All posts tagged "Cambridge"
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Latest News
/ 6 months agoSylvester unhappy to be missing out on Prem Cup
■ By BEN JAYCOCK MOST Championship sides spent this week gearing up for the Premiership Cup but Cambridge and Chinnor were...
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/ 6 months agoKey cogs yet to return will make us click – Davidson
By BEN JAYCOCK Hopeful: Wharfedale’s Robbie Davidson WHARFEDALE have endured an injury nightmare across their backline and despite coming into this...
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English Championship
/ 6 months agoCambridge battle back to break their duck
By STEVE JACKSON Cambridge .......29pts Tries: Hanks 26, Hema 33, Brownhill 76, Vanes 80 Conversions: Grimoldby 27, 77, 80 Penalty: Grimoldby...
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/ 6 months agoTaylor eyes promotion push despite testing start
By BEN JAYCOCK Tough test: Cinderford’s Nathan Taylor NATHAN Taylor admits Cinderford are bearing a weight of expectation to secure promotion...
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/ 6 months agoNew boys are ready to click in this league, says Creighton
By BEN JAYCOCK Optimistic: Colchester scrum-half Fin Creighton NATIONAL League new boys Colchester lost their opening six games but scrum-half Fin...
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English Championship
/ 7 months agoHartpury get back to the script and finish in style
By MO SHER Hartpury .......... 43pts Tries: Short 2, 73; Hunt 5, 27; Holliday 65, Gibson 78 Conversions: Bazalgette 3, 6,...
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English Championship
/ 7 months agoCambridge make it tough for Coventry
By STEVE Cambridge ....... 19pts Tries: Lennon 12, Adams 63, Jones 77 Conversions: Grimoldby 64, 78 Coventry ...........36pts Tries: Hutler 1,...
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Features
/ 7 months agoDays when Kristofferson put his heart into rugby
WHEN he entered Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship in the autumn of 1958, Kris Kristofferson, right, had already been bashed...
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English Championship
/ 7 months agoJimmy Martin flies in to make certain for Coventry
By Paul Smith Coventry ........................... 45pts Tries: Kvesic 2, Martin 13, 18; Hinkley 26, Penalty 48, Hutler 68, 78 Conversions: Richman...
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English Championship
/ 7 months agoCambridge able to deal with Caldy’s huff and puff
By John Lyon Caldy ................. 21pts Tries: Hearn 5, Wynn 77 Conversions: Curtis 77 Penalties: Curtis 23, 30, 52 Cambridge ......26pts...
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Latest News
/ 7 months agoYou need to review, reflect and adapt – Luke Allen
Steve Hill puts the questions to Luke Allen, below, director of rugby at Henley Hawks Why did you get into coaching...
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English Championship
/ 7 months agoSimon Halliday’s demand for clarity over promotion-relegation play-off
By Nick Cain The RFU is under fire from the Championship for its failure to provide clarity over the terms of...
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English Championship
/ 7 months agoNew boys Chinnor open up in fine style
By Steve Jackson Cambridge ....................... 24pts Tries: Caven 17, 77; Sylvester 48, Veness 67 Conversions: Grimoldby 49, 68 Chinnor.............................. 57pts Tries:...
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Letters
/ 8 months agoPremiership Cup better with 20 teams
Whilst having some sympathy with both Cambridge and Chinnor, newly promoted to the RFU Championship I feel I must take issue...
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/ 8 months agoCHAMPIONSHIP SQUADS
Ampthill Sam Asotasi, Tomas Bacon, Josh Barton, Joe Bercis, Syd Blackmore, Charlie Bracken, Ben Chapman, Beck Cutting, Ollie Dawkins, Cai Devine,...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 months agoLETTER: RFU rewards failure in Premiership Cup
Following my previous letter on the subject, the RFU decision to bar Cambridge and Chinnor from the Premiership Cup now looks...
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/ 8 months agoAberavon …….21 Cambridge ….35
By ANDREW JACKSON CAMBRIDGE came away from Aberavon having finally found their try-scoring touch as Richie Williams’ side came out victorious...
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/ 8 months agoCambridge go close but can’t get past Cardiff
■ By STEVE JACKSON Cardiff ............... 14pts Tries: Rees 8, Stone 42 Conversions: Wilde 9, 43 Cambridge ....... 12pts Tries: Cardew...
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Letters
/ 8 months agoClubs should be in Premiership Cup
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk SPEAKING as a Coventry...
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/ 8 months agoCambridge fall to surprise defeat
CAMBRIDGE fell to a late and unexpected defeat to National One near-neighbours Bishop’s Stortford in a typically harem-scarem encounter between the...
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/ 8 months agoArrogance which saw two clubs excluded
THE arrogance of the Premiership in its dealings with other parts of the English club game knows no bounds. Nothing illustrates...
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/ 8 months agoFRANCE’S LAST STAND
Les Blues played their last Championship game for 16 years on April 6 1931 – Easter Monday – although at the...
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/ 9 months agoEaster ‘appalled’ by Prem Cup exclusion
By JON NEWCOMBE NICK Easter has described the decision to exclude his Chinnor side and Cambridge from next season’s Premiership Cup...
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English Championship
/ 9 months agoTonga’s Pat Pellegrini quits Coventry for Super Rugby
Coventry's Premiership promotion bid has been dealt a blow with star man Pat Pellegrini leaving to join Super Rugby’s Moana Pasifika.
