Premiership

BUCS Super Rugby

/ 2 years ago

Lavin leads Loughborough to their first BUCS title

By BEN JAYCOCK Henri Lavin put his injury woes behind him last month to captain Loughborough University to their first BUCS...

By The Rugby Paper Team

International Rugby

/ 2 years ago

France & Japan are showing the way

Rugby's governing class might explain it this way: “We’re making the game leaner and meaner by cutting off the excess fat.”...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Time to let Borthwick pick from the best

PAUL REES SAYS THE ENGLAND COACH SHOULD NOT BE LIMITED TO ONLY SELECTING PLAYERS WHO PLAY IN THE PREMIERSHIP England's preliminary...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership Women's Rugby

/ 2 years ago

Quins want to throw fitting farewell party

By BEN JAYCOCK Harlequins stars Shaunagh Brown, Rachael Burford and Emily Scott start their final game for the club today. Brown...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership Women's Rugby

/ 2 years ago

Jones centre stage for Tigers

Fresh from being named the RPA’s women’s player of the year, Meg Jones starts in the centres for Leicester’s final match...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Peter Jackson

/ 2 years ago

Sorry, but we don’t need your cup, Wills

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Of all the trophies dreamt up for international matches over the last 20...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Top 14

/ 2 years ago

Cholley has cast his fearsome shadow over Castres

Castres have reinforced their position as the most red-carded of clubs, a fact unlikely to surprise those who remember their most...

By The Rugby Paper Team

My Life in Rugby

/ 2 years ago

Playing rugby ‘Bristol fashion’ suited me well

MY LIFE IN RUGBY - RALPH KNIBBS THE FORMER ENGLAND, BRISTOL & CLIFTON CENTRE I spent some of my youth in...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Championship

/ 2 years ago

Coventry half-backs the heartbeat with Ealing muscle to add power

CHAMPIONSHIP DREAM TEAM >> THE BEST XV FROM 2023-24 AS VOTED FOR BY OUR REPORTERS Now that the Championship season has...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Schools / Universities

/ 2 years ago

‘Return to Rosslyn’ bid to open up new pathway

By BEN JAYCOCK Rosslyn Park University Sevens launches on Friday and will provide a pathway for Team GB going forward with...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 2 years ago

Young Guns – Reuben Logan

YOUNG GUNS NORTHAMPTON SAINTS & ENGLAND U20 BACK ROW Being the son of a Scotland legend can be quite daunting but...

By Ben Jaycock

National Leagues

/ 2 years ago

Find a style of play you believe in

Steve Hill talks to Peter Evans, below, the player/head coach at Billingham RFC who have just finished their first season at...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 2 years ago

Dowson’s right, let’s be more like French

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME In agreement: Mark McCall and, right, Phil Dowson PICTURES: Getty Images IT...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Courtney Lawes ready to run ‘blood to water’ one last time at Franklin’s Gardens

Courtney Lawes says he will “treasure forever” his 17 years as a Northampton player as he prepares for an emotional Franklin’s...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Podcast

/ 2 years ago

Series 3, Episode 40: Lee Dickson – Premiership semi-finals preview

What a Champions Cup final it was, and Antoine Dupont’s Toulouse ultimately condemned Leinster to a third consecutive final defeat to...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Concern over refereeing

By BEN JAYCOCK Chester fourth official Martin Buck was part of the elite refereeing group between 2007-12 and believes the standards...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Du Preez keeps it in family for Sale

By PAUL REES When Sale signed George Ford two years ago, it seemed that Robert du Preez would have his time...

By The Rugby Paper Team

/ 2 years ago

We can beat anyone now says stoked up Matavesi

By PAUL REES Sam Matavesi knew something had changed when he joined up with Northampton after Fiji’s World Cup quarter-final exit...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Slade delighted to be presented with top award

Exeter and England outside centre Henry Slade has picked up the 2023/24 Premiership Player of the Season award following a standout...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Paul Rees

/ 2 years ago

We will have a full deck of cards next season – McKellar

By PAUL REES Leicester's dejection at finishing well short of the play-off positions was compounded by the sight of their fierce...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 2 years ago

There’s too much dangerous play around the ruck

AS a long-standing player and supporter of local rugby I feel like tearing my hair out when I see or hear...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 2 years ago

