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Chiefs smash Saints while they are down

24 December 2017 0 comments

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Power: Jack Yeandle breaks clear to score Exeter’s fourth try PICTURES: Getty Images BELEAGUERED Northampton flattered to deceive at Franklin’s Gardens where […]

Watson hits turbos to put heat on Toulon

17 December 2017 1 comment

European Champions Cup By BRENDAN GALLAGHER BATH went to the top of an incredibly competitive Pool 5 with this vital win over the French giants […]

Too easy for Munster as Tigers stir late

10 December 2017 1 comment

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER He’s over: Simon Zebo scores for Munster MUNSTER were too strong and efficient for an uninspired Tigers at Thomond Park as they […]

Varsity: Who was the dashing Cambridge wing in Sherlock mystery?

6 December 2017 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher investigates the man who was Conan Doyle’s hero, Godfrey Staunton

Varsity women’s preview: Oxford will go on the attack to defend crown

5 December 2017 0 comments

Can Oxford produce another shock upset this time around?

Varsity: Seven-timer Briggs is Light Blues brigade history maker

5 December 2017 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher picks out the stars to watch in this week’s Varsity match showpiece

The Ella brothers: the pop stars of Aussie rugby

30 November 2017 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher remembers the wonderful Junior Wallaby side that boasted a fabulous trio…

It’s time, England, to put some stick about

19 November 2017 1 comment

BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT Opportunity knocks: Elliot Daly goes over for England’s opening try PICTURE: Getty Images England weren’t wildly impressed with what they perceived as […]

Ireland turn the screw with three-try flourish

12 November 2017 1 comment

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER IRELAND, with a performance of growing authority and excellence, dismissed South Africa from their presence to get their autumn campaign off to […]

Pumas rugby needs a re-boot starting with new selection policy

12 November 2017 0 comments

BRENDAN GALLAGHER Misfiring: Juan Martin Hernandez VERDICT Patience is a virtue – as the Pumas discovered when they went through 30 phases at the death […]

RUGBY MATTERS

5 November 2017 0 comments

How Canucks could do with Charron nowadays BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points CANADA have produced a handful of […]

Maturing Basta is now model of consistency

5 November 2017 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher makes the case for a recall of Mathieu Bastareaud Toulon’s Mathieu Bastareaud has added skills to his power game PICTURE: Getty Images All […]

Has any coach ever had more riches to choose from than All Blacks’ Hansen?

5 November 2017 0 comments

BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT The All Blacks might only have prevailed by nine points against a wonderfully spirited and inventive Barbarians but New Zealand rugby was […]

Whitehouse had a difficult game and needs assistance

29 October 2017 1 comment

WITH reference to Brendan Gallagher’s report last weekend of Clermont v Northampton, it sounds a little like sour grapes to me, it’s nearly as bad […]

Danny Hearn – 50 years on: No regrets for the man of steel who beat the odds to walk again

28 October 2017 0 comments

50 years on from breaking his neck against New Zealand, The Rugby Paper meets the England centre to see how that day changed the course of his life

It’s time the RFU honoured first black international

27 October 2017 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher takes a look at the distinguished moment in history set by Plymouth player Jamie Peters

RUGBY MATTERS

22 October 2017 3 comments

It’s time the RFU honoured the first black international BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points THE RFU and Premiership […]

Resurgent Wallabies end the Bledisloe barren spell

22 October 2017 0 comments

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER AUSTRALIA’S steady improvement this season continued apace in Brisbane yesterday with a thoroughly deserved Bledisloe Cup win over a lacklustre New Zealand, […]

Frantic Saints facing uphill task to qualify

22 October 2017 0 comments

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER SAINTS, bouncing back from a first round mauling against Saracens, displayed plenty of ticker and endeavour but absolutely no composure in a […]

RUGBY MATTERS

15 October 2017 0 comments

BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points Star of the future: Jacob Stockdale Try of the week: Take a bow […]

Storming Stockdale takes the sting out of Wasps

15 October 2017 0 comments

■By BRENDAN GALLAGHER FORMER Wasp Charlies Piutau provided the x-factor and Jacob Stockdale the cutting edge as Ulster got their European campaign off to an […]

Born-again Boks push All Blacks to the very edge

8 October 2017 1 comment

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER SOUTH Africa lost a Test match but won back their self-respect in a barnstorming game that showcased the Rugby Championship at its […]

Dave Gallaher forged the All Blacks identity from the furnace of the Boer War

4 October 2017 0 comments

October 4 is the 100th anniversary of the death of Dave Gallaher, killed in action on the first morning of the Battle of Passchendaele. Brendan […]

Gallaher forged his All Blacks from the furnace of the Boer War

1 October 2017 0 comments

THIS Wednesday, October 4, is the 100th anniversary of the death of Dave Gallaher, killed in action on the first morning of the Battle of […]

Jantjies shoots wide to leave it all square again

1 October 2017 0 comments

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER South Africa ……27pts Tries: Dreyer 17, Serfontein 42, Skosan 48 Conversions: Jantjies 18, 43, 50 Penalties: Jantjies 25 Australia…………..27pts Tries: Folau 10 […]

INSIDE: TheRUGBYPaper

24 September 2017 2 comments

Newcastle edge 65-point thriller at the Rec JAMIE ROBERTS Marcus Smith is making me feel 18 again and I’m loving it ROB HORNE Quitting Wallabies […]

Brendan Gallagher: Philadelphia is next stop on rugby’s world tour

15 September 2017 0 comments

Globalisation is one of the modern day buzzwords and although sometimes I’m not exactly sure what it means the fact that next Saturday Newcastle Falcons […]

All Blacks hit back after Pumas scare

10 September 2017 0 comments

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER NEW ZEALAND were given a major fright for the best part of an hour in New Plymouth before a flurry of tries […]

Carnegie will never be same as Leinster

10 September 2017 0 comments

IN LASTSunday’s TRP Jon Newcombe quotes Yorkshire Carnegie coowner Jon Wright: “Although Yorkshire is a county, we see the team as acting like an Irish […]

Brendan Gallagher: So why has rugby just gone north in the North?

