets his chance to show Steve Borthwick what he can do

By Paul Rees George Kloska was one of the surprise picks in the England A squad but Steve Borthwick had been...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 10 months ago

George Makepeace-Cubitt happy to learn in Smith’s shadow

By Paul Rees George Makepeace-Cubitt is making the most of Fin Smith’s presence at Northampton, knowing there will come a point...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 10 months ago

Ethan Roots has been our rock at Exeter Chiefs, says Ricky Pellow

By Mark Stevens Exeter Chiefs flanker Ethan Roots has used the setback of missing out on England selection into a powerful...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Dream Team

/ 10 months ago

Dream Team – Alun Walker

ALUN WALKER, THE CHINNOR AND FORMER EDINBURGH, NOTTINGHAM, EALING & NEWCASTLE HOOKER, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE’S PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST......

By The Rugby Paper Team

Chris Hewett

/ 10 months ago

The time’s ripe for a summit of the egos

By Chris Hewett - Thinking Allowed Summits are all the rage right now, “rage” being the operative word, and as the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 10 months ago

Will Joseph leaves Harlequins to sign for Gloucester

England centre Will Joseph will move from Harlequins to George Skivington’s Gloucester at the end of the season. The 22-year-old, whose...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 10 months ago

Sam Riley: We believe we can make Premiership top four

By Gary Fitzgerald Sam Riley is bullish about Quins prospects of stashing some silverware in the Twickenham Stoop cabinet and confirms...

By Gary Fitzgerald

Latest News

/ 10 months ago

Happy to be a Hornet after time with the Bears stung

News By BEN JAYCOCK Top form: Hornets flyer Josh Sheppard JOSH Sheppard believes he has found a new home at Hornets...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 10 months ago

Young Guns – Josh Mann

Beefy prop Josh Mann is using Asher Opoku-Fordjour’s rise to Test level as an inspiration for his own journey inside the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Blindside - rugby transfers

/ 10 months ago

Max Clark signs on for rest of season at Newcastle Falcons

Newcastle have extended centre Max Clark’s short-term loan to keep him at the club until the end of the season. The...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 10 months ago

Davies back to put fire into Coventry

By BEN JAYCOCK FOLLOWING a lengthy spell on the sidelines, Steff Davies hopes to return at the tail end of this...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 10 months ago

Start off with the ‘new’ and finish with the old

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME FIND it hard to understand why there are now so many breaks...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 10 months ago

Northampton get it right this time

■By TOM JEFFREYS Northampton Saints ...... 31pts Tries: Lewis 19, 40; Barnett-Vincent 54, Lead 66 Conversions: Shields 20, 41, 55, 67...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 10 months ago

Four-day camp for youth

ENGLAND UNDER-18 HEAD coach Jonathan Pendlebury selected his England U18 squad for a four-day training camp at Bisham Abbey National Sports...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Six Nations

/ 10 months ago

Six Nations: Alex Mitchell – Fin Smith taking the fly-half job in his stride

Scrum-Halves usually have a reputation for being the bossiest players on a rugby pitch but Alex Mitchell has come to terms...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 10 months ago

Ross Byrne’s Gloucester move: a new chapter for him, but what lies ahead for Gareth Anscombe?

By Peter Ryan – @PeterRyanSports You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. Leinster and Irish rugby could be saying...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 10 months ago

Five countries who have only ever had one Premiership player

By Charlie Elliott The Premiership mainly sees players from the Six Nations battling it out week in week out, with a bit of...

By Charlie Elliott

Latest News

/ 10 months ago

Premiership Rugby Cup: Five key talking points of the weekend

By Charlie Elliott The final round of the Premiership Rugby Cup pool stage took place over the weekend, with teams battling...

By Charlie Elliott

Six Nations

/ 10 months ago

Six Nations – Alex Mitchell’s Calcutta Cup revenge mission

By Adam Hathaway Alex Mitchell is on a mission to lay England’s Calcutta Cup bogey to rest after taking lessons from...

