All posts tagged "Premium"
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDeath of Lions captain saw ‘Drewy’ take role in history
Brendan Gallagher recalls the remarkable sporting career of Lions captain Andrew Stoddart ONE of the most flamboyant figures in Victorian sporting...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoJake kept motivated by helping homeless
By NEALE HARVEY Up for challenge: Bristol prop Jake Armstrong. Inset, getting back to match fitness before lockdown PICTURE: Getty Images...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoFalcons are clear, they should be promoted
THE RFU have declared the 2019/20 season over for level 2 and below. I imagine that this was not an easy...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoChallinor relishing new start under Boden
NEWS EXTRA By GUY WILLIAMS DONCASTER skipper Matt Challinor, who’s just signed a new deal extending his period at Castle Park to...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoMORGANMONKS WORCESTER BACK ROWER
YOUNG GUNS Morgan Monks says he is drawing inspiration from teammate Ted Hill as he continues his progress towards Worcester’s first...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWales star Donovan helping Bears get a leg up
By ALEX BYWATER WALES international Alecs Donovan is determined to help rugby players better themselves by implementing yoga into their training...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoReferees need consistency across globe
I AM all in favour of yellow and red cards being issued for repeated offences perpetrated by culprits within any game...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoTragic end to the dashing prince
Royal occasion: Prince Obolensky scores his wonder try for England against the All Blacks in 1936 ALEXANDER Obolensky has popped up...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWarrior Weir glad to be in from the cold
By NEALE HARVEY Recall: Duncan Weir playing for Scotland against France PICTURES: Getty Images FRESH from winning his first Test...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoUnbeaten Caldy urge RFU to honour their promotion
Probyn: Many of old attacking options we used have been lost By WARREN MUGGLETON CALDY director of rugby Gareth Davies said...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoThanks for reminder of glory days
THE Rugby Paper is so much better now that it doesn’t have to report on the big matches! Professional rugby is so...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoKenny’s challenge taught me when to fold ‘em!
THE death of Kenny Rogers earlier this week may have gone somewhat unnoticed in rugby circles but your columnist fondly recalls...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoNew job for Townson
GLEN Townson has been appointed head coach of Ealing Trailfinders Academy. Former club captain Townson has been forwards and defence coach...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRoberts gets last flight out
WALES and British Lions centre Jamie Roberts is on his way home from South Africa, flying out before the country went...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoFans need to know if freeze likely
IF AS Nick Cain suggests the Premiership are really going to freeze relegation and promotion for the next five years to...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoWe must go down,reprieve would cause bitterness
NICK CAIN TALKS TO SARACENS COACH ALEX SAN DERSON ABOUT THE WAY AHEAD FOR THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS ALEX Sanderson says Saracens are...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoMoon extends stay at Chiefs
THE LIST of Exeter’s Championship originals is slowly dwindling, but at least one name will continue for a few years yet,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRFU chief Sweeney predicts losses of £45-50m
THE RFU will provide a £7m relief package to community clubs in England during the coronavirus pandemic – £5m of which...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoFree-kicks would speed up the game
AT PRESENT referees will automatically award a scrum for minor indiscretions such as a forward pass, knock on, etc. I would...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoI wanted to make French proud. I hope I’ve done that
NEALE HARVEY talks to France defence coach Shaun Edwards about his role across the Channel and life under lockdown Calling the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoStirling on sabbatical
Cornish Pirates director of rugby Chris Stirling has taken a sabbatical and returned to New Zealand following the RFU’s decision to...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoHeinz knows variety will be key to future
By NEALE HARVEY GLOUCESTER No.9 Willi Heinz says topflight players must brace themselves for a “new normality” as the game battles...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoThese RFU pay-cuts should be permanent
THE decision by Eddie Jones to follow Bill Sweeney and the rest of the RFU’s top tier executives in taking a...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDomestic leagues can make rugby healthyagain
The new age of the nation state is finally dawning – headmaster Nigel Farage and his senior prefect, the Prime Minister,...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoLawson: I never had a day off ill
RUGBY SHORTS FORMER Scotland captain Rory Lawson says he has “been through the mill” dealing with coronavirus symptoms over the past eight...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoEddie should stay until next World Cup says Tindall
MIKE Tindall compares Eddie Jones to “marmite” but believes the RFU have left themselves with little choice but to keep him...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoGriffiths certain Boks will head west
THE financial impact of the global coronavirus epidemic should concentrate minds like never before when it comes to resolving some of...
