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Sensational Warriors hold on to defy Bulls

By LUKE JARMYN Bulls .................................... 16pts Glasgow Warriors .......... 21pts Tries: Van Staden 24 Conversions: Goosen 25 Penalties: Goosen 1, 14,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Sing is on song for a double triumph

■By MARK STEVENS Gloucester-Hartpury.... 36pts Bristol Bears ................... 24pts Tries: Hunt 25, Hendy 54, Sing 58, Venner 62, Jones 68 Conversions:...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Munster can’t live with slick Warriors

By JOHN FALLON Munster .............................10pts Tries: Frisch 56 Conversions: Crowley 57 Penalties: Crowley 13 Glasgow.............................17pts Tries: Steyn 24, Cancelliere 51 Conversions:...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 11 months ago

Mistake to select Tom and not Ted

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Ted Hill must be wondering what else he has to do to get...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 11 months ago

Seven-try Yorkshire put Surrey to the sword

Women’s Division 1 Surrey ……………… 7pts Tries: Grove 76 Conversions: Hill 77 Yorkshire……….37pts Tries: Green 9, Gould 33, Brown 40, Akwiwu...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 11 months ago

Northampton’s brilliant trio are leaving the club in the best hands

BRENDAN GALLAGHER You don’t always get what you deserve in sport, not least when it comes to the send-off you dream...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 11 months ago

Borthwick needs a clear direction

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK The fog around England’s take-off as an attacking force in the latter stages...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 12 months ago

Mercer deserves his chance

What more does Zach Mercer have to do to get a chance with England? Sadly, I wasn’t surprised to see his...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeremy Guscott

/ 12 months ago

England starting to look like Lions

JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK A year out from the 2025 Lions tour of Australia it’s still hard to...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 12 months ago

Smith has final say for Saints

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Northampton Saints..... 22pts Tries: Odendaal 19 Conversions: Smith 20 Penalties: Smith 28, 31, 40, 62, 70 Saracens ...........................20pts...

By The Rugby Paper Team

British and Irish Lions

/ 12 months ago

Lawes still has Lions in his sights

Courtney Lawes was typically modest when he was presented with the Rugby Union Writers Club’s prestigious Pat Marshall Award as the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Bill Beaumont Cup

/ 12 months ago

Five-star Oxfordshire power into last four

By LUKE JARMYN Division 2 round-up OXFORDSHIRE scored five tries with their best performance of the campaign to grab a 34-27...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Dream Team

/ 12 months ago

Camborne make impact but top two dominate final line-up

NATIONAL 2 WEST DREAM TEAM >> THE BEST XV FROM 2023-24 AS VOTED FOR BY OUR REPORTERS After Dings Crusaders’ National...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 12 months ago

Going, that bundle of barbed wire, a match for Edwards

SID Going, who died last Sunday aged 80, might have been a man of God but the diminutive scrum-half from Kawakawa...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 12 months ago

Big Ben strikes at right time for Sale

By PAUL REES Ben Curry is often referred to as the twin brother of Tom, the 50-cap England flanker who has...

By The Rugby Paper Team

United Rugby Championship

/ 12 months ago

High-five as Cardiff seal first league win of 2024

By LUKE JARMYN Sharks .............. 14pts Tries: Appollis 24, Bosch 76 Conversions: Cronje 25, 77 Cardiff ..............34pts Tries: Lawrence 14, Donnell...

By The Rugby Paper Team

United Rugby Championship

/ 12 months ago

Deadly Davies does Italian job for the Scarlets

By LUKE JARMYN Zebre.................. 18pts Tries: Licata 3, Hasa 51 Conversions: Montemauri 4 Penalties: Montemauri 23, 27 Scarlets ............ 22pts Tries:...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership Women's Rugby

/ 12 months ago

Leaders hand Hyatt first start at fly-half

PREVIEW... Gloucester Hartpury v Trailfinders Today. Kick-off 2pm By BEN JAYCOCK REIGNING champions and league pacesetters Gloucester-Hartpury make nine changes ahead...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 12 months ago

Lawes is level with England’s greatest

RUGBY MATTERS Members of the Rugby Writers club have recently been voting for the Pat Marshall award which we scribes use...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Bill Beaumont Cup

/ 12 months ago

It’s Harry Houdini as Cheshire steal it late

By LUKE JARMYN Division 2 round-up IN the penultimate round of County Championship group fixtures, 12 sides battled it out in...

