All posts tagged "Premium"
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/ 6 years agoGlobal plan sees club season run into July
EXCLUSIVE ■By PETER JACKSON Mako may quit Sarries England prop Mako Vunipola says he has yet to decide whether to remain...
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/ 6 years ago57 old farts and one nauseous reporter!
RUGBY MATTERS Controversy: Will Carling, right, with RFU president Dennis Easby, left, and Les Cuworth in 1995 PICTURE: Getty Images REMARKABLY...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoDREAMTEAM
CHRIS BROWN, TAUNTON FORWARDS COACH AND FORMER NEWPORT, CAERPHILLY, EXETER AND WALES U21 FLANKER, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED...
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/ 6 years agoScotland centre Scott switches back to Premiership
EDINBURGH centre Matt Scott will join Leicester at the end of the season. The 29-year-old, who has 39 Scotland caps, returned...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoNow ten teams talk about break from PRL
■By NICK CAIN THE plans for a breakaway from PRL by Premiership clubs is gathering momentum, with ten clubs now actively...
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Features
/ 6 years agoMost scenic rugby venue in the world? You decide…
Idyllic: Agustin Pichot Stadium YOU know that moment when you have got to the airport on time, miraculously the check in...
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/ 6 years agoA League of Nations is an idiotic proposal
JEFF PROBYN No way through: Georgia’s Shalva Mamukashvili is tackled in the defeat to Italy in 2018 PICTURE: Getty Images Democracy:...
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/ 6 years agoPivac calls for World Rugby to sort global season
■By ROB COLE WAYNE Pivac believes the current crisis has gifted World Rugby chiefs the perfect opportunity to finally solve the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoEnforced rest period will boost Welsh team
SHANE WILLIAMS Happy event: George North is preparing for fatherhood PICTURE: Getty Images They say every cloud has a silver lining...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoNEXT WEEK …Don’t miss
Leading contenders to be 2021 Lions openside National League One Team of the Season History of Rugby: Post-war glory for Ireland...
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Features
/ 6 years agoVichy rulers order ‘immoral’ French Rugby League to die
Brendan Gallagher continues his expert and authorative look at the history of Rugby Union The History of rugby: PART 7 Surviving...
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/ 6 years agoBennett fears Lions tour may be sacrificed for home Tests
■By ROB COLE Icon: Phil Bennett stars for 1974 Lions LIONS legend Phil Bennett is worried the current fixture and financial...
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/ 6 years agoBloodgate was brazen – with comic moments
Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at rugby’s biggest scandals Winker: Harlequins wing Tom Williams walks off with physio...
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/ 6 years agoBurns quits Bath for deal in Japan
FREDDIE Burns will leave the Premiership this summer to play in Japan. The Bath fly-half, right, will exit the Rec to...
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/ 6 years agoSpringboks ruled the roost in POW contest
Springbok rugby squad at Stalag IV-B in 1944. Back row, left to right: J Oakley, I Van Huyssteen, Kaplan, Timm, G...
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Features
/ 6 years agoKeep your conferences Geech, they don’t work
COLIN BOAG Controversial: Sir Ian McGeechan suggests splitting the Premiership into two conferences With time on their hands, every man and...
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/ 6 years agoRFU playing figures are wrong says Cattermole
■By SAM JACKSON Challenge: Cattermole GRAEME Cattermole, former RFU chairman, has followed his farreaching interview in last week’s Rugby Paper by...
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/ 6 years agoSteve McQueen? Arthur was ‘Cooler King’
Tunnel man: Arthur Rees ON THE subject of POWs it was noted Welsh flanker Arthur Rees who is widely thought to...
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/ 6 years agoFrench ban pushes Cup games back to September
THIS season’s European Champions Cup and Challenge Cup quarter-finals will not be played before September after the French government banned all...
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/ 6 years agoWalker opts for Ealing not Tigers
Return: Charlie Walker LEICESTER Tigers are in the market for an English-qualified winger following the departure of England star Jonny May...
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/ 6 years agoSubscriptions…
You can subscribe to The Rugby Paper. Just fill out the form below and send your cheque for £20, £40 or...
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/ 6 years agoCourtney eyes Lions and foreign pay-day
■By NEALE HARVEY Ball-carrier: Courtney Lawes takes on Lyon’s Hendrick Roodt PICTURE: Getty Images Brilliant: Eddie Jones ENGLAND enforcer Courtney Lawes...
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/ 6 years agoBath need quick ball and a smart 9-10 combination
JEREMY GUSCOTT X-factor: Joe Cokanasiga has moments of individual brilliance for Bath PICTURE: Getty Images BATH fans will be pleased by...
