All posts tagged "Premium"
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoOllie’s upping game for elusive first cap
By NEALE HARVEY Next in line: Gloucester wing Ollie Thorley PICTURE: Getty Images GLOUCESTER flyer Ollie Thorley has been given work-ons...
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Features
/ 6 years agoLozowski opts to join Toulouse
Channel-hopper: Alex Lozowski is off to France SARACENS back Alex Lozowski is heading to play in France next season after agreeing...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoSubscriptions…
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Features
/ 6 years agoSaint-Andre calls for cup shootout to decide title
In the current health crisis in France professional rugby has, like all sports, taken a large backward step. Clubs, coaches and...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoDREAMTEAM
ETHAN WALLER, WORCESTER & FORMER NORTHAMPTON, PROP, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST… 1. Alex Waller –...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBaxter delight as ‘odd-bod’ Harry signs on
By NEALE HARVEY ENGLANDtighthead Harry Williams has ended speculation that he might leave Exeter Chiefs by extending his stay in Devon,...
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Features
/ 6 years agoGareth gem for Baa-baas still sets the benchmark
Brendan Gallagher kicks off our sparkling TOP 20 series with his view of the best tries ever scored TOP 20 …TRIES...
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Features
/ 6 years agoRoberts targets swansong at hometown club Cardiff
By STEFFAN THOMAS JAMIE Roberts says he wants to end his career by giving back to Welsh rugby with Cardiff Blues...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoThis rush to closure just creates more confusion
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THERE is a growing sense that some of those in key administrative roles...
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Features
/ 6 years agoLydiate is crucial to Ospreys’ revival
Key signing: Ospreys blindside Dan Lydiate PICTURE: Getty Images DAN Lydiate could prove to be the signing of next season for...
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Features
/ 6 years agoAll smiles, as PC Perry’s helmet stars at Twickers
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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Features
/ 6 years agoParry puts his faith in Ospreys
SAM Parry has turned down a move to Cardiff Blues by committing to Ospreys for another season. Hooker has been an...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoPaywall could kill off rugby audience
THE government’s rejection of calls from the cross-party Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee to give the Six Nations a...
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Features
/ 6 years agoHigh time Sale got the recognition they merit
BRENDAN GALLAGHER RUGBY MATTERS Underappreciated: Sale’s Premiership-winning team of 2006 PICTURE: Getty Images A weekly look at the game’s other talking...
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Features
/ 6 years agoAdvantage England in hung parliament
NICK CAIN ASSESSES THE SIX NATIONS ACTION AS THE TOURNAMENT GOES INTO QUARANTINE TE Coronavirus Championship, otherwise known as the 2020...
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National League 2N
/ 6 years agoCicognini settles it after locked second half
By JOHN UTLEY Wharfedale ....19 Stourbridge ....15 WHARFEDALE delighted the home support as they returned to winning ways in a very...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoMet make it five on the bounce with win at Neath
Championship & Division One round-up CROSS Keys moved into the top half of the Championship table with a 13-0 win at...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoLam takes my fancy
ENGLANDhave shown no reason in the Six Nations to believe they are making progress to become the greatest rugby team ever....
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Features
/ 6 years agoJapan may be denied their new glory run
WORLD Rugby released their official viewing figures for RWC2019 this week and they make impressive reading, with the headline figure probably...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoAll systems go still at The Rugby Paper
Rugby Union may be in quarantine along with most other national sports in the UK, but here at The Rugby Paper...
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National League 2N
/ 6 years agoBarber’s a demon but Park find their form
By STEVE SMITH Sedgley Park....32pts Loughborough ..14pts James Connor breaks the line on the way to his try for Sedgley Park...
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Sevens World Series
/ 6 years agoEmery’s try wins nail-biter against USA
By ADAM ELLIS Hero: Tom Emery scores for England against USA ENGLAND finished with two wins to claim fifth place in...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoKeep your thug rules, thanks
I’VE watched a lot of Six Nations and have come to the conclusion that international rugby is now played between 30...
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Features
/ 6 years agoCuisinier Christian has potential to best World Cup winners
Delicate touch: Christian Day CHRISTIAN Day – a replacement for Sale in the 2006 Premiership final – is shaping up very...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoRedistribute funds to aid grassroots says Maynard
By NEALE HARVEY Concern: Phil Maynard PREMIERSHIP Rugby must be made to share the pain of RFU funding cuts to protect...
