What’s in The Rugby Paper: 07/04/24

It’s the weekend of the last 16 of the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup, and you can find reports from 11 games across the two competitions – and previews of the other five – in The Rugby Paper this Sunday.

After the London club get things underway with a visit from Glasgow on Friday night, Cadan Murley talks about proving the doubters wrong as he gears up to play a pivotal role in the second half of Harlequins’ season.

Max Malins discusses Bristol Bears’ hopeful charge towards the Premiership play-offs, and James Grayson gives an update on life in Japan and the reasons for his departure from hometown club Northampton Saints.

Columnist Nick Cain looks at World Rugby’s needless and confusing law changes, while Chris Hewett urges the game to modernise the scrum without allowing it to die.

Elsewhere in our features, the Women’s Six Nations may be having a week off but Sydney Gregson last weekend returned to international XV-a-side rugby following a nine-year absence, and discusses the changes in the women’s game between her lengthy break in our Red Roses Column.

Former London Irish and England prop David Paice talks about his career in the game in My Life in Rugby, ex-Wasps number eight Peter Scrivener picks his Dream Team and Rams and England U20s full back George Makepiece-Cubitt is our Young Gun.

We’ll have all the action from the Championship, National Leagues One, Two North, Two East and Two West as title races in each division near their crescendo, and from the top of Nat One Chinnor boss Nick Easter explains why he wants to see more Friday night games in the league.

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