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Latest News

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Financial stability is key, says World Rugby chair

By Paul Rees Brett Robinson, who last week became the first person from the southern hemisphere to be elected World Rugby...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Plans for global league

By Sam Jackson A breakaway rugby franchise competition could soon be launched in an attempt to revolutionise the sport. Newspaper reports...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Autumn Internationals

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Battling Argentina make it tough for Ireland

By Brendan Gallagher Ireland...............22pts Tries: Crowley 3, Hansen 5, McCarthy 31 Conversions: Crowley 3, 32 Drop goal: Crowley 21 Argentina .........19pts...

By The Rugby Paper Team

International Rugby

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Undercard get chance to show their A-game

By Paul Rees England's A team today get their first major work-out after being resurrected earlier this year when Australia’s undercard...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Nick Cain

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Mega-league plan will have to overcome huge hurdles

By Nick Cain - Read his expert opinion every week If 200 of the world’s highest-paid players are about to join...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Autumn Internationals

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Top Ten Matchups to look out for in this weekend’s Autumn Nations Series

By Charlie Elliott Following a clean sweep of wins from the Southern Hemisphere teams, there is bound to be a big...

By Charlie Elliott

Autumn Internationals

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England vs Springboks – Match Betting Preview

By Peter Ryan – @PeterRyanSports England will look to get their autumn campaign back on track when world champions South Africa...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Autumn Internationals

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Steve Borthwick’s bench policy needs work

By Nick Cain - Read his expert opinion every week The bench miscalculations cooking England’s goose in the final quarter of...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Autumn Internationals

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‘Unmatched’- Ten unmissable player matchups in the Autumn Nations Series this weekend

This weekend of the Autumn Nations Series almost entirely consists of fixtures that are expected to be decided by extremely fine margins, leading...

By Charlie Elliott

Autumn Internationals

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Italy vs Argentina – Match Preview

By Peter Ryan – @PeterRyanSports Italy will kick off the autumn campaign as they welcome Argentina to Rome. The Italians will...

By The Rugby Paper Team

International Rugby

/ 2 years ago

England Men A confirm wider squad to face Australia A

A 24-player England Men A wider squad has been named in preparation for the visit of Australia A to the Twickenham...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Autumn Internationals

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Gareth Anscombe says Wales will be wary of Fiji’s firepower

Gareth Anscombe has underlined the challenge facing Wales when they look to open their Autumn Nations Series campaign with victory over...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Autumn Internationals

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Five Key Talking Points from the Autumn Internationals

By Charlie Elliott The Autumn Internationals began with a bang, with England narrowly losing to the All Blacks, and Scotland dominating...

By Charlie Elliott

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Hill out to cash in on England chance

■By PAUL REES You’re in: Ted Hill was called up by England to replace Ollie Chessum, inset PICTURES: Getty Images AS...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Chris Hewett

/ 2 years ago

Shame that Georgia are kept out of sight

By Chris Hewett - Thinking Allowed The most significant contest of the November international series? Take your pick. Ireland-New Zealand in...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

South America look to keep on building

By JOE SANTAMARIA Top dogs: Argentina celebrate beating Australia in Rugby Championship PICTURES: Getty Images AS Sebastián Piñeyrúa’s historic six-year term...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Autumn Internationals

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Wales get set for big Sunday crunch…

By Peter Jackson - The man truly in the know One weekend five summers ago, Wales went to No.1 in the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

From shelf stacker to first-team contender

■By PAUL REES GEORGE Makepeace-Cubitt was stacking supermarket shelves at the start of the year but the England Under-20 outside-half is...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 2 years ago

Don’t let these tasty clashes pass you by

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER IT’S always famine or feast with international rugby...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Banned for three matches

BATH centre Will Butt and Sale scrum-half Nye Thomas have both been banned for three games following their red cards during...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Autumn Internationals

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Scotland vs Fiji – Autumn Nations Series Match Preview

Scotland will welcome Fiji to Murrayfield as the Scots kick off their autumn campaign. Gregor Townsend’s side is one of the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Podcast

/ 2 years ago

Series 4, Episode 9: Luke Pearce on 20-minute Red Card and Autumn Internationals Preview

We loved this one! Following last week’s 20-minute red card debate amongst the guys, we thought it best to call upon...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Autumn Internationals

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Is your rugby club Autumn Nations Series ready?

The biggest and best sides in world rugby are going head-to-head in a series of mouth-watering clashes in this year’s Autumn...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 2 years ago

Why World Rugby has missed the point

IT occurred to me, whilst catching a glimpse of last weekend’s NFL match at Wembley, that the advent of professionalism in...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Chris Hewett

/ 2 years ago

Bath’s ‘bomb squad’ needs to be defused

CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED CLOSE your eyes and imagine batting on a fiery Caribbean track in the 1980s, when West Indian...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 2 years ago

England must show that this is their time

>> PAUL REES SAYS BORTHWICK’S MEN ARE GOOD ENOUGH TO TAKE ON THE NEW ZEALAND CHALLENGE AND COME OUT ON TOP...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Why are we making life intolerable for our refs?

I’M not sure if referees have a patron Saint – such a notion probably contravenes some obscure World Rugby regulation –...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

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WR should fund free second opinion

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME IMUST admit to being a little surprised by last week’s paper where...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Antoine Dupont headlines our five key talking points from the weekend

By Charlie Elliott From Antoine Dupont’s ridiculous try-assist to newcomers announcing themselves and familiar faces returning in South Africa, this weekend has...

By Charlie Elliott

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

20-minute red gets go-ahead

Referees will have the option to show a 20-minute red card during the autumn internationals. Teams will lose a player for...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 2 years ago

Thanks, Jeff, your piece was spot on

THE main purpose of this letter is to thank you for your existence and quality. I used to play from 11...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

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Brave Will Green does game huge service

Will Green is owed a significant debt by rugby union in England – and further afield – for his courage and...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

French quick to dismiss ‘soft red’

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW ONLY France could ban one of their most notorious agents provocateurs for life,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 2 years ago

Confused path to rules of combat

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Man in the middle: Former Wasps prop Will...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 2 years ago

Don’t sub captain just after half-time

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME In charge: Jamie George in action for England PICTURE: Getty Images WE...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Mastering the engine room – The crucial role of second row combinations

By Will Hartshorn – @RugbyCollective In a world where people 6 foot 6 and above make up for less than 1%...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

France Rugby strongly oppose the implementation of the 20-minute red card

Following World Rugby’s announcement to propose the global trial of new laws that will be reviewed by the Council, FFR (French...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Stop this 20-minute red card nonsense

CAN those at World Rugby who now insist the 20-minute red card experiment is to be extended worldwide please identify themselves....

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

High ticket prices for All Blacks cast dark shadow

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW WHEN the RFU finished doing their sums for the autumn series of Twickenham’s...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Loyalty paying off for Alex Lozowski

Short of borrowing Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and strumming his way through a few chords of O Sole Mio, Conor O’Shea could...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Too much card confusion

IT seems World Rugby has woken up to the fact that their increasing interference with tackle laws and other elements of...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

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...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 2 years 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....

By The Rugby Paper Team

United Rugby Championship

/ 2 years ago

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...

By The Rugby Paper Team