IN response to Richard Abbott’s letter last week, in a perfect world all kick off times would be the same and taking his point on […]

AS the Champions Cup reaches the conclusion of its pool stage we have again, with the exception of Saracens, seen teams from the Premiership failing […]

I THINK Gareth Pitt (letters Jan 6) is missing the point with his comments regarding the bonus point system having big faults. The whole reasoning […]

GARETH Pitt (TRP letters January 6) either has a very short memory or has not been following rugby for long. The bonus point system has […]

RUGBY is meant to be a contest between 15 players on each side. The red card given to Bath’s Ross Batty against Worcester last week […]

I HAVE a season ticket at the Scarlets and I ask what next from our coach Wayne Pivac, the next Welsh supremo. Why bomb out […]

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon, SW19 4EU email: [email protected] COLIN Boag’s com parison of golf club members […]

IS it really necessary in winter months to start as late as 3pm when invariably the lights have to be switched on at half time? […]

WOULDanyone be able to explain to me why Faf de Klerk was not sent off for his tackle on Billy Twelvetrees last Saturday? Not cited […]

I WAS pleased to see Bill Beaumont (Sir) in the New Year’s Honours list. His playing recordcertainly deserves recognition as has his progression through higher […]

IT’S never a good sign when the major talking point from a rugby match has nothing to do with rugby but regrettably this is the […]

WHAT an absolute barnstormer of a try Toulouse scored through Cheslin Kolbe in their thrashing of Toulon – it’s great to see an institution of […]

I FEEL that it’s time to radically change the ‘Bonus Point’ issue – I don’t think you should be rewarded for shipping four tries (and […]

IT strikes me that England have not really taken any big strides in the last few years when I read in Jerry Guscott’s column how […]

COLIN BOAG says the CVC deal is great news for the clubs. For Premiership clubs, he may be right; for the rest of English rugby, […]

ON FACEBOOK there is a group that put up photos of days of yore which had an England team with nine Lancashire players in it: […]

I’M relatively new to Rugby Union being born and bred in St Helens, a staunch Rugby League town. My father, who toured France in 1935 […]

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon, SW19 4EU email: [email protected] I WILL not be taking up Colin Boag’s […]

JEFF Probyn posed some good questions as to why no English coach seemingly wants to reach the pinnacle (Why does no Englishman want to lead […]

GREAT letter from Chris Taylor last week, proposing a “Community Game Arrangement” to provide central funding to clubs according to what they’re putting into the […]

SOUNDS like sour grapes to me in Nick Cain’s piece entitled “Schools in moral row” in which he described how a coalition of ten Auckland […]

RUGBY needs to look seriously at its reason for being. We are not soccer (now resembles contactless sport) or American Football (body armour). Let’s hear […]

SHOCK horror! UEFA suspect Manchester City FC have been contraventing their rules on the amount they spend on players’ salaries. The shock is…is anyone with […]

AFTER meeting their agreed commitments to the Premiership and Championship, the RFU appear to believe that the best use of their limited resources is to […]

I FEEL it is necessary to comment on some of the expectations from the negotiations between PRL and CVC investments. The situation is that the […]

COLIN Boag in his comments about TMOs misses a fundamental aspect of the game – ‘Play to the whistle’, a basic tenet taught from day […]

RFU’s interim chief executive, Nigel Melville, confirmed that relegation from the Premiership would remain for this season. For Melville to even think that moving the […]

ARE the Barbarians even remotely considered to be an English club anymore? There were 13 South Africans in yesterday’s squad to face Argentina – and […]

SO, to address their continuing financial issues, the RFU are belatedly setting in place “financial metrics, against which spending and investment decisions will be made […]

THE assertion in Peter Jackson’s column that Derek Morgan played for England but was born in Wales was factually inaccurate. As the article stated he […]

PETER Jackson refers to the birth place of players who play for international teams but in the case of the UK this is not straightforward. […]

AGREE in principle with Gus Pichot’s remarks regarding the qualification of foreign players, but I believe all he’s done is “lift” them from a posting […]

FRANCIS Baron and John Owen are absolutely right to challenge the financial management of the current RFU hierarchy. The RFU’s commitment to the development of […]

WHAT a pleasure it was to watch Japan play last weekend. The tempo and ball handling skills they show are a delight to watch. They […]

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: [email protected] I WAS rather surprised to read Brendan Gallagher’s […]

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: [email protected] HAVING played lip service to player welfare, Premiership […]

HOW ironic that Sale coach Neil Briggs thought the Premiership Cup was “a development competition” after his side were put to the sword by Worcester […]

REPORTS about the threat to the very existence of the Lions will be viewed with dismay by rugby supporters across the British Isles as well […]