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Potential stars will quit ‘treadmill’ warns Jones

14 March 2021 1 comment

By NEALE HARVEY RICHMOND No.9 Luc Jones predicts potential England players will go part-time or quit the game unless the RFU reverse their decision to […]

Nottingham launch fundraising campaign with £400,000 target

10 March 2021 1 comment

Nottingham chairman Alistair Bow urges supporters and local business to get behind the club with new fundraiser launch

Nottingham v Ealing: Nottingham name ten debutants for opener

7 March 2021 0 comments

Nottingham head coach Neil Fowkes and Trailfinders lock Bobby de Wee preview Sunday’s clash at The Bay

Championship 2021 season preview: Shoot-out for the Premiership has Saracens as favourites

28 February 2021 0 comments

Jon Newcombe finds Matt Challinor excited to get a tilt at the best in his swansong season IT may have been a long time coming […]

Room 101: Nottingham fly-half Will Millett

21 February 2021 0 comments

1. RFU CEO Bill Sweeney I’m obviously slightly biased because I’m at a Championship club but he is the man responsible for funding being slashed […]

Nottingham come first but Wasps job is great for me

21 February 2021 1 comment

Q & A ON THE RECORD NEIL FOWKES True grit: Wasps fight back to beat Worcester last weekend PICTURES: Getty Images Former prop Neil Fowkes […]

My Life in Rugby – Sean Scanlon: Rotherham were the fancy dress champs

19 February 2021 1 comment

Former Nottingham, Munster, Rotherham and Doncaster full-back Sean Scanlon reflects on his rugby career

Giggleswick were lords of their manor

31 January 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools Honour: The King meets England in 1938, Giggleswick star Mike Marshall second from right GIGGLESWICK […]

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 […]

Fight to save Championship: Nick Cain talks to Coventry director Nick Johnston

22 January 2021 0 comments

The managing director of the Championship club fumes over the lack of collective agreement over the TEC and the absence of RFU directive

Wasps could be without Alfie Barbeary for three months

3 January 2021 0 comments

Standout Wasps star Alfie Barbeary will undergo a scan on Sunday on his high ankle sprain

Sarries must wait until March to start

27 December 2020 1 comment

SARACENS’ England internationals will not play a competitive game before the Six Nations after the new Championship season was delayed until March 6. Owen Farrell, […]

Championship consider return to playoff system

29 November 2020 2 comments

NOTTINGHAM chairman Alistair Bow says he would welcome plans for a shorter, conference-based Championship season with the title decided by play-offs. A full 22-match programme […]

Harlequins lifeline for Sevens expert

15 November 2020 0 comments

Offer: De Carpenter FORMER England Sevens international Richard de Carpenter looks set to be offered a career lifeline with a short term contract at Quins. […]

YOUNG GUNS

15 November 2020 0 comments

CAM JORDAN GLOUCESTER LOCK Gloucester pulled off quite a coup over the summer when they managed to lure impressive second row forward Cam Jordan from […]

Tykes revamp gathers pace

1 November 2020 1 comment

■ By JON NEWCOMBE Big break: Will Hardwick playing for University of Birmingham LEEDS TYKES have signed a bright spark of a scrum-half as DoR […]

Gareth’s golden boot sets Exeter on their way

25 October 2020 1 comment

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby Pictures: PART 31 Gareth […]

Exeter’s steady climb shows there is hope for all of us

25 October 2020 1 comment

Q&A STEVE BODEN ON THE RECORD Former Leeds, Doncaster and Jersey hooker and recently appointed Doncaster head coach Steve Boden talks to NEALE HARVEY about […]

DREAMTEAM

20 September 2020 0 comments

ALUN WALKER, THE EALING TRAILFINDERS AND FORMER EDINBURGH, NOTTINGHAM AND SCOTLAND U20s HOOKER, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST… 1. Allan […]

Tomas Francis believes in chance to play for Exeter AND Wales

12 September 2020 0 comments

Francis has until March 31 next year to reach the 60 required caps to remain at Exeter and still play for Wales

Unpaid Championship players may have contracts cancelled

8 September 2020 0 comments

Leicester Tigers loan signing David Williams, whose parent club is Nottingham, says Championship players are being left in limbo

All systems go again as Tomas eyes Test recall

6 September 2020 1 comment

By NEALE HARVEY FIT-AGAIN Exeter and Wales prop Tomas Francis says competition is driving him on as he targets a domestic and European club ‘double’ […]

Q&A – Harvey Biljon: I’m proud to see so many of my players in the Premiership

21 August 2020 0 comments

Neale Harvey surveys long-term Jersey director of rugby Harvey Biljon on the state of affairs in the second tier

Proud to see so many of my players step up to Premiership

16 August 2020 1 comment

Q&A HARVEY BILJON ON THE RECORD Proactive: Harvey Biljon Former Wasps No.9 Harvey Biljon has forged a successful career in coaching with Blackheath, Cornish Pirates […]

Nottingham sign fly-half following exit of Shane O’Leary to Rouen

10 August 2020 0 comments

Former Birmingham Moseley fly-half Sam Hollingsworth has joined the Green and Whites from Rotherham