7 September 2017 0 comments

Sale entertain Newcastle on Friday night in the big northern derby – or the Sharks play the Falcons if you prefer – and both clubs […]

The struggles of Premiership rugby in the North West

4 September 2017 0 comments

SALE entertain Newcastle on Friday night in the big northern derby – or the Sharks play the Falcons if you prefer – and both clubs seem in buoyant mood with everything to play for.

Wallabies smashed for six in first half blitzkrieg

20 August 2017 1 comment

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER NEW ZEALAND dismissed Australia from their presence with a remarkable six-try first half burst in Sydney which left you appreciating just how […]

Brendan Gallagher: Will All Blacks be fresh to go again?

17 August 2017 0 comments

New Zealand have lost only two of their 27 Rugby Championship matches to date – there was also a draw against Australia in 2014 – […]

Brendan Gallagher looks back at 150 years of Wasps history

11 August 2017 0 comments

Wasps’ 150th anniversary season isn’t five minutes old and already they have one trophy in the Cabinet having retained their Premiership Sevens title in some […]

Read leads Kiwi charge to restore the world order

6 August 2017 0 comments

BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT Although it might be a slight exaggeration to claim that the Crusaders’ Super Rugby triumph at Ellis Park yesterday settled frayed New […]

Extra little gem to celebrate Mobbs

6 August 2017 0 comments

I HAVE just read and enjoyed Brendan Gallagher’s article on Edgar Mobbs. Brendan did not mention the long-held belief that Edgar took a rugby ball […]

Brendan Gallagher previews the Women’s World Cup

3 August 2017 0 comments

The memory of 2014 in France might still be fresh with us but women’s rugby has moved on apace and, a year earlier than normal, […]

Brendan Gallagher: England have only two world class players in their squad

2 August 2017 0 comments

This week heralds the announcement of the 45- strong England EPS squad and it feels like a big staging post, the start of a new […]

Crying shame there’s no fourth Test to show how great Lions could be

9 July 2017 0 comments

BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT Not enough time: Rhys Webb had more to offer WHAT a whirlpool of emotions it was on the final whistle yesterday for […]

Brendan Gallagher: As the pressure ramped up, so cool Gatland kept his nerve

5 July 2017 0 comments

This Test was not only a compelling thriller which instantly claims its place in Lions folklore but a game which neatly combined two of the […]

So what next to save Lions from being an anachronism?

2 July 2017 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher looks at how the Lions could reinvent themselves in the coming seasons THE British and Irish Lions need to bite the bullet and […]

Get ready for the fireworks …and some dubious calls!

18 June 2017 2 comments

BRENDAN GALLAGHER sets the scene for next week’s Test opener with a tour through the ages Experience shows us there is nothing quite like the […]

England’s reserves put on first class style to maul Pumas for second time

18 June 2017 0 comments

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER ENGLAND’S highly effective mix of gnarled veterans and young pups claimed their second win in a week over the Pumas to take […]

Brendan Gallagher’s all-time All Blacks Maori XV

16 June 2017 0 comments

1. Billy Bush – William Kingita Te Pohe to give the Napier and Canterbury prop his full name. Wild looking, heavily bearded piratical figure and […]

As dress rehearsels go, this was far better than mob of 1971

4 June 2017 2 comments

BRENDAN GALLAGHER BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT Oustanding condition: Kyle Sinckler The opening matches of Lions tours are hurdles to be cleared not mountains to climb and […]

Brendan Gallagher picks his all-time Lions XV

1 June 2017 0 comments

15. JPR Williams Ever present in 1971 and 1974 and a player who took the fight to the ‘enemy’ more than most. Gave the Lions […]

Brendan Gallagher: Exeter prove patience can be greatest virtue

31 May 2017 0 comments

It was Leo Tolstoy – who doesn’t offer appear on the sports pages – who once remarked that the two most powerful warriors are patience […]

Exeter prove patience can be greatest virtue

28 May 2017 1 comment

BRENDAN GALLAGHER VERDICT It was Leo Tolstoy – who doesn’t offer appear on the sports pages – who once remarked that the two most powerful […]

Brendan Gallagher: Premiership final promises to be an absolute cracker

24 May 2017 0 comments

So after 22 rounds and two pulsating skin-of-your- teeth semis Wasps will play Exeter in the Aviva Premiership Final in a game that every neutral […]

Brendan Gallagher: Chiefs to beat Saracens but Wasps for title

18 May 2017 0 comments

There’s no guarantee a cracking regular season will produce two semi-final play-offs to remember next weekend but, frankly, it will be a major surprise if […]

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