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Super Rugby Americas Round Seven Review: Pampas deliver warning to rest of the league with dominant display

By Joe Santamaria Pampas 72-14 Cobras Pampas delivered an ominous warning to the rest of the competition with a 72-14 win...

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/ 1 year ago

Handre Pollard determined to leave Leicester Tigers on a high

By Paul Rees Handre Pollard is determined to leave Leicester on a high having decided to return to South Africa next...

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Hoskins Sotutu poses a difficult question

What's the difference between an MP like Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, chair of the Public Accounts Committee at Westminster, and an MVP...

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Features

/ 1 year ago

TYLEROFFIAH

YOUNG GUNS BATH & ENGLAND U20 WING RUGBY has always been a massive part of Tyler Offiah’s life given he’s the...

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/ 1 year ago

L’borough to take on Hartpury in final

BUCS RUGBY By BEN JAYCOCK LOUGHBOROUGH will take on Hartpury in the men’s BUCS Super Rugby Cup final at Rodney Parade....

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Chiefs take charge in battle of top two

Super Rugby Pacific round-up By BEN JAYCOCK THE Chiefs continue to be Super Rugby’s pacesetters after they saw off Queensland Reds...

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Syston build on local talent for promotion

By Ben Jaycock Fully amateur Syston are enjoying a double promotion with the first team stepping up to the National Leagues...

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/ 1 year ago

Felipe Etcheverry’s journey from the World Cup to loving amateur rugby in Uruguay

By Joe Santamaria For exclusive stories and all the detailed rugby news you need, subscribe to The Rugby Paper website, digital edition, or...

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/ 1 year ago

Super Rugby Americas: Tarucas produce historic performance over reigning champions Dogos

By Joe Santamaria For exclusive stories and all the detailed rugby news you need, subscribe to The Rugby Paper website, digital edition, or...

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/ 1 year ago

Danny Wilson keen to keep Leigh Halfpenny at Harlequins

By Gary Fitzgerald Leigh Halfpenny will be hanging around The Stoop a lot longer if Danny Wilson gets his way having...

By Gary Fitzgerald

Features

/ 1 year ago

Young Guns – Oscar Berkerleg

YOUNG GUNS EXETER & ENGLAND U20 LOCK Energetic lock Oscar Berkerleg credits his father and brother for setting the necessary standards...

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/ 1 year ago

Cardiff Met’s shock for Bath

BUCS RUGBY ■By BEN JAYCOCK BUCS Super Rugby entered the quarter-finals phase this week with sixth seeds Cardiff Met causing the...

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/ 1 year ago

Super Rugby Pacific: Ardie Savea leads the way to trounce Crusaders

By Ben Jaycock Moana Pasifika beat serial tournament winners the Crusaders for the first time in their history as talisman Ardie...

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/ 1 year ago

Red-hot Thomas Rowe is just loving his rugby life at Loughborough

By Chris Collyer Thomas Rowe added another four tries to his total away at Clifton last weekend, and the electric winger...

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Crusaders blow away champions

World Rugby Super Rugby Pacific round-up By BEN JAYCOCK THE Crusaders sent a message to the rest of the competition by...

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/ 1 year ago

Super Rugby Americas: Round Five Review

Joe Santamaria reviews the fifth round of the SRA, in which Selknam outgunned Tarucas in an entertaining encounter Pampas 19-7 Yacare...

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/ 1 year ago

Loughborough take title in their stride

By TOM JEFFREYS LOUGHBOROUGH hammered Swansea to reclaim the BUCS Super Rugby title, despite intense pressure from Hartpury. It was one...

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/ 1 year ago

Chiefs are too good for Blues in thriller

By BEN JAYCOCK Hat-trick man: Len Ititau on the attack for Brumbies PICTURES: Getty Images IN a repeat of last season’s...

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/ 1 year ago

Super Rugby Americas: Round Four Review

Joe Santamaria reviews an enthralling round four, as champions Dogos finally found their flow to grab their first win of the...

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BUCS Super Rugby

/ 1 year ago

Bucs Super Rugby: Loughborough made to fight all the way

Bucs Rugby By Tom Jeffreys Loughborough survived the biggest threat to their league title hopes by the skin of their teeth...

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/ 1 year ago

Players must pack their own parachute

Coach to coach Steve Hill talks to Paul Westgate, below, the head of performance rugby at the University of Nottingham How...

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/ 1 year ago

Larkham delight as Brumbies rule

By BEN JAYCOCK Try time: Declan Meredith dives over to score for Brumbies against Blues and, inset, head coach Stephen Larkham...

