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/ 9 years ago

Buddies? No, these are Championship’s worst enemies

THE buddy-system between Championship and Premiership clubs being proposed by the RFU looks to me like a deadend for the second...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 9 years ago

Premiership stars join England U20s staff

LOUIS Deacon, Ian Vass and Tom Williams have joined the England U20s management team as part of a new agreement signed...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Championship

/ 9 years ago

EXCLUSIVE: RFU made Welsh survival ‘impossible’

By NEALE HARVEY London Welsh chairman Gareth Hawkins has blasted the RFU over his club’s demise, accusing English rugby‘s governing body...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 9 years ago

Jeff Probyn: RFU mustn’t blame ‘incomers’ for increase in abuse of refs

With the excitement of the closely-fought battles for Champions Cup quarter-final places in this year’s competition, it would be easy to...

By Jeff Probyn

Latest News

/ 9 years ago

Rugby opportunities in the north-west

The Rugby Football Union’s Return to Rugby programme is one of many initiatives currently helping sports enthusiasts in the north-west to...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 9 years ago

Tom Arscott speaks out

Following his release by Sale Sharks, Tom Arscott released the following statement: It read: “While I am extremely disappointed with the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 9 years ago

Jeff Probyn: Modern referees are paid professionals, so act like it

Sometimes you get things wrong and then, when you realise and try to even things up for those you feel you...

By Jeff Probyn

Latest News

/ 9 years ago

Ben Ryan heading to Wales

Fiji’s Olympic 7’s gold medal winning coach Ben Ryan has joined the Welsh Rugby Union in a consultancy role with immediate...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Featured

/ 9 years ago

RFU under fire for failing England Saxons

England’s failure to extend their Saxons programme could have a catastrophic effect on player development, warns former RFU performance coach Jon...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 9 years ago

Sale player investigated after leaking team tactics

Sale have made a complaint to the Rugby Football Union after information was allegedly leaked to opponents Bristol on New Year’s...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 9 years ago

Sale investigated over possible Ioane concussion

Sale are being investigated by a Concussion Management Review Group over their role in the handling of TJ Ioane in the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 9 years ago

Sam Underhill joins Bath

Flanker Sam Underhill will be eligible to represent England this summer after his move to Bath on a three-year deal was...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 9 years ago

RFU face revolt over Council numbers

Rugby Football Union bosses are facing a rebellion from furious Council members over proposals to slash their representation on the management...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 9 years ago

Pisi banned for two weeks

Bristol’s Tusi Pisi has been banned for two weeks after an RFU disciplinary panel found him guilty of taking out Worcester...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 9 years ago

RFU statement: London Welsh

London Welsh Rugby Football Club Limited formally entered liquidation today. A new company has been given a temporary licence by the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 9 years ago

Jeff Probyn: Jones wanted an abrasive leader, well he’s got one

Somehow the words leopards and spots have sprung to mind this week, having once again had to listen to all those...

By Jeff Probyn

Nick Cain

/ 9 years ago

Nick Cain: Eddie Jones will stick with Dylan for as long as he needs to

Disciplinary wonders never cease! Two Welsh disciplinary officers – Simon Thomas and Rhian Williams, and another from Italy, Marco Cordelli –...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Autumn Internationals

/ 9 years ago

All Blacks grab £3m jackpot at Twickenham

The All Blacks will be turning up at Twickenham next year after all for what promises to be the richest match...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Championship

/ 9 years ago

EXCLUSIVE: Premiership giants will ‘buddy up’ to save the Championship

By NEALE HARVEY Premiership Rugby could assume control of the Championship as part of revolutionary plans to overhaul the top two...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 9 years ago

Jeff Probyn: Rather than bonus points, let’s regulate the kickers

Reading Nick Cain‘s article in last week’s paper, got me thinking about the Six Nations and why the committee think it...

By Jeff Probyn

Nick Cain

/ 9 years ago

Nick Cain: Clear this fog over North for the sake of others

Northampton‘s attempt to shroud the crucial issue of George North being knocked out against Leicester last weekend in a fog of...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 9 years ago

Martin Corry joins RFU Council

Martin Corry has been elected onto the Rugby Football Union Council taking over from Richard Hill who recently took up the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 9 years ago

Jeff Probyn: Advantage Kruis now with Launchbury left in limbo

Opportunity: it’s something everybody needs and deserves, but not all can use it to achieve their full potential. Injury has been...