By The Rugby Paper Team

United Rugby Championship

/ 1 year ago

It’s been a crazy six months, says new Welsh star

By SIMON THOMAS Alex Mann is the first to admit his “crazy” journey over the past six months hasn’t really sunk...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 1 year ago

Russell masterclass has Bath in top gear

By LUKE JARMYN Newcastle......................... 17pts Tries: Blamire 30, 40+2, Stuart 63 Conversions: Connon 64 Bath .................................... 28pts Tries: du Toit 4,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Chris Hewett

/ 1 year ago

Rugby’s holy trinity prove the difference

CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED SINCE time immemorial, rugby has been cloaked in its own cliches: Prince Obolensky was always “dashing”; Colin...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 1 year ago

50 years ago, the Lions start to sweat

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER At the start of the year, this column...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League 2N

/ 1 year ago

Titans time their run to perfection and finish with the lion’s share

Following Rotherham’s late run to secure the National Two North title, Ben Jaycock canvassed the views of our reporters to select...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Championship

/ 1 year ago

Scottish made us fight all the way, says Cov coach Rae

By PAUL SMITH Coventry ...........27pts Tries: Anstey 16, Wand 35, Chudley 44, Ma’asi 73 Conversions: Mitchell 44, 73 Penalty: Mitchell 27...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League One

/ 1 year ago

Chinnor and Rams dominate in toughest league in the country

The best XV from 2023/24 as voted for by our correspondents Following Chinnor’s run to secure the National One title, Ben...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One

/ 1 year ago

Perenara tops try list as ’Canes march on

Super Rugby Pacific round-up By BEN JAYCOCK TJ Perenara became the all-time top Super Rugby try scorer as his table topping...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League One

/ 1 year ago

Balding casts admiring look at Chinnor as a benchmark

By BEN JAYCOCK Birmingham Moseley director of rugby Adam Balding has tipped his hat to National One winners Chinnor after his...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League 2W

/ 1 year ago

James leads Uni in stylish show

■By LUKE JARMYN Exeter Uni................38 Chester..................... 19 ENGLAND under-20 inter national Kane James put in a try-scoring man-of-the match show as...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Welsh Rugby

/ 1 year ago

Drovers make a bit of history

Premiership round-up By CARL FIELD LLANDOVERY made history by finishing top of the Welsh Premiership table for the first time after...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Women's Six Nations

/ 1 year ago

Rampant England on target for slam

From BEN JAYCOCK at Twickenham England....................88pts Tries: Dow 6, 36, 63; Hunt 9, Jones 12, 57; Aldcroft 18, Kildunne 27, 67,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Championship

/ 1 year ago

Scottish on a roll with three wins in a row

By MO SHER @therugbypape L Scottish ........ 45pts Tries: Ingall 4, Musk 11, 15, 69; Huis 29, Nutton 63, Wilkinson 74...

By The Rugby Paper Team

My Life in Rugby

/ 1 year ago

Scoring in Hell Fire Corner was great

My Life in Rugby with Greg Goodfellow - The former Cornwall, Chinnor, Redruth, Cornish Pirates, Coventry, Mounts Bay & Hawick scrum-half...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Blindside - rugby transfers

/ 1 year ago

Offiah Jnr ready to make mark at Bath

ON THE BLINDSIDE By ROSS HEPPENSTALL Tyler Offiah is setting himself up for life on and off the field as the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 1 year ago

Green seizes day for dazzling Quins

By PAUL REES Bordeaux-Begles ...........41pts Tries: Lucu 19, Buros 24, Depoortere 42, Bielle-Biarrey 59, Tambwe 64, 75 Conversions: Lucu 25, 43,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 1 year ago

Sparkling Leinster get it right this time

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Leinster............................. 40pts Tries: Lowe 16, 60; Gibson-Park 37, Baird 42, Sheehan 56 Conversions: Byrne 18, 38, 43 Penalties:...

By The Rugby Paper Team