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National League One

/ 3 years ago

Rich will give Blood, sweat and tears for a faster start

By BEN JAYCOCK NATIONAL 1 Richie Williams is hoping his Cambridge side ‘can reach their full potential’ this season as they...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League 2N

/ 3 years ago

Tigers must look to edge the tight matches, insists Barrow

By BEN JAYCOCK NATIONAL 2 NORTH Sedgley Park Tigers missed out on the title by just four points last season –...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 3 years ago

Curry stars as ferocious Sharks score a big six

Caldy ………………..5pts Sale Sharks……40pts By BEN JAYCOCK Sale Sharks scored six tries as they eased past north west rivals and Championship...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 3 years ago

Sharks clash as Sarries host Lightning on opening day

DMP Durham Sharks will travel to Sale in the opening game of the season, as champions Saracens travel to Loughborough Lightning...

By Nick Powell

Latest News

/ 3 years ago

Flynn deal confirmed

SARACENS confirmed the signing of prop James Flynn from Championship side Jersey, as revealed in last week’s TRP. The 28-year-old loosehead...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 3 years ago

Woodward returns to Premiership at Sale

Experienced head: Jason Woodward in action for Gloucester Sale Sharks have signed former Gloucester fullback Jason Woodward ahead of the new...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 3 years ago

Prem XVs needs to be competitive

IT’S great news that DMP Durham Sharks have managed to raise funds to continue playing in the Premier XVs this season....

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 3 years ago

Saracens swoop as Flynn returns to top flight

EXCLUSIVE By JON NEWCOMBE James Flynn is the latest Jersey Reds player to be snapped up by a Premiership club with...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Columnists

/ 4 years ago

Mayor ban highlights dangers of HGH

NICK CAIN The four-year ban given to Chris Mayor (right), the former Sale, Northampton and Wasps centre, after the RFU charged...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 4 years ago

Ford, Hadley return

LAST week, Peter Jackson wrote an interesting article about Regan Grace returning from Rugby League to play Union once more. In...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Blindside - rugby transfers

/ 4 years ago

Gerrard outlines plans for stadium

ON THE BLIND SIDE BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler Boss: Seb Gerrard MANCHESTER businessman Seb Gerrard has outlined his...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 4 years ago

My Life in Rugby with Matt Powell: Call-up was a case of mistaken identity

The former Saracens, Worcester and Harlequins scrum-half Unstoppable: Matt Powell charges through the Bucuresti Oaks defence for Worcester PICTURE:Getty Images Twice...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Nelson: Urgent changes needed to protect game

By PAUL REES Rugby union is on a collision course with oblivion unless it takes steps to reduce the amount of...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Robinson: Grace can be a star in 15-a-side

By ROSS HEPPENSTALL Jason Robinson was one of the greatest ever cross-code players – and reckons St Helens star Regan Grace...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Dream Team

/ 4 years ago

Dream Team with Carl Fearns

Carl Fearns, the Newcastle Falcons and former Sale, Bath and Lyon no.8, chooses the best XV he has played with or...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 4 years ago

Jones will make Farrell his captain again, says Cueto

■By GARY FITZGERALD MARK Cueto believes Eddie Jones will reinstall Owen Farrell as captain in the runup to the World Cup....

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Sharks star Georgie says USA can rule the world

■By BEN JAYCOCK Standout season: Georgie Perris-Redding SALE flanker Georgie Perris-Redding claims there is nothing stopping the USA from winning the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Guest Blogs

/ 4 years ago

Rugby world cup vs Cricket world cup – which event is the biggest?

While football is by far the world’s greatest sport, it must be said that rugby and cricket are two sports that...

By Nick Powell

Blindside - rugby transfers

/ 4 years ago

Top 14 clubs in pursuit of Du Preez brothers

ON THE BLIND SIDE BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler Sale forwards Jean-Luc and Dan du Preez are on the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Dream Team

JAMES GASKELL, THE FORMER WASPS AND SALE SHARKS LOOSE FORWARD, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST 1....