By Jeff Probyn

English Championship

/ 9 years ago

London Welsh face job losses to keep club from the cliffs

London Welsh‘s players face an uncertain future after new chairman Gareth Hawkins revealed the troubled club are abandoning their Premiership dream....

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 9 years ago

Brookes hit with two-week ban

Northampton Saints and England prop Kieran Brookes has been banned for two weeks for making contact with the head of Newcastle‘s...

By The Rugby Paper Team

My Life in Rugby

/ 9 years ago

My Life in Rugby: Erik Lund – former Rotherham, Leeds and Biarritz lock

Fighting Mamuka Gorgodze on my debut may not have seemed like the best career move I could have made but it...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 9 years ago

Jeff Probyn: Let’s not get carried away by win over these Boks

After a ten-year wait England have finally laid the Springbok ghost to bed with a resounding win by 37 points, including...

By Jeff Probyn

Nick Cain

/ 9 years ago

Nick Cain: Stay put George, it’s your best move of all

George Ford had a weird training week as part of the England team preparing to take on South Africa. First, a...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 9 years ago

Jeff Probyn: Saracens prove benefits of having home-grown talent

What an unusual start to Europe, with most of the French teams not turning up mentally and suffering the embarrassing consequences with...

By Jeff Probyn

Jeff Probyn

/ 9 years ago

Jeff Probyn: The day I put my stamp on Anglo-Argentine relations

Brendan Gallagher‘s article last week outlining some of the Argentinians’ previous encounters at Twickenham brought back some good, but painful, memories....

By Jeff Probyn

Nick Cain

/ 9 years ago

Nick Cain: Premiership gets richer; others can go swing!

Salary caps are causing strife again, with dire warnings emanating from the Premiership elite as well as from clubs in National...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 9 years ago

Jeff Probyn: Why we should’ve taken heed of those dinosaurs

Well, who would have believed it? It may have taken more than 25 years but the main protagonist for a move...

By Jeff Probyn

Latest News

/ 9 years ago

Chris Ashton speaks out after biting ban

After the decision from an independent RFU disciplinary panel to suspend Chris Ashton for 13 weeks for biting Northampton prop Alex...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Championship

/ 9 years ago

EXCLUSIVE: RFU face uproar over wage cap proposals

By NEALE HARVEY Controversial RFU plans to impose swingeing wage caps on clubs below the Championship from 2018-19 are set to...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 9 years ago

Jeff Probyn column: Gracie Matthews deserves support from Injured Players fund

The second National Rugby Awards took place on Thursday and what a day it was, as professional clubs, grassroots clubs, schools...

By Jeff Probyn

Jeff Probyn

/ 9 years ago

Jeff Probyn column: Shadow of court cases hangs over new season

Usually when we get this close to the kick-off of a new season there is an air of anticipation of all...

By Jeff Probyn

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 9 years ago

Guy Mercer will keep Bath honest

So here’s a question. You’ve just jetted in from New Zealand tasked with turning around the talented but clearly underperforming rugby...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Nick Cain

/ 9 years ago

All Blacks will have to dig deep to keep that No.1 tag

By the time England are next scheduled to play New Zealand in the autumn of 2017 it will have been three...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 9 years ago

Jeff Probyn: Big yes to a Sevens World Cup in between Olympics

As the dust settles on Fiji‘s fantastic Olympic win and World Rugby looks forward to what it believes will be a...

By Jeff Probyn

Jeff Probyn

/ 9 years ago

Jeff Probyn: Academy rejects must have a Championship bolthole

As usual, the letters to The Rugby Paper bring up some interesting points that would otherwise be missed and Jeff Gage...

By Jeff Probyn

My Life in Rugby

/ 9 years ago

My Life in Rugby: Martin Cooper – former Moseley and England fly-half

If anyone had told me when I was first starting out at Wolverhampton RFC that I’d get 11 caps for England,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 9 years ago

Jeff Probyn column: Rugby as a whole won’t benefit from this new deal

With the RFU and the Premiership congratulating themselves on reaching an eye-watering £200 million plus funding agreement, there are some voices...

By Jeff Probyn

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 9 years ago

Leicester chief slams new Premiership deal as ‘flawed’

Leicester Tigers chief executive Simon Cohen believes Premiership Rugby‘s policy of linking the salary cap to central funding is wrong and...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 9 years ago

Clubs face meltdown in spite of cash boom

Gloucester chief executive Stephen Vaughan fears Premiership clubs face financial meltdown unless steps are taken to curb rampant wage inflation. Vaughan’s...

By The Rugby Paper Team