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Jeff Probyn

/ 10 years ago

Jeff Probyn column: Our home grow talent is blocked by foreign imports

After a brilliant display by all the Premiership teams in Europe last week, it would seem that there’s definitely not a...

By Jeff Probyn

Dream Team

/ 10 years ago

Dream Team: Peter Lydon – London Scottish and former Stade Francais and Ulster full-back

1. Lovejoy Chawatama – Showed great potential for London Scottish and England Students last year. Really humble guy and great work...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 10 years ago

Jeff Probyn column: Clubs flex muscles over European postponements

The disruption of the European Champions Cup first round caused by the Paris atrocities last week has inadvertently shown what appears...

By Jeff Probyn

Brendan Gallagher

/ 10 years ago

Brendan Gallagher comment: Stuart Lancaster was the right man in the wrong job

The alarm bells started ringing loudly, for me anyway, in a dusty classroom at Loughborough University last May. It was just...

By Brendan Gallagher

British and Irish Lions Tour

/ 10 years ago

Lions Tour 2017: Schedule threatens to undermine pinnacle

Lack of prep time and finals of Premiership and Pro12 could prove major blunder in the face of rugby's biggest test,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Featured

/ 10 years ago

Failure to perform leaves Pacific Islanders in mess – Kahn Fotuali’i

Kahn Fotuali’i has described the possibility of Samoa failing to qualify for the next World Cup in Japan as “potentially devastating”...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 10 years ago

Brendan Gallagher feature: England apart, this has been a World Cup to remember!

So how will history view Rugby World Cup 2015? The biggest and grandest in terms of crowd numbers and stadia? Unquestionably,...

By Brendan Gallagher

Jeremy Guscott

/ 10 years ago

Jeremy Guscott World Cup XV

15. Ben Smith (NZ) is one of my favourite players, his skillset is of the highest calibre, which affords him the...

By Jeremy Guscott

Dream Team

/ 10 years ago

Dream Team: Micheal Hills – Doncaster and former London Welsh and Sale lock

1. Andrew Sheridan – The former England powerhouse is the strongest man I have ever played rugby with. For that reason...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 10 years ago

London Irish to play Saracens Premiership match in USA

London Irish and Premiership Rugby confirmed today that the Club will be the first to play an Aviva Premiership fixture overseas...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 10 years ago

Wasps statment on salary cap

Following last night’s announcement by Premiership Rugby regarding the salary cap, Wasps‘ Chairman Derek Richardson has issued the following statement. “I...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Peter Jackson

/ 10 years ago

Peter Jackson column: England’s debacle? It’s all fault of Boris Johnson!

Boris Johnson is addressing the great and the good on the occasion of the World Cup draw at the Tate Modern...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 10 years ago

Brendan Gallagher: This golden generation of Pumas WILL top the world

As befits a good Yorkshire man, Les Cusworth is not a betting man. But if he was he would invest heavily...

By Brendan Gallagher

Nick Cain

/ 10 years ago

Nick Cain column: Kiwi coaches rule – and that’s good for game

Wales have done it with Warren Gatland, and so have Ireland with Joe Schmidt, and Scotland with Vern Cotter. However, England’s...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 10 years ago

Wales ranked second in the world

Wales have climbed to second in the World Rugby rankings following their 28-25 win over England on Saturday at Twickenham. It...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 10 years ago

Broken jaw forces Jean de Villiers to retire

Jean de Villiers has retired from international rugby after being ruled out of the rest of the World Cup with a...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 10 years ago

Relaxed, Fiji are the Brazil of rugby – so watch out if you see them smiling

Fiji‘s most-capped player Nicky Little has warned his former colleagues not to go into their shells when they tackle England in...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Nick Cain

/ 10 years ago

Nick Cain: Trim bench to five to keep players healthy

The timing of Warren Gatland‘s comment that “one or two more serious knocks” could end George North‘s career, made on the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 10 years ago

Catherine Spencer blasts RFU for ‘wasting’ World Cup win

Former England captain Catherine Spencer has launched a stinging attack on the RFU for wasting legacy opportunities from the 2014 World...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Featured

/ 10 years ago

Outsiders Fiji will take a big scalp warns Bob Dwyer

1991 winning coach adamant Fiji will be England or Wales at World Cup.

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 10 years ago

Jeff Probyn’s column: Schools should link up with grassroots clubs for legacy

Last Wednesday I attended the first of what I would assume are many planned fund raisers for the hoped for legacy...

By Jeff Probyn

Featured

/ 10 years ago

Leigh Halfpenny told: Play for Toulon or face axe

European Champions threatening to sack full-bakc over the club-or-country clash looming at the end of the new season.

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 10 years ago

Jeff Probyn’s column: You’re right Steve, new maul is ‘bloody boring’

How unusual, a New Zealand coach bemoaning the opposition’s tactics despite winning the game. Steve Hansen’s complaint about the Argentinian driving...

By Jeff Probyn

Peter Jackson

/ 10 years ago

Peter Jackson’s column: Vernon Pugh was right, we’re playing too many Tests

Fifty years ago, Jack Kyle held the record as the world’s most-capped player with 46 matches for Ireland. It had taken...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Featured

/ 10 years ago

Versatile Henry Slade is ready to mash the monsters

Henry Slade insists taking on world rugby‘s midfield monsters would not faze him, with the versatile England back saying he would...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeremy Guscott

/ 10 years ago

Jeremy Guscott’s column: Michael Cheika can bring best out of talented Wallabies

If we know one thing about Australia it’s that they frequently get it right for World Cups. A lot of their...

By Jeremy Guscott

Featured

/ 10 years ago

‘One more blow and George North has to quit’

One of world rugby‘s leading medical figures is advising George North to retire should he suffer another head injury. The Welsh...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 10 years ago

Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu – Let’s have a Jerry Collins rule over eligibility

The late great Jerry Collins would be best remembered by an easing of the existing World Rugby regulations to make...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 10 years ago

Brendan Gallagher speaks to Firebrand Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu about preaching the message of alofa

As well as being a cracking Test centre and fly-half and a ‘have boots will travel’ professional for a decade or...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Featured

/ 10 years ago

Inside this week’s edition of TRP

Another busy week in the world of rugby, another brilliant issue of The Rugby Paper! TRP will have all the action and...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 10 years ago

England unchanged for World Rugby U20s Championships final

England have named an unchanged squad for tomorrow’s World Rugby U20s Championships final against New Zealand in Italy. Following Monday’s 28-20...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 10 years ago

Jeff Probyn’s column: Union right to ride roughshod over Leicester Tigers’ American dream

The question of who is running rugby in America came under the spotlight this week as Leicester Tigers were forced to...

By Jeff Probyn

Dream Team

/ 11 years ago

Dream Team: Mark Lilley – London Scottish and former Bath and Bristol loosehead

1. Nathan Catt – Best prank caller I’ve ever worked with and a very good friend. Moved from back-row to prop...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 11 years ago

Homer called by England U20s to replace Townsend

Will Homer will replace Stuart Townsend in the England U20s World Rugby Championship squad after the Exeter scrum-half sustained a knee...

By The Rugby Paper Team

My Life in Rugby

/ 11 years ago

My Life in Rugby: Jason Forster – former Wales, Dragons and Bedford flanker

It’s only when you look back on your career that you realise how special your time as a professional sportsman was;...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 11 years ago

“I’m lucky to have had supportive clubs,” says Samoa star Kahn Fotuali’i

Kahn Fotuali’i admits Polynesian players are under pressure to quit international rugby in order to secure lucrative overseas contracts. But Northampton’s...

By The Rugby Paper Team