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Rude welcome awaits

1 March 2020 0 comments

IN THE wake of RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney’s announcement to slash funding to the Championship and across the 2000+ clubs of the Community game, […]

Bok lock Marvin says Yes to Tigers

1 March 2020 0 comments

Lion: Marvin Orie LEICESTER Tigers look to have ended their search for a new second row following talks with Lions ace Marvin Orie who is […]

Rams are head-butted by RFU points deduction

1 March 2020 2 comments

■ By NEALE HARVEY Hit hard: Gary Reynolds RAMS chief executive Gary Reynolds believes his club have been harshly treated by the RFU for a […]

Ireland’s Six Nations match against Italy postponed over coronavirus fears

26 February 2020 0 comments

A match which was scheduled to be held in Dublin on March 7

Cain column: Pro D2 can show the RFU how to run a second tier

26 February 2020 0 comments

Former Bath captain and Worcester DoR, Richard Hill, is currently in charge at Rouen in the second tier of French rugby

Exclusive: Championship threaten to revive play-off system and add to Saracens woe

25 February 2020 0 comments

Life in the Championship next season might not be as straightforward as Saracens were expecting

England Sevens captain Tom Mitchell feels change in the wind post-Tokyo Olympics

25 February 2020 0 comments

RFU cuts to the Championship have given rise to questions over the future of the England Sevens programme

England open to allowing access for fly-on-the-wall TV documentary

25 February 2020 0 comments

Will Carling reveals England’s aversion to allowing cameras behind the scenes has eased

Ex-RFU chief raps cuts to Championship

25 February 2020 0 comments

Former RFU chairman Graeme Cattermole questions how the savings on the Championship budget cuts will be used elsewhere

Spare a thought for National League clubs

23 February 2020 0 comments

DID the Championship clubs really not see the RFU funding cuts coming, as all the “shock, horror” reactions would suggest? The simple fact of the […]

RFU executives should take pay cut

23 February 2020 1 comment

THE outrageous decision by the RFU to cut funding of the Championship by 50 per cent from next season is a huge blow to Coventry […]

Consign this shameful class system to history

23 February 2020 0 comments

Giant killers: Duncan Roke, of the National League XV, on the attack against the Springboks in 2000 PICTURE: Getty Images BRENDAN Gallagher’s recent articles on […]

Perhaps it’s time to boycott the top tier

23 February 2020 0 comments

COULD this season get any worse? The whole salary cap saga proved just how poor the administration of the professional game is, and while I […]

Ex-RFU chief raps Tier Two cash cuts

23 February 2020 0 comments

By NICK CAIN ‘It’s poor’: Cattermole GRAEME Cattermole, former RFU chairman, has added his criticism to the slashing cuts to Championship funding. Cattermole argues that […]

Scarratt: England are a team for all seasons

23 February 2020 1 comment

By ADAM ELLIS High hopes: England’s Emily Scarratt TEAMS ENGLAND: McKenna, Dow, Scarratt, Reed, Breach, Daly- McLean, Riley; Cornborough, Davies, Bern, Cleall, Aldcroft, Beckett, Fleetwood, […]

This crowing cockerill can show RFU how to run Tier Two

23 February 2020 0 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE desultory manner in which the Championship clubs have been treated by the RFU continued this week, […]

U20s need to have top teams on parade

23 February 2020 0 comments

THE England U20’s 39-21 defeat by their Irish counterparts at Franklin’s Gardens on Friday night put an end to their hopes of a clean sweep. […]

RFU CEO Bill Sweeney responds to outcry from Championship clubs

19 February 2020 0 comments

Sweeney justifies cuts to Championship funding in reply to clubs’ letter voicing grave concerns

England prop Harry Williams anticipates damaging impact on second two

18 February 2020 0 comments

The Exeter Chiefs prop speaks out about how cuts to the second tier ‘are not ideal’

Championship cuts: Concerned chairmen issue open letter to Bill Sweeney

18 February 2020 0 comments

The Championship Clubs Committee (CCC) write to RFU CEO Bill Sweeney in The Rugby Paper

WIN

16 February 2020 1 comment

A pair of Guinness Six Nations tickets to England v Ireland courtesy of Dove Men+Care With the Guinness Six Nations 2020 underway. Dove Men+Care are […]

Eddie’s insults may have lost the players

16 February 2020 0 comments

It may not have been pretty, but at last England have kickstarted the journey to France 2023 with a much-needed win against the Scots. What […]

World Cup man Mark Wilson back on track with Sale Sharks

13 February 2020 0 comments

Wilson knows there’s plenty of work to be done to add to his 18 England caps

Jersey Reds typify Championship disbelief with damning condemnation of RFU

12 February 2020 0 comments

Jersey Reds chairman Mark Morgan criticises Bill Sweeney for ill-thought actions and lack of clarity given to Championship clubs by RFU

RFU and PRL slash funding to the Championship by 50%

12 February 2020 0 comments

Championship clubs hang on a cliff edge as funding from central power is cut from £8.1 to £4.3m

