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Deano to step up at Tynedale

1 April 2024 0 comments

Dean Richards will be part of Tynedale’s coaching team next season. Former England No.8 Richards stepped down from his role as director of rugby at […]

Bath surprise Durham to take spot in semi-finals

1 April 2024 0 comments

By TOM JEFFREYS THE semi-finalists for the BUCS Championship have been decided, with Exeter, Loughborough, Hartpury, and most surprisingly Bath, all booking spots for next […]

Narberth lose unbeaten record

1 April 2024 0 comments

Championship round-up ■ By CARL FIELD A WEEK after they suffered Championship Cup semi-final heartache against Ystrad Rhondda, Narberth surrendered their 100 per cent winning […]

Fearn’s in line to boost Knights

31 March 2024 0 comments

By JON NEWCOMBE Darren Fearn is thought to be Doncaster Knights’ first-choice as new forwards coach as the Championship club continue to reshape their coaching […]

Bath will have to go full metal jacket all the way

31 March 2024 0 comments

JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE… EVERY WEEK BATH have got a very good shout of winning the Premiership for the first time in almost 30 […]

Leicester survive a Newcastle fright night

31 March 2024 0 comments

By LUKE JARMYN Newcastle……………………. 13pts Tries: Redshaw 17 Conversions: Connon 18 Penalties: Connon 2, 63 Leicester ……………………… 19pts Tries: van Poortvliet 4, Montoya 32, Hassell-Collins […]

‘We don’t want to be plucky losers’

31 March 2024 0 comments

Newcastle boss Steve Diamond was frustrated his side failed to capitalise on Tigers’ ill-discipline to end their losing run. Diamond said: “We don’t want to […]

O’Flaherty: We need to learn from our inquest

31 March 2024 0 comments

■By JON NEWCOMBE Sale Sharks vExeter Chiefs PREVIEW… Today. Kick-off 3pm, Salford Community Stadium SALE’S players had good old northern, say it how it is, […]

We’ve got to make sure we play the game our way – Baxter

31 March 2024 0 comments

EXETER boss Rob Baxter has made seven changes to the starting XV following last weekend’s bonus point win over Newcastle. International quartet Henry Slade, Immanuel […]

Time for club owners to come clean on plans

31 March 2024 0 comments

NICK CAIN – READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK SEETHING financial undercurrents are undermining the main pillars of the game in England, with the professional […]

Schreuder happy to be Spencer’s back-up

31 March 2024 0 comments

By PAUL REES Louis Schreuder wasn’t the only South African scrum-half smiling when it was announced at the end of February that he would be […]

The scrum is fighting to stay in the game

31 March 2024 0 comments

Paul Rees wonders whether some of World Rugby’s law tweaks will mean the end of the scrum as we know it A BANE or a […]

Putting 50 points on the Aussies was a highlight

31 March 2024 0 comments

My Life in Rugby with Ruaridh Jackson – The former Scotland, Glasgow, Wasps and Harlequins fly-half talks about his career in the game IT was […]

What’s in The Rugby Paper: 31/03/24

29 March 2024 0 comments

Time is running out for the RFU’s new Professional Game Partnership (PGP) to be agreed, and you can find the latest progress after a meeting […]

Don’t get trapped in bowels of a big club

24 March 2024 0 comments

Diamond’s warning to his young guns By PAUL REES Steve Diamond has warned his young charges at Newcastle to beware of offers from other Premiership […]

Chiefs do enough to get past Newcastle

24 March 2024 0 comments

By MARK STEVENS Exeter ………………………….. 25pts Tries: Fisilau 12, Wimbush 24, Sio 32, Tuima 39 Conversion: Hodge 39 Penalty: Hodge 73 Newcastle …………………….16pts Tries: Stevenson […]

Diamond: I saw a lot of positives

24 March 2024 0 comments

STEVE Diamond saw seeds of encouragement despite Falcons slipping to a 13th league defeat. “It could have been closer,” said Diamond. “Our first-half discipline wasn’t […]

Dismay for Leicester as Varney snatches it

24 March 2024 0 comments

By ROB WILDMAN Leicester …………………….. 25pts Tries: Reffell 40, Kata 42, Wiese 54, Shillcock 72 Conversions: Shillcock 72 Penalty goals: Shillcock 22 Gloucester ………………….. 27pts […]

On-form Mercer: I can’t believe it

24 March 2024 0 comments

ZACH Mercer summed up the Gloucester elation after this narrow win by saying: “I can’t quite believe what’s happened. Everyone wrote us off before we […]

Relegation saga still a shadow over game

24 March 2024 0 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK There is so much that makes so little sense in the English club game. Nothing made this […]

I’m ambitious. I want to coach as high as I can

24 March 2024 0 comments

My Life in Rugby with Alex Rae – The former Northampton Saints, Saracens, Wasps and Bedford Blues lock, now head coach at Coventry, talks about […]

Wales look like missing out again

24 March 2024 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW As Wales ‘wails over the embarrassing state of its national sport’, a club coach raises an issue […]

RPNS7s – U14 Boys: New generation on the way up

24 March 2024 0 comments

Millfield showed they have yet another generation ready to take the schools rugby world by storm. The Somerset youngsters came through the 216-team tournament despite […]

RPNS7s – U11s mixed touch: KCS make most of their short trip

24 March 2024 0 comments

In the seven groups at the most junior level of competition, the mixed touch tournament, there were winners from every corner of Great Britain and […]

