JEFF Probyn wrote last week that Championship players can now be selected for England after all. So why does Mark Wilson still feel the need […]

I WANT England to do well in Japan as much as the next man, but I do wonder why Joe Marler has been allowed back […]

SO the Premiership clubs are going to ride a wave of growing support to break out into sunlit uplands, where they will dominate our game […]

MIKE Catt’s impending arrival as Ireland attack coach means it will be a clean sweep of England’s failed 2015 World Cup coaching staff working across […]

AS Warren Gatland said last week, why would Alun Wyn Jones jeapordise the fact that he plays 21 games a season in Wales to all […]

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon, SW19 4EU email: [email protected] FOLLOWING Warren Gatland’s comments regarding Englandbased players being […]

I COULDN’T agree less with Mr Fleming about the play-offs being fair and sensible. In practically all other sporting league systems, played over a pre-determined […]

PADDY Jackson was acquitted by a jury of the charge of rape. His text message comments were disgusting and as a result he was sacked […]

NICKCain’s article last week regarding the decision by Eddie Jones to pass the responsibility for the England v Baa Baas game to Jim Mallinder as […]

IN RESPONSE to John Oakenfull’s comments last week regarding the playoff system, I agree with him it is unfair when the winner of the trophy […]

THE playoffs are to offset those who have been hindered by international call-ups during the season and for the obvious financial benefit for the Premiership […]

ALEX Goode may not have the same top speed as Anthony Watson or Elliot Daly but he is no slouch and offers something else that […]

COLIN BOAG Boring? You must be joking: Billy Vunipola scores for Saracens What did you make of Saracens’ Champions Cup triumph? I thought it was […]

JAMES BUCKLAND, OLD ALBANIANS HEAD COACH AND FORMER LEICESTER, WASPS AND LONDON IRISH HOOKER, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST 1. Andrew […]

JEREMYGUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK Risen to the challenge: Bath wing Ruardh McConnochie PICTURE: Getty Images THE instalment of Geordan Murphy as Leicester head coach, […]

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: [email protected] COLIN Boag’s article in TRP May 5 is […]

I THINK senior county rugby (RFU funded) should be for only players at level 6 and below, plus any player under 21. Last weekend I […]

SO Danny Cipriani is voted the best player in the Premiership by his peers yet he can’t even make the top 35 or so as […]

COLIN BOAG Going down: Newcastle Falcons players show their dejection Premiership Rugby and the RFU need to get together and finally resolve the promotion/relegation controversy. […]

LUTHER BURRELL, THE NORTHAMPTON SAINTS, ENGLAND & FORMER LEEDS AND SALE CENTRE, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST… 1. Soane Tonga’uiha […]

JEREMY GUSCOTT Tough tackler: Sam Underhill needs to develop his link play in attack PICTURE: Getty Images THE arrival of Tom Curry and Sam Underhill […]

WHEN a player signs for another club or region, they should not be allowed to play for their present region again. Gareth Anscombe played well […]

DECLAN Kidney made an interesting case for artificially sustaining the Championship, effectively to provide competition to the side relegated from the Premiership, while it girds […]

IS anyone else getting frustrated by the loud PA systems used at games these days? At some grounds it’s almost deafening. If your fans can’t […]

DECLAN Kidney is spot on, the Championship is ‘a nugget’ but sadly undervalued by the RFU and the Premiership. If the powers that be cannot […]

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: [email protected] NEIL Fissler reports that London Irish intend to […]

IT IS devastating to see that the RFU are even considering slashing their Community Rugby budget. I am afraid to say that obviously the RFU […]

YOUR article on the potential problem with drugs in Rugby Union stressed that players come under pressure to become ‘bigger and stronger’ and that tells […]

COLIN Boag reports that ‘the thorny question of promotion and relegation looks likely to be resolved by a twoleg play-off between the Premiership’s bottom team […]