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Stand up, Pro Game Board men

13 January 2019 0 comments

READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK NICK CAIN NIGEL Melville made it clear just before Christmas that there would be promotion and relegation this season. […]

RFU must name and shame the first time drug abusers

13 January 2019 0 comments

A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME JEFF PROBYN Caught out: Gloucester’s second row Gerbrandt Grobler was a confessed steroids abuser when at Munster. As […]

Eastmond: We need rethink over red cards

13 January 2019 0 comments

By NEALE HARVEY Collision: Kyle Eastmond goes high on Quins’ Marcus Smith KYLE Eastmond has called for greater understanding and empathy from referees when it […]

Goode: RFU should have held onto Farrell

6 January 2019 0 comments

ENGLAND rugby bosses blundered by not ensuring Andy Farrell was groomed as Eddie Jones’ successor. Saracens full-back Alex Goode claims the RFU should have ensured […]

Middleton: Contracts will drive bid for No.1

6 January 2019 1 comment

By SAM JACKSON Reward: Katy Daley-Mclean has over 100 caps WORLD Cup winners from 2014 Katy Daley- Mclean, Sarah Hunter, Marlie Packer and Vicky Fleetwood […]

RFU hand 28 full-time contracts to England Women stars

3 January 2019 0 comments

Lydia Thompson, Poppy Cleall, Abbie Scott and Marlie Packer all get contracts

CVC’s deal ‘raped’ F1, rugby must hope for better

30 December 2018 0 comments

A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME JEFF PROBYN Banned from playing: Faf de Klerk had to watch the Springboks play England from the Twickenham […]

Humble Beaumont to become Sir Bill

30 December 2018 0 comments

WORLD Rugby chairman and former England and Lions captain Bill Beaumont said it was ‘humbling’ to have been knighted in the Queen’s New Year Honours […]

National League tax probe to be expanded to Premiership and Championship levels

29 December 2018 0 comments

HMRC have turned their attentions to rugby in recent months

World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont honoured with knighthood

29 December 2018 0 comments

Doddie Weir also honoured for his contribution to rugby and the search for a cure to Motor Neurone Disease

Full-time contracts for top England women

23 December 2018 1 comment

NATASHA Hunt, Emily Scarratt and Jess Breach have been awarded the first England Women XVs full-time contracts for the 2019 season. The RFU announced in […]

CVC deal could spell big trouble

23 December 2018 0 comments

NEWS that Premiership clubs have now completed a £220m deal with the private equity firm CVC represents the biggest con job in English rugby history. […]

RFU must help the grassroots clubs, not punish them

23 December 2018 1 comment

SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon, SW19 4EU email: [email protected] THE letter from John Allanson of Bishop’s Stortford […]

Why does no Englishman want to lead national team?

16 December 2018 0 comments

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Settled: Stuart Lancaster trains his Leinster team. Would he come back for England? PICTURE: Getty Images […]

Cain column: Melville understands the dangers of ring-fencing

13 December 2018 0 comments

Nick Cain on the big topic of ring-fencing the Premiership

Promotion stays but 16 teams is good move

9 December 2018 0 comments

READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Concerns: Ealing Trailfinders have gates of around 1,000 APremiership table in which there is only a nine point gap […]

Melville: New laws on tackles working

9 December 2018 2 comments

NEWS EXTRA NEALE HARVEY TRIAL LAWS banning tackling above the armpit line in the Championship Cup are having the desired effect, according to RFU professional […]

Melville understands the dangers of ring-fencing

9 December 2018 1 comment

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Pedigree: Nigel Melville at the RFU and, inset, playing for England PICTURE: Getty Images “Nigel Melville […]

Eastwood calls for ring-fence debate

9 December 2018 3 comments

WASPS chief executive Nick Eastwood insists no decisions around ring-fencing the Premiership can be made until all available options have been assessed. The tightness of […]

Warren Gatland on England’s radar, as RFU plan talks

5 December 2018 0 comments

Does the head coach job at Twickenham await Gatland?

How beasting from Robson on road to O’Connell put Academic life

25 November 2018 0 comments

BRENDAN GALLAGHER sits down with ex-Quins ace George Robson ahead of his Varsity challenge NEVER underestimate George Robson, on or off the field. Of all […]

Fingers crossed that Eddie knows what he is doing

25 November 2018 0 comments

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME As the Autumn Internationals draw to a close, the question that is always asked is: what […]

RUGBY SHORTS

25 November 2018 0 comments

Visagie joins Gloucester BULLS hooker Jaco Visagie has joined Gloucester on a short-term loan deal to cover Franco Marais. Gloucester boss David Humphreys said: “We’re […]

Cain column: Exit of RFU CEO Steve Brown exposes growing split in rugby

23 November 2018 0 comments

Nick Cain explains how the RFU’s agreement with the Premiership and the revamp to Twickenham’s East Stand caused headaches

Exit of Brown exposes growing split in rugby

18 November 2018 1 comment

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK STEVE Brown’s decision to stand down as the RFU’s chief executive is undoubtedly a great pity for […]

Surely Premiership fans can see what’s at stake with Lions?

