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/ 2 years agoTime to put ban on tactical subs
IN HIS column last week Chris Hewett suggested imposing a weight limit on teams to restore a game for all shapes...
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/ 2 years agoPleased to see Kent enjoying their win
KENT’S recent County Championship final win was admirable, and the picture of their team in The Rugby Paper showed what it...
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/ 2 years agoGreat match but why no female officials?
Up and running: Kelsey Jones scores the first try for Gloucester WHAT a great advert for women’s rugby. Last weekend’s Premier...
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/ 2 years agoStill no openness
SO now we have the Champions Cup draw – or do we? We know which teams are in which group, but...
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/ 2 years agoLeave game alone
OH dear oh dear, World Rugby are at it again, suggesting changes to the laws to “improve” the women’s game which...
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/ 2 years agoThis is how to run a sustainable club
IT IS now time for the RFU to listen to the chairmen and directors of the Championship clubs that have been...
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/ 2 years agoBar takings are key for clubs to make money
RUGBY clubs’ biggest source of income is bar sales, which are dependent on matches being played. So why over the years...
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/ 2 years agoDirectors are to blame
email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk I AM fed up with old former players from the three Gallagher Premiership clubs that have been disbanded blaming...
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/ 2 years agoTime to offer fair treatment to grassroots
LAST week’s Rugby Paper lists next season’s National League fixtures. Among the titbits served up by the RFU’s Competitions Committee for...
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/ 2 years agoI identified the problem in 2018
LOSSES of £21.1m, dependency on benefactors, excessively high wages for players in the Premiership and a Championship unloved – these are...
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/ 2 years agoIt’s not a level playing field in second tier
I WOULD just like to correct a passage in the article with Steve Thompson last week (TRP, June 11), when he...
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/ 2 years agoHow do Saracens survive on gates?
IT was interesting to see the average home attendances for the Premiership clubs for the past season. What I can’t quite...
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/ 2 years agoEngland rugby’s ‘annus horribilis’
THIS season has been an “annus horribilis” for English Rugby Union. Three professional clubs have folded because of financial difficulties. In...
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/ 2 years agoIreland’s time is now
I’VE followed Ireland for some time now and I have seen a massive growth in technique, skill set and depth like...
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/ 2 years agoVote of no confidence
STOW on the Wold RFC held its AGM on Thursday and a motion of “no confidence in the leadership of the...
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/ 2 years agoI can’t wait to see Bath get going
■ Am I just being cynical or, with the demise of London Irish, does this give the RFU and PRL exactly...
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/ 2 years agoTry something new and imaginative
JAMES Harrington reports that the average gate in the French top flight this season was 14,841, with Bordeaux topping the list...
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/ 2 years agoEnforce laws and game will be safer
WORLD Rugby should abandon their ‘player welfare’ platitudes and make the game safer by merely enforcing its own laws. A fortnight...
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/ 2 years agoSale’s time will come
SARACENS proved they are still ahead of the field with last Saturday’s triumph over Sale, but I back Alex Sanderson’s side...
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/ 2 years agoHow is decline in crowd numbers good for game?
WHAT has been described by Simon Massie-Taylor as the best season the Premiership has seen, is not shared by the home...
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/ 2 years agoI’d support legal case against RFU
WELL said, Mark Morgan of Jersey Reds in The Rugby Paper on May 15. “The sport is not thriving at any...
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/ 2 years agoTime for a drop-goal
AFTER watching Leinster being beaten by one point in last weekend’s Champions Cup final by La Rochelle, I was wondering why...
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/ 2 years agoLa Rochelle, the masters
LEINSTER were caught out time after time at the breakdown, scrum and lineouts using the advantageous methods they have used all...
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/ 2 years agoBob right to break barriers
THAT was an excellent letter/article by Bob Reeves in last Sunday’s TRP. I have heard from friends involved in grassroots rugby...
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/ 2 years agoChampions but without a trophy
CARDIFF RFC won the Welsh Premiership championship by six points, but they won no trophy because somebody in the Welsh Rugby...
