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Chasing pack is closing on All Blacks says Price

30 June 2019 0 comments

By ROB COLE BACK-TO-BACK champions New Zealand have gone off the boil and have left the door wide open for another nation to win the […]

Braley making his pitch for big prize with Italy

30 June 2019 0 comments

By GARY FITZGERALD Decisions: Conor O’Shea CALLUM Braley feels he can offer a new dimension to Italy’s attacking options as he battles to capture Conor […]

Brad joins the Irish revolution

30 June 2019 0 comments

LONDONIrish have added former Bath, Wasps and Ospreys defence coach Brad Davis to their backroom staff. The former Castleford and Wakefield rugby league player worked […]

Warren can conquer the world in stages!

30 June 2019 0 comments

World’s best: Warren Gatland coaching Wales Chiefs: Sam Cane and Anton Lienert-Brown PICTURE: Getty Images ITHOUGHT Warren Gatland was going to have a rest after […]

Willi joins exiled Kiwis good enough to take on allcomers

30 June 2019 2 comments

Japan chance: Willi Heinz has been called up by England PICTURE: Getty Images IF WILLI Heinz makes the cut for Japan, England’s uncapped scrum-half will […]

Let’s hope O’Brien’s spent penny cost him dear

30 June 2019 1 comment

A FAMOUSrugby player urinates on a man in a Dublin pub, a crude offence to put it mildly and yet it barely caused a stir […]

Wales can win it, says Roberts, but there’s more to do

30 June 2019 0 comments

By STEFFAN THOMAS High hopes: Jamie Roberts playing for Wales WALES might be Six Nations Grand Slam champions, 14 games unbeaten and ranked second in […]

Eddie’s comments suggest England are at crossroads

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ENGLAND coach Eddie Jones says he is in the middle of a constant battle between Premiership clubs and the RFU. Nothing much has changed since […]

Munster fly-half Joey Carbery eager to learn from Stephen Larkham

26 June 2019 0 comments

Joey Carbery notes Larkham’s career which excelled at fly-half and full-back

England battle to win despite yellow to win

23 June 2019 0 comments

By GEORGE LAWRENCE Match-winner: Tom Willis Proud: Fraser Dingwall TOM Willis scored an injury time try to secure victory for England after another ill-disciplined display […]

It was right for Marcus to play the Barbarians

23 June 2019 0 comments

By NEALE HARVEY ENGLAND U20s supremo Steve Bates insists Marcus Smith’s senior World Cup callup justifies the gifted playmaker’s controversial withdrawal from the Junior World […]

Catt joins the 2015 England old boys coaching in Ireland

23 June 2019 1 comment

MIKE Catt is expected to join Ireland as attack coach after this year’s Rugby World Cup. It is understood the former England coach will leave […]

GATLAND ON….

16 June 2019 1 comment

…Lost 2009 series, Altitude wars…and England “For me it is unfinished business. We have to get the scheduling right. I was surprised with England in […]

Welshmen will play key role in South Africa

16 June 2019 1 comment

SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND One club man: Alun Wyn Jones PICTURE: Getty Images THERE is no rest in rugby these days. The sport […]

All Blacks jeers gave RFU boss his mission

16 June 2019 1 comment

NICK CAIN talks to the RFU’s new chief excecutive Bill Sweeney about his vision for the English game BILL Sweeney says he has a bold […]

Honoured to jog behind the greats

16 June 2019 0 comments

MY LIFEIN RUGBY PHIL BLAKEWAY THE FORMER BRITISH & IRISH LIONS , ENGLAND AND GLOUCESTER PROP Front row club: England prop Phil Blakeway in action […]

Inexplicable not to bring Premiership final forward

16 June 2019 3 comments

JEREMYGUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK England’s finest: This year’s Premiership final contained a number of would-be Lions starters PICTURE: Getty Images IT was always going […]

Dingwall frustrated by England’s ill-discipline

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■By ADAM ELLIS Leader: Fraser Dingwall ENGLAND will grit their teeth in the hope of making it third time lucky against Six Nations Grand Slamwinners […]

Thomas-Wheeler targets more big scalps in bid for fifth

16 June 2019 1 comment

■By ALEX BYWATER WALES U20’s most infamous clash with the Baby Blacks saw them hammered 92-0 in 2011. A side including Liam Williams, Cory Hill […]

Ronan O’Gara to leave Crusaders for move closer to home

12 June 2019 0 comments

O’Gara said in May that he is always in contact with Munster amid ‘two or three other options’

No Sam Warburton, so who does Warren Gatland feel could be Lions captain in 2021?