Young Guns: Exeter & England U20 back row Kane James

24 March 2024 0 comments

By BEN JAYCOCK Wales-born back row Kane James has opted to represent England due to the support received by U20s head coach Mark Mapletoft and […]

Woods to step down as Tynedale coach

24 March 2024 0 comments

NEWS EXTRA By JON NEWCOMBE Ben Woods’ time as head coach of Tynedale is coming to an end because the RFU insist that his full-time […]

Butt: Race for the title is so tight that every point will count

17 March 2024 0 comments

By PAUL REES Will Butt is confident Bath will emerge from the top flight break on the front foot as they look to secure their […]

All set for a race to the finish

17 March 2024 0 comments

With the Premiership resuming next weekend, Paul Rees looks at how the runners and riders are gearing up The Premiership resumes this week after an […]

Favourites Exeter on top in BUCS play-off draw

17 March 2024 0 comments

By T0M JEFFREYS THE BUCS Super Rugby league season came to a typically chaotic climax this week, as the men’s play-off spots were decided. Exeter […]

Beating Ealing proves anything is possible

17 March 2024 0 comments

Matthew Luddington talks to London Scottish flanker Jack Ingall about combining work and play in the Championship ANECDOTES from rugby’s amateur era paint a vivid […]

Llangennech seal promotion place

17 March 2024 0 comments

Championship round-up LLANGENNECH are now assured of promotion from Championship West after defeating in-form Newcastle Emlyn 28-0. Ian Jones’ side ran in two tries in […]

Redshaw ready to lead from the front

10 March 2024 0 comments

By PAUL REES Ben Redshaw trained with England during last year’s World Cup before he had made his Newcastle debut, already marked out as a […]

Carre back at Saracens

10 March 2024 0 comments

Saracens have re-signed Wales loosehead Rhys Carre from Cardiff. The 26-year-old previously played for Saracens in 2019-20, moving back to Cardiff after one season. He […]

Dream Team with Redford Pennycook

10 March 2024 0 comments

The former Bristol, Newcastle and Ealing Trailfinders back rower, chooses his best XV he has played with or against… 1. Ellis Genge – Even at […]

Falcons get new boss Diamond off to flying start

10 March 2024 0 comments

By LUKE JARMYN Sale ………………..28pts Tries: Taylor 6, Quirke 13, Reed 32, Bradshaw 77 Conversions: R du Preez 7, 14, 33; Curtis 78 Newcastle……..31pts Tries: […]

Unwise for Prem to disappear from our sight

10 March 2024 0 comments

THE English top flight game during Six Nations time has disappeared, gone and is nowhere to be seen. The URC and the French Top 14 […]

Swansea spot in relegation play-off confirmed

10 March 2024 0 comments

BUCS RUGBY By TOM JEFFREYS Another chaotic week of BUCS Super Rugby has left seven positions still uncertain heading into the final week of action […]

Oyonnax have to keep on believing

10 March 2024 0 comments

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Oyonnax manager Joe El-Abd promised last week that his side would ‘fight to the end’ following their so-near-so-far 35-39 home defeat […]

Mapletoft’s tyros hope to continue their Grand Slam quest

8 March 2024 0 comments

England U20s will hope to inflict Ireland’s first loss in the Six Nations since July 2021 and take a giant step towards a Grand Slam. […]

Hodge on his way back to fast lane

3 March 2024 0 comments

By MARK STEVENS Josh Hodge has set his sights on an exciting end to the season after making an impressive return to action following injury. […]

Coventry show McGeechan there’s a lot of work to do

3 March 2024 0 comments

By GUY WILLIAMS Doncaster…………………….. 12pts Tries: McBryde 66, Greenwood 78 Conversion: Bennett 66 Coventry ……………………….27pts Tries: Ball 38, Penalty 61, Hitchcock 80 Conversions: Pellegrini 38, […]

Emanuel adds his knowhow for U18s

3 March 2024 0 comments

NEWS EXTRA WALES U18 face Scotland today ahead of the Six Na- tions festival which starts at the end of the month A Wales Uis […]

Narberth stay clear at the top

3 March 2024 0 comments

Championship round-up NARBERTH made it 16 wins out of 16 in Welsh Championship West as they defeated Ammanford 47-10 with a bonus point. Dean James, […]

Mercer: I’m focused on Gloucester

25 February 2024 0 comments

By PAUL REES If desire to play for England was a factor in selection, Zach Mercer would be one of the first names on the […]

England’s Plan A is to run at Portugal

25 February 2024 0 comments

By PAUL REES PREVIEW…England A vs Portugal (Today. Kick-off 1pm, Welford Road) Steve Borthwick left Edinburgh after England’s clash against Scotland last night and set […]

Merit on the pitch should be decisive

25 February 2024 0 comments

There has been a long-standing tradition in rugby union that everyone is entitled to their opinion, and when Ealing Trailfinders hosted Leicester last weekend TV […]

Dream Team with Warren Seals

25 February 2024 0 comments

The Sedgley Park and former Boland Cavalier, Darlington Mowden Park and Yorkshire Carnegie fly-half chooses the best XV he has played with or against… 1. […]

England A told: Play what’s in front of you

18 February 2024 0 comments

By PAUL REES England A will not be a replica of the senior side when they face Portugal at Welford Road next Sunday. Attack coach […]

Oh boy! Newborn the hero for Titans

18 February 2024 0 comments

By LUKE JARMYN Rotherham T….32pts Sheffield………… 14pts FLANKER Harry Newborn powered through in the corner for Rotherham’s fifth try as Titans came through a g […]