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Brendan Gallagher

/ 12 years ago

Brendan Gallagher: On the march with Trelawny’s Army, rugby’s great outsiders

So the European legislators, God bless, have finally caught up with the rugby world and officially recognised Cornwall as being very...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 12 years ago

Brendan Gallagher and the Championship play-offs

The Championship play-offs have attracted more than their fair share of criticism over the last four years which I find astounding...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 12 years ago

Jeff Probyn: Clubs’ greed over World Cup is simply shameful

There is something quite sinister about the unbridled celebrations and smug reflections by some of the Aviva Premiership clubs’ owners on...

By Jeff Probyn

Nick Cain

/ 12 years ago

Nick Cain: Game’s flashpoints stem from inconsistent refereeing

Empathy. Consistency. Clarity. Accuracy. All those crucial factors were missing for large tracts of the officiating in the Wild West Premiership...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Featured

/ 12 years ago

EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Noon calls for leniency on England’s selection policy

Former England centre Jamie Noon believes the RFU should take a more relaxed stance when it comes to picking France-based players.

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 12 years ago

Jeff Probyn: Reduce top-flight payments and grow grassroots game

The debate by the RFU council this week about the restructuring of lower leagues has opened a can of worms that...

By Jeff Probyn

Latest News

/ 12 years ago

Tavis Knoyle and Sila Puafisi facing RFU hearing tomorrow

Gloucester duo Tavis Knoyle and Sila Puafisi will appear before a RFU Disciplinary Panel in London tomorrow following Saturday’s Premiership match...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 12 years ago

Schoolboy threw bottle at West Country derby

Gloucester confirmed a bottle was thrown at referee Tim Wigglesworth and his assistants on Saturday after an ill-tempered West Country derby...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 12 years ago

The new face of European Rugby

After months of negotiations, the future of European rugby has finally been sorted with all the European stakeholders agreeing the new...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 12 years ago

RFU statement on European Rugby

RFU Chairman Bill Beaumont CBE said: “The benefits will be seen far and wide, from the clubs to the supporters, sponsors...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Nick Cain

/ 12 years ago

Nick Cain: Here’s how All Blacks Test could have moved

There are times when it is blatantly obvious that the standards of excellence now demanded of England‘s professional rugby players are...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 12 years ago

League restructuring vote faces two-month delay

Opponents of RFU plans to reduce the size of leagues below the Champi- onship have scored a crucial victory fol- lowing...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Featured

/ 12 years ago

RFU fail in bid to get All Blacks Test switch

Concerted attempts by the RFU to change the Test schedule for England’s summer tour of New Zealand in June have failed.

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 12 years ago

Brendan Gallagher: 150 years on and rugby’s oldest rivalry just as fierce

They have been knocking lumps out of each other for 150 years now so it was probably fitting that Richmond and...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 12 years ago

Jacques Burger: Rugby’s brutal so don’t play if you can’t take the pain

Jacques Burger, arguably Premiership Rugby’s toughest tackler, admits to being concerned over the long-term effects of professional rugby’s relentless brutality.

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Championship

/ 12 years ago

RFU face legal action over league restructure

The Rugby Football Union faces court action by lower league clubs unless controversial plans to restructure the National Leagues are dropped.

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 12 years ago

The EDRU are aiming to beat the Welsh and take on the world!

The England Deaf Rugby Union team are looking for individual player sponsorships to assist the players with travelling cost and to...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 12 years ago

Falcon Kieran Brookes hit with six-week ban

Newcastle Falcons tighthead prop Kieran Brookes has been handed a six week ban for acts contrary to good sportsmanship, contrary to...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 12 years ago

England Sevens to take on Wales at Twickenham

England will take on Wales in a one-off Sevens international staged immediately after Sunday’s RBS 6 Nations contest between the countries...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 12 years ago

Jeff Probyn: Barrie-Jon Mather’s baptism must be a warning for Sam Burgess

The fanfare that has followed the news that Sam Burgess is to play for Bath next year is once again fostering...

By Jeff Probyn

Nick Cain

/ 12 years ago

Nick Cain: ‘Slammin Sam’ Burgess could be hit for England

Sam Burgess might just be the answer to England‘s 2015 prayers. The idea of an outstanding 18 stone, 6ft 5ins athlete...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Peter Jackson

/ 12 years ago

Peter Jackson: Ordeal of Iestyn Harris is a warning to Sam Burgess

The Welsh Rugby Union’s first central contract, as awarded to Iestyn Harris, amounted to £1.6m with half of it paid to...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 12 years ago

Brendan Gallagher talks Calcutta Cup with Peter Brown

It’s exactly 50 years ago since Peter Brown started taking the sword to the Sassenachs in earnest and, save for Robert...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 12 years ago

Brendan Gallagher: Georgia on my mind as the cosy club stick together

Lacking a degree in applied mathematics I only look at the IRB world rankings once a year and that is in...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 12 years ago

Jeff Probyn: Why I’m backing the WRU in showdown with regions

As if the Greek tragedy of the European Cup was not enough we now have a Welsh suicide pact that seems...

By Jeff Probyn

Brendan Gallagher

/ 12 years ago

Brendan Gallagher: RFU Championship clubs face a vital strategy meeting

Later this month the chairmen and owners of the 12 RFU Championship clubs will lock themselves away in a Birmingham Hotel...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Championship

/ 12 years ago

Championship clubs’ rage over Anglo-Welsh proposals

Championship chair- man Geoff Irvine believes it is highly unlikely the Rugby Football Union will sanction a 16-team Anglo-Welsh league, describing...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 12 years ago

Jeff Probyn: Why didn’t BT deal with the other leagues as well?

As the European row still rumbles along with a myriad of possible outcomes, it’s time to reflect on what started it....

By Jeff Probyn

Featured

/ 12 years ago

Breakaway or die, Welsh regions are warned

The man who created the Welsh regions is urging them to break away and join the English Premiership or face destruction.

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 12 years ago

Jeff Probyn: One hundred years on – and rugby hasn’t changed

There is a saying that there is nothing new in rugby and I think I may have found the proof. While...

By Jeff Probyn

Jeff Probyn

/ 12 years ago

Jeff Probyn: South African link would make Stuart Lancaster happy

Last week I said the Premiership would have to look further afield if they wanted to find a replacement for those...

By Jeff Probyn

Latest News

/ 12 years ago

RFU CEO Ian Ritchie optimistic over Heineken Cup row

Rugby Football Union CEO Ian Ritchie is confident English clubs will compete in a European tournament next season. The Premiership clubs...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 12 years ago

Jeff Probyn: Fans are shortchanged twice in one bad week

What do the RFU and the Premiership have in common? First, both have hit the headlines this week with announcements that...

By Jeff Probyn

Nick Cain

/ 12 years ago

Martyn Thomas – “Mark McCafferty should go – he led us into wilderness”

Ever since the Anglo-French club pact was formed Martyn Thomas has predicted that the Top 14 clubs would fold like a...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 12 years ago

Bath Rugby tackling concussion head-on

Bath have launched a new programme aimed at helping local schools and rugby clubs to be aware of the dangers of,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 12 years ago

Richard De Carpentier faces eye-gouging hearing

Richard De Carpentier will appear in front of a RFU disciplinary hearing for eye-gouging next week. The Worcester Warriors flanker has been charged...

By The Rugby Paper Team