12 June 2019 0 comments

Warren Gatland responds to question about candidates to lead the Lions in 2021

Australia capitalise on Baird’s first half red to run riot

9 June 2019 0 comments

By ADAM ELLIS AUSTRALIA ramped up their momentum ahead of facing England on Wednesday with a 45-17 victory over 14-man Ireland following an early red […]

Lam looking to bid big money for Alun-Wyn

9 June 2019 0 comments

In Lam’s sights: Alun Wyn Jones BRISTOL have enquired about signing Wales’ Grand Slam-winning captain Alun Wyn Jones when his contract ends later this year. […]

Irish enter race to sign Newcastle star Wilson

9 June 2019 0 comments

Star: Mark Wilson LONDON IRISH are putting together a move for Newcastle Falcons and England flanker Mark Wilson, who has a clause that allows him […]

Boys in red lay down the law in South America

9 June 2019 0 comments

Lionhearts: British Police in Argentina THE British Police rugby team claimed a clean sweep after an historic first tour of Argentina and Uruguay. They kicked […]

Hero Hodge gets scruffy England off the hook

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By GARY FITZGERALD Impact: Tom de Glanville JOSH Hodge saved young England blushes as they used their getout- of-jail card just seven minutes from the […]

Jackson column: Callum Sheedy must pledge allegiance to one flag

6 June 2019 0 comments

England? Wales? Ireland? The Bristol Bears fly-half faces a predicament few others can claim

VIDEO: 14-man England undone by Ireland in U20 World Championship opener

5 June 2019 0 comments

Two yellow cards and one red card cost England U20s in tussle for victory in Argentina

Graham Rowntree signs three-year contract with Munster

4 June 2019 0 comments

England’s triumvirate of 2015 will all call Ireland home after this year’s World Cup

European big dogs could be bitten by World Cup

2 June 2019 0 comments

THE feelgood factor following the showcase European Cup final between Saracens and Leinster three weeks ago could be in jeopardy because the start of next […]

MY LIFEIN RUGBY

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NICK DE LUCA THE FORMER SCOTLAND, EDINBURGH, WASPS AND BIARRITZ CENTRE. LIKE a lot of people in life, I look back to when I was […]

Ireland’s Rob Kearney stays for another year

28 May 2019 0 comments

Rob Kearney pens a deal til the end of 2019-20

DREAMTEAM

26 May 2019 0 comments

JAMES HOOK, OSPREYS AND FORMER NEATH, PERPIGNAN, GLOUCESTER & WALES FLY-HALF, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST… 1. Gethin Jenkins – […]

London Sevens: Phil Burgess raring to go as Sevens hits the capital

23 May 2019 0 comments

Burgess will stand in to captain England at Twickenham as Tom Mitchell misses out through injury

Dream Team: Worcester Warriors and former Ulster hooker Niall Annett

22 May 2019 0 comments

The forward picks a XV of the best he has faced and played with

Time running out for Leinster to keep Rob Kearney

22 May 2019 0 comments

Rob Kearney’s agent says negotiations aren’t looking too promising currently

Cian Healy signs for two more years with Leinster and Ireland

21 May 2019 0 comments

The prop thanks Leinster supporters for supporting him through his injuries

McGuigan making his mind up

19 May 2019 0 comments

Choices: McGuigan GEORGE McGUIGAN is at the centre of a three way tug-of-war between Premiership rivals Leicester Tigers and Gloucester, and his current employers Newcastle […]

Even best club games are no match for Test intensity

19 May 2019 0 comments

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME PICTURE: Getty Images With the season all but over, […]

Curry’s openside battle with Sam will be tasty!

19 May 2019 3 comments

By NEALE HARVEY In possession: Tom Curry in Six Nations action against Scotland. Right: Sam Underhill PICTURES: Getty Images ENGLAND openside Tom Curry believes he […]

RUGBY SHORTS

19 May 2019 0 comments

DoR Morris exits Exiles LONDON Scottish director of rugby Dave Morris will leave the club in June as a result of a family illness which […]

TRP’s National One Dream Team 2018-19

17 May 2019 0 comments

The Rugby Paper picks its XV of top performers in one of English rugby’s most competition leagues

World Rugby to offer Six Nations a compromise with ‘World League’ plans

15 May 2019 0 comments

World Rugby trying to keep order with Six Nations over promotion and relegation system, amid £5bn investment in proposed World League

Ulster turn heads with ‘significant’ addition from Highlanders

14 May 2019 0 comments

Ulster add to an already versatile backline with signing of Matt Faddes

Eight-year waver on 6 Nations relegation

12 May 2019 0 comments

By PETER JACKSON THE Six Nations are being offered a stay of execution for up to eight years in their fight to avoid a system […]

Eddie has 60 days to drill the faults out of England

12 May 2019 0 comments

EDDIE Jones has secured more pre-World Cup training/ playing access to his England squad than any national coach before him, and given his side’s undulations […]

Romaine follows trail to Pirates

12 May 2019 1 comment

CORNISH Pirates have signed Yorkshire Carnegie lock Cian Romaine on a two-year deal. Having spent four years in the Connacht academy, Romaine represented Ireland U20s […]