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 4 years ago

‘I wish Conor had been in charge when I was at Quins’

MY LIFE IN RUGBY - LUKE SHERRIFF THE FORMER HARLEQUINS AND NOTTINGHAM FLANKER AND ENGLAND 7S INTERNATIONAL So, maybe the first...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Hill eager to seize the day for England

By GARY FITZGERALD JONNY Hill’s “dark nights” are behind him and now he aims to make up for lost time and...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Red Roses ace Muir departs Wasps for Prem rivals

ENGLAND prop Maud Muir has joined Gloucester-Hartpury from Premier XVs rivals Wasps. Muir, 20, began playing rugby in Oxford and made...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Mouneimne: Defences will be revitalised next season

By JON NEWCOMBE NEW Exeter Chiefs defence coach Omar Mouneimne is confident the tide will change back in favour of defence...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Our skills let us down -Blackett

By PAUL REES WASPS just failed to qualify for the Heineken Champions Cup, losing out to London Irish on the final...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 4 years ago

Ben’s back, ready willing and able!

Injury-hit Ben Curry tells Ben Jaycock he can finally dream of a longterm England future Fit again: Sale’s Ben Curry is...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 4 years ago

Genge and Ford set for Welford Road farewell in Premiership semi-final

Leicester Tigers captain Ellis Genge and fly-half George Ford start their final home game as they bid farewell to Welford Road...

By Ben Jaycock

Sale Sharks centre Manu Tuilagi has pulled out of the England squad

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Plan for life without Manu

NICK CAIN MANU Tuilagi’s latest knee operation, which rules him out of England’s summer tour to Australia, shows just how precarious...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 4 years ago

De Klerk bows out with a final flourish

By ROSS HEPPENSTALL Sale ....................42pts Tries: Roebuck 7, Van der Merwe 15, Wiese 22, 40, D Du Preez 63, Reed 69...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Blindside - rugby transfers

/ 4 years ago

Saints eager to strike a deal for Sale lock Wiese

ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler Wanted man: Cobus Wiese NORTHAMPTON Saints are interested in signing...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Big Joe can be England’s ‘point of difference’ if Tuilagi hit by injury

By ADAM HATHAWAY EDDIE Jones is confident he can get injury prone Manu Tuilagi to the World Cup but admits he...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 4 years ago

Dombrandt driven to prove success last season was no fluke

By ADAM HATHAWAY ALEX Dombrandt believes Harlequins have already made a statement and shown last season’s title was no flash in...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Blindside - rugby transfers

/ 4 years ago

Exeter enter the race for Wade

ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler Return: Christian Wade EXETER Chiefs have emerged as surprise contenders in...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Blindside - rugby transfers

/ 4 years ago

England look to lure flyer Grace into code switch

ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEILFISSLER Hot property: St Helens winger Regan Grace ST Helens try-scoring machine Regan Grace is being lined...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Blindside - rugby transfers

/ 4 years ago

Sharks could be in for a fight to buy AJ Bell

ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEILFISSLER SALE Sharks’ bid to buy the AJ Bell Stadium, which has stalled in recent months, could...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 4 years ago

Chris Ashton: I’m never satisfied, I want a lot more!

Paul Rees talks to Chris Ashton about his insatiable desire to keep scoring tries Chris Ashton is at an age when...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Ground switch ‘unacceptable’ blasts O’Gara

By BEN JAYCOCK PREVIEW... Racing 92 v La Rochelle Today. Kick-off 3pm, Stade Bollaert Delelis LA ROCHELLE head coach Ronan O’Gara...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

High-scoring hookers not good for the game

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK ONE of the strangest signs of the times is that this season hookers...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 4 years ago

Europe’s best too hot for England

NICK CAIN IT took the 2022 European Cup until the quarter-finals before it delivered in terms of the quality and drama...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 4 years ago

Alex Sanderson: Reduction of Premiership salary cap making it harder for English teams to compete in Europe

Sale Sharks director of rugby Alex Sanderson feels the reduction of the Premiership salary cap is making it harder for English...

By Ben Redwood

Champions Cup

/ 4 years ago

Finn Russell stars as Racing 92 overcome Sale Sharks to reach Champions Cup semis

Racing 92 (6) 41 Tries: Thomas, Russell, Imhoff, Spring Cons: Le Garrec 2, Machenaud Pens: Le Garrec 5 Sale Sharks (10) 22 Tries: Tuilagi, Van der Merwe,...

By Ben Redwood