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PAUL REES ASSESSES THE CHALLENGES AHEAD FACING STEVE DIAMOND, THE MAN AT THE TOP AT KINGSTON PARK IT SEEMED that the only way for Newcastle […] The post Diamond must find gems for Newcastle appeared first on The Rugby ...

By ADAM HATHAWAY in Japan ENGLAND head coach Steve Borthwick warned his side to be squeaky clean in New Zealand after a disciplinary horror show […] The post Borthwick: We must improve discipline appeared first on The ...

By SAM JACKSON LEICESTER are reported to be in talks with former Australia coach Michael Cheika after they announced the sacking of head coach Dan […] The post Shock as McKellar quits appeared first on The Rugby Paper.

By JON NEWCOMBE Dismayed: Mark Evans MARK EVANS has taken a swipe at Top 14 and Premiership clubs for having double standards over inter national […] The post Evans unhappy with player release options appeared first on...

By ADAM HATHAWAY OLLIE Lawrence revealed England’s current tour of Japan and New Zealand is the perfect tonic for his Premiership hangover. The Bath centre […] The post Lawrence ready for All Black challenge appeared...

By GARY FITZGERALD Star: Fergus Burke in action for the CrusadersSLIPPING into the boots of a departed club and England legend would fill most young […] The post Burke keen to step out of Farrell's shadow at Sarries ap...

By ADAM HATHAWAY in Japan Japan.................................. 17pts Tries: Nezuka 66, Tua 69 Conversions: Matsuda 67, 70 Penalties: Seungsin-Lee 2 England ............................. 52pts Tries: Cunningham-South 1...

PAUL REES EDDIE Jones praised Japan’s improvement in the set-pieces, and a 100 per cent record tended to back him up. But the lineout was […] The post Borthwick's England are on the right track appeared first on The ...

By PAUL REES Fiji ...................... 32pts Tries: Momo 22, 26, 54, Valetini 61 Conversions: Muntz 23, 27, Valetini 62 Penalties: Muntz 40, Valetini 66 Barbarians […] The post Classy May enjoys his day in the sun ap...

WELSH head coach Warren Gatland was still upbeat about his side’s performance after their defeat to the current wold champions. Wales were hit by two […] The post Gatland: I saw lots of positives out there appeared f...

PETER JACKSON Powerhouse: Dewi Lake, left, bursts over for Wales and Mason Grady, right PICTURES: Getty Images THE sixth best team in Europe against the […] The post Lake gives body and soul to lift Wales appeared firs...

CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED MARTIN Johnson spent a rugby eternity perfecting his survival skills in the engine room of the scrum – the nearest thing […] The post Why less might not be more for stars appeared first ...

ZACH Mercer did not return to England with the intention of not playing for England, any more than this columnist expected to write so many […] The post Mercer merited a place on tour appeared first on The Rugby Paper.

GLASGOW head coach and ex-Bulls playmaker Franco Smith stated he wouldn’t renegade on his “promise to have a cigar and a wee dram of whisky […] The post Smith: I'll celebrate with a whisky appeared first on The Rug...

■By MARK STEVENS Gloucester-Hartpury.... 36pts Bristol Bears ................... 24pts Tries: Hunt 25, Hendy 54, Sing 58, Venner 62, Jones 68 Conversions: Sing 26, 55, 59, […] The post Sing is on song for a double tr...

BRISTOL Bears head coach Dave Ward refused to be too downbeat despite seeing his side’s slip to defeat in their first-ever Premiership Women’s Rugby final. […] The post This will be tricky to take – Ward appeared...

By LUKE JARMYN Blues...................................41pts Chiefs .................................10pts Tries: A Ioane 12, Clarke 21, 50, 61, Lam 72 Conversions: Plummer 13, 22, 51, 62, 73 Penalties: Plummer […] The...

NATHAN BONNER-EVANS, THE FORMER WALES A, NEATH, SWANSEA, OSPREYS, SALE SHARKS AND LONDON WELSH BACK-ROW FORWARD, CHOOSES HIS BEST XV FROM PLAYERS HE HAS PLAYED […] The post DREAM TEAM appeared first on The Rugby Paper.

PETER JACKSON Rising high: Peter O’Mahony, left, competes at the lineout with Eben Etzebeth PICTURE: Getty Images EBEN Etzebeth has never been one to throw […] The post Etzebeth puts it on the line appeared first on ...

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW TWENTY years ago this very week on the banks of the Clyde, New Zealand won the Junior […] The post SpongeBob glad of his place in the Oldies XV appeared first on The Rugby Paper.

PAUL REES SAYS IRELAND’S TWO-TEST SHOWDOWN IN SOUTH AFRICA WILL BE THE REAL THINGAND NOT A FUND-RAISER THE pick of the summer series pitches the […] The post When two tribes go to war appeared first on The Rugby Pape...

MY LIFEIN RUGBYIAN DAVEY THE FORMER BATH, BEDFORD, EL SALVADOR AND PERTEMPS BEES WINGER WHEN I was 16, in my first season for Colston’s, I […] The post I was offered a NFL trial but it was too big a risk appeared fir...