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Latest News

/ 3 months ago

How National League play-offs will work

WITH just three rounds of the regular season remaining, anticipation is building for an exciting conclusion to the National League campaign....

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 3 months ago

Penfold glad to be calling the shots for Bury St Eds

By BEN JAYCOCK Focused: Bury St Edmunds fly-half Ben Penfold BURY St Edmunds flyhalf Ben Penfold admits this season has already...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 3 months ago

Too many pointless games still to play

Letters AFTER Round 11, some clubs have given up on making the Prem top four, so with nothing to fight for,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 3 months ago

Wealthy backers leave us in limbo

WHY would a bloke with around £20 billion in the bank be unduly worried about whether he was investing in a...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 3 months ago

Big crowds are inspiring Albion

By BEN JAYCOCK PLYMOUTH Albion captain Jack Oulton believes the club’s remarkable support has given them a crucial edge in their...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 3 months ago

We’ve been too inconsistent, says Heald

By BEN JAYCOCK INCONSISTENCY has cost Barnes a shot at promotion this season and head coach Jack Heald admits their fifth-place...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 3 months ago

Ratu relishing Titanic tussles ahead for an upbeat Taunton

■By BEN JAYCOCK TAUNTON Titans are targeting a top-three finish in National Two West after a statement victory over promotion-chasing Camborne...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League 2E

/ 3 months ago

Adams helps plot huge win for Oaks

Old Albanians .......33 Sevenoaks .............39 ■By GEORGE DAVIS THIRTEENTH-PLACED Sevenoaks upset top-of-the-table chasers Old Albanians at Woollam’s Playing Field. An early...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 3 months ago

This is why I fear for England’s weak underbelly

THE build-up to this Six Nations and how it as unravelled seems reminiscent of the 2015 RWC and, like the group...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 3 months ago

The game will truly miss this rugby man

BRISTOL is a rugby town as much as it is a football one: it has a well-financed Premiership team at the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League 2N

/ 3 months ago

Hooker Haigh is hero with hat-trick

■By BRIAN TILLEY Tynedale...........36pts Macclesfield....14pts AN excellent performance in gusty conditions saw Tynedale outgun Macclesfield to put themselves in the driving...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League 2W

/ 3 months ago

Table-toppers Vakalutukali isopened as Titans’ key

By BILL HOOPER Camborne..........31pts Taunton T..........38pts Held: Camborne’s Alex Ducker is tackled by Freddy Elliott and, right, Ratu Vakalutukali on the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 4 months ago

Game has been betrayed

SO, Bill Sweeney`s grand plan for franchise rugby, which sees the abolishment of promotion and relegation (but with applications to join...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 4 months ago

Plymouth Albion 26-34 Blackheath: The Club rings proudly to prove three is a crowd

Blackheath kept up the pace in the promotion race, with a thoroughly deserved victory over nearest rivals Plymouth Albion.

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 4 months ago

Nottingham chief Alistair Bow concerned by RFU’s franchise plans

Nottingham chairman Alistair Bow aired his concerns over the proposed franchise structure of the Prem in the match programme ahead of...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 4 months ago

Abject failure must not be protected

I HEARD last weekend from a reliable source that Ealing Trailfinders will once again be denied promotion on the ground of...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 months ago

Ward: It’s a pity there will be no promotion

By GUY WILLIAMS Doncaster ........... 7pts Try: Kerr 79 Conversion: Bunting 79 E Trailfinders ..29pts Tries: Montgomery 5, Jones 15, Gwynn...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 4 months ago

Lloyd Williams: Worcester Warriors will still want a place in the Prem

Promotion to the Prem will be scrapped from next season, leaving ambitious clubs like Worcester Warriors desperate to restore their long-term...

By Ben Jaycock

Latest News

/ 4 months ago

Noah hopes The Club can Sloot for their hopeful stars

By BEN JAYCOCK Ever-present: Blackheath flanker Noah Sloot BLACKHEATH flanker Noah Sloot believes the Club’s new recruits have injected the hunger...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League 2E

/ 4 months ago

In-form Bury turn on promotion style

By MARK WILKIN-JONES London Welsh........22 Bury St Edmunds..64 BURY St Edmunds are firmly in the promotion hunt after a 10-try demolition...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 4 months ago

Wales left to rue kick-off blunder

SUCH a pity Wales could not hold on for the win against Scotland to end their horrible run – but it...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 months ago

Bustin knows his way to the try line, says boss Biljon

■By BEN JAYCOCK ROTHERHAM director of rugby Harvey Biljon hailed his No.8 Callum Bustin after he became the club’s all-time leading...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League 2N