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English Championship
/ 9 months agoCambridge and Chinnor ruled out of Premiership Cup
Last year’s bottom Championship side Cambridge and newly promoted Chinnor are to be excluded from the 2024/25 Premiership Cup.
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/ 9 months agoExeter Chiefs star Henry Slade to miss start of season after surgery
Exeter centre Henry Slade will miss the start of the upcoming Premiership season after having shoulder surgery.
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Rugby Paper News
/ 10 months agoThe Evolution of Rugby: From Amateur to Professional Leagues
Rugby union football – or just rugby as you probably know it – has come a long, long way. From Irishmen...
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Features
/ 10 months agoGolden oldies who had speed to burn
Rob Cole looks back at rugby players like Ken Jones and Jack Gregory who enjoyed success at the Olympic Games... It's...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 10 months agoWe’re all heading in different directions
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Sunday Mixed signals: The Championship is being seen as development tool –...
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Features
/ 11 months agoShattering end to Iestyn’s dreams
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Iestyn Harris had only just started to run with a rugby ball when...
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Latest News
/ 11 months agoEx-Red Landick feeling revitalised in amateur ranks
NEWS EXTRA EX-JERSEY Reds prop Myles Landick believes the Channel Island’s amateur side Jersey RFC “must be doing something right” after...
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English Championship
/ 11 months agoParks finds his range to swing it for Ampthill
By STEVE JACKSON Cambridge .......28pts Tries: Asiedu 15, Brownlie 25, Merigan 59, Veness 76 Conversions: James 16, 26, 60, 77 Ampthill...
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National Leagues
/ 11 months agoToo many law changes-just let players play
Steve Hill puts the questions to James Shanahan, the head coach of Blackheath RFC and Cambridge University Why did you get...
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Dream Team
/ 12 months agoDREAM TEAM
JAMIE ELLIOTT, THE BEDFORD BLUES AND FORMER NORTHAMPTON AND ZEBRE CENTRE, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST......
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English Championship
/ 12 months agoBarker steps up to snatch it for Caldy at the death
■By JOHN LYON Caldy .................. 31pts Tries: Royle 9, 23; Gerrard 19, Booth 75 Conversions: Kilcourse 10, 20, 24; Barker 76...
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National League One
/ 12 months agoChinnor 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...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoI’ll never stop looking for hidden gems – Lam
By PAUL REES Pat Lam says he will never stop plundering the rugby mine of the Championship and the leagues below...
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Dream Team
/ 1 year agoDream Team with Ben Adams
The Cambridge and former Coventry, Bedford Blues, Queensland Country & Australia Sevens back rower, chooses the best XV he has played...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoPirates aiming for a three-peat over lowly Cambridge
By BEN JAYCOCK PREVIEW Cornish Pirates v Cambridge Today. Kick-off 2.30pm, Mennaye Field CORNISH Pirates and Cambridge meet for the third...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoNavy set sights on retaining Babcock Trophy
NEWS EXTRA ROYAL Navy head coach Dave Pascoe hopes a tougher build-up to this season’s Inter Services Championship will ensure his...
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National League One
/ 1 year agoKalling-Smith aiming for top
By JON NEWCOMBE Rams centre Axel Kalling-Smith has come out second-best with both club and country this season but he can...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoScottish find their feet in second-half comeback
By STEVE JACKSON Cambridge .......13pts Try: Hanks 19 Conversion: James 20 Penalties: James 26, Caven 32 London Scots.. 43pts Tries: White...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoCoventry get set for a battle in the mud
By BEN JAYCOCK PREVIEW... Nott’mv Coventry Today. Kick-off 3pm, Lady Bay Return: Will Chudley starts for Coventry COVENTRY head coach Alex...
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Coach to Coach
/ 1 year agoMore local derbies in the north would help
Former Richmond boss Steve Hill talks to Ben Woods, below, the head coach at Tynedale in National Two North Why did...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoOustanding Venner grabs hat-trick as Coventry run riot
■By PAUL SMITH Coventry .......... 64pts Tries: Venner 4, 22, 41; Salt 28, Poole 32, Hitchcock 38, 49, Wand 68, Wilson...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoHammond’s happy to take the points home
■By STEVE JACKSON Cambridge ....... 15pts Tries: Edwards 43, Caven 74 Conversion: James 44 Penalty: James 80 Nottingham...... 20pts Tries: Olowofela...
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National League One
/ 1 year agoVillagers in fine fettle on and off the pitch under Easter
By BEN JAYCOCK Chinnor are thriving on and off the pitch with director of rugby Nick Easter overseeing a “change of...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoBlues dodge a few bullets to take down Cambridge
By STEVE JACKSON Cambridge .......12pts Tries: M Williams 64, 80 Conversions: Benson 80 Bedford .............22pts Tries: French 16, Adamson 41, Maisey...
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Club Rugby
/ 1 year agoMilitary’s finest ready for battle
Inter Service Champs – A look ahead to this season’s big matches involving the Army, Navy and RAF “The win we...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 1 year agoIt’s a huge honour to play for your country
My Life in Rugby with Marcus Rose - the former England, Cambridge University, Leicester, Coventry, Harlequins and Barbarians full-back looks back...
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