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Columnists

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Williams column: Don’t kill the Cheetahs off for the ‘Big Four’

Cheetahs could pay the price for the PRO14 wants to expand its broadcast revenue

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 5 years ago

Don’t kill Cheetahs off for the ‘Big Four’

SHANE WILLIAMs WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Facing extinction: Cheetahs, with Nico Lee on the charge, playing against Southern Kings PICTURE: Getty...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 5 years ago

Nonu bids for unique hat-trick Brian got two passes, then was dropped!

MA’A NONU can claim a hat-trick on a global scale so vast that it has never been done before. His reintroduction...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 5 years ago

Recount call after Laporte sneaks in

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Off he goes: Stade’s Luke Tagi is sent off for a headbutt The increasingly bitter war of...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Sale Sharks director of rugby Steve Diamond

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 5 years ago

‘Double-figure’ positive tests at Sale Sharks leave Premiership finale in doubt

On the eve of the final round of the Premiership season play-off chasing Sale Sharks have had a number of players...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 5 years ago

Rugby Matters: Humble beginning but Heineken Cup dreamt big

Brendan Gallagher at how the Champions Cup, or Heineken Cup, has always drawn big crowds far beyond club rugby's norm

By The Rugby Paper Team

Columnists

/ 5 years ago

Guscott column: World Cup winners will bring box office appeal

Are the Welsh, Scottish and Irish clubs of the PRO14 set to clock more air miles?

By Jeremy Guscott

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 5 years ago

Leicester decision imminent on legal dispute brought by five former players

Tigers could face a High Court battle with the five players who opted to not agree to pay cuts this summer

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 5 years ago

Transfer news: Bath’s search for a No.10 and a new job for Ed Griffiths

Bath turn long-winded search for a No.10 to Stormers fly-half Willemse

By The Rugby Paper Team

Columnists

/ 5 years ago

Harrington column: London-based firm Novalpina bid for a slice of the Top 14

James Harrington collects the stories you may have missed in French rugby over the past few weeks

By James Harrington

Challenge Cup

/ 5 years ago

Captain Tom chasing glory finish to year of progress

By NEALE HARVEY Focused: Tom Youngs LEICESTER’S quarterfinal clash with Castres today was cancelled after three of the French side’s players...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 5 years ago

Novalpina bid for a slice of the action

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Dispute: Lock Leone Nakarawa is demanding €1million from Racing 92 With the Top 14 in temporary hiatus...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 5 years ago

Ulster call on Cooney to shoot down Top 14 giants

By SAM JACKSON Recall: John Cooney comes in for Alby Mathewson SCRUM-HALF John Cooney has been recalled to Ulster’s starting line-up...

By The Rugby Paper Team

European Challenge Cup

/ 5 years ago

George Ford back for Leicester Tigers Challenge Cup clash

Team line-ups for this weekend's Challenge Cup action, as Tigers welcome Castres to Welford Road

By The Rugby Paper Team

Autumn Internationals

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SCHEDULE: Wales must win to miss meeting England at RWC2023

Peter Jackson runs through the autumn schedule for nations in both hemispheres

By The Rugby Paper Team

Columnists

/ 5 years ago

Harrington column: Handre Pollard a doubt for Lions tour after ACL horror

James Harrington recaps the second round of Top 14 action, in which £1m man Pollard was dealt a cruel blow

By James Harrington

Features

/ 5 years ago

Ibitoye off to a flyer on debut for Agen

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN There has been actual, genuine, Top 14 rugby to talk about this week, as – after a...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 5 years ago

Three Premiership clubs eye demolition man Virimi Vakatawa

France centre Vakatawa has been on form for Racing 92 this season in the Champions Cup

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 5 years ago

Harrington column: LNR chief warns Top 14 may need state aid

James Harrington reports on the situation facing French clubs, with COVID cases propping up in the player pool and TV rights...

