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Latest News

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Do Wales have a chance at landing young gun Cameron Hanekom?

By Peter Ryan – @PeterRyanSports Over the past decade, there has been a trend of players coming from overseas to compete...

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Letters

/ 1 year ago

Time to add Japan and Fiji to Rugby Championship

THE endless mistreatment of Fiji as a second rate rugby nation is another disastrous admin blunder in the sport’s professional era....

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United Rugby Championship

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Tuipulotu’s power is too much for Cardiff

By SIMON THOMAS Cardiff .................36pts Glasgow ..............52pts Tries: D Thomas 12, Winnett 20, Byrne 47, Martin 53, Donnell 68 Conversions: Sheedy...

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Latest News

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Hunt prepares to face up to Black Ferns challenge

By BEN JAYCOCK England v New Zealand PREVIEW... Today. Kick-off 8.30pm, Langley Events Centre Wise head: Natasha Hunt is looking forward...

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Brendan Gallagher

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Los Pumas have worked hard to forge own identity

Brendan Gallagher reports on how one country has built a rugby stronghold down in South America There was a time back...

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Features

/ 1 year ago

My dream tour: The Lions in Argentina

OF COURSE, the British and Irish Lions should be touring Argentina, I’ve been arguing the case for 20 years or more....

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Jeff Probyn

/ 1 year ago

Sorry, Geoff, but let’s not de-power scrums

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME EVERY week I can’t wait for Sunday to come around so that...

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Features

/ 1 year ago

We lost but it was great to watch, says Lam

By BEN JAYCOCK PAT Lam believes his side’s thrilling defeat to Gloucester last Friday is a continuation of a trendy, entertaining...

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English Gallagher Premiership

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Leicester Tigers criticise RFU following Michael Cheika’s ban for being ‘disrespectful’

Leicester have hit out at the Rugby Football Union after their head coach Michael Cheika was found guilty of disrespecting an...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 1 year ago

Championship crowds are still too low

With all the talk about the RFUs treatment of the Championship there never seems to be any real analysis of the...

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Letters

/ 1 year ago

That’s not what I call a good idea ITV

Brilliant idea ITV! Put your freeview Premiership highlights programme on an obscure channel. Schedule it for a Wednesday lunchtime. Replace Flats...

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Latest News

/ 1 year ago

Minimum standards criteria must apply to all

By Nick Cain - Read his expert opinion every week Do title-chasing Bath – and other top tier clubs – meet...

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Chris Hewett

/ 1 year ago

Fiji deserve to play with best in world

By Chris Hewett - Thinking Allowed Every underdog has its day, as Daniel Dubois reminded us in knocking an entire cathedral’s...

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Latest News

/ 1 year ago

Sorry, but it now looks like Eben Etzebeth got away with one

So, for 10 months or more I have been defending Eben Etzebeth, and by implication referee Ben O’Keeffe, for the deliberate...

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Features

/ 1 year ago

Despite bankruptcy, USA Sevens are in good shape

Ben Jaycock talks to Mike Friday about his ten years with USA Sevens – and watching son Lucas Mike Friday recently...

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Latest News

/ 1 year ago

England aiming for a repeat success

By Ben Jaycock and James Orpin Break: Abby Dow scores against New Zealand and, inset, John Mitchell PICTURES: Getty Images ENGLAND...

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Welsh Rugby

/ 1 year ago

Outside centre best for Freeman -Burrell

■By CAMERON STEPHENS FORMER England centre Luther Burrell believes Tommy Freeman is best suited at outside centre and has the attributes...

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Latest News

/ 1 year ago

Christian Day confident new PGP deal will attract big guns

By Adam Hathaway Players' chief Christian Day predicts the new Professional Game Partnership agreement will help attract more foreign big guns...

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Letters

/ 1 year ago

Quite right, Brendan, don’t indulge All Blacks

I couldn't agree more with Brendan Gallagher’s suggestion that we must stop indulging the All Blacks and their haka. He missed...

