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Challenge Cup

/ 8 years ago

Blues build momentum with big win in Toulouse

By ALEX BYWATER IN WHAT must rank as one of the best results in their recent history, Cardiff Blues claimed a...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Miscellaneous

/ 8 years ago

Rory takes the French route to top in coaching

Rory Teague fell in love with rugby from the moment he watched his grandfather Colin playing prop for Gloucester during his...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 8 years ago

Scottish RFU could step in to boost Worcester

WORCESTER Warriots could find an unlikely saviour in the form of the Scottish Rugby Union according to Blindside sources. We understand...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 8 years ago

Italy helps restore careers of striken half-back talents

Return: Brive fly-half Florian Cazenave ITALIAN rugby can be proud of the part it has played in the rehabilitation – physically...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 8 years ago

Yachvili: It’s got to be Sarries for Cup

DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN The name of Dimitri Yachvili is one that provoked apprehension, if not fear, in the ranks of...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 8 years ago

Lamb shows his teeth to savage the Quins

■By NICK CAIN Flying Frenchman: Geoffrey Doumayrou runs in to score for La Rochelle PICTURES: Getty Images RYAN Lamb may have...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 8 years ago

‘We learnt our lesson’ says Cipriani, as Wasps prepare for Ulster test

By Adam Ellis Ahead of Wasps‘ trip to face Ulster in the Champions Cup under the lights of the Kingspan Stadium...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Columnists

/ 8 years ago

Guscott column: Champions Cup pools draw make it sure to be a thrilling start

By Jeremy Guscott THE European Cup is a tougher, harder tournament under EPCR than it was four years ago when the...

By Jeremy Guscott

Premiership

/ 8 years ago

Come off it, Vern…Montpellier can cash in this year

VERN Cotter started jockeying for position this week as his Montpellier side, who have blasted their way to the head of...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 8 years ago

Lozowski holding out for more cash

SARACENS are planning more talks with England squad man Alex Lozowski in a bid to keep him at the club when...

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Features

/ 8 years ago

Thrilling to have a re-run of last year’s final so early

Battle royal: Saracens take on Clermont in the pool this season PICTURE: Getty Images THE European Cup is a tougher, harder...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 8 years ago

Rob Baxter plans to make Exeter Chiefs one of Europe’s elite

By Nick Cain EXETER Chiefs are rolling towards Europe’s elite clubs like a dislodged boulder of Dartmoor granite. The newly- crowned...

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Features

/ 8 years ago

Top 14 eye Gray and Clifford

HARLEQUINS duo Joe Gray and Jack Clifford, who are both out of contract at the end of the season, are being...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Dream Team

/ 8 years ago

Dream Team: Soane Tonga’uhia – Bristol prop

1. Craig Dowd – He was the Auckland and All Blacks loosehead when I was growing up and I was lucky...

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Features

/ 8 years ago

ON THE BLIND SIDE

BY NEIL FISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler BORDEAUX’S search for a winger for next season has seen them make enquiries...

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Features

/ 8 years ago

Webb’s WRU talks could foil Sarries

Decision: Rhys Webb SARACENS face an anxious wait to find out if they stand a chance of luring British and Irish...

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Latest News

/ 8 years ago

Canada fly-half joins Ealing Trailfinders

Ealing Trailfinders have confirmed the signing of Canadian international Shane O’Leary from Connacht. The fly-half arrives at Vallis Way with four...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeremy Guscott

/ 8 years ago

Jeremy Guscott: Vunipola has made a vital point that must be discussed

If any Premiership player makes a comment containing the words ‘strike action’ it’s a big statement, but it’s gigantic when it’s...

By Jeremy Guscott

Columnists

/ 8 years ago

Stade are on journey – but is it to relegation?

FRENCH COLUMN On the move? French fly-half Jules Plisson could be leaving Stade Fair to say that Terry Bouhraoua is better...