By James Harrington

Jacques du Plessis could replace Jack Clifford

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 5 years ago

Harlequins seek to ease loss of Jack Clifford with imposing South African

Clifford was forced into retirement last week after trying to work his way back from two major shoulder surgeries

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 5 years ago

Harrington column: Stade Francais looking less and less likely to be ready for Top 14 season

The Paris-based club has reported COVID-19 positive players have developed lesions on their lungs

By James Harrington

Features

/ 5 years ago

Quins in search to replace Clifford

Retired: Jack Clifford HARLEQUINS have started the search to replace Jack Clifford following the announcement that the England international back row...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 5 years ago

It’s not all over yet for Bath and Pollard

SPRINGBOK fly-half Hendre Pollard is still weighing up his future with Top 14 outfit Montpellier and is refusing to rule out...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 5 years ago

My Life in Rugby: Former Yorkshire Carnegie fly-half Alberto Di Bernardo

Former Cornish Pirates, Yorkshire Carnegie and Benetton back Di Bernardo reflects on his career

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 5 years ago

Imanol goes through pain barrier in Basque country

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 5 years ago

Foreign players are both cheaper and always on call

Gone to Premiership: Steve Borthwick, left, and Paul Gustard PICTURE: Getty Images Chris Boyd, a New Zealander, has questioned why England...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 5 years ago

Covid spike puts Top 14 on high alert

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN An abundance of caution marked professional rugby’s preseason return on Friday, 166 days after Toulon beat Stade...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 5 years ago

Bath have second target if outlandish bid to sign Pollard fails

Fly-half Handre Pollard joined Montpellier after the World Cup on a deal worth £675,000-per-season

By The Rugby Paper Team

Columnists

/ 5 years ago

Cain column: Workload too heavy? Get players to lose bulk

Super Rugby Aotearoa format gives an idea of Northern Hemisphere rugby's fast and furious calendar structure, writes Nick Cain

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 5 years ago

Can Chris Ashton make a splash on debut for Harlequins?

Jon Newcombe previews Friday night's Premiership restart match between Harlequins and Sale, looking at the betting odds

By Jon Newcombe

Features

/ 5 years ago

The invisible stars are letting down PRO14

The PRO14 can boast a dual headline act beyond compare, a pair of players born 35 years ago on opposite sides...

By The Rugby Paper Team

The Rugby Paper

/ 5 years ago

Workload too heavy? Get players to lose bulk

NICK CAIN SUPER Rugby Aetearoa has been a high quality, high intensity tournament – which is exactly what the doctor ordered...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 5 years ago

Tough act trying to be Leeds’ next Maradona

MY LIFEIN RUGBY ALBERTO DI BERNARDO THE FORMER ITALY, CORNISH PIRATES, LEEDS CARNEGIE, BOURGOIN & TREVISO FLY-HALF Special day: Alberto di...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 5 years ago

Battle lines drawn in star player release row

JAMES HARRINGTON “A form of squad rotation could be agreed limiting the number of internationals for which a player can be...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 5 years ago

Battered Jonny rises again to become a folk hero in Toulon

Captain marvel: Jonny Wilkinson raises the Heineken Cup ONE of the more heartwarming stories of this era was a golden Indian...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 5 years ago

Beziers takeover hits the buffers

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN No deal: Agen remain keen to sign Harlequins wing Gabriel Ibitoye PICTURE: Getty Images It’s taken several...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 5 years ago

Delon Armitage closing in on surprise move in England

The ex-England full-back has spent the past eight years in France with Toulon and Lyon

By The Rugby Paper Team

Columnists

/ 5 years ago

Harrington column: FFR agree brutal schedule for Top 14 and Pro D2

James Harrington reports on how the 2020-21 French rugby schedule is shaping up and the outlook for Beziers

By James Harrington

Club Rugby

/ 5 years ago

It’s official: Sale Sharks have signed Manu Tuilagi

Tuilagi keeps his England career alive by remaining in the Premiership with Sale Sharks

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 5 years ago

Kaino joins war against corruption in Pacific

By NEALE HARVEY Hot prospect: Auckland Blues No.8 Hoskins Sotutu PICTURE: Getty Images NEWLY-ELECTED Pacific Rugby Player Welfare board member Jerome...

By The Rugby Paper Team