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The Rugby Paper
In-form Fisher is the hat-trick hero
SHEFFIELD turned on the style in difficult conditions to grab yet another five-point win at home.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Passman in place to steal it for Chinnor in a thriller
A BREATHLESS and competitive game saw Chinnor squeak the win by a single point.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Ford leads from the front for sharp Sale
GEORGE Ford may not be England’s first choice but the Sale fly-half showed why he's being champi-oned by some for the British & Irish Lions tour this summer.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Wallace finally take the top prize
ALL good things come to those who wait.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
That was all too easy for England
DID Wales make England look good, or are England good..? Yes, and yes to my way of thinking.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
England to help Ireland celebrate
ENGLAND and Ireland U18s will play a special anniversary fixture on Saturday in Cork to mark the 50th anniversary of Ireland Schoolboys and 150 years of the IRFU.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Diamond: That was not good enough
NEWCASTLE chief Steve Diamond had a face like thunder and insisted the off-field issues reported earlier in the week “gave no excuses”.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Mauvaka banned
FRANCE hooker Peato Mauvaka has been banned for three games for a head-butt on Scotland scrum-half Ben White during the Six Nations match in Paris.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Cheika determined to leave Tigers on a high
MICHAEL Cheika is determined to leave Leicester on a high having decided not to extend his one-year contract with the club.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
The giants who are spoiling it for all of us
POOR old Italy came up with plenty of solutions to the problems posed by Ireland in last week-end’s Super Saturday bunfight, but Dan Sheehan turned out to be a question without an answer. The three tries bagged by the Lions’ Test hooker-in-waiting were scored so effortlessly, they may have constituted the easiest slice of hat-trickery since Vladimir Putin’s run of victories in the Russian elections, all of which were free, fair and transparent. (Yeah, right).
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Glasgow have to dig deep
GLASGOW remain on track for a home quarter-final play- off but had to dig deep from 25-14 down with 15 minutes left to earn an important bonus-point victory.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Heartache for Barnes after late penalty drama
IN a cracking open game played partially in an electrical storm, OAs deservedly won 24-26 although Barnes had a chance to win it with a last-minute penalty.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Championship is low on stars, says Carter
AS Chinnor emerge from their 'third pre-season' of the campaign, veteran scrum-half Luke Carter says the Championship lacks the star power it once had.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Otley right behind my superpower! - Green
NEARING the end of his first season at Otley, Rhys Green says his view of his ADHD has improved, seeing his condition now as a superpower.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Baxter planning for next season
ROB Baxter said Exeter’s second coaching shake-up of the season had nothing to do with the heavy Premiership Cup final defeat to Bath last Sunday.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Scotland make it a Wales treble
SCOTLAND made it three wins on the spin against Celtic rivals Wales after a nail-biting encounter.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
As a Welsh fan, I hide in my shed
AT the moment it’s not a good time to be Welsh, but living in England.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Take care of Tom, England are urged
ALEX Sanderson believes England will need to manage Tom Curry’s minutes if the flanker is to reach 100 caps.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Ambitious Porter keen to show he deserves to start
WILL Porter is dreaming of following some of his team-mates on the senior international stage. But the scrum-half admits he first needs to twist the arm of head coach Dan- ny Wilson to prove he deserves a regular Harle- quins start.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Slack Edinburgh let it slip
EDINBURGH'S play-off prospects were dealt a major blow by Alessandro Izekor's late breakaway try to move the Italians up to eighth.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
It's important to be clear and inclusive
What is your playing back- ground? I was a professional player for Orrell, Harlequins and England. I won 54 caps for England and made 281 ap- pearances for Quins.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Barnes must gain an edge to take title they crave
PROMOTION chasing Barnes are looking to create history as they arrive full throttle into the final stages of the season.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Injuries to big names won't stop us, says van Graan
JOHANN van Graan has batted away suggestions that Premiership leaders Bath will have to adapt their power-based game plan after losing Ollie Lawrence and Joe Coka nasiga to injury.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Poole at the double as Cov knock off the rust
LED by two tries from skipper Jordon Poole, rusty Coventry got their spring Championship campaign underway with a bonus point win over Cambridge.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Huge cuts tell their own story
IF the RFU finances are so robust why have 40 people been made redundant at Twickenham and why has funding for Championship clubs been cut from approx £600k to approx £150k as well as meaning-ful cuts to clubs below the championship?
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Ross is top of the Bill with a late try
BILLINGHAM secured a dramatic victory af- ter a tense and thrilling encounter.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Itoje has the respect to captain my Lions XV
THIS Lions selection is based on players who are in form and have stated their case based on the Six Nations, or those with pedigree coming back from injury, who will cause Australia the greatest problems this summer.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
This Premiership cartel is strangling our game
WELCOME to gridlock. Everything that is wrong with the English club game, and the governance of the RFU Board and its executive, was underlined on Tuesday when the joint RFU/Premiership PRB (Professional Rugby Board) succeeded in rebuilding the ring-fence around the top league cartel by denying Ealing Trailfinders - the Championship's leading club, which is odds-on to land a second successive title the right to be promoted.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
Pirates flex muscles to put Scottish on back foot
CORNISH Pirates returned to Championship action with a Friday night feast of tries to see them to their seventh league triumph.
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March 23, 2025
The Rugby Paper
That was a step back for us, says Conway
HARTPURY University strengthened their case for a top four finish with a narrow victory over Bedford Blues.
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