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Exeter confirm swoop for Ealing’s Roots

14 April 2024 0 comments

Exeter Chiefs have confirmed the signing of Ealing Trailfinders prop Jimmy Roots, as revealed in The Rugby Paper last month. The 24-year-old tighthead is the […]

Roberts loving life in ‘rugby mental’ Portugal

31 December 2023 1 comment

By BEN JAYCOCK Ciaran Roberts swapped life in west London for Portugal this summer to play in the promising Portuguese Top 10 and has fallen […]

Hanekom chews over Wales option

19 November 2023 0 comments

By ROB COLE His elder brother was the first to dip his toe into Welsh rugby and now the Bulls No.8 Cameron Hanekom is mulling […]

Llandovery hit four to end Pooler’s run

12 November 2023 0 comments

Premiership round-up By CARL FIELD CHAMPIONS Llandovery made it four straight bonus-point wins in the Premiership as they beat Pontypool 37-21 in the battle of […]

Pellegrini shows the depth of talent

8 October 2023 0 comments

Pat Pellegrini’s beautifully taken chip-and-chase try for Tonga against South Africa in last weekend’s World Cup clash in Marseille was a great showcase not just […]

RFU has no right to deliver this low blow

22 January 2023 2 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK The RFU has just introduced one of the biggest changes to the game in its 152-year history, […]

English Championship Preview

17 December 2021 0 comments

It’s another huge Saturday of English Championship rugby. Here, The Rugby Paper looks ahead to some thrilling ties in the second division of English rugby. […]

Young Guns: Cornish Pirates back row Bear Williams

8 August 2021 1 comment

The new recruit at the Mennaye tells Adam Ellis how his past as a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu champion is still present in his skills as a forward

Griffiths plan can save our game says Notts’ Smith

31 January 2021 1 comment

NOTTINGHAM operations director Steve Smith has urged Premiership, RFU and Championship officials to shelve self-interest and collaborate for the betterment of English rugby. Smith, one […]

Q&A – Mark Lavery: If we can’t have a crowd we can’t have a Championship

22 September 2020 0 comments

Neale Harvey gauges the views of Ampthill director of rugy Mark Lavery on the issues facing a league short of income

Cain column: Pro D2 can show the RFU how to run a second tier

26 February 2020 0 comments

Former Bath captain and Worcester DoR, Richard Hill, is currently in charge at Rouen in the second tier of French rugby

This crowing cockerill can show RFU how to run Tier Two

23 February 2020 0 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE desultory manner in which the Championship clubs have been treated by the RFU continued this week, […]

Cain column: At last, the Tier Two clubs come out fighting

4 September 2019 0 comments

Nick Cain writes about the latest efforts by the Premiership to payoff the Championship into accepting ring-fencing

Madigan hoping Schmidt links keep in Ireland frame

10 September 2017 0 comments

By ALEX BYWATER IAN Madigan is refusing to give up on his Ireland dream, despite plying his trade in the English Championship with Bristol this […]

Patchell and Evans have been bitten, and it hurts!

28 May 2017 0 comments

PHIL DOLLMANis to be congratulated on his elevation to the Wales squad, a reward for long years of perseverance which may enable him to leave […]

Nick Cain: Bravo London Welsh, now give them level playing field

11 June 2014 0 comments

London Welsh‘s against-the-odds victory in the Championship final, beating runaway league leaders Bristol by a healthy 48-28 aggregate margin over two legs, has stirred up […]