By The Rugby Paper Team

My Life in Rugby

/ 8 years ago

My Life in Rugby: Jamie Noon – former England, Newcaslte and Brive centre

Scoring a hat-trick against Scotland in my first Six Nations campaign – I think I was the first England player to...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 8 years ago

Pint-sized Gabriel cuts down Clermont

DAVID BARNES FRENCH COLUMN Gabriel Lacroix, of La Rochelle, is an unlikely lad in the muscular world of the Top 14....

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 years ago

Tolofua in challenge to Jamie

HARD-HITTING France hooker Christopher Tolofua believes quitting once-mighty Toulouse for European champions Saracens and a battle with Lions star Jamie George...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 years ago

‘The Beast’ plots more try havoc in the Premiership

NAPOLIONI Nalaga, one of the most devastating finishers world rugby has seen, has declared himself fit and ready to take the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 8 years ago

MY LIFEIN RUGBY

THE FORMER ENGLAND, NEWCASTLE FALCONS AND BRIVE CENTRE JAMIE NOON Scoring a hat-trick against Scotland in my first Six Nations campaign...

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Club Rugby

/ 8 years ago

Henson gets hit out

Montpellier 40 Dragons 15 GAVIN Henson made his return to Welsh club rugby on Friday night but it was in a...

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Features

/ 8 years ago

New-fangled PRO 14 is disaster waiting to happen

COLIN BOAG There is no shortage of top-class rugby players, but my goodness the game seems to be very light on...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Guest columnists

/ 8 years ago

Mike Ford: My love of risk-taking has landed me in the USA

The opportunity to try something new appealed to me when Dallas Griffins owner Phil Camm asked me to head up the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 years ago

8 reasons why it’s worth betting on rugby

The year 2017 places rugby second only to football regarding global popularity. The game with a rich and occasionally controversial history...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 years ago

Old pals Catrakalis and Swiel set to battle it out

By NEALE HARVEY Order of the boot: Demetri Catrakilis shows his kicking repertoire for Montpellier against Quins PICTURES: Getty Images NEW...

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Features

/ 8 years ago

YOUNG GUNS

MATT WORLEY RACING 92 FULL-BACK It was a PR stunt that took Matt Worley from Hong Kong to Racing 92, but...

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Columnists

/ 8 years ago

Far from fun as Wild era kicks off in controversy

In the spotlight: Stade’s Fijian wing Waisea Nayacalevu PICTURE: Getty Images It wasn’t quite what Dr. Hans- Peter Wild ordered this...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Guest columnists

/ 8 years ago

Andy Goode: You’ve got to be a big noise now, Demetri!

The fly-half merry-go-round has been in full swing throughout a frenetic last few months with a host of No.10s switching clubs in...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 8 years ago

Jeff Probyn: Baa-baas ‘Test’ would solve the Lions tour conundrum

Sometimes you have to ask why people ask questions when something has already been decided upon and accepted by all. I...

By Jeff Probyn

Peter Jackson

/ 8 years ago

Peter Jackson: How Leigh Halfpenny went from hero to zero offers in less than six months

Six months ago Leigh Halfpenny found himself under a veritable bombardment of offers on an ever-escalating scale over his next move....

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 years ago

From hero to zero in less than six months

PETER JACKSON Six months ago Leigh Halfpenny found himself under a veritable bombardment of offers on an ever-escalating scale over his...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 8 years ago

You’ve got to be a big noise now, Demetri!

ANDY GOODE The fly-half merry-goround has been in full swing throughout a frenetic last few months with a host of No.10s...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 8 years ago

I was left out in 2015 and I’ll risk missing 2019 to prove my class in Europe, says Exeter signing White

Revved-up Aussie maestro Nic White has revealed why he rejected the chance to fight for a place at the 2019 World...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 years ago

Namibian star for Scottish

NAMIBIANinternational Tjiuee Uanivi has signed for London Scottish from Glasgow Warriors. The 26-year-old can play either second-row or flanker, and has...

By The Rugby Paper Team