Building excitement: Wandisile Simelane of the Lions on the attack against the Bulls last season SOUTH AFRICA Rugby have released the revised schedule for the […]

I HAVE been an avid reader of TRP for some time and, having scanned the results and news articles, my search moves to digest the […]

WE CAN all enjoy the drama of a good game of rugby, regardless of whether or not our team comes through victorious. However this becomes […]

LAST month the RFU binned relegation for the foreseeable with the approval of the CBs (the community clubs’ representatives at HQ) isolating the 1400 community […]

AMID the furore concerning football’s European Super League, I wonder how the ambitious owner of Bristol City FC, Steve Lansdowne – who also owns Bristol […]

THE money-motivated soccer European Super League plan has been abandoned after an outcry from fans, players and managers. So how about the owners of Premiership […]

COLIN Boag wrote that the new law variation, regarding red-carded players being substituted after 20 minutes, is a spineless capitulation, which it is. His next […]

RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney’s decision to retain Eddie Jones as England coach shows his grasp of the realties facing English rugby may be somewhat […]

By JOHN FALLON Leinster …………3 Munster ……….27 CONOR Murray crossed for two tries as Munster got their first win in two and a half years […]

MICHAEL Reay (TRP letters April 4) may be right that the removal of relegation is improving Premiership matches, but not if he watched recent Worcester […]

NOW that the powers that be have clamped down on scrums – in time taken, re-sets and scrummaging just to win a penalty (crooked feeds […]

IT feels like a natural fit including Moana Pasifika and Fijian Drua in Super Rugby next year, alongside the other best attacking nations Australia and […]

AFTER last weekend’s 45-0 and 67-3 hammerings handed out in the Women’s Six Nations, you have to ask what is the point? It does the […]

STEVIE SCOTT, THE FORMER SCOTLAND AND EDINBURGH HOOKER CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST… 1. Allan ‘Chunk’ Jacobsen –A really tough […]

I DO hope Mike Brown joins Newcastle – what a signing. Brown has been playing out of his skin this season, arguably the best allround […]

WATCHING the rugby last weekend I was aghast when one particular slide of statistics came on screen. Collision dominance! How sad is this beautiful game […]

I READ with interest that there will be a review into England’s poor showing in the recent Six Nations. However, who will investigate the RFU’s […]

IN Peter Jackson’s column about W.J.A. “Dave” Davies beating Alun Wyn Jones as the first Welshman to win four Grand Slams, Mr Jackson made an […]

JOE BERCIS, THE AMPTHILL AND FORMER MOSELEY OPENSIDE, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST… 1. Alexi Lutui –I think he’s 42 […]

By SAMUEL JACKSON PREVIEW… Clermont v Toulouse Today. Kick-off 4pm, Stade Marcel-Michelin Ace: Romain Ntamack CLERMONT have lost their last two home games in the […]

By GEORGE LAWRENCE PREVIEW… Bordeaux-Begles v Racing 92 Today. Kick-off 1.30pm, Stade Chaban-Delmas Star: Mathieu Jalibert BORDEAUX-BEGLES are in the European Cup quarter-finals for the first […]

WILL Skelton believes La Rochelle have what it takes to be crowned champions of Europe after the giant lock helped his team overwhelm Sale and […]

By KATE RILEY DMP Sharks ….14 Wasps …………..27 WASPS secured a five pointer on the road to make it two victories in Shark-infested waters in […]

MLR ROUND-UP By SAM JACKSON CHRIS Robshaw will finally become eligible to make his San Diego Legion debut next weekend after serving his suspension from […]

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools HISTORY will show that the 2020-21 season is the one that got away and, like […]