Brendan Gallagher

Autumn Internationals

/ 5 months ago

150th party nearly ends in tears for sloppy Irish

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

By The Rugby Paper Team

/ 5 months ago

Good to see the Eagles soaring again

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points - By Brendan Gallagher That's a wrap for the autumn...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 5 months ago

Fiji cave in as Ireland find some firepower

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

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 5 months ago

All Blacks prove too strong for feisty Italy

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Italy .................... 11pts Try: Menoncello 76 Penalties: Garbisi 12, 16 New Zealand ...29pts Tries: Roigard 24, Jordan 39,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 5 months ago

Time to recognise Etzebeth’s talents

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER IT’S THE World Rugby annual awards tonight, held...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Autumn Internationals

/ 6 months ago

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

By Brendan Gallagher Where do England minds go in the final quarter of big rugby games? Why do they lose focus...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Autumn Internationals

/ 6 months ago

Battling Argentina make it tough for Ireland

By Brendan Gallagher Ireland...............22pts Tries: Crowley 3, Hansen 5, McCarthy 31 Conversions: Crowley 3, 32 Drop goal: Crowley 21 Argentina .........19pts...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 6 months ago

Chalking off White’s try was a mistake

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER No try: Ben White’s touchdown was ruled out...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Autumn Internationals

/ 6 months ago

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

By Brendan Gallagher Welcome back to Australia. Where have you been? And hello Joseph-Aukuso Sua’ali’i. What did your mother feed you?...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Autumn Internationals

/ 6 months ago

Ireland all at sea as Damian McKenzie pulls the strings

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

By The Rugby Paper Team

Autumn Internationals

/ 6 months ago

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

By Brendan Gallagher You could write a short book on how England somehow managed to lose that match in the final...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Podcast

/ 6 months ago

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

We loved this one! Following last week’s 20-minute red card debate amongst the guys, we thought it best to call upon...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 6 months ago

Gloucester don’t let Newcastle Falcons fly again

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

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 6 months ago

Call time on this pantomime ploy

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER THIS 60-second shot clock twaddle. If we must...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 6 months ago

WR should fund free second opinion

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME IMUST admit to being a little surprised by last week’s paper where...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Podcast

/ 6 months ago

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

With the rugby world divided over the trial of the 20-minute red card during the November internationals, it’s only right that...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 6 months ago

I’d have included Butler in the mix

REALLY enjoyed Brendan Gallagher’s article. As a former player in the Sixties, Seventies and early Eighties, I was fortunate to play...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Gallagher Premiership

/ 6 months ago

Francois van Wyk late show steals it for Bath

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

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 6 months ago

Confused path to rules of combat

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Man in the middle: Former Wasps prop Will...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 7 months ago

No-one is forced to play the game

BEING an ex-rugby player from the age of 12 to 40, I am in complete agreement with Brendan Gallagher in his...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 7 months ago

Leicester Tigers too strong for floundering Newcastle Falcons

By Brendan Gallagher Newcastle Falcons ........ 10pts Try: Chick 51 Conversion: Grayson 52 Penalty: Grayson 7 Leicester Tigers ............ 42pts Tries:...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Podcast

/ 7 months ago

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

The Rugby Championship has a new winner for the first time since 2019, as South Africa clinched the last trophy available...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 7 months ago

Drop group action and examine selected cases

Rugby Matters - A weekly look at the game's other talking points by Brendan Gallagher I was very struck the other...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 7 months ago

Northampton Saints cut down by dazzling Ben Spencer

By Brendan Gallagher Bath .................................... 38pts Tries: Cokanasiga 5, Hill 26, Spencer 34, Lawrence 62, Coetzee 77 Conversions: Russell 6, 26,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Podcast

/ 7 months ago

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

The Gallagher Premiership returns! Can Northampton defend their title? How will Saracens fare without Owen Farrell? Will Newcastle give a better...

By Cam Stephens

Letters

/ 8 months ago

Quite right, Brendan, don’t indulge All Blacks

I couldn't agree more with Brendan Gallagher’s suggestion that we must stop indulging the All Blacks and their haka. He missed...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 8 months ago

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

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

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 months ago

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

The Rugby Paper Podcast’s microscope moves south of the equator for today’s episode, as in the latest round of the Rugby...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 months ago

When it really matters, Pollard gets the vote

Brendan Gallagher So in the week that we learnt a proper All Blacks tour of South Africa is likely in 2026,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 8 months ago

Time we stopped indulging the haka

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER THERE is so much disingenuous hypocritical twaddle surrounding...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 months ago

A French triumph against the odds

Brendan Gallagher on the ten-match tour which changed rugby in France for ever FRANCE’S ten-match tour and series win in South...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 months ago

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

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

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 months ago

Ringer was the fall guy on a day of carnage

RUGBY REVISITED BRENDAN GALLAGHER RECALLS THE TWICKENHAM BLOODBATH AND PAUL RINGER’S DISMISSAL IN 1980 PICTURES: Alamy Grudge match: Bill Beaumont competing...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 8 months ago

When the French were sent packing

BRENDAN GALLAGHER ON WHY FRANCE ENDED UP SPENDING 16 YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS Brendan Gallagher looks back on ‘The Rupture’ when...

By The Rugby Paper Team

The Rugby Championship

/ 9 months ago

Once again, Pumas fail to back it up

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

By The Rugby Paper Team

The Rugby Championship

/ 9 months ago

No scrums? No problem for Springboks

BRENDAN GALLAGHER LAST week in Brisbane Pieter Steph Du Toit famously asked Luke Pearce: “Where’s the scrum?” when presented with a...

By The Rugby Paper Team

The Rugby Championship

/ 9 months ago

Whisper it, but these Boks may deserve our love

BRENDAN GALLAGHER THERE are many of you out there, often to be found in the noisy corner of X, who don’t...

By The Rugby Paper Team

The Rugby Championship

/ 9 months ago

Creevy & Co show England how it’s done

BRENDAN GALLAGHER ANEW Pumas generation is beginning to flex their muscles, but it was the veteran Gus Creevy, 40 next birthday,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 9 months ago

How the sun keeps shining for Spain

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Impressive: Joel Merkler in action for Toulouse PICTURE:...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 9 months ago

It was good to see Scotland support for T2

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Captured: Gus Warr in action against Canada PICTURE:...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 9 months ago

Obolensky, a Russian prince to an English gent

RUGBY REVISITED >> BRENDAN GALLAGHER ON THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER OBOLENSKY, THE WINGER WHO BECAME A RUGBY ICON Brendan Gallagher tells...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 9 months ago

Dupont, the catalyst and the creator

BRENDAN GALLAGHER WE live in an age of superlative sports stars. Tadej Pogacar is very possibly the greatest cyclist we have...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 9 months ago

No stopping the American battlers

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points IT’S exactly 100 years ago since France and...

By The Rugby Paper Team

International Rugby

/ 10 months ago

Ireland’s ecstasy as cool Frawley steals it

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

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 10 months ago

Injury and illness can’t stop the fun

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER IT’S time to dip back into the 1974...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 10 months ago

Don’t lose Six Nations bonus on a Sunday

By Brendan Gallagher There have been more reports recently about the Six Nations wanting to do away with Sunday games and...

By The Rugby Paper Team

International Rugby

/ 10 months ago

High life proves step too far for Ireland

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER South Africa .................... 27pts Tries: Arendse 3, Kolbe 65, Penalty 78 Conversions: Pollard 4, 67 Penalties: Pollard 18,...

By The Rugby Paper Team