All posts tagged "Premium"
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRFU executives should take pay cut
THE outrageous decision by the RFU to cut funding of the Championship by 50 per cent from next season is a...
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National Leagues
/ 6 years agoLions squeeze past Albanian
By BRANDON HOWLETT Old Albanian…………8 Leicester Lions ….10 LEICESTER Lions edged a low-scoring affair at Woolams as Harry Glynn sealed the...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoRomain holds glory in his gifted hands for France
By NICK CAIN Power: Paul Willemse scores France’s second try ANY lingering doubts that France are on their way back as...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoHeartbreaker Shaun is the difference
WALES AND LIONS LEGEND SHANE WILLIAMS Crunch: George North collides with Gael Fickou PICTURE: Getty Images Flashback: Emile Ntamack of France...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoPivac blast at ref in row over Wales ‘penalty try’
WALES boss Wayne Pivac slammed the refereeing of Matthew Carley after his team’s Six Nations title hopes came to an end...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoYarde hat-trick keeps Sale up with leaders
By ROSS HEPPENSTALL On a charge: Sale’s Luke James PICTURES: Getty Images MARLAND Yarde’s deadly hat-trick illuminated a thumping bonuspoint win...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBooth now favourite for top job at Ospreys
Impressed: Toby Booth TOBY Booth is now the clear favourite to take over at the Ospreys next season after impressing during...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoConsign this shameful class system to history
Giant killers: Duncan Roke, of the National League XV, on the attack against the Springboks in 2000 PICTURE: Getty Images BRENDAN...
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National Leagues
/ 6 years agoS&E distanced from the drop
By JOHN CROYSDILL Sutton & Epsom ..43 Bournemouth……..19 FOR Sutton it was the rare moment when the sequel was better than...
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Features
/ 6 years agoNEWS EXTRA
Mitcham enjoy a dramatic recovery IN UNDER two years since Mitcham & Carshalton RFC underwent crisis talks and faced terminal decline,...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoCaptain Hogg showshis class on Roman holiday for the Scots
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER End of a 17-phase siege: Chris Harris goes over for Scotland’s second try PICTURES: Getty Images IT WASN’T...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoLearn from Murrayfield Doyle urges his Scots
SCOTLAND coach Philip Doyle has urged his squad to take lessons from their heavy defeat to England and use them against...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoDiamond promises three top signings
STEVE Diamond revealed more big-name signings are set to be announced after Sale maintained their title charge. For the first time...
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Features
/ 6 years agoHeffernan hopes for Premiership chance
NOTTINGHAM tight-head Oisin Heffernan, right, is attracting interest from the Premiership clubs looking to strengthen their squads for next season. The...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoPerhaps it’s time to boycott the top tier
COULD this season get any worse? The whole salary cap saga proved just how poor the administration of the professional game...
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National Leagues
/ 6 years agoEsher take Friday-night spoils as Barnes fall
By MATT BALDWIN Esher …………….34 Barnes …………..10 DEFENCE was the order of the day for Esher as they dominated Barnes from...
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Features
/ 6 years agoVolunteers step up to aid clubs caught in the storm
By ROB COLE THE true spirit of Welsh rugby has been revealed in the flood-ravaged community clubs who battled all week...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years ago‘I wasn’t going to mess up that one’
SCOTLAND captain Stuart Hogg was delighted to bury the memory of his butchered try against Ireland – and even more pleased...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoScarratt: England are a team for all seasons
By ADAM ELLIS High hopes: England’s Emily Scarratt TEAMS ENGLAND: McKenna, Dow, Scarratt, Reed, Breach, Daly- McLean, Riley; Cornborough, Davies, Bern,...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoIt’s a rout as Wasps come alive in the lights
By ROGER PANTING First blood: Jack Willis has scored for Wasps THE Ricoh Arena’s first night match in Wasps’ history was...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoFarewell to man who made Munster great
BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Modern-day rugby cathedral: Thomond Park in full swing PICTURE: Getty...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoPremature relegation devalues competition
THE Saracens debacle and the cut in Championship funding are significant, but are these the main issues to ensure the future...
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National Leagues
/ 6 years agoComeback sees Caldy lengthen winning run
By GEOFF BERKELEY Sedgley Park ….10pts Caldy ………………29pts Tries: Cheshire 8, Ailes 80 Tries: Collister 19, Barker 23, Dickinson 26, 79...
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Features
/ 6 years agoRUGBY SHORTS
Chiefs sign Scots ace SCOTLAND scrum-half Sam Hidalgo-Clyne will move to Premiership leaders Exeter in the summer from French side Lyon....
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoChampionship should go legal in this bloody battle
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE only conclusion that can be drawn from the cynical slashing of Championship...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoDragons postponed
STORM Dennis forced Dragons to postpone yesterday’s game with Benetton. PRO14 organisers said the decision to call off the Dragons game...
