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This dash for cash could end in a crash

15 November 2020 0 comments

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST If you fancy undertaking a basic English language challenge this Sunday morning – it really shouldn’t take long, so you won’t […]

Great column, but I’m with Willie John

25 October 2020 0 comments

AFTER reading Chris Hewett’s (as always) excellent column, in TRP October 11, I can’t help but agree with some of Willie John McBride’s opinions regarding […]

Future stars giving us great show, Chris

20 September 2020 0 comments

CHRIS Hewett’s column last week was more than disappointing. He likens the young stars, future internationals mostly, to ‘polished t**ds’! Does he mean young Alfie […]

Another bashing for battered Dylan

6 September 2020 0 comments

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST IF, FOR some peculiar reason, you ever wondered how to sound like an irritable magistrate of the “flogging’s too good for […]

Saracens still look too good for the rest

9 August 2020 0 comments

CHRIS HEWETT SARACENS are losing a dozen full internationals as a direct result of their demotion to the second tier, some of them for good. […]

Spoilt for choice

19 July 2020 0 comments

WHAT a fantastic column by Chris Hewett (TRPJuly 5). You can’t argue with the talent of the New Zealand national team but northern hemisphere teams, […]

Whenever play resumes,listen to Hewett

12 July 2020 2 comments

THE RFU released their ‘return to rugby roadmap’ last week,concerning the return of the community game. It shows there has been a shake-up to development. […]

Hewett column: Dan Leo is the Rashford figurehead rugby needs

23 June 2020 0 comments

Leo’s examinations of World Rugby’s governance, or lack thereof, can create pertinent change

It’s heresy, but 71 Lions were fairly ordinary

14 June 2020 1 comment

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Not at his best: Gareth Edwards in the third Test in 1971 PICTURE: Getty Images “Barry John, aka The King, committed […]

Hewett column: In a galaxy far, far away lives World Rugby men

12 June 2020 0 comments

Would the little green men out there in the universe be baffled by rugby?

How to stop cheats

31 May 2020 1 comment

CHRIS Hewett’s article in which he stated that limiting substitutions to injured players only would not work because players would be instructed to feign injury […]

Hewett column: Reduce the size of the bench? It can’t happen

28 May 2020 0 comments

It’s 40 years since Robin Cowling played through a dislocated shoulder against French great Robert Paparemborde

Hewett’s wit helping me in lockdown

25 May 2020 0 comments

I AGREE with your correspondent Brian Tregunna that TRP has become an even better read since the Covid-19 lockdown. I’m particularly enjoying the contributions from […]

How could Brendan forget us Shedheads?

26 April 2020 0 comments

Teak tough: Mike Teague CHRIS Hewett (TRP 19/4/20) was quite right to rail against the omission of Mike Teague from Brendan Gallagher’s list of rugby’s […]

Good luck making Tier Two self-funded

29 March 2020 1 comment

LET US hope that Edward Griffiths’ plans for a selffunding Championship prove to be workable, though I fear that TV and sponsorship packages may be […]

Hewett column: Now, more than ever, the game needs strong leadership

24 March 2020 0 comments

Never let a good crisis go to waste. Winston Churchill, no less, was busily preparing the ground for the formation of the United Nations in […]

Letters

8 December 2019 1 comment

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: [email protected] Can the relegated team go to appeal? AFTER […]

Wheelchairs or rucks is rugby’s choice

4 August 2019 0 comments

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Even at this advanced and supposedly enlightened stage of our development as a species, sport clings to its primitive side. Hence […]