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Brendan Gallagher

/ 1 year ago

As usual, Gibson-Park enjoys life in top gear

BRENDAN GALLAGHER It's more than a little sobering to think that Ireland’s win over Wales on Saturday was probably their “iffy”...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 1 year ago

Rugby’s stuck in the ice age. It needs to open up

Ben Jaycock talks to Freddie Burns about life in Japan and what he thinks the sport must do to attract the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 1 year ago

Lawes can bring some order

Paul Rees says the former England captain who has signed for Brive will have much to offer when he retires Brive...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Schools / Universities

/ 1 year ago

Cranleigh show big boys how it is done

SCHOOLS REPORT By TOM JEFFREYS The sevens season continued with a quiet week before it truly erupts, with just one headline...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Young Gun

/ 1 year ago

Young Guns: Harlequins fly-half Josh Bellamy

By BEN JAYCOCK Josh Bellamy is fortunate to be able to pick the brains of England star Marcus Smith at Harlequins...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Schools / Universities

/ 1 year ago

Sedbergh kick-off sevens season in style

SCHOOLS RUGBY By TOM JEFFREYS Sevens season is here. This week saw the first major regional tournaments take place and made...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Autumn Internationals

/ 1 year ago

All Blacks in Dublin will be the acid test

CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED EARLY February is not obviously the moment to select a highlight of the calendar year. Especially if...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Premiership

/ 1 year ago

Young Guns: Bristol wing Louis Nancekivell

By BEN JAYCOCK Louis Nancekivell didn’t go down the traditional route entering rugby and has only played for one club so...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Schools / Universities

/ 1 year ago

Dominant Ipswich march on with more silverware

SCHOOL REPORT By TOM JEFFREYS Schools rugby is now sevens-centric heading through February with an array of sevens spectacles of varying...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Schools / Universities

/ 1 year ago

Suffolk’s Ipswich take the spoils in Seaford

SCHOOLS REPORT By TOM JEFFREYS This week was the highlight of the school tens period, the Seaford Southern Tens tournament. The...

By The Rugby Paper Team

English Championship

/ 1 year ago

Rams would be happy to play in RFU’s new Tier 2

By JON NEWCOMBE National One leaders Rams are among the clubs to have submitted an expression of interest to join the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Schools / Universities

/ 1 year ago

Exeter College top 10 in Devon

SCHOOLS REPORT By TOM JEFFREYS Tens season is upon us and the first such tournament took place in the south-west with...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 1 year ago

Magnificent tome tells fantastic tales

Take a bow Neil Fissler and Adam Hathaway – much respected members of this parish – for completing a definitive Who’s...

By The Rugby Paper Team

My Life in Rugby

/ 1 year ago

I tried hard to make the most of what ability I had!

My Life in Rugby with Gordon Bulloch - The former British & Irish Lions, Scotland, Glasgow & Leeds hooker talks about...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Schools / Universities

/ 1 year ago

St Peter’s get better of Welsh high-fliers Glantaf

SCHOOLS REPORT By TOM JEFFREYS With schools rugby slowing down this term as we build up to March’s national cup climax,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Schools / Universities

/ 1 year ago

Saints and Bath academy lads top of class

SCHOOLS RUGBY By TOM JEFFREYS As the sevens season approaches and the finest school talent don their academy/national jerseys, 15-a-side school...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Schools / Universities

/ 1 year ago

How the Continental Tyres Schools Vase and Bowl semi-finals took shape

By TOM JEFFREYS A quite period gives us the chance to look back at some of the scintillating rugby played at...

By Nick Powell

English Championship

/ 1 year ago

Roberts loving life in ‘rugby mental’ Portugal

By BEN JAYCOCK Ciaran Roberts swapped life in west London for Portugal this summer to play in the promising Portuguese Top...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 1 year ago

We need ‘whole game solution’

IT is significant that the latest statement by the Championship clubs, seeking to protect their position in the English rugby hierarchy,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Red Roses

/ 1 year ago

Red Roses: Sadia Kabeya

ENGLAND FLANKER Birthplace: Lewisham Date of birth: 22/02/02 Community club: Streatham & Croydon RFC Club: Loughborough Lightning England debut: v Canada...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 1 year ago

Proud men who graced the game

Brendan Gallagher recalls the achievements of those from across the globe that the world of rugby lost in 2023 Sydney Millar...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeff Probyn

/ 1 year ago

Secrets of learning about the dark arts

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME LAST week’s paper, and in particular Nick Cain’s article, put a smile...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Schools / Universities

/ 1 year ago

Elite will battle on after the Christmas break

SCHOOLS REPORT By TOM JEFFREYS Christmas holidays mean the end of the rugby season for most schools. While the elite of...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Schools / Universities