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Features
/ 6 years agoCockerill confirms Jono switch
Deal: Jono Lance EDINBURGH have confirmed they have signed Worcester Warriors fly-half Jono Lance a month after Blindside revealed they were...
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/ 6 years agoMy mission is to make Bath exciting and scoring tries
Q&A STUART HOOPER ON THE RECORD Incredible impact: Gabe Hamer-Webb PICTURES: Getty Images Loving the job: Stuart Hooper Bath’s first-year director...
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/ 6 years agoInspirational Hogg can be Lions captain says Deans
■By GARY HEATLY Leader: Stuart Hogg STUART Hogg is right in the mix for the Lions captaincy for next year’s trip...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWRU must regulate the game to benefit all clubs
WRU chairman Gareth Davies says he cannot fathom payment to players by community rugby clubs (CRC). This amounts to a tacit...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWiese wants to opt out of deal with Saracens
Doubts: Cobus Wiese SARACENS’ move for Sharks youngster Cobus Wiese is in doubt following their relegation to the Championship next season....
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/ 6 years agoYoung Jonah, just doing what came so naturally
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...
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/ 6 years agoBig Lift raises £20k in memory of Garry
■By ADAM ELLIS BARNES chairman Michael Whitfield has been blown away by the support for the club’s ‘Big Lift’ campaign to...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoClubs welcome support of the RFU
Planning: Peter Wheeler RFU President Peter Wheeler replies to last week’s Rugby Paper exclusive THE RFU Council are meeting virtually at...
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Features
/ 6 years agoDragons line up Joe to partner Tompkins
THE DRAGONS are set to continue their recruitment drive by landing Leinster powerhouse centre Joe Tomane on a deal from next...
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/ 6 years agoVirus ends Brock’s hope of a fitting career finale
Last hurrah: Brock James playing for La Rochelle PICTURE: Getty Images On the first weekend of January this year in the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRegionalise National 1 and reduce salary cap
Derby delight: Generate greater local interest with more local derbies such as Darlington v Blaydon PICTURE: Paul Fenwick WHAT a shame...
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Features
/ 6 years agoVan der Merwe on the move
GLASGOWWarriors’ record tryscorer DTH van der Merwe is to leave the club at the end of the current season. The Canadian...
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/ 6 years agoWales make it painful viewing for Red Rose
KICKING off at 9pm this Friday (May 8), S4C will fill the rugby void by rerunning the first of three Wales-Eng-...
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/ 6 years agoGlad I took Dad’s advice not to quit
MY LIFEIN RUGBY DIEGO ALBANESE THE FORMER ARGENTINA, GLOUCESTER AND LEEDS WINGER Pocket rocket: Diego Albanese playing in the Premiership for...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSolomons’ schedule makes sense
WORCESTER director of rugby Alan Solomons made a lot of really good points regarding a World Nations League. However I can...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWelsh duo re-sign
DRAGONS back Will Talbot-Davies has signed a two-year deal which will keep him at the region until 2022. The 22-year-old has...
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/ 6 years agoColombiers were so close to place in the limelight again
JUST as the Tartan Army sang about ‘only one team in Tallinn’ when Estonia’s footballers failed to turn up for a...
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/ 6 years agoNo French champions for first time since WW2
JAMES HARRINGTON Big signing: Wallaby Kurtley Beale will join Racing 92 PICTURE: Getty Images The 30 presidents of the Top 14...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoForgot Fran
ENJOYED last week’s edition however, in the quiz we were asked for two players who beat the All Blacks for four...
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Features
/ 6 years agoTough call, but rugby must help the islands
CHRIS HEWETT Fiji talent: Semi Radradra PICTURE: Getty Images When the Bristol scrum-half Richard Harding led England onto the field in...
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/ 6 years agoNEWS EXTRA
Fans dig deep for the future of Blood and Sand ■By JEREMY BLACKMORE FANS of Cambridge RUFC have rallied behind the...
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/ 6 years agoExeter philosophy inspiring Arscott’s climb with Dings
■By NEALE HARVEY Driving on: Luke Arscott in action this season for Dings against Barnes PICTURE: John White DINGS Crusaders boss...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoStop all this pandering to Southern Hemisphere
I FOLLOWED with detached amusement as the election campaigns of Sir Bill Beaumont and Agustin Pichot fizzled out amid a tsunami...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoBilly gets backing of Six Nations
By PETER JACKSON THE SIX Nations claim they stand united in their support for Sir Bill Beaumont’s re-election as chairman of...
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Features
/ 6 years agoA sea of people hailed Carling like a Messiah
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...
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