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Joe Schmidt: We’ll give Lions a real test

1 December 2024 0 comments

By Brendan Gallagher Australia coach Joe Schmidt is optimistic about the Lions challenge next summer after pushing Ireland all the way in Dublin. They came […]

150th party nearly ends in tears for sloppy Irish

1 December 2024 0 comments

By Brendan Gallagher Ireland…………………………. 22pts Tries: van der Flier 23, Doris 49, G McCarthy 73 Conversions: Prendergast 50, Crowley 74 Penalty: Prendergast 43 Australia……………………….. 19pts […]

Good to see the Eagles soaring again

1 December 2024 0 comments

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER High-flier: USA Eagles Paddy Ryan on the attack against Portugal THAT’S a […]

Fiji cave in as Ireland find some firepower

24 November 2024 0 comments

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Ireland…………………………. 52pts Tries: Doris 4, Van der Flier 14, 29; Hansen 40, 67; Aki 46, McCarthy 63, Kelleher 78 Conversions: Prendergast 4, […]

All Blacks prove too strong for feisty Italy

24 November 2024 0 comments

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Italy ……………….. 11pts Try: Menoncello 76 Penalties: Garbisi 12, 16 New Zealand …29pts Tries: Roigard 24, Jordan 39, Tele’a 70, B Barrett […]

Time to recognise Etzebeth’s talents

24 November 2024 0 comments

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER IT’S THE World Rugby annual awards tonight, held of course in that […]

Why does it always go wrong in the last quarter for England?

17 November 2024 0 comments

By Brendan Gallagher Where do England minds go in the final quarter of big rugby games? Why do they lose focus and intensity and why […]

Battling Argentina make it tough for Ireland

17 November 2024 0 comments

By Brendan Gallagher Ireland……………22pts Tries: Crowley 3, Hansen 5, McCarthy 31 Conversions: Crowley 3, 32 Drop goal: Crowley 21 Argentina ………19pts Try: Mallia 45 Conversion: […]

Chalking off White’s try was a mistake

17 November 2024 0 comments

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER No try: Ben White’s touchdown was ruled out PICTURE: Getty Images IT […]

Of all the positives for Australia, Joseph Sua’ali’i was the biggest

10 November 2024 0 comments

By Brendan Gallagher Welcome back to Australia. Where have you been? And hello Joseph-Aukuso Sua’ali’i. What did your mother feed you? It’s not just that […]

Ireland all at sea as Damian McKenzie pulls the strings

10 November 2024 0 comments

By Brendan Gallagher Ireland………………………….. 13pts Try: van der Flier 42 Conversion: Crowley 43 Penalties: Crowley 7, 39 New Zealand ………………. 23pts Try: Jordan 68 Penalties: […]

Braveheart Wallace Sititi takes top billing as the star of the show for All Blacks

3 November 2024 0 comments

By Brendan Gallagher You could write a short book on how England somehow managed to lose that match in the final stages and yes I […]

Series 4, Episode 9: Luke Pearce on 20-minute Red Card and Autumn Internationals Preview

31 October 2024 0 comments

We loved this one! Following last week’s 20-minute red card debate amongst the guys, we thought it best to call upon someone entrusted with enacting […]

Gloucester don’t let Newcastle Falcons fly again

27 October 2024 0 comments

By Brendan Gallagher Gloucester ………………….. 36pts Tries: Clement 2, T Williams 12, Blake 20, Singleton 40+1, Wade 72, Hathaway 75 Conversions: Anscombe 13, 21, 40+2 […]

Call time on this pantomime ploy

27 October 2024 0 comments

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER THIS 60-second shot clock twaddle. If we must continue to plough down […]

WR should fund free second opinion

27 October 2024 0 comments

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME IMUST admit to being a little surprised by last week’s paper where the articles by Nick […]

Series 4, Episode 8: 20-Minute Red Card Debate and Newcastle Falcons Finally End Drought

24 October 2024 0 comments

With the rugby world divided over the trial of the 20-minute red card during the November internationals, it’s only right that the Rugby Paper Podcast […]

I’d have included Butler in the mix

20 October 2024 0 comments

REALLY enjoyed Brendan Gallagher’s article. As a former player in the Sixties, Seventies and early Eighties, I was fortunate to play with or against many […]

Francois van Wyk late show steals it for Bath

20 October 2024 0 comments

By Brendan Gallagher Harlequins ………………….. 24pts Tries: Dombrandt 6, Isgro 16, 37 Conversions: Smith 7, 17, 38 Penalty: Smith 61 Bath ……………………………… 26pts Tries: Pepper […]

Confused path to rules of combat

20 October 2024 0 comments

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Man in the middle: Former Wasps prop Will Green PICTURE: Getty Images […]

No-one is forced to play the game

13 October 2024 0 comments

BEING an ex-rugby player from the age of 12 to 40, I am in complete agreement with Brendan Gallagher in his recent article (Sept 29). […]

Leicester Tigers too strong for floundering Newcastle Falcons

6 October 2024 0 comments

By Brendan Gallagher Newcastle Falcons …….. 10pts Try: Chick 51 Conversion: Grayson 52 Penalty: Grayson 7 Leicester Tigers ………… 42pts Tries: Hassell-Colliins 17 Watson 23, […]

Series 4, Episode 5: David Campese reviews Rugby Championship and Australian Rugby

2 October 2024 0 comments

The Rugby Championship has a new winner for the first time since 2019, as South Africa clinched the last trophy available to them with a […]

Drop group action and examine selected cases

29 September 2024 0 comments

Rugby Matters – A weekly look at the game’s other talking points by Brendan Gallagher I was very struck the other day by our conversation […]

