JEFF Probyn is bang on regarding the scandal of RFU junior staff and grassroots rugby being squeezed following apparent incompetence in the management of the […]

IT is totally unfair that some National League sides can benefit from close ties with Premiership clubs while others simply cannot. If I was a […]

NEWS EXTRA SAM Vesty insists youth will be given a chance at Northampton and says there are no sacred cows as far as far as […]

I SINCERELYhope that World Rugby read Colin Boag’s column in last week’s Rugby Paper. Colin described the present silly plans for US expansion of the […]

IN last week’s My Life in Rugby column, Jamie Salmon writes how, in the early 1980s, he went from being rejected by Kent at an […]

LIKE against Wales in the Six Nations, England started like a train in the first Test against the Boks and then just switched off. For […]

NICK CAIN SPELLS OUT WHAT YESTERDAY’S DEFEAT MEANS FOR ENGLAND Dejection: Owen Farrell, right, and Denny Solomona lead England off yesterday PICTURES: Getty Images Pressure: […]

LONDON SEVENS WRAP FIJI made it four wins on the bounce in the Sevens World Series, overcoming South Africa 21-17 in a tight encounter at […]

By ADAM ELLIS PARIS SEVENS Class act: Fiji’s Sevuloni Mocenacagi dives in to score against Samoa FIJI and South Africa will determine their own fates […]

WOMEN’S SEVENS DISAPPOINTING Paris campaign for England ended in anti-climax after they booked a place in the Cup quarter-finals. On the edge of reaching the […]

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: [email protected] I FIND the comments by Shane Williams in […]

IT IS hard to disagree with Jeff Gage’s letter in last week’s TRP, when he writes of the alarm bells that should be ringing at […]

I’VE read some tripe over the years, but Todd Blackadder’s call to expand the Premiership playoffs to six as reported by Neale Harvey last week […]

NEWS that 24 Lancashire clubs will break away from the RFU league structure should sound alarm bells ringing at Twickenham – England’s domestic structure could […]

I WONDER how many rugby supporters and club season ticket holders feel like me, that the play-off system to decide the league champions, is completely […]

IT will be great to see Henry Trinder back in England colours today after what has been such an inuury-hit career. It’s been seven years […]

REFEREES should adopt a new policy – if in doubt, check it out. I refer to the use/or non use of the TMO for the […]

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: [email protected] NOW the season has finished and we all […]

WITH both the unloved Anglo-Welsh and British and Irish Cups dying due to lack of interest and lacklustre Welsh region participation, the RFU had a […]

GREAT news to see Danny Cipriani back in the England squad – by why’s it taken so long? He’s been playing oustanding rugby for Wasps […]

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: [email protected] THE head honchos at the RFU never cease […]

IT SEEMS everyone is missing the point on the Brad Shields debate. Of course he’s good enough, of course he’s eligible. But why? What problem […]

I’M confused what the correct decision is as the laws stand. At the Exeter v Sale game Jack Nowell clearly knocked-on from a Chiefs restart. […]

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: [email protected] I READ with interest this week that England […]

AS an Ealing Trailfinders supporter my colours are firmly nailed to the ‘No Ringfencing’ mast, but I do have some sympathy with the financial downside […]

I WAS disappointed not to have my previous letter published last weekend, regarding the unbelievable renaming of Bristol RFC to the Bristol Bears. However my […]

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: [email protected] FORsupporters like me things look brighter for Cornish […]

NEWS that Hurricanes’ Brad Shields will be considered for England’s summer tour to South Africa defies belief. He is a Kiwi who qualifies for England […]

I HOPE there is enough room in your edition to include my letter offering my best regards to Rob Horne. Never has a Saturday morning […]

IT’S a shame for John Kingston to be leaving his beloved Harlequins at the end of the season, but without trying to sound wise after […]

A GROUP of well educated individuals will have decided on the respective fates of Bastareaud, Solomona, Folau and others. These authorities need to get the […]

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: [email protected] I MUST concour with Keith Worth regarding feeding […]

HAVING crossed verbal swords with Jeff Probyn back in November on the issue of RFU funding for grassroots rugby, I feel I must now write […]

HAS anyone any idea why rugby referees allow scrum halves to deliberately feed the ball into the scrum directly into the second row and not […]

EVER since Mike Catt and Will Greenwood retired, England have had a problem at inside centre. They have desperately sought a player able to do […]