/ 4 months ago

Pretty winger Roberts walks Tyne down sweet line

By BRIAN TILLEY Tynedale.................34 Fylde.........................26 A HAT TRICK of tries from Will Roberts assisted Tynedale in enhancing their playoff promotion hopes,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 months ago

Indisciplined Dorking look to clean up their act

■By BEN JAYCOCK Full steam ahead: Dorking prop Nick Barry DORKING prop Nick Barry admits discipline has been the biggest factor...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 months ago

It’s 10 out of 10 in pursuit of glory…

By JOHN BUTCHER Plymouth A ............26 Tonbridge J ...........20 PROMOTION-CHASING Plymouth Albion avenged their October defeat to a high-tempo and exciting...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 months ago

Earle feels honoured to be having a Ton of fun!

By BEN JAYCOCK Speedy: Tonbridge Juddians wing Nathan Earle NATHAN EARLE admits his move to National One side Tonbridge Juddians was...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 5 months ago

Canterbury are driving hard

■By AMELIE CLAYDON CANTERBURY head coach Matt Corker says steady progress has put his side firmly into the promotion conversation in...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 5 months ago

Exeter fall to Bath in final play of the game

BUCS RUGBY ■By JOSEPH TERRY BATH silenced a sold-out Sandy Park to defeat Exeter 20-18 in the final play and create...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Columnists

/ 5 months ago

Nick Cain: We don’t want these front row giants

It is dire news when a player is forced to retire due to health issues, as happened last week when France’s...

By Nick Cain

Latest News

/ 5 months ago

DREAM TEAM

AUGUSTIN SLOWIK, THE FORMER BRISTOL, LEEDS, WORCESTER, LONDON SCOTTISH, NORTHERN SUBURBS, SYDNEY RAYS, JERSEY REDS AND NICE FULL-BACK, SELECTS THE BEST...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 5 months ago

Ambitious Axel eyes success for the Rams – and Sweden

■ By BEN JAYCOCK RAMS winger Axel Kalling-Smith believes patience has been key as the National 1 side’s youthful rebuild begins...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 5 months ago

Pierre points to patience in Esher’s bid to grow

■ By AMELIE CLAYDON Staying positive: Esher captain Pierre Thompson ESHER captain Pierre Thompson says discipline and execution must improve if...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 5 months ago

Doncaster decide to stop being a full-time operation

DONCASTER Knights have made the decision to cease operating as a full-time operation next season. The Knights were expected to be...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League One

/ 5 months ago

Gulley follows a two-Dart finish in sharp final show

■By JOHN BUTCHER Plymouth A ......41pts Tries: Jenkins 3, Oulton 47, Dart 55, 61; Gulley 78 Conversions: Jenkins 4, 48, 55,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 5 months ago

All the grass is greener for Carpenter in Forest Dean

■By BEN JAYCOCK Making progress: Ben Carpenter CINDERFORD back row Ben Carpenter believes the Forest of Dean club are beginning to...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League 2E

/ 5 months ago

Al sounds a loud OA victory Horne

■By ALISTAIR BEYNON Henley ..................... 17 Old Albanians .......26 OLD Albanians underlined their promotion credentials with a hard-fought win over Henley....

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 5 months ago

There’s nothing personal for Penfold in big Bury push

■By AMELIE CLAYDON In form: Bury’s Ben Penfold BURY St Edmunds flyhalf Ben Penfold insists composure and process rather than personal...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 5 months ago

Prop’s script is flipped to help author Albion’s Pullinger prize

By BEN JAYCOCK PLYMOUTH Albion prop Dan Pullinger admits it feels odd seeing his beloved club sit top of National League...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League 2E

/ 5 months ago

Penfold paves the way as Bury show their class

Esher......................... 19 Bury St Edmunds..47 By AMELIE CLAYDON PROMOTION-CHASING Bury St Edmunds recovered from an early scare and showed their class...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 5 months ago

Scottish bank on history to help survival

By JOSEPH TERRY MATT Wilkinson insists London Scottish are using their proud history as an exile club to fuel their Champ...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 6 months ago

Bertie believes Barum boys have the battle for final Stretch

■By BEN JAYCOCK Believer: Barnstaple hooker Bertie Stretch BARNSTAPLE hooker Bertie Stretch believes grit, togetherness and pride in homegrown talent have...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League 2E

/ 6 months ago

Oundle too clinical for generous hosts

By JONATHAN SHANKLAND London Welsh........24 Oundle......................52 OUT-OF-SORTS London Welsh were ruthlessly dispatched by big-spending - and clinical - Oundle. Despite a...

By The Rugby Paper Team