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Features
/ 6 years agoGenge joins the prop brig
ELLIS Genge did something last weekend that had not been done since long before he first saw the light in his...
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National League One
/ 6 years agoRichmond hang on against 14 men
By JON EDWARDS Old Elthamians ……7 Richmond …………….9 RICHMOND were given an almighty scare by battling Elthamians before hanging on for...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoBlaydon’s late surge sends them to top
Northern Premier THE positions at the top of the table could not be tighter, with three clubs fighting it out for...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoWe have to be careful how we spend money
Bill Sweeney, chief executive of the RFU, answers the clubs’ letter Progress: Exeter were champions in 2017, seven years after winning...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoHogg holds tight to add finishing touch
By ROGER PANTING No mistakes: Stuart Hogg holds on tight to score for Exeter PICTURES: Getty Images TEAMS GLOUCESTER: Banahan 6,...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoFollow The Rugby Paper online…
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Features
/ 6 years agoSlow piper pips off Dylan and England
REGRETTABLY, the Calcutta Cup at Murrayfield has been played out in recent years to a familiar soundtrack of English complaints about...
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National League One
/ 6 years agoRobbins decides relegation clash
By DAVID BEDDOWS Rotherham T …….26 Hull Ionians ……….10 WING Ben Robbins’ two tries helped relegation battlers Rotherham Titans to an...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoImpressive Ivybridge make light of wind and rain
South West Premier IVYBRIDGE used the wet and windy conditions to their advantage to send runaway leaders Barnstaple to a fourth...
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoHeard about this, Bill? Boks losing to your National League
Brendan Gallagher gives the RFU food for thought with a famous match at Worcester Determination: Duncan Roke, of the National League,...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoWe have to keep the faith, say Glos
GLOUCESTER head coach Johan Ackermann accepted that his side were their own worst enemies. “The stats will show that we had...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoCallard fears rugby may be losing its core value
By JON NEWCOMBE Concern: Jon Callard RUGBY must clamp down on the growing lack of respect for officials or risk losing...
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Features
/ 6 years agoTeenage kicks in Dublin
ANOTHER alarm over the deteriorating conduct of rugby crowds has been ringing out all week from Dublin. The Leinster branch of...
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National League One
/ 6 years agoRosslyn win battle of the Parks and keep pressure on at top of the table
By WARREN MUGGLETON Scramble: Park touch down for the claim their first try of the afternoon PICTURE: David Whittam KIERAN Power...
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Welsh Premiership
/ 6 years agoChampions rocked by first-minute Whites try
By PAUL HOPKINS Merthyr …………5 Swansea ……..10 SWANSEA earned a shock victory over champions Merthyr as The Wern took a storm...
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoCLUB-BY-CLUB: HOW THE CHAMPIONSHIP HAS PRODUCED PREMIERSHIP, PRO14 AND ULTIMATELY ENGLAND PLAYERS
Current team in brackets *dual reg Ampthill Karl Garside (Northampton Saints), Ben Earl* (Saracens), Nick Isiekwe* (Saracens), Ralph Adams-Hale* (Saracens), Samson...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoYoung gun Coles aims to make a statement against experienced Bristol pack
By NEALE HARVEY TYRO lock Alex Coles is relishing his chance to shine against a gnarly Bristol pack as Northampton aim...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoDallaglio: You must walk the walk if you talk the talk
EDDIE Jones needs to focus on whipping his team into a Twickenham frenzy rather than continually attempting to wind up opponents...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoFamily first for Exiles star-signing Coleman
By NEALE HARVEY Top of his game: Australian lock Adam Coleman PICTURES: Getty Images MARQUEE-SIGNING Adam Coleman aims to help London...
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National League One
/ 6 years agoChinnor in seventh heaven at Canterbury
By JACK JOHNSON CHINNOR dug deep to overcome Canterbury and Storm Dennis to extend their unbeaten away run to seven games....
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Welsh Premiership
/ 6 years agoBid to beat the storm fails as rivals slog it out
By TIM LEWIS RGC 1404 ……..15 Carm Quins ….15 THESE rivals braved Storm Dennis to play out a draw in Colwyn...
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoMatt: Get set for Super Saturday numbers game
By JON NEWCOMBE Influential: England fly-half George Ford ENGLAND’S 2003 World Cup-winning scrum-half Matt Dawson predicts “a Super Saturday” finish to...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoExiles back up Saints win with Stoop bonus
By ADAM ELLIS Powerplay: Oli Hoskins crashes over for the Exiles’ bonus point try PICTURES: Getty Images Consolation: Cadan Murley scores...
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Latest News
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