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Chris Hewett

/ 2 years ago

A new trophy, same old tricks …

CHRIS HEWETT It is one thing for a populist Prime Minister to ride a wave of duplicity before crashing head-first into...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Irish weren’t given enough time – Ojo

■By NICK POWELL LONDON Irish’s record try scorer Topsy Ojo says it’s regrettable that the club weren’t given more time to...

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Peter Jackson

/ 2 years ago

Limited by a flawed structure

Back in those blessed years when the Heineken Cup often delivered matches of greater passion and technical skill than the Six...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Champions Cup reverts to multi-pool

By PAUL REES Triumph: La Rochelle celebrate victory THE Heineken Champions Cup reverts to a multi-pool format next season, but teams...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Chris Hewett

/ 2 years ago

So, who is set to fly in under the radar?

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Remember Jean-Marc Doussain’s international debut for France? Probably not. The poor bloke would happily forget it himself,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Rugby Matters

/ 2 years ago

Toulouse play to win…everything!

Toulouse aren’t short of a bob or two and can, if they so wish, buy virtually any player on the planet....

By The Rugby Paper Team

Peter Jackson

/ 2 years ago

There’s no stopping Ramos

PETER JACKSON Thomas Ramos is en route to finishing the season 100 or so points clear of his nearest challenger across...

By The Rugby Paper Team

James Harrington

/ 2 years ago

Top two get set to put on the glitz

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN It's the final the Top 14 wanted and needed. Toulouse and La Rochelle – the two best...

By The Rugby Paper Team

James Harrington

/ 2 years ago

Kremer’s red gives Racing easy ride

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Argentinian back-row Marcos Kremer’s last act for Stade Francais was to get sent off - for the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Odogwu gets Italy chance

ITALY have called up former England prospect Paolo Odogwu as one of five uncapped players in their pre-World Cup training squad....

By The Rugby Paper Team

Sevens World Series

/ 2 years ago

GB sevens players pondered boycott

By BEN JAYCOCK Several Great Britain Sevens players thought about refusing to participate in this weekend’s London leg of the World...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Brendan Gallagher

/ 2 years ago

Sharks deserve far more recognition

BRENDAN GALLAGHER Rugby has its favourites and we in the media are as guilty as any of promoting them above others...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

Doris looking for revenge against La Rochelle

By BEN JAYCOCK Caelan Doris is hellbent on inflicting revenge on Saturday when Leinster meet La Rochelle in a re-run of...

By The Rugby Paper Team

James Harrington

/ 2 years ago

All to play for in final days of the season

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Top 14 coaches, pundits and fans have had the calculators, slide rules and computer modelling programmes out...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Features

/ 2 years ago

Last farewell for the Exe Men

Paul Rees talks to Rob Baxter about 'Incredible times' and new challenges to be faced next season in Devon Exeter's players...

By The Rugby Paper Team

United Rugby Championship

/ 2 years ago

Leinster’s double dream is on track

By BEN JAYCOCK Leinster...............35pts Tries: Doris 13, Milne 20, Larmour 23, Deegan 50, Gibson-Park 74 Conversions: H Byrne 14, 22, 24,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

James Harrington

/ 2 years ago

Boost for finances as recovery continues

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN THE Commission des Championnats professionnels de l’Autorité de régulation du rugby – the new name for the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Guest Blogs

/ 2 years ago

Rugby World Cup France 2023: A Celebration of Rugby and Culture

France is getting ready to welcome the world for the 2023 Rugby World Cup, which will be the second time they...

By Sam Emery

Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Lawes, Tuilagi provide boost for England

Courtney Lawes has rejected offers from abroad to sign a new deal with Northampton. The 34-year-old England forward, who has 97...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

Welsh quartet deserve no favours

PETER JACKSON Cardiff lost 50 per cent of their matches in the URC and duly failed to finish in the Champions...

By The Rugby Paper Team

James Harrington

/ 2 years ago

Toulouse look set to lead from the front

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN As the French Top 14 takes a week’s break for the Champions and Challenge Cup semi-finals, here’s...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

Champions Cup semi-final preview

The knockout stages of the Heineken Champions Cup have provided plenty of thrills already this season, but which of the four...

