All posts tagged "Jeff Probyn"
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoWhat’s in The Rugby Paper: 05/11/23
The Rugby World Cup has come to an end, but there’s plenty of action, reaction and analysis to look forward to in...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 2 years ago‘Rugby gave me hope, away from life in a cell’
My Life in Rugby with Simon Bunting: The former Yorkshire, Rotherham and Doncaster prop talks about his life in the game...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoGood to see England leading northern light
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME WHO would have believed it? England the only Northern hemisphere team to...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoRFU must provide a pathway for everyone
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME WELL, who would have believed it? One of the best teams in...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoChance for Ford to prove he’s No1
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME WHAT a start to this World Cup with host France beating the...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoIn The Rugby Paper this Sunday (13/08/23)
England look to have fielded their strongest team ahead of a crucial World Cup warm-up against Wales, and you can find...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoGlad to see attempts to speed up the game
I WELCOME the new laws in trying to speed up the game, with time limits for conversions, penalties, scrums, lineouts getting...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoI’m no fan of World League agenda
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Am I the only one that thinks that the idea of the...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoWe trained for hours in baking sun – then lost!
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME As England ramp up their preparation for this year’s Rugby World Cup,...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoRFU needs to strike the right financial balance
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME EARLIER this week, the RFU president Nigel Gillingham, sent out a newsletter...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 years agoSo, who is set to fly in under the radar?
CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Remember Jean-Marc Doussain’s international debut for France? Probably not. The poor bloke would happily forget it himself,...
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Peter Jackson
/ 2 years agoHe’s quite some man, that Emery…
David Emery 1946-2023 Peter Jackson looks back on the life and times of a giant in the world of sport and...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoGame is spending above its means
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Just as we all thought it couldn’t get any worse now the...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoGood to see Prem stars in Baa-Baa shirts
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME What a show Eddie Jones staged on his return to Twickenham in...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoWR has made mess of how game is played
JEFF PROBYN With the season over and the Premiership finally decided, it would be good to look back and see what...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoRFU failed to enforce regulatory standards
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Nothing holds a mirror up to all that is wrong with the elite...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoToo many matches had no real meaning to them
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Now, as we reflect and are drawing closer to the end of...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoJeff’s right, we must support grassroots
JEFF Probyn is absolutely right in stating that the future of rugby in England depends on more resources being made available...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoWe need people of experience to run game
JEFF Probyn has once again hit the nail on the head with his comments regarding the financial support of the grassroots...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoHard to stop the drain of players going overseas
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Am I the only one thinking that Maro Itoje is living in...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoI reckon there are three sets of laws…
I HAVE followed all the correspondence and the various comments by your contributors to The Rugby Paper over the interpretation of...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoDid RFU give job to Borthwick too soon?
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME After watching a record defeat at home against a side that had...
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Features
/ 2 years agoHonoured that France recognised my efforts!
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME I MUST admit, every time England face France, it brings back memories...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoThe game is going back, not forward
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME How things change when money is the main target for doing something....
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoStarting choices up front a surprise
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME HOPE and expectation, two words that have the same goal which implies...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoWorld Rugby must now lead by example
IN his column last week, Jeff Probyn presents a very persuasive argument that, whatever steps are to be taken to reduce...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoGive Bill a break – he’s the best man for the job
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME I really cannot understand why so many people within our game seem...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoReducing Marler’s ban sends wrong message
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME ONCE again Joe Marler seems to have pushed the barriers of what...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoBorthwick facing a tough start to the year
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Happy New Year and let’s hope it’s a good one. What a...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoChristmas time and things are in a mess
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME As the song goes, it’s Christmas time, a time when everyone is...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoWhy did RFU hold an autumn review?
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME On his way: Eddie Jones was sacked by the RFU and, below,...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoIt’s a miracle Sweeney has kept the RFU afloat
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME AS great as the game of rugby is, it seems that there...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoEngland got draw they didn’t deserve
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME How has the world of rugby become so predictable that you can...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoPainful defeat but a lesson Red Roses can learn from
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME What a weekend of rugby we had last week with the women’s...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoSweeney is left carrying the can
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME They always say that hindsight is 20/20 vision, making it easy to...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 3 years agoTime to cut salary costs which are burying clubs
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK When Wasps went into self-administration some weeks ago, even from a distance you knew...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoRed Roses can give us all something to smile about
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME With the start of the Women’s Rugby World Cup and full TV...
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Club Rugby
/ 3 years agoThe game paying too much for its players
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Top gun: Semi Radradra is a marquee player for Bristol PICTURE: Getty...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 3 years agoIn this week’s Rugby Paper – available on Sunday
Though it might seem this has been something of a quiet week for rugby with the new season yet to get...
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Features
/ 3 years agoEddie has to decide what style he wants
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Now the tours are over, there is a time to rest and...
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Features
/ 3 years agoHow TMO helps and hinders referees
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Okay, I admit it. I got it wrong, I predicted another lesson...
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Features
/ 3 years agoEngland undone by childish behaviour
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Despite the fact that they were the first games of the tours,...
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Club Rugby
/ 3 years agoAled Davies cited as podcast guests weigh in on controversial yellow
Saracens‘ scrum-half Aled Davies has been cited for the controversial yellow card he received against Leicester in Saturday’s Premiership Final. Davies,...
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Features
/ 3 years agoThe Rugby Paper Podcast: Episode Twenty-One with Jeff Probyn
The Rugby Paper Podcast returns this week as former England World Cup Finalist and English title winning prop Jeff Probyn joins...
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Features
/ 3 years agoRelegation freeze makes sense in World Cup year
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME There’s actually a reason the Premiership have been paid such a premium...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoPsychology plays a key part in rugby’s evolution
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME As the end of the season nears, it’s usually a time for...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoNew law variations do not ensure a level playing field
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Applying the brake: Hookers must keep one foot forward until the call...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoOne-sided contests will drive fans away
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME It seems that not a week goes by without some sort of...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 3 years agoFeel lucky to have played in the era I did
JEFF PROBYN I HAD the chance last week to help Upper Clapton Rugby club celebrate 140 years since the club was...
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Letters
/ 3 years agoIncentivise schools to help broaden the player pool
LAST week’s TRP included Jeff Probyn’s interesting piece, contesting Brian Moore’s claim that payments to players should be banned in all...
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