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/ 1 year ago

Super Rugby Americas: Round Three Review

By Joe Santamaria Pamoas 24 – 10 Peñarol Last year’s beaten finalists, Pampas, put the rest of the competition on notice with...

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Schools / Universities

/ 1 year ago

Treble for Preen as L’borough power on

BUCS RUGBY ■By TOM JEFFREYS LOUGHBOROUGH are two games away from the BUCS Super Rugby league title after they overcame their...

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/ 1 year ago

Super Rugby Americas – Round Two Summary

By Joe Santamaria Peñarol 50 – 15 Yacare Two-time champions, Peñarol, continued their strong start to the Super Rugby Americas season with...

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Chris Hewett

/ 1 year ago

The time’s ripe for a summit of the egos

By Chris Hewett - Thinking Allowed Summits are all the rage right now, “rage” being the operative word, and as the...

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Features

/ 1 year ago

Young Guns – Josh Mann

Beefy prop Josh Mann is using Asher Opoku-Fordjour’s rise to Test level as an inspiration for his own journey inside the...

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Schools / Universities

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Hartpury, L’borough duel for the title

BUCS RUGBY ■By TOM JEFFREYS IT’S all to play for as BUCS Super Rugby enters the final stages of another enthralling...

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/ 1 year ago

Super Rugby Pacific: Highlanders add to Blues misery

By Ben Jaycock The Blues have suffered back-to-back defeats to start their title defence with 13-man Highlanders springing an almighty surprise....

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/ 1 year ago

Super Rugby Americas: Round One Review

By Joe Santamaria The new Super Rugby Americas season exploded into life over the weekend as South America’s premier club competition...

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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One

/ 1 year ago

Super Rugby Pacific: Five talking points from opening weekend

By Charlie Elliott One of the best and most entertaining leagues in rugby union returned this weekend, with Super Rugby Pacific...

By Charlie Elliott

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/ 1 year ago

Swansea end their long wait for a win

BUCS RUGBY ■ By TOM JEFFREYS SWANSEA reignited their season with a bonus point win over rivals Cardiff while Exeter’s home...

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/ 1 year ago

Super Rugby Pacific 2025: New Zealand’s Dominance Challenged by Rising Teams

By Nemani Nadolo As Super Rugby Pacific enters its 2025 season, New Zealand teams continue to hold the upper hand, but...

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/ 1 year ago

Hartpury & Exeter back in running

BUCS RUGBY By TOM JEFFREYS IT was a weekend of revival in BUCS Super Rugby as Hartpury gave life to the...

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Super Rugby Pacific Preview – Superstar Ardie Savea the man to ignite Moana Pasifika

Super Rugby Preview By Ben Jaycock Ardie Savea’s move to Moana Pasifika is the headline transfer and there’s a feeling of...

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/ 1 year ago

Ex-London Irish coach Jonathan Fisher finds exciting new life Down Under

By Paul Rees When London Irish went into administration two seasons ago, Jonathan Fisher was among those who suddenly found themselves...

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/ 1 year ago

Gyamfi-Opoku will add power to Azzurrini at 8

ITALY HEAD coach Roberto Santamaria has named a 36-man squad which includes Bath academy player Enoch Gyamfi-Opoku. Gyamfi-Opoku is a product...

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Features

/ 1 year ago

CAMPBELL RIDL

YOUNG GUNS EXETER CENTRE/WING Campbell Ridl credits Exeter Chiefs for allowing players to balance university studies comfortably alongside their rugby. The...

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L’borough keep up pressure at the top

BUCS RUGBY By TOM JEFFREYS All five of the top half of the table won their games, with all ten teams...

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Champs looking to keep on top

BUCS RUGBY By CAMERON STEPHENS AFTER a six-week break, BUCS Super Rugby returns for round 12 as Loughborough look to extend...

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/ 1 year ago

Rob Baxter: Tom Hooper will be the first of a few big-name signings for Exeter Chiefs

By Paul Rees Tom Hooper is the first of a number of big signings Exeter intend to make before the end...

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/ 1 year ago

My philosophy? Skills, skills, skills

Coach to coach Steve Hill talks to Aaron James, below, the head coach of Bath University How and why did you...

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/ 1 year ago

Wingers taking the faster lane

■By CAMERON STEPHENS TAQELE Naiyaravoro believes that speed is becoming an increasingly important attribute of the modern winger and that powerhouse...

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