By Adam Hathaway

Premiership

/ 10 months ago

Steve Diamond’s war chest for Premiership relegation play-off

By Paul Rees Steve Diamond has built up a war chest as insurance should Newcastle find themselves in an end-ofseason relegation...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 10 months ago

Fin Smith and Ollie Lawrence happy to be back together at the top

By Adam Hathaway Fin Smith and Ollie Lawrence have been through some tough times with club and country but have finally...

By Adam Hathaway

Six Nations

/ 10 months ago

Six Nations – Great that we found a way to win, says Ollie Sleightholme

By Adam Hathaway Ollie Sleightholme insists England have finally broken their glass ceiling but urged them to take a leaf out...

By Adam Hathaway

Latest News

/ 10 months ago

Tom James: From the start, Fin Smith was destined to make it to the top

By Paul Rees Tom James realised almost instantly that Fin Smith was destined for the top when the outside-half arrived at...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 10 months ago

Joe Launchbury’s backing Fin Baxter for a long England Test career

By Gary Fitzgerald English rugby’s new “Babyface” can go from strength to strength on the Test stage following his try-scoring heroics...

By Gary Fitzgerald

Latest News

/ 10 months ago

Max Malins leaving Bristol Bears to return to Saracens

Max Malins will rejoin Saracens from Bristol at the end of the season. England utility back Malins, who can play flyhalf,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Six Nations

/ 10 months ago

Matt Sherratt backed to give Wales a boost

By Gary Fitzgerald Matt Sherratt has the coaching powers to help remove some of the doom and gloom hanging over Welsh...

By Gary Fitzgerald

Premiership

/ 10 months ago

Josh Bassett and Will Wand give Leicester Tigers shot in the arm

By David Lawrence Coventry ...........26pts Tries: Hinkley 16, Morris 45, Warren 61, Barton 70 Conversions: Mathews 16; Mannion 45, 61 Leicester...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 10 months ago

Premiership Cup: Bristol Bears on top but Bath go through

By Roger Panting Bristol .............................. 40pts Tries: Harding 3, Naulago 12, Mata 39, Byrne 57, Rowson 68, Wolstenhome 79 Conversions: Byrne...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 10 months ago

Premiership Cup: Hat-trick man Charlie Savala takes charge as Northampton Saints cruise home

By Luke Jarmyn Nottingham ......33pts Tries: Green 11, Graham 20, Penalty 48, Valentine 56, Threlfall 72 Conversions: Arden 12, 21; Threlfall...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 10 months ago

Premiership Cup: Doncaster Knights in the mood but have to play waiting game

By Guy Williams Doncaster ........ 48pts Tries: Holden 32, 80, Rokoduguni 39, 47, Bunting 5, Smeaton 9, Wadsworth 57, Chapman 68...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 10 months ago

Premiership Cup: Cornish Pirates off to a flier to put Hartpury in their place

By Mike Sinclair C Pirates .......... 43pts Tries: Price-Thomas 2, Jones 5, Moody 15, 42; Trewin 26, McCaig 73 Conversions: Houston...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 10 months ago

Premiership Cup: Francis Moore finds his range to send Ealing Trailfinders out of sight

By Will Gupwell L Scottish ......... 15pts Tries: Scott 2, Homes 73 Conversion: Wilstead 74 Penalty: Lloyd-Seed 28 Ealing .................35pts Tries:...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 10 months ago

Premiership Cup: Alex Dombrandt grabs chance to make his case for England

By Gary Fitzgerald Harlequins ........................29pts Tries: Hammond 10, Lewies 23, Dombrandt 31, Green 54 Conversions: Halfpenny 23, 32, 54 Penalty: J...

By Gary Fitzgerald

Premiership

/ 10 months ago

Premiership Cup: Trevor Woodman – Gloucester were just more desperate than the Exeter Chiefs

By Mark Stevens Exeter ................ 14pts Tries: Townsend 10, Hodge 74 Conversions: Haydon-Wood 11, 75 Gloucester .......22pts Tries: Hillman-Cooper 19, Cotgreave...

By The Rugby Paper Team