Complacency began after All Blacks victory

9 February 2020 2 comments

Struggling: England concede a try to French captain Charles Ollivon PICTURE: Getty Images I just can’t understand why Eddie Jones told his players to be […]

PRL must hand over control of salary cap

2 February 2020 0 comments

COLIN BOAG Under scrutiny: Saracens in better times. Lord Myners I have questioned whether Premiership Rugby would include supporters in their list of stakeholders who […]

Sharks join fight for Premier 15s licence as RFU audit looms

2 February 2020 1 comment

SALE Sharks have launched a bid to enter the Premier 15s next season. The RFU will award four licences in March for a revised ten-team […]

I’m banking on Myners to end this Sarries saga

26 January 2020 0 comments

BEING both a proud Cornishman – and therefore surely a rugby man – and a razor sharp former Financial Services Minister, I have high hopes […]

Fight for survival will bring best out of Titans

26 January 2020 2 comments

By JON NEWCOMBE CARETAKER head coach Steve Salvin thinks Rotherham’s desperate situation at the foot of the National One table could work in their favour. […]

Who would open their books for scrutiny?

26 January 2020 0 comments

Academy boys: Owen Farrell and Maro Itoje PICTURE: Getty Images Saracens, Saracens, Saracens, it seems that’s all this season has been about as every week […]

Shanahan says cut league size

26 January 2020 1 comment

Rising star: Teenager Jack Musk showed his quality against Clermont Auvergne PICTURE: Getty Images By NEALE HARVEY BLACKHEATH head coach James Shanahan has backed RFU […]

Divert Tier Two funds to national leagues

26 January 2020 0 comments

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: [email protected] PICKING up the thread of inadequate central funding […]

Matt Proudfoot: How England’s new forwards coach left a mark on Pieter-Steph du Toit and Schalk Brits

24 January 2020 0 comments

The two Springboks reveal the inner teachings of Proudfoot who worked under Rassie Erasmus in the World Cup triumph

Cain column: Vindictive owners get their pound of flesh off Saracens

22 January 2020 0 comments

Nick Cain believes the punishment served to Saracens bears no relation to their crimes

Lyon offer an escape route to trio of Saracens superstars

21 January 2020 0 comments

What will this mean for their England careers?

Fylde flyer Hadfield banned for doping violation

19 January 2020 2 comments

NEWS EXTRA By SAM JACKSON FYLDE’S Henry Hadfield has been banned from all sport for two years after failing a drug test. The Cumbrian centre […]

Saracens salary cap judge says: PRL should lift cloak of privacy

14 January 2020 0 comments

“PRL will probably disagree strongly with my remarks” – Lord Dyson lifts the lid on his thoughts about the Saracens salary cap breach

Hill was right – there are too many games

12 January 2020 0 comments

YOUR interview with Steve Hill, latterly of Sidcup, Oxford Univ and now Richmond, was a well-reasoned plea to keep our great game on an even […]

Cockerill left chasing bonus point at Agen

12 January 2020 0 comments

By GARY HEATLY POOL 3 Bordeaux …….32 Edinburgh…….17 BORDEAUX-Begles progressed to the knock-out stages with victory over Edinburgh Rugby. And the loss means that Richard […]

Farrell got away with another cheap shot

12 January 2020 0 comments

It seems that Saracens just cannot keep out of the headlines for all the wrong reasons, no matter what they do. First the wage cap […]

Cain column: Wray leaving could see salary cap storm linger

9 January 2020 0 comments

Nick Cain shares his views on what the retirement of Nigel Wray as chairman means for Saracens

Championship chairman fears funding cuts to Tier Two

7 January 2020 0 comments

Nottingham chairman Alistair Bow on the state of play between Championship clubs and the RFU, with the central funding agreement soon up for renewal

Bow fears funding cut could hit Tier Two

5 January 2020 0 comments

By NEALE HARVEY Concern: Alistair Bow NOTTINGHAM chairman Alistair Bow says hard-up Championship sides are being forced to put recruitment plans on hold amid doubts […]

Salary cap storm cloud could hang all season

5 January 2020 0 comments

NICK CAIN NIGEL Wray’s decision to resign as Saracens chairman on Thursday was a clear signal that the salary cap fiasco engulfing the club – […]

Questions remain if‘rental’ system is best way forward

5 January 2020 1 comment

IF ONL0Y things were as black and white as Colin Boag suggests, and making the unions of Tier One countries “primarily responsible for the amateur […]

Hill: Grind of club rugby is killing player numbers

29 December 2019 0 comments

By NEALE HARVEY RICHMONDdirector of rugby Steve Hill claims player numbers will “fall off a cliff” unless the amount of rugby being played by National […]

Big worry that no English coach wants the top job

29 December 2019 1 comment

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME There are times when I think that nobody really cares or listens to the RFU and […]

Stop this chatter, just ref the game!

22 December 2019 0 comments

AT LAST, someone agrees with me. Colin Boag is 100 per cent right – referees are taking away the advantage by coaching for the whole […]

Letters

15 December 2019 2 comments

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: [email protected] Cutting the format could kill Sevens THOUSANDS of […]

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