/ 1 year ago

Rugby celebrate historic win over Baa-Baas

SCHOOLS RUGBY By TOM JEFFREYS Rugby School celebrated the end of their bicentennial season in style with a double win in...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 1 year ago

Hartpury lads seal 12th ACE league crown

SCHOOLS RUGBY By TOM JEFFREYS AS we head towards the Christman holidays, and for many, the end of the rugby season,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League 2W

/ 1 year ago

Matavesi happy he is back home in Cornwall

By MARK STEVENS Among the quaint villages and historic towns that dot the local landscape, Josh Matavesi has once again discovered...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League 2E

/ 1 year ago

Looking back is not Morley’s way to take his team forward

By BEN CONEYBEARE Success is addictive, and once a team has had a taste of it, they can become preoccupied with...

By The Rugby Paper Team

My Life in Rugby

/ 1 year ago

Bloodgate? I wish I’d done things differently

My Life in Rugby with Tom Williams - The former Harlequins & Esher winger/full-back looks back on his life in the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Schools / Universities

/ 1 year ago

Unbeaten records are sure to come to an end

SCHOOLS RUGBY By TOM JEFFREYS The Continental Tyres Schools Competitions advance to the national stages meaning several unbeaten records will come...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Paul Rees

/ 1 year ago

Set-pieces which make the difference

Paul Rees canvasses expert opinion on how scrums and lineouts can separate the two codes of rugby Last month, World Rugby...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Schools / Universities

/ 1 year ago

Finalists Hartpury and Truro put south on top

SCHOOLS RUGBY By TOM JEFFREYS Hartpury College will clash against surprise finalists Truro and Penwith College in an all-southern ACE League...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Schools / Universities

/ 1 year ago

Hanley: RFU should go into inner cities to grow player pool

By BEN JAYCOCK Steve Hanley is urging the RFU to copy France and go into the inner cities to grow the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 1 year ago

Young guns who fired the triumph of 2003

RUGBY MATTERS While we rightly ruminate on the 20th anniversary of England’s World Cup triumph we should also doff a 30th...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Schools / Universities

/ 1 year ago

Rugby School secure overdue victory

SCHOOLS RUGBY By TOM JEFFREYS Rugby School earned just their second win this season amidst the 200th anniversary celebrations of rugby’s...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Club Rugby

/ 1 year ago

ACE hots up as big guns do battle in stage two

SCHOOLS RUGBY By TOM JEFFREYS THE illustrious ACE league entered its second stage, with the best four teams from both the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Schools / Universities

/ 1 year ago

Whitgift claim the bragging rights in Croydon

By TOM JEFFREYS Whitgift and Trinity played out the fixture of the weekend in the Schools Plate, with the former winning...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Davies is on the money to win it for Kirkham

SCHOOLS RUGBY By TOM JEFFREYS PLAYER of the tournament Ollie Davies’ dramatic drop goal won Kirkham Grammar School their first ever...

By The Rugby Paper Team

News Extra

/ 2 years ago

Fall in player numbers

NEWS EXTRA By PAUL REES A BBC documentary has uncovered worrying participation trends in Welsh rugby, revealing a drop off at...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Young Gun

/ 2 years ago

Young Guns: Gloucester hooker Gareth Blackmore

From playing barefoot rugby in South Africa to battling in England’s west country of Gloucester, tyro Gareth Blackmore has already enjoyed...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Schools / Universities

/ 2 years ago

Matthews keeps Ipswich on track

SCHOOLS RUGBY By MATTHEW LUDDINGTON Ipswich continued their flawless start to the season with a 45-19 victory in a bicentenary fixture...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Schools / Universities

/ 2 years ago

Denstone denied by smart camera

SCHOOLS RUGBY By MATTHEW LUDDINGTON Berkhamstead secured a 39-36 victory against Denstone College at StoneX Stadium on Wednesday. With the clock...

By The Rugby Paper Team

National League 2N

/ 2 years ago

Seabourne tasked with steadying falling Tykes

By MATTHEW LUDDINGTON The 32-year journey of Leeds Tykes has been nothing short of tumultuous. It’s a story marked by name...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Schools / Universities

/ 2 years ago

Martinovic: We need to focus on state schools

Alan Martinovic fears that the England Rugby player development pathway recently criticised by Eddie Jones will run into more difficulties if...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Guest Blogs

/ 2 years ago

Why Is Rugby Gaining Ground in a Non-Traditional Market Like Kentucky?

Rugby, a sport often associated with international strongholds, is finding unexpected traction in Kentucky. Factors contributing to its rise range from...

By Sam Emery