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Premiership Rugby today confirmed the newly approved Salary Cap regulations for Aviva Premiership Rugby clubs. All Aviva Premiership Rugby Clubs are...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 12 years ago

Jeff Probyn: Clubs face oblivion if RFU take on PRL over Europe

Financial Oblivion are the words used by Bath‘s owner Bruce Craig when describing the possible fate facing the RaboDirect Pro12 if...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Autumn Internationals

/ 12 years ago

“Henry Trinder can bridge that Manu Tuilagi gap,” say James Simpson-Daniel and Nigel Davies

Gloucester duo James Simpson-Daniel and Nigel Davies are convinced Henry Trinder is the man to fill Manu Tuilagi’s massive shoes this...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 12 years ago

Brendan Gallagher: Don’t let the big boys’ Euro row put an end to Treviso dream

While the ERC blazers, club representatives from England and France and TV executives squabble endlessly over the future of a European...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Nick Cain

/ 12 years ago

Nick Cain talks to Gloucester fly-half Freddie Burns about his challenge for club and country

Freddie Burns is the sort of fly-half that scares the living daylights out of English coaches almost as much as he...

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Nick Cain

/ 12 years ago

Nick Cain: These weakened teams undermine competition

There are occasions when it is hard to fathom the workings, and the culture, of the English Premiership. Why, at a...

By The Rugby Paper Team

My Life in Rugby

/ 12 years ago

My Life in Rugby: Kevin Barrett – former Exeter, London Irish, Saracens and England Sevens scum-half

Making my 100th league appearance for Exeter Chiefs has to rank up there as one of the proudest achievements of my...

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Champions Cup

/ 12 years ago

Nigel Wray warns the IRB a Euro Cup veto would end in court

Saracens chairman Nigel Wray has warned that any attempt by the International Rugby Board to veto the proposed Rugby Champions Cup...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 12 years ago

Jeff Probyn: Money is not the root of all success in Europe

There’s an old saying which seems to be more and more fashionable in our game and that is, ‘money talks’. As...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeremy Guscott

/ 12 years ago

Jeremy Guscott: Billy’s the boy for England No.12 spot inside Tuilagi

With Brad Barritt picking up an injury early in the season it looks as though the England No.12 shirt will be...

By Jeremy Guscott

Champions Cup

/ 12 years ago

Welsh clubs in talks over Heineken breakaway

Two Welsh regions have declared their interest in joining the new Europe under Anglo-French direction from next season. PRL chief executive...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 12 years ago

Saracens beat Bath to remain unbeaten

Saracens produced a stunning first-half display to beat Bath 31-17 at the Allianz Park and remain at the top of the...

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Latest News

/ 12 years ago

New European Cup named as Champions Cup

Premiership Rugby and the Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) have confirmed the new European Cup will be called the Champions Cup. The...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Young Gun

/ 12 years ago

Young Gun: Tom Chapman – Worcester wing/scrum-half

Tom Chapman is only 19 but the speedster has already been on the books of Saracens, Bath and Blackheath. But after...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 12 years ago

Aviva Premiership round 3: teams

Leicester v Newcastle Leicester: Blaine Scully; Vereniki Goneva, Manusamoa Tuilagi, Dan Bowden, Adam Thompstone; Toby Flood (Capt.), Ben Youngs; Boris Stankovich,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

20 Questions

/ 12 years ago

20 Questions: Russell Earnshaw – former England Sevens coach

You left England 7s last month. Why? A family decision. Last year I was away 140 days and in my last...

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My Life in Rugby

/ 12 years ago

My Life in Rugby: Jamie Noon – former Newcastle, Brive and England centre

My defence was always good but my attack was sometimes questioned. But that’s what I did, I was known as a...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Young Gun

/ 12 years ago

Young Gun: Ed Hoadley – London Irish scrum-half

There are not many better places to learn your trade as a scrum-half than at London Irish and Ed Hoadley does...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 12 years ago

Jeff Probyn: Front rows must discover the lost arts – or perish

I was at Twickenham this week and found myself at a Press conference outlining the new scrum engagement call, along with...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Ten years on, Coombs is overnight sensation!

When it comes to recurring rejection in pursuit of a professional career, Andrew Coombs deserves to be out on his own...

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Nick Cain

/ 12 years ago

Nick Cain: Let’s hope England use attack at key word

The pulse always quickens at the start of a new season, and with the Lions‘ first triumph for 16 years still...

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Latest News

/ 12 years ago

ERC meeting to take place in Dublin tomorrow

In a response the statement released by Premiership Rugby earlier today, the ERC has hit back saying the stakeholders are to...

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Latest News

/ 12 years ago

English and French to start discussion over new European competition immediately

In a statement released today, Premiership Rugby confirmed they considered the negotiations over the European Competitions ended and they were to...

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My Life in Rugby

/ 12 years ago

My Life in Rugby: Bruce Douglas – Bristol and former Scotland & Worcester prop

They say props peak in their late 20s and early 30s but that was not the case with me. I’m immensely...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 12 years ago

Referees in quit threat over RFU’s ‘Big Brother’ plan

Premiership Rugby’s desire to exert increasing influence over referees was behind Ed Morrison’s shock decision to quit his post as head...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 12 years ago

Quins v Saints available for all on BT Sports on Friday

TV viewers across the UK will be able to watch this Friday’s top Aviva Premiership Rugby clash between Harlequins and Northampton...

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Dream Team

/ 12 years ago

Dream Team: Dan Hipkiss – former Leicester, Bath and England centre

1. Graham Rowntree – Growing up in the Leicester Academy he was the most professional of all. Has a dry sense...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 12 years ago

Jeff Probyn: Proposed Heineken deal leaves Rabo with peanuts

I often wonder if Premiership Rugby chief executive Mark McCafferty is living in the real world or one that is dominated...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Groundhog Day, and Gav blinks back into the light

During the course of fox-trotting his way into five clubs over 20 months, Gavin Henson has danced to the same old...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Nick Cain

/ 12 years ago

Nick Cain talks to Mike Ford about his vision for the revitalisation of Bath

Mike Ford is not promising miracles. Bath‘s new head coach has been around too long to fall into that trap, notably...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 12 years ago

Ambitious Nick Kennedy has Stooped to conquer

Turning your back on the superstar lifestyle at galactico-laden Toulon might appear to be mad. But Nick Kennedy insists he is...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 12 years ago

Mike Brown signs on with Quins

Mike Brown has re-signed with Harlequins until the end of the 2015-2016 season. The fullback, who is a Harlequins Academy graduate,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 12 years ago

Craig Mitchell: Shame of my ‘Lions’ punch-up

Craig Mitchell has spoken candidly about the horrific long-haul flight home from Australia in June when he feared his rugby career...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 12 years ago

Nigel Melville in talks over US-based Premiership games

England‘s Premiership clubs are to hold imminent talks with American power-brokers aimed at ‘opening up’ the trans-Atlantic market. USA Rugby’s top...

By The Rugby Paper Team