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Features
/ 6 years agoJamie’s experience would be a major asset in Cardiff
JAMIE Roberts’ rugby experience is unparalleled in Welsh rugby. That is why it would be great to see him come back...
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Features
/ 6 years agoTomas and Wales can’t be reunited soon enough
Least surprising headline of the week: Ireland’s Australia tour in doubt. Big loss: Tomas Francis leaves the pitch injured during World...
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/ 6 years agoGuscott’s right, it’s time to trim benches says Winterbottom
Questions: Winterbottom PETER Winterbottom has added his name to a lengthening list of people demanding drastic cuts in the number of...
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/ 6 years agoJonny’s try tops lot in Six Nations
THE try of the Six Nations? Unquestionably Jonny May’s stratospheric second in Paris. The England wing looked like a Formula 1...
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Features
/ 6 years agoThat Pumas try cost me dear but it was a beauty!
Nick Cain catches up with Exeter and England wing Jack Nowell as he relishes being fit again Dive and twist: Jack...
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Features
/ 6 years agoAll Blacks B team? Marler’s got it right
IT WOULD seem that famous old All Blacks, or one at the very least, are acknowledging Joe Marler’s fondness for the...
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/ 6 years agoImproving Tigers take down ‘For Sale’ sign
LEICESTER are no longer up for sale because of a lack of suitable investors and the financial uncertainty caused by Brexit...
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/ 6 years agoCVC cash may help struggling regions
By STEFFAN THOMAS and ROB COLE WELSH rugby’s four regions are set to call on government funding and will look to...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWilliam Webb Ellis died without realising he invented rugby
Brendan Gallagher begins his expert and authorative look at the history of Rugby Union Beginnings: The young Webb Ellis runs with...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoEx-ace Richards picks the scrum-halves Eddie should be blooding for England
■ By NEALE HARVEY In possession: Ben Youngs and Willi Heinz. Inset, Peter Richards PICTURES: Getty Images PETER Richards says England’s...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoGriffiths pledges to save Championship
By NICK CAIN Main man: Saracens CEO Edward Griffiths arrives for the Premiership final between Saracens and Northampton at Twickenham in...
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Features
/ 6 years agoControversy, as Scots claim victory after a knock-on
Brendan Gallagher sets the scene for the first ever Test – between Scotland and England Pioneers: Scotland’s squad for the first...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoFoul play warrants the highest sanctions
AS A solicitor representing people in the Magistrates Court, I know how much fairer it is having guideline sentences for particular...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoNow, more than ever, game needs leadership
Accusation: Eddie Jones blasted referee Ben O’Keeffe for sending off Manu Tuilagi at Twickenham PICTURE: Getty Images Never let a good...
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/ 6 years agoRetiring Griffiths must bid farewell from afar
■ By GUY WILLIAMS CLIVE Griffiths, director of rugby at Doncaster Knights, won’t see the club again, or his players, before...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoUse law of averages to settle it
SURELY the fairest way to extrapolate results for the rest of the season is to calculate the average return each team...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoDupont was nobbled in anyone’s language
HAD THEY been thinking outside the box, Fabien Galthie and the rest of the French hierarchy could have argued that as...
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/ 6 years agoTe’o’s season ends at Exiles before it starts
■ By JON NEWCOMBE New plan: Mike Te’o will go back to the USA. Inset: Paul Lasike HAVING represented his country...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoHelping hands
SWING low sweet chariot coming for to carry me home. Swing low sweet chariot coming for to carry me home. If...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoInvestment? Not Maro!
TALKING of France, the glitzy Parisians of Racing 92 were willing to make a handsome investment in Maro Itoje before being...
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/ 6 years agoHow do All Blacks pick a team with no form guide?
Troubled times: New All Blacks head coach Ian Foster with his squad PICTURE: Getty Images The period following the 2019 Rugby...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoCould Champions escape relegation?
THEREare suggestions that there may be no relegation from football’s Premier League this spring, in the wake of coronavirus. With the...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoTrailfinders: We may sue if Falcons are champs
■ By NEALE HARVEY Defiant: Ben Ward CHAMPIONSHIP challengers Ealing are preparing to take legal action in the event of Newcastle...
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