11 November 2018 0 comments

WELL said, John Rowlands, in your letter last week, headed “Lions should play hard ball with PRL”. If a Lions tour is the highly valued […]

Tribute to Peter

11 November 2018 0 comments

SHAME rugby did not remember one of its own with a minute’s silence at Twickenham last weekend. Former RFU president (2016/17 season) Peter Baines passed […]

Farrell debate rages on, but no doubt over scrum frailty

11 November 2018 1 comment

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Aweek has passed but the controversy continues, was it or wasn’t it? A question that can […]

No limits to how far pioneering ref Cox can climb

4 November 2018 1 comment

TRAILBLAZING referee Sara Cox climbs another step on the ladder to the top today when she becomes the first female to referee a match between […]

Fletcher: England must overcome tactical flaws

4 November 2018 1 comment

■ By NEALE HARVEY ENGLAND must overcome their tactical deficit to fully match New Zealand says former Red Rose U18s boss John Fletcher. Fletcher, who […]

Mallinder rejected top-flight offers for role with RFU

28 October 2018 0 comments

Passion: Jim Mallinder ENGLAND pathway coach Jim Mallinder has revealed why he turned down topflight coaching jobs in order to drive through the next generation […]

Lions being sacrificed on altar of commercialism

28 October 2018 0 comments

The first post-war Lions tour of South Africa lasted for more than three months, from the middle of June until the end of September. They […]

Solomons fears coaches will burn out, too

28 October 2018 0 comments

Plea: Alan Solomons WORCESTER supremo Alan Solomons says Premiership coaches are at risk of burnout unless steps are taken to align the Northern and Southern […]

MY LIFEIN RUGBY

28 October 2018 0 comments

THE FORMER PREMIERSHIP REFEREE ASHLEY ROWDEN DO I miss refereeing? I don’t miss the training, I don’t miss the travelling, but I do miss the […]

Eddie Jones answers 13 questions on his squad announcement

25 October 2018 0 comments

Why no Attwood, Goode or Armand? Is Farrell going to start at 10 from now on?

English rugby to introduce mandatory in-season breaks in major boost to player welfare

23 October 2018 0 comments

Details of large-scale player welfare initiative announced, but how will it be marshalled?

Eddie Jones on…

21 October 2018 0 comments

…wrapping Billy Vunipola in cotton wool until the World Cup “I only have him for nine weeks between now and July. In that time, we […]

Eddie still the man but risk of another RWC flop looms

21 October 2018 0 comments

I ADMIRE the resilience and confidence of RFU CEO Steve Brown, but there is a real risk that 12 months from now he will have […]

Crisis? What crisis? Steve Brown says RFU is in good shape

17 October 2018 0 comments

Nick Cain meets the RFU chief executive who reflects on the financial implications facing the body

Cockerill rues the famous victory that got away

14 October 2018 0 comments

By PETER WILLIS EDINBURGHmissed a golden chance to cause a major Champions Cup upset in Montpellier after dominating their hosts. As well as keeping the […]

Hughes is a tweet for misjudging the mood

14 October 2018 1 comment

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK NATHAN Hughes may feel that a relatively light right-handed punch from a prone position to get Gloucester […]

Crisis? What crisis? Brown says RFU are in good shape

14 October 2018 0 comments

INTERVIEW STEVE Brown has taken so much flak over the past year that it would be no surprise if he took to walking through the […]

Blues blast RFU refusal

7 October 2018 0 comments

News BEDFORD have claimed that the RFU failed to protect “player welfare” when refusing to postpone a match despite 21 players being out through illness […]

Angry Biljon blasts late Irish rejig

30 September 2018 0 comments

By LUKE JARMYN FRUSTRATED Jersey coach Harvey Biljon believes there are a lot of unanswered questions over the peculiar postponement of their first home game […]

Top players may miss new Cup over tackle ban fears

30 September 2018 1 comment

By NEALE HARVEY ANGRY Championship clubs may withdraw top players from the forthcoming Championship Cup following the RFU’s refusal to facilitate a ‘competition specific’ disciplinary […]

NEWS EXTRA

30 September 2018 0 comments

Tynedale match off due to MRSA outbreak By JON NEWCOMBE TYNEDALE have suspended all senior rugby activity until further notice after a first-team player recently […]

MY LIFEIN RUGBY

30 September 2018 0 comments

LEE STARLING THE FORMER LONDON WELSH, ESHER AND EALING BACK ROW My wife is American and did not have a great understanding of rugby or […]

Rugby players lift up car to rescue drunk teammate who had been run over

25 September 2018 0 comments

The prop had taken a lie down in the street before the incident on Sunday

New panel of coaches for U20s

23 September 2018 0 comments

SAINTS academy head coach Mark Hopley will join James Scaysbrook and Richard Whiffin in leading this season’s England U20 side. The trio join for 18 […]

Stay-at-home Mitchell needs to be hands on

23 September 2018 1 comment

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK JOHN Mitchell polarises opinion in Rugby Union more than anyone with the possible exception of Eddie Jones. […]

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