IT WAS so sad to hear of the passing of England wing David Duckham. Who can forget the images of him running with his mane […]

MIKE Forshaw’s departure to the Wales set-up is a huge loss to Sale – and a major coup for Warren Gatland. Sale boss Alex Sanderson […]

Crunch: Owen Farrell tackles Jack Clement ■ So there we are then – Owen Farrell belatedly receives his (lenient) punishment and will be available to […]

THE desire of Championship clubs for a reinstatement of their £288k annual central funding, as reported in last week’s TRP, is understandable from their narrow […]

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: [email protected] CAN the people that run rugby give some […]

PETER Jackson may have given rugby the best possible Christmas present it could receive with his advocacy of a British and Irish league. It is […]

PREMIERSHIP clubs are given the privilege of representing English rugby in Europe, yet some abuse that privilege by fielding weakened sides. For example, Gloucester were […]

WITH the change from Premiership to European Cup games we get the problem of having to suffer poor french referees. How do some of these […]

FOLLOWING the sacking of England head coach Eddie Jones at the start of this week a number of respected people involved in the sport have […]

SURELY I am not alone in wondering why it appears to only be Exeter struggling with the salary cap and unable to retain some of […]

REPORTS suggest that Wasps and Worcester’s Premiership rivals are to seize those two clubs’ valuable P shares after their relegation to the Championship. With two […]

I READ with interest Peter Sneddon’s letter last week about USA participation in rugby. I was fortunate to be heavily involved in rugby in northern […]

Value for money? England fans at Twickenham PICTURE: Getty Images I AM a president of a rugby club playing in National 2 East (and have […]

THERE has been much chatter on social media as to why Marcus Smith booted the ball out of play in the England v NZ match […]

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: [email protected] ON Saturday I went to watch a local […]

NICK Cain suggests that other Premiership clubs would be ‘predatory’ and ‘rapacious’ if they took over the P shares of Worcester and Wasps but it […]

TWO Premiership teams unbeaten after six rounds scheduled by BT Sport on October 30, 2022 – how good that promises to be – Saracens v […]

I READ with interest Jeremy Guscott’s article in last week’s edition, in particular his comment that, “As for the salary cap, once it is agreed, […]

SO the “old guard” merchants of gloom and doom or not appear to have been correct. Those who rued not professionalism but the manner in […]

I MUST take issue with Derek Gilbert’s assertion (letters 16/10/2022) that referees in the Premiership are abdicating in law and manufacturing results. This is a […]