By Nick Powell

Premiership

/ 2 years ago

Whitten keen to finish on a high

By PAUL REES Exeter may be the underdogs in next Sunday’s Champions Cup semi-final against holders La Rochelle in Bordeaux, but...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Dream Team

/ 2 years ago

Dream Team with Billy Searle

Billy Searle, the former Worcester, Bath, Wasps, Bristol & Plymouth fly-half, chooses the best XV he has played with or against...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Nick Cain

/ 2 years ago

Meafou must miss out this time

NICK CAIN Emmanuel Meafou is a one-man army at 6ft 8ins and 22 stone, and with that sort of physical firepower...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Letters

/ 2 years ago

No guarantees for Leinster

WITH the Champions Cup Final being in Dublin this year I’ve been reading many comments saying that Leinster are being handed...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

Toulouse hit the turbos to cruise clear of Sharks

By CAM STEPHENS Toulouse ...................... 54pts Tries: Mallia 35, 56, Ramos 47, 72; Mauvaka 68, Retiere 75, Ntamack 78 Conversions: Ramos...

By The Rugby Paper Team

James Harrington

/ 2 years ago

Non-stop season to challenge the best

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN No-one has ever denied – no-one has ever been able to deny – that the French rugby...

By The Rugby Paper Team

James Harrington

/ 2 years ago

Parra has his eye on a final flourish

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN For a while, it looked as if Morgan Parra’s season – and possibly his career – had...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Six Nations

/ 2 years ago

Magnificent France run riot to destroy dreadful England

By NICK CAIN at Twickenham England .............................. 10pts Tries: Steward 48 Conversions: Smith 49 Penalties: Smith 34 France................................ 53pts Tries: Ramos...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Blindside - rugby transfers

/ 2 years ago

Bears move for Willis may help England

ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Bristol Bears could throw Jack Willis, below, an England lifeline with Premiership clubs ready to...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Six Nations

/ 2 years ago

Townsend: Gray in the form of his life

By BRYN PALMER PREVIEW... France v Scotland Today. 3pm, Stade de France, Paris SCOTLAND coach Gregor Townsend believes Richie Gray is...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Nick Cain

/ 2 years ago

Borthwick right to ask for eligibility changes

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Steve Borthwick has had the guts, and the gumption, to state that the...

By The Rugby Paper Team

James Harrington

/ 2 years ago

Time is running out for Castres

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Pierre-Yves Revol, president of Top 14 strugglers Castres, was in no mood to mince his words this...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Latest News

/ 2 years ago

Genge: We’re going to make Italy suffer

By GARY FITZGERALD Ellis Genge insists England are in mean and hungry mood to make Italy suffer for their latest Calcutta...

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Brendan Gallagher

/ 2 years ago

Ireland’s passion play in classic confrontation

BRENDAN GALLAGHER Touts were reportedly asking €1,000 for a ticket outside the Aviva yesterday morning ahead of kick off and frankly,...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Six Nations

/ 2 years ago

France have the drive to stay on track

By PAUL REES PREVIEW... Italy v France Today. Kick-off 3pm, Stadio Olimpico, Rome THE last time France won back-to-back Six Nations...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Jeremy Guscott

/ 2 years ago

For France, the battle will start in Dublin

JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK It would be an amazing feat if France can do back-to-back Grand Slams, or...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Champions Cup

/ 2 years ago

Twelvetrees cuts through the noise

By PAUL REES Bordeaux-Begles ........... 17pts Tries: Gimbert 14, Boniface 50 Conversions: Jallibert 15, 51 Penalty: Jallibert 2 Gloucester ....................... 26pts...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Six Nations

/ 2 years ago

Six Nations squads in-depth: Italy

Michele Lamaro captains the Azzurri, with World Rugby’s breakthrough player of the year Ange Capuozzo spearheading the attack for Kieran Crowley’s...

By The Rugby Paper Team

Six Nations

/ 2 years ago

Six Nations squads in-depth: France

Grand Slam champions France go into this year’s Six Nations without several key players as Fabien Galthie endures an ever growing...

By The Rugby Paper Team

James Harrington

/ 2 years ago

Gibbes given his marching orders after Tigers mauling

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Christophe Urios will take charge at Top 14 side Clermont on Monday, after the “breathing space” afforded...

By The Rugby Paper Team

James Harrington

/ 2 years ago

France must wait for Meafou

Remember last year’s Patrick Schickerling incident? When Exeter’s Namibian front row thought he had qualified to play for England through residency,...

By The Rugby Paper Team