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/ 2 years agoWork to do but Bill can meet the challenge
DESPITE efforts to improve the league structures, there are clearly problems that have not been resolved. In restructuring the leagues, the...
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/ 2 years agoRFU must explain why they allowed Prem ring-fence
IN The Rugby Paper last Sunday, a picture alongside the National One Dream Team shows how much winning promotion means to...
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/ 2 years agoEligibility rules have failed the Pacific Islands
THE decision of former England tighthead Henry Thomas to become a Welshman is a relatively minor example of the Test rugby...
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/ 2 years agoThe‘pick and go’is a show of brute force
WHAT on earth is happening to “our game”? It was bad enough when crooked feeds to a scrum were permitted but...
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/ 2 years agoA painful cost to pay
THE story relating to the RFU financial crisis prompts me, once again, to write to TRP – acrisis which seems to...
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/ 2 years agoChance to promote World Cup missed
I ATTENDED, and thoroughly enjoyed, the England/France game at Twickenham last Saturday. Reference was made in the programme as to how...
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/ 2 years agoRFU is destroying community game
WELL another grassroots season has finally come to a shambolic end all thanks to the RFU. The leagues were changed to...
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/ 2 years agoReferees set on spoiling the game
IT IS the most difficult side of the game, but despite modern technology there are referees out there determined to spoil...
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/ 2 years agoJeff’s right, we must support grassroots
JEFF Probyn is absolutely right in stating that the future of rugby in England depends on more resources being made available...
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/ 2 years agoWe need people of experience to run game
JEFF Probyn has once again hit the nail on the head with his comments regarding the financial support of the grassroots...
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/ 2 years agoToo many changes for me
I am surprised at nPeter Jackson. In his article last week about Mark Evans’ involvement with Fiji, he states that Wales...
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/ 2 years agoPremiership’s boring compared to Europe
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk I AM fed up...
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/ 2 years agoWhere’s the patriotism?
I THINK the RFU are making a mistake in holding rugby matches on the morning of the King’s Coronation Day. I...
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/ 2 years agoRed cards must stay for sake of player welfare
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk YOU can’t fail to...
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/ 2 years agoNo guarantees for Leinster
WITH the Champions Cup Final being in Dublin this year I’ve been reading many comments saying that Leinster are being handed...
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/ 2 years agoI reckon there are three sets of laws…
I HAVE followed all the correspondence and the various comments by your contributors to The Rugby Paper over the interpretation of...
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/ 2 years agoThis ‘mish-mash’ does nothing for the game
LAST week’s TRP lists a bewildering array of cup, shield, bowl and plate competitions for grassroots clubs. Some are Round 1...
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/ 2 years agoKicking obsession is so boring for us all
I HAVE a revolutionary template to improve England’s rugby… try playing some! This obsession with kicking possession away makes for a...
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/ 2 years agoBritish and Irish League can breathe new life into game
TIME has come for everyone to stop kidding themselves. We all know that since season 1995/96 and the dawn of professional...
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/ 2 years agoNot sure Shane saw same Wales as me
THE Shane Williams column is always an interesting read, if not for the reasons he might wish. To read his most...
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/ 2 years agoLaws have become too complicated
IT IS often a sure sign of common sense flying out of the window when we become obsessed with the literal...
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/ 2 years agoRegionalised system not way forward
I DISAGREE with your correspondents Derek Gilbert and Jeff Gage in last week’s paper regarding regionalised teams and ring-fencing. Having attended...
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/ 2 years agoEddie’s to blame! He wasted too much time
ENGLAND’S effort against Ireland was an improvement, but the “guiding lights” at Twickenham need a massive kick up the backside for...
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/ 2 years agoA small, self-serving elite which bars all others from access
BEFORE the creation of club leagues in 1987, a group of around 24 self-appointed leading clubs played against each other (plus...
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/ 2 years agoMoney problems hit England and Wales
WITNESSING the gulf in abilities between England and France had me thinking of the issues going on in the WRU and...
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