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The Rugby Paper
Wade will give his all for Gloucester one final time
CHRISTIAN Wade promises Gloucester fans he remains fully focused on ending his short stint in the West Country all guns blazing and helping them into the play-offs.
2 min |
May 25, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Rampaging Ealig get in mood to party hard
WHEN you win back-to-back titles, you have a duty to sign off in style and Ealing certainly did that in their final home game of the season, racking up nine tries.
2 min |
May 25, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Macleod all set for Leinster challenge
JOSH Macleod is proof positive of the virtues of patience and perseverance.
2 min |
May 25, 2025
The Rugby Paper
I'm happy to stick at No.7 - Underhill
DESPITE the presence of multiple hybrid back-rowers in the Lions’ squad, England international Sam Underhill is happy to remain one of a declining breed - an out-and-out seven.
3 min |
May 25, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Spencer sparkles as Bath put Lyon to sword
BATH won their first major trophy for 17 years with the biggest margin of victory in a Challenge Cup Final since Colomiers beat Agen 43-5 back in 1998.
3 min |
May 25, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Feyi-Waboso 'raring to get stuck in', says Borthwick
STEVE Borthwick says Immanuel Feyi-Waboso is 'raring to get stuck in' and hopes the 'world-class' Exeter winger will feature in England's summer Tests.
2 min |
May 25, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Five-star Opoku's in the record book
RECORD breaking Coventry winger David Opoku says the deafening roar from the crowd of “get one more David!” spurred him on to land five scores against Nottingham last Saturday and break his club’s record of most tries in a game.
2 min |
May 25, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Six Nations on a Thursday! Has the world gone mad?
I HAVE yet to see any adequate explanation as to why France will be hosting Ireland on a Thursday night - February 6-when the 2026 Six Nations kicks off next February.
1 min |
May 25, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Time for Borthwick to ignore the easy options
THE main challenge facing Steve Borthwick this summer is to maintain England's momentum by winning a two-Test tour of Argentina with 13 of his leading players on Lions duty.
4 min |
May 25, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Bordeaux accused of Pollock vendetta
FIN Smith accused Bordeaux of having a vendetta against Henry Pollock as Northampton's 28-20 Champions Cup final defeat ended in uproar in Cardiff.
2 min |
May 25, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Oundle cruise to victory at HQ
Papa Johns Finals
1 min |
May 18, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Pirates dig deep to stretch their winning run
PIRATES battled back from a 23-7 first-half deficit to sink Ampthill and plunder their sixth successive victory.
1 min |
May 18, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Wales' star backs in fitness race to make JWC
WALES U20 are sweating on the fitness of two key back line players ahead of this summer’s U20 World Championship in Italy with outside-half Harri Wilde and wing Tom Bowen both picking up hamstring injuries.
1 min |
May 18, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Steady Pirates are primed for attack
FOR the first time in years, the Cornish Pirates are heading into the off-season without the usual hectic scramble to piece together a competitive squad.
1 min |
May 18, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Kvesic returns to Worcester
MATT Kvesic says it was a ‘no-brainer’ to return to Worcester next season.
2 min |
May 18, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Cross sparkles in Cheshire’s victory
SET-PIECE dominance, some silky play in the loose and a man-of-the-match display by replacement back-rower Stuart Cross saw Cheshire run out comfortable 29-10 winners over Northumberland at a sunkissed Birkenhead Park.
1 min |
May 18, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Newport battling in honour of 'BJ'
Ebbw Vale u Newport 2.30pm
2 min |
May 18, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Kingsholm balancing act should be lauded
GLOUCESTER are a proper rugby club, determined to run themselves properly.
1 min |
May 18, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Brace of tries for Kendrick and Davies as Kent run riot
THERE’S something to be said for ‘know-how’ in team sport.
2 min |
May 18, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Ace Tomos helps keep Gloucester in the race
TOMOS Williams may not have got on the scoresheet but the Gloucester scrum-half showed exactly why he’s one of only two Welshmen picked for the Lions with a sublime showing.
2 min |
May 18, 2025
The Rugby Paper
It's famous five for Opoku to bag slice of Cov history
DELIGHTED head coach Alex Rae paid tribute to record-breaking winger David Opoku after the speedster ran in five tries to help Coventry to an emphatic victory over their East Midlands visi-tors.
2 min |
May 18, 2025
The Rugby Paper
The Leicester Lip's still talk of the town
NOBODY in a European Cup final has engineered a break like the one 'The Leicester Lip' made when English rugby's largest tribe spent a memorable weekend plastered in Paris.
4 min |
May 18, 2025
The Rugby Paper
McCall: We didn't deserve to win
SARACENS director of rugby Mark McCall refused to make any excuses after their controversial defeat.
1 min |
May 18, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Modern day warriors deserve far better
IT IS high time rugby union realised ignoring the past is the preserve of the ignorant, shown by the fact today the game’s most revered event is a throwback to the game’s amateur era that was ended in an International Rugby Board meeting in a Paris hotel 30 years ago in 1995.
3 min |
May 18, 2025
The Rugby Paper
‘Mongrel’ Plumtree craves Wales recall
TAINE Plumtree says his father’s example has rubbed off on him when it comes to his life as a “mongrel” rugby player.
2 min |
May 18, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Restore long tours around the UK
WITH details of the forthcoming Lions tour to Australia announced, they show that the tourists will play in six cities; a similar situation to when they visit New Zealand or South Africa.
1 min |
May 18, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Savea stars as Moana move into contention
Super Rugby Pacific round-up
3 min |
May 18, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Another masterclass by majestic George
WHEN will George Ford tire of teasing and tormenting opposition defences with matchwinning performances?
2 min |
May 18, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Britain's first European king on trip down memory lane
TONY Rees and Alain Penaud will share a moment in Cardiff this weekend ahead of the 30th anniversary European Cup final to recall what it was like for them to lift the greatest piece of club silverware 28 years ago.
2 min |
May 18, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Scottish are so ruthless, but Chinnor rue mistakes
LONDON Scottish made the most of their opportunities to take the win with their clinical red zone efficiency proving the difference.
1 min |