I think RFU could have opinions, too

SO the Premiership name might have to go. Premiership Rugby now have a new “chief growth officer” called Rob Calder who...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Lam backs Ibitoye for England’s tour

By NICK POWELL Bristol boss Pat Lam says winger Gabriel Ibitoye should be selected for England’s summer tour after he topped...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeremy Guscott

/ 2 years ago

Bath and Saints to win – but only just

JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK It's hard to see Northampton changing the way they’ve played all season when they...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Gloucester can’t live with Sharks

By BEN JAYCOCK Gloucester ....................... 22pts Tries: Tuisue 58, Socino 76, Clarke 79 Conversions: Hastings 58, 77 Penalties: Englefield 23 Sharks...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Try tsunami sends a mixed message

Peter Jackson looks at an increase in points scored but suggests the figures may be hiding a problem for the Premiership....

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Collier fits the bill for NZ challenge

READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK England finished the Six Nations with a resurgence, but their next destination, New Zealand, is...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Chris Hewett

/ 2 years ago

Talk of jeopardy is wide of the mark

THINKING ALLOWED It happened during the early stages of the 2003 World Cup in Australia, when two of the union game’s...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Chris Hewett

/ 2 years ago

Time for us to see some new thinking

Remember the elderly joke about the flight from Australia to New Zealand? “There’s a time difference between the two countries,” the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Fantastic four face final tests

PAUL REES LOOKS FORWARD TO THE PREMIERSHIP PLAY-OFF SEMI-FINALS: NORTHAMPTON v SARACENS AND BATH v SALE NORTHAMPTON The Saints finished at...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Diamond out to add some steel

By PAUL REES Even someone without Steve Diamond’s coaching experience would have known that taking over at Newcastle was never going...

By The Rugby Paper Team

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

Playing for Tigers a privilege, says Scott

By MARK STEVENS Matt Scott says it was his ‘privilege’ to pull on the Leicester Tigers jersey after playing his final...

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

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Jennings looking for new challenge

By JON NEWCOMBE Still only 28, Rory Jennings is seeking the seventh full-time contract of his nomadic career after being released...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Dream Team

/ 2 years ago

Camborne make impact but top two dominate final line-up

NATIONAL 2 WEST DREAM TEAM >> THE BEST XV FROM 2023-24 AS VOTED FOR BY OUR REPORTERS After Dings Crusaders’ National...

By The Rugby Paper Team

My Life in Rugby

/ 2 years ago

Calcutta Cup win the highlight of my career

MY LIFE IN RUGBY Scott Steele - Former Scotland, Leicester, London Irish Harlequins & Edinburgh Scrum-Half I was sat on a...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Young Gun

/ 2 years ago

Young Guns – Will Jeanes

WILL JEANES - BATH SECOND ROW England Students second row Will Jeanes has progressed through the age groups at Bath and...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 2 years ago

Figallo leaves Sarries

JUAN Figallo will leave his coaching role at Saracens at the end of the season. As a player, the 36-year-old tighthead...

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

What’s in The Rugby Paper: 26/05/24

This weekend sees one of the biggest fixtures in the domestic calendar take place as European heavyweights Toulouse and Leinster square...

By Cam Stephens

Challenge Cup

/ 2 years ago

Challenge Cup Final Preview – More than just a trophy on the line

The final fixture of the EPCR Challenge Cup takes place on Friday night, with Gloucester and the Sharks both desperate to...

By Cam Stephens

Challenge Cup

/ 2 years ago

Powell and Sharks looking to make European history

South African outfit the Sharks sit on the cusp of history, but Director of Rugby Neil Powell knows his team need...

By Cam Stephens

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

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Sinckler the latest England star to link up with BaaBaas

Kyle Sinckler is the latest England star to be included in Barbarian F.C.’s squad for this summer’s Killik Cup clash against...

By Nick Powell

Premiership

/ 2 years ago

It’s away day delight as Sharks bite Sarries

By BEN JAYCOCK Saracens ........................... 10pts Tries: Riccioni 66 Conversions: Farrell 67 Penalties: Farrell 26 Sale .....................................20pts Tries: Roebuck 23, R...

By The Rugby Paper Team