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I’ll pull no punches on Judgement Day, says Elias

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By SIMON THOMAS Ryan Elias says there will be no punches pulled when he goes head to head with Wales rival Elliot Dee on Judgement […]

Dugdale’s stepping out of the shadows

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By JON NEWCOMBE Sam Dugdale has stepped out of the shadows of the Curry brothers and Sale Sharks boss Alex Sanderson couldn’t be happier for […]

Talk of jeopardy is wide of the mark

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THINKING ALLOWED It happened during the early stages of the 2003 World Cup in Australia, when two of the union game’s leading administrators – Syd […]

Time for us to see some new thinking

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Remember the elderly joke about the flight from Australia to New Zealand? “There’s a time difference between the two countries,” the captain tells his passengers […]

Deadeye Bazalgette on target to steer Hartpury home

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By LUKE JARMYN Hartpury……….. 43pts Tries: Morgan 18, Forrester 33, Short 37, S Smith 79 Conversions: Bazalgette 19, 34, 38, 80 Penalties: Bazalgette 16, 53, […]

Champion Trailfinders cut Blues to shreds

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By ROGER PANTING Ealing Trailfinders…… 59pts Tries: Uzokwe 9, Bird-Tulloch 21, 30, 72; Kernaghan 28, 51; Terry 60, Collins 67, Sleightholme 76 Conversions: Lancaster 9, […]

Pirates seal runners-up spot with strong finish

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By DAVID BALLHEIMER L Scottish ………27pts Tries: Ransom 10, Wilkinson 26, Brown 29, Hobson 41 Conversions: Lloyd-Seed 26, 31 Penalties: Lloyd-Seed 35 C Pirates ………..38pts […]

Mee makes his mark as Nottingham end on high

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By ROB WILDMAN Nottingham……28pts Tries: Mee 26, Graham 32, Stapley 35, Cherry 43 Conversions: Arden 26, 32, 35, 43 Caldy ……………….. 8pts Tries: Barker 18 […]

Parks finds his range to swing it for Ampthill

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By STEVE JACKSON Cambridge …….28pts Tries: Asiedu 15, Brownlie 25, Merigan 59, Veness 76 Conversions: James 16, 26, 60, 77 Ampthill …………37pts Tries: Bracken 7, […]

Fantastic four face final tests

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PAUL REES LOOKS FORWARD TO THE PREMIERSHIP PLAY-OFF SEMI-FINALS: NORTHAMPTON v SARACENS AND BATH v SALE NORTHAMPTON The Saints finished at the top of the […]

Diamond out to add some steel

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By PAUL REES Even someone without Steve Diamond’s coaching experience would have known that taking over at Newcastle was never going to turn them into […]

You write off Saracens at your peril – Grewcock

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By BEN JAYCOCK Danny Grewcock has joined Paul Sackey as the second player to be inducted into the Premiership Rugby Hall of Fame for 2024 […]

Day O’Reilly missed out on Hollywood

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THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW When he last spoke in public, at his old Dublin rugby club a few hefty punts from the church […]

The £20m circus which led to a World Cup

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David Lord would kick off every email to The Rugby Paper during the last years of his life in the down-to-earth manner of a fair […]

Young guns who are shining for the Chiefs

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Paul Rees talks to Exeter DoR Rob Baxter to find out how his investment in homegrown talent is paying off at 9 and 10 Exeter […]

Playing for Tigers a privilege, says Scott

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By MARK STEVENS Matt Scott says it was his ‘privilege’ to pull on the Leicester Tigers jersey after playing his final game for the club […]

Poor defence cost us, admits Wilson

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By NICK POWELL Harlequins head coach Danny Wilson has admitted poor defence cost them a place in the play-offs after a disappointing end to the […]

Cloete & Van Velze to retire at end of season

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Bath’s South African forwards GJ van Velze and Chris Cloete will retire from rugby at the end of the season. Van Velze, 36, has made […]

Saracens hold on to take it at the death

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By HARRY SCOTT-MUNRO Saracens ………………………. 33pts Tries: Clifford 20, Gregson 29, Campbell 40, 66; Cleall 59 Conversions: Harrison 21, 40, 60, 67 Gloucester-Hartpury…….31pts Tries: Brock […]

Trailfinders make L’borough work hard for three in a row

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By ROGER PANTING Trailfinders……. 18pts Tries: Dow 6, Laflin 31 Conversions: Green 31 Penalties: Green 17, 24 Loughborough.. 19pts Tries: Keates 3, Treder 34, 55 […]

Wills grabs hat-trick as Bears go on rampage

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By STEWART MCCULLOUGH Harlequins …….25pts Tries: Neumann 9, 27, Mullen 74 Conversions: Cromack 10, Tuima 74 Penalties: Cromack 17, 21 Bristol …………… 47pts Tries: Marston-Mulhearn […]

Rigoni double as Sale show promise

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By SAM JACKSON Leicester …….. 21 Sale……………….36 In a battle of the league’s bottom two, Leicester fell short at home to a Sale side that […]

Jennings looking for new challenge

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By JON NEWCOMBE Still only 28, Rory Jennings is seeking the seventh full-time contract of his nomadic career after being released by Newcastle. By his […]