Cain column: Ed Griffiths must bin four-year promotion-relegation moratorium in proposal

4 August 2020 0 comments

The 76-page Championship revamp proposal drafted by Ed Griffiths would see promotion to the Premiership offset for four years

Warriors recruit Bain to help plug the Gray gap

12 July 2020 0 comments

TRANSFERWRAP GLASGOW have bolstered their lock options to ease the loss of Jonny Gray joining Exeter. Former Scotland U20s lock Hamish Bain,22,is on his way […]

Carl Kirwan on his Nottingham move and news of one more Green & Whites signing

3 July 2020 0 comments

Flanker Kirwan says he is looking forward to the competition in the back row at Championship level

Kirwan will add his ferocty to Nottingham cause

28 June 2020 1 comment

By JON NEWCOMBE Excited: Carl Kirwan CARL Kirwan is delighted to be back in the Championship after signing a part-time deal with Nottingham. The fearsome […]

Tyro No.10 McBryde ready for battle with the Knights

28 June 2020 3 comments

NEWS EXTRA BILLY McBryde is using Josh Adams as his inspiration as he keeps on working his way north to try to find a way […]

Heffernan must wait for move to Prem

7 June 2020 1 comment

OISIN HEFFERNAN has been left in limbo despite this week being named in the Championship team of the season. The Nottingham tight-head prop is keen […]

Best spots talent while he waits for Knights to kick off

7 June 2020 0 comments

By JON NEWCOMBE NEW Doncaster signing Mark Best is hoping to give promising young sports stars a leg-up while he waits for the next chapter […]

YOUNGGUNS

31 May 2020 0 comments

LEWISHOLSEY WORCESTER PROP When Lewis Holsey had a tap on the shoulder from Worcester supremo Alan Solomons during training one Tuesday in January, little did […]

Rugby contracts will deviate from what we know now, says Carl Fearns

28 May 2020 0 comments

The former Bath No.8, now at Rouen, believes rugby’s player base could shift towards preferring freelance agreements

Star prop Du Plessis gets back in the front line to help the NHS

25 May 2020 0 comments

By ROSS HEPPENSTALL Help: Petrus du Plessis, and, inset, in his NHS mask PETRUS du Plessis’ career has come full circle following his return to […]

Ben pushing to have scrum doctor Cron’s eye for detail

25 May 2020 0 comments

By NEALE HARVEY Expert tuition: Mike Cron coaching Ben Franks FORMER detective Mike Cron will provide eagle-eyed inspiration to Ben Franks when the two-time World […]

YOUNG GUNS

17 May 2020 0 comments

TUI URU NORTHAMPTON No.8 Tui Uru’s name will not be on many lists of ‘England stars of the future’ right now but that could soon […]

Grassroots specialists share skeptical view over RFU £7m aid package

15 May 2020 0 comments

The RFU has been warned by grassroot specialists that its £7m financial aid package will be quickly be swallowed up as clubs descend into a […]

TRP’s GK IPA Championship 2019-20 Team of the Season

8 May 2020 0 comments

The time has come for us to hand out some honours and honourable mentions to the stars of the Championship

Burrows muscles in for hat-trick but super Falcons take top billing

3 May 2020 1 comment

Jon Newcombe picks The Rugby Paper’s Championship Team of the Season Hot-stepper: Newcastle’s Adam Radwan scores against Jersey PICTURE: Simom Hall Stars, from top: Sean […]

Vichy rulers order ‘immoral’ French Rugby League to die

3 May 2020 1 comment

Brendan Gallagher continues his expert and authorative look at the history of Rugby Union The History of rugby: PART 7 Surviving World War 2 NEXT […]

Exclusive: Guy Thompson finds new club after being let go by Leicester Tigers

29 April 2020 0 comments

Thompson was reluctantly let go by Leicester days before the outbreak

Northampton in advanced talks to sign South African flanker based in France

27 April 2020 0 comments

Former Bulls back row closing in on move to Franklin’s Gardens after two years in France

Holmes calls halt to become a city slicker

26 April 2020 1 comment

By JEREMY BLACKMORE NOTTINGHAM skipper Tom Holmes has called time on a 13-year career in the wake of the Championship funding cuts. Holmes had recently […]

The RFU have treated the Championship disgracefully, Nottingham’s chairman explains

17 April 2020 0 comments

‘Everyone below the Premiership has been left to fend for themselves’, says Alistair Bow

The briefest argument for why the Championship is invaluable to English rugby

14 April 2020 0 comments

Nottingham chairman Alistair Bow explains how some Premiership clubs still want to keep links with the Championship – but others aren’t so keen

Bow on the RFU pay structure…

12 April 2020 0 comments

Alistair Bow, who has closed Nottingham’s Lady Bay ground and placed the players and the majority of the staff on the government furlough scheme, has […]

Bow on why the Championship is invaluable…

12 April 2020 0 comments

Virtually every club in the Premiership has England internationals who have been nurtured in the Championship, and Alistair Bow says its value has been proven […]