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Latest News

/ 1 year ago

Harlequins sign former 7s Player of the Year Rodrigo Isgro

Harlequins have announced the signing of 25-year-old Argentinian winger Rodrigo Isgro ahead of the 2024-25 season.

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 1 year ago

Lousy law changes are killing the game

WORLD Rugby’s strategy to attract a new, younger, bigger audience to rugby union rests on a totally bankrupt plan currently being...

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Chris Hewett

/ 1 year ago

Too much of a good thing can be overkill

CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED "People might think it’s arrogant,” said Rian Oberholzer, the chief executive of the Springbok domain, just the...

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Latest News

/ 1 year ago

Nucifora shows the way forward

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Master: David Nucifora will start work with Scotland in December PICTURE: Getty Images...

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Jeff Probyn

/ 1 year ago

Hard to pin the blame on unions

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME AS IF things in the game aren’t bad enough, the BBC’s Rugby...

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The Rugby Championship

/ 1 year ago

Once again, the world champs find a way to win

BRENDAN GALLAGHER THE scoreline would suggest a classic for the ages, the exuberant commentary team sounded like they were going to...

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Brendan Gallagher

/ 1 year ago

Catch this team of nations on camera

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER FLY on the wall sporting documentaries seem to...

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Latest News

/ 1 year ago

It’s going to be a thriller – van Graan

By Jon Newcombe Johann van Graan is predicting a Gallagher Premiership 2024/25 season to set pulses racing. Bath’s head of rugby...

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Letters

/ 1 year ago

I’m feeling sorry for the Wallabies

AS an England supporter, I used to revel in Australia being beaten, mainly because it was so rare. However, now I’m...

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Latest News

/ 1 year ago

Move to Glasgow suits Schickerling

By Mark Stevens It wasn’t all that long ago that Patrick Schickerling was being ear-marked as a potential England bolter, a...

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Columnists

/ 1 year ago

It’s time to call for three-man scrum

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Uncontested scrums are a blight on the fifteens game, and my solution to...

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Features

/ 1 year ago

Stick or twist? The choice at 10

Paul Rees looks ahead to New Zealand's heavyweight matches against world champions South Africa The Rugby Championship title could be decided...

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Latest News

/ 1 year ago

Everyone’s on a different journey – so enjoy yours

Steve Hill puts the questions to Fred Pierrepont, below, the head coach at Worthing RFC Why did you get into coaching...

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Features

/ 1 year ago

Throwing the ball in straight at the lineout should be a given

IS there anybody out there who can explain to me, preferably in words of two syllables or less, the rationale behind...

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Latest News

/ 1 year ago

BBC will be covering all 32 World Cup games

By PAUL MARTIN On top: WXV champions England are favourotes to lift the World Cup WORLD Rugby CEO Alan Gilpin believes...

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Latest News

/ 1 year ago

South American sides facing unfair hurdles

AFTER World Rugby confirmed the qualification process for the 2027 World Cup, frustration among South American nations was tempered only by...

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The Rugby Championship

/ 1 year ago

No scrums? No problem for Springboks

BRENDAN GALLAGHER LAST week in Brisbane Pieter Steph Du Toit famously asked Luke Pearce: “Where’s the scrum?” when presented with a...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 1 year ago

Road to next World Cup lacks jeopardy

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points UNLESS I’ve missed something pertinent – and it’s...

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Jeff Probyn

/ 1 year ago

I can’t remember a thing after I was kicked in head

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME AS WE all take a break for the summer and thoughts of...

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Letters

/ 1 year ago

LETTER: World Rugby made the game too complicated, attritional

This is a follow on from Raymond Howell’s letter in last weekend’s Rugby Paper about rugby's loss of wide appeal.

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Jeremy Guscott

/ 1 year ago

Itoje has chance to captain the Lions

JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK THERE will be a special edge to the coming season because of the 2025...

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The Rugby Championship

/ 1 year ago

Springboks open box of tricks as they leave Wallabies at the gate

By PAUL REES Australia.............................. 7pts Tries: Paisami 76 Conversions: Lynagh 77 South Africa .................... 33pts Tries: Kolisi 10, du Toit 24,...

By The Rugby Paper Team