Northampton Saints cut down by dazzling Ben Spencer

22 September 2024 0 comments

By Brendan Gallagher Bath ……………………………… 38pts Tries: Cokanasiga 5, Hill 26, Spencer 34, Lawrence 62, Coetzee 77 Conversions: Russell 6, 26, 35, 63, 79 Penalty: […]

Series 4, Episode 3: Gallagher Premiership season preview with Luther Burrell

18 September 2024 0 comments

The Gallagher Premiership returns! Can Northampton defend their title? How will Saracens fare without Owen Farrell? Will Newcastle give a better account of themselves? Ex-England […]

Quite right, Brendan, don’t indulge All Blacks

15 September 2024 0 comments

I couldn’t agree more with Brendan Gallagher’s suggestion that we must stop indulging the All Blacks and their haka. He missed a couple of points […]

The haka is indeed a dance of welcome, and not a challenge

15 September 2024 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher is correct in saying that the haka is not a challenge. If this were really the case, why would the haka invariably be […]

Series 4, Episode 2: Juandré Kruger on unstoppable Springboks and woeful Wallabies

12 September 2024 0 comments

The Rugby Paper Podcast’s microscope moves south of the equator for today’s episode, as in the latest round of the Rugby Championship South Africa wrapped […]

When it really matters, Pollard gets the vote

8 September 2024 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher So in the week that we learnt a proper All Blacks tour of South Africa is likely in 2026, the two sides contested […]

Time we stopped indulging the haka

8 September 2024 1 comment

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER THERE is so much disingenuous hypocritical twaddle surrounding the Hollywood production that […]

A French triumph against the odds

8 September 2024 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher on the ten-match tour which changed rugby in France for ever FRANCE’S ten-match tour and series win in South Africa 1958 can probably […]

LETTER: Four-day trip to see France vs England in 1931 only £5

1 September 2024 0 comments

I was most interested in Brendan Gallagher’s article last week on French rugby and spending 16 years in the wilderness.

Ringer was the fall guy on a day of carnage

1 September 2024 0 comments

RUGBY REVISITED BRENDAN GALLAGHER RECALLS THE TWICKENHAM BLOODBATH AND PAUL RINGER’S DISMISSAL IN 1980 PICTURES: Alamy Grudge match: Bill Beaumont competing for the ball with […]

When the French were sent packing

25 August 2024 0 comments

BRENDAN GALLAGHER ON WHY FRANCE ENDED UP SPENDING 16 YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS Brendan Gallagher looks back on ‘The Rupture’ when the four Home Unions […]

Once again, Pumas fail to back it up

18 August 2024 0 comments

BRENDAN GALLAGHER Running riot: All Blacks No.8 Ardie Savea ONE of the most question able truisms in rugby is that wet weather is a great […]

No scrums? No problem for Springboks

18 August 2024 0 comments

BRENDAN GALLAGHER LAST week in Brisbane Pieter Steph Du Toit famously asked Luke Pearce: “Where’s the scrum?” when presented with a choice of three separate […]

Whisper it, but these Boks may deserve our love

11 August 2024 0 comments

BRENDAN GALLAGHER THERE are many of you out there, often to be found in the noisy corner of X, who don’t think back-to-back world champions […]

Creevy & Co show England how it’s done

11 August 2024 0 comments

BRENDAN GALLAGHER ANEW Pumas generation is beginning to flex their muscles, but it was the veteran Gus Creevy, 40 next birthday, who got them over […]

How the sun keeps shining for Spain

11 August 2024 0 comments

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Impressive: Joel Merkler in action for Toulouse PICTURE: Getty Images IT’S been […]

It was good to see Scotland support for T2

4 August 2024 0 comments

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Captured: Gus Warr in action against Canada PICTURE: Alamy SCOTLAND, for reasons […]

Obolensky, a Russian prince to an English gent

4 August 2024 0 comments

RUGBY REVISITED >> BRENDAN GALLAGHER ON THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER OBOLENSKY, THE WINGER WHO BECAME A RUGBY ICON Brendan Gallagher tells the story of a […]

Dupont, the catalyst and the creator

28 July 2024 0 comments

BRENDAN GALLAGHER WE live in an age of superlative sports stars. Tadej Pogacar is very possibly the greatest cyclist we have ever seen, the triumvirate […]

No stopping the American battlers

21 July 2024 0 comments

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points IT’S exactly 100 years ago since France and the USA met in […]

Ireland’s ecstasy as cool Frawley steals it

14 July 2024 0 comments

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER South Africa………………… 24pts Penalties: Pollard 19, 35, 45, 48, 53, 57, 61, 65 Ireland…………………………. 25pts Tries: Murray 14 Conversions: Crowley 15 Penalties: […]

Injury and illness can’t stop the fun

14 July 2024 0 comments

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER IT’S time to dip back into the 1974 Lions tour again and […]

Don’t lose Six Nations bonus on a Sunday

14 July 2024 0 comments

By Brendan Gallagher There have been more reports recently about the Six Nations wanting to do away with Sunday games and have more Super Saturdays […]

High life proves step too far for Ireland

7 July 2024 0 comments

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER South Africa ……………….. 27pts Tries: Arendse 3, Kolbe 65, Penalty 78 Conversions: Pollard 4, 67 Penalties: Pollard 18, 29 pts Ireland…………………………..20pts Tries: […]

There’s more than money to Toulouse

7 July 2024 0 comments

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER There have, rightly, been acres of words written about Toulouse in recent […]