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National League 2N
/ 6 years agoField’s power game carries them closer to safety
By ANDREW SMITH Huddersfield ..31 Tynedale........15 HUDDERSFIELD gave their survival hopes a major boost with a well deserved and hard-fought bonus-point...
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Sevens World Series
/ 6 years agoMarler’s hefty ban makes a mockery of the system
JEFF PROBYN Tomfoolery: Joe Marler’s international career may be at an end following his 10-week ban A FRONT ROW VIEW OF...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRugby has to give way if BBC face budget cut
I LIKE the BBC. I think it is one of our nation’s assets. This, unfortunately, is not the unanimous opinion of...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoLambert aims for champagne finish at Quins
NEALE HARVEY talks to a Premiership warrior who has silverware on his mind as his influence on the game through the...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoSubscriptions…
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSix-try win for Wimbledon
London & South East Premier WIMBLEDONran out 40- 10 winners in a rearranged match away to Tunbridge Wells. The visitors took...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoBilly will miss Dublin trip but McCall’s glad to have Mako
By GARY FITZGERALD Injured: Billy Vunipola, Mark McCall MARK McCall is resigned to being without Billy Vunipola for Saracens’ crunch European...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRival clubs cashing in
AN ill wind always blows somebody some good! The very clubs that decided the fate of Saracens appear to be very...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoShame Sinckler’s off but salary cap is a must
AS RPA chairman, Mark Lambert looks at the key issues. What’s your view on the salary cap? The salary cap is...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWhen Fran folded Paper, Slam was on
Brendan Gallagher looks back exactly 40 years to England’s great Grand Slam of 1980 Europe’s best: The 1980 England squad and,...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSheffield DoR Tomlinson hoping for summer rugby
Midlands Premier PLAY-OFF contenders Sheffield are hoping the Midlands season is completed after they recorded a 28-21 victory over Nuneaton. Matthew...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoGive more credit to Academies – Wilks
By NEALE HARVEY Success story: Leicester scrumhalf Ben White PICTURES: Getty Images Progress: Dave Wilks INCREASING salary cap credits for homegrown...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoTuilagi ban is a traversty and an insult to courage
NICK CAIN Impact: Manu Tuilagi crashes into George North as the Wales winger is tackled by Henry Slade PICTURE: Getty Images...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoMarland hopes trophy run puts him on path to Japan
By JON NEWCOMBE Top of his game: Marland Yarde MARLAND Yarde was a 13-year-old schoolboy at Whitgift when Sale last won...
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Features
/ 6 years ago1980 GRAND SLAM HEROES…
15 Dusty Hare (Leicester) Took 11 Test seasons to accumulate 25 Test caps. The selectors said he was too slow –...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoBlaydon power on as Sandal stay in fight
Northern Premier BLAYDON maintain pole position at the top of the league following a 32-5 win away at bottom-of-the-table Ilkley, who...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoBrink bolsters Tigers pack
LEICESTER have signed South African back rower Cyle Brink from the Lions for next season. Brink, 26, has spent four seasons...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoGriffiths could be the man to save Tier 2
ED Griffiths could be making a comeback as a troubleshooter for the Championship, with the aim of securing finance for the...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoGaoseb desperate to end his long wait for victory
By JON NEWCOMBE WHEN the last win you’ve been involved in was over two years ago, Yorkshire Carnegie are probably not...
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National Leagues
/ 6 years agoIt’s Fergie time with double in triumph
By STEVE SMITH Sale ..................26 Moseley ..........10 SALE FC made it back-toback victories with a bonus-point triumph against Birmingham Moseley under...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoDramatic win for Exmouth
South West Premier FANS were treated to an entertaining game at Exmouth after a George Meadows penalty was the deciding factor...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoNicky heads home
TIGHTHEAD Nicky Thomas is returning to Wales to rejoin Ospreys next season. The 25- year-old has signed a two-year deal after...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoItoje shows RFU should lift the ban
THE idea that Maro Itoje should be allowed to play on loan for Racing 92 in France’s Top 14 next season,...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoPools panel may decide final league positions
By NEALE HARVEY Huge cost: Alistair Bow SOCCER-STYLE ‘pools panels’ could be convened to determine National League promotion and relegation issues...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoJosh banks on England boys to get attack firing
By NEALE HARVEY Attacking threat: Anthony Watson scores for England against Wales PICTURE: Getty Images Lock star: Josh McNally BATH second...