Zebo calls time

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Munster flyer Simon Zebo will retire at the end of the season. The 34-year-old was capped 35 times by Ireland, helping his country win the […]

IRFU changing funding model

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THE Irish Rugby Football Union has announced a change to its funding model which will see the four provinces contribute “up to 30 per cent” […]

Kent show true grit to hold firm

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By ADAM CLEARY Kent………………………34 Cornwall………………33 KENT continued their defence of the Bill Beaumont Cup with victory over Cornwall at Charlton Park, despite being reduced to […]

Yorkshire set up shootout with rivals Lancashire

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By WILLIAM GUPWELL Somerset……….. 31pts Yorkshire………..33pts YORKSHIRE secured a vital win in this Bill Beaumont Cup thriller to set up a winner take all showdown […]

Five-star Oxfordshire power into last four

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By LUKE JARMYN Division 2 round-up OXFORDSHIRE scored five tries with their best performance of the campaign to grab a 34-27 bonus point win over […]

Devon secure place in semi-finals

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By JOE SANTAMARIA Division 3 round-up DEVON continued their good form by dispatching a competitive Berkshire side at Maidenhead RUFC. Fresh off their dominant 68-43 […]

Barnes hits four in nine-try rout

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By GEORGE WELLBELOVE Surrey…………………………………… 7 Hampshire………………………….63 HAMPSHIRE ran in nine tries to thrash Surrey and kick-start their campaign with Curtis Barnes crossing for four. Both […]

Too many law changes-just let players play

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Steve Hill puts the questions to James Shanahan, the head coach of Blackheath RFC and Cambridge University Why did you get into coaching rugby and […]

Camborne make impact but top two dominate final line-up

26 May 2024 1 comment

NATIONAL 2 WEST DREAM TEAM >> THE BEST XV FROM 2023-24 AS VOTED FOR BY OUR REPORTERS After Dings Crusaders’ National Two West title success, […]

Buckinghamshire push Surrey all way

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By GEORGE WELLBELOVE Surrey …………………. 14 Buckinghamshire.. 5 SURREY won a battle of attrition by absorbing much of Buckinghamshire’s pressure. The match started slowly and […]

Champs Lancashire kick off with big win

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Round-up REIGNING Gill Burns Cup champions Lancashire made a dominant start last week with a 39-6 victory against Gloucestershire in Pool 1. Warwickshire lost 43-0 […]

Calcutta Cup win the highlight of my career

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MY LIFE IN RUGBY Scott Steele – Former Scotland, Leicester, London Irish Harlequins & Edinburgh Scrum-Half I was sat on a mattress on the floor […]

The time Tony did plenty of learning

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RUGBY MATTERS – A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER It might surprise some to learn that the only sports trophy […]

Going, that bundle of barbed wire, a match for Edwards

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SID Going, who died last Sunday aged 80, might have been a man of God but the diminutive scrum-half from Kawakawa was, pound for pound, […]

Young Guns – Will Jeanes

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WILL JEANES – BATH SECOND ROW England Students second row Will Jeanes has progressed through the age groups at Bath and hopes to play a […]

Results

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Penguins put on show with Portugal stars

26 May 2024 0 comments

The serial touring rugby club, the Penguins RFC, were back on the road this month, under the leadership of CEO Craig Brown, taking three squads […]

Former RFU supremo Morgan dies aged 88

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FORMER England No.8, selector and RFU president Derek Morgan died on Friday at the age of 88. He played nine Tests for England in 1960 […]

Figallo leaves Sarries

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JUAN Figallo will leave his coaching role at Saracens at the end of the season. As a player, the 36-year-old tighthead won four Premiership titles […]

Resting players for big games isn’t on

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JEFF PROBYN – A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME It was just a couple of weeks ago that certain people were up in arms […]

Falcons bring in Sale centre

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NEWS EXTRA Newcastle have signed Connor Doherty on loan for next season from Sale Sharks. The 23-year-old centre, who has signed a contract with Sale […]

TV deal hits the €700m jackpot

26 May 2024 0 comments

By JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Jeroboams of champagne all round at Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) headquarters earlier this week, after its TV rights tender […]

Crusaders stun Blues to keep season alive

26 May 2024 0 comments

By TOM JEFFREYS Super Rugby Pacific round-up Crusaders salvaged some dignity in their torrid Super Rugby Pacific campaign with a shock 29-27 win over league […]

Unbeaten Knights gear up for final battle

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By TOM JEFFREYS Japan League One round-up THIS morning sees the Saitama Wild Knights take on Brave Lupus Tokyo for the League One title in […]

Composure is the name of the game for Umaga

19 May 2024 0 comments

By SIMON THOMAS Jacob Umaga showed plenty of composure with his match-winning heroics for Benetton in Durban last weekend – which is rather appropriate given […]

Botham back to push Test case

19 May 2024 0 comments

Having seen his Six Nations campaign cut short at the first hurdle, James Botham will be looking to force his way back into the Wales […]

It’s away day delight as Sharks bite Sarries

19 May 2024 0 comments

By BEN JAYCOCK Saracens ……………………… 10pts Tries: Riccioni 66 Conversions: Farrell 67 Penalties: Farrell 26 Sale ……………………………….20pts Tries: Roebuck 23, R du Preez 51 Conversions: […]

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