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Tolutau Koula finished off one of the tries of the season which proved to win the game for Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles over Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs.

Tiger Brown enjoys his return to Portugal ■ By ADAM HATHAWAY MIKE Brown’s 21st pre-season came with an added sense of déjà vu as he […] The post This time, Brown's trip ends in smiles appeared first on The Rugby ...

■ By WILLIAM GUPWELL Flyer: Abby Dow beats Katelyn Vahaakolo to score for England PICTURES: Getty Images ENGLAND women’s head coach John Mitchell says his […] The post England show who's No.1 appeared first on The ...

■By MARK STEVENS TOBY Booth admits telling his Ospreys players that he would be leaving at the end of the season was one of the […] The post Booth: Tough telling players I was leaving appeared first on The Rugby Pape...

■By ADAM HATHAWAY PLAYERS’ chief Christian Day predicts the new Professional Game Partnership agreement will help attract more foreign big guns to the Premiership. For […] The post Day confident new deal will attra...

■ By ROSS HEPPENSTALL WINNING a maiden England Test cap to top the best season of his career will not be enough for Sale winger […] The post Roebuck targets England success appeared first on The Rugby Paper.

■ By JON NEWCOMBE BATH head of rugby Johann van Graan has confirmed that the club won’t be hiring a new kicking coach to replace […] The post Bath will not bring in replacement for kicking ace Callard appeared firs...

■ By JAMES ORPIN HARLEQUINS attack coach Nick Evans is confident his squad of young prospects can rise to the challenge of filling the sizeable […] The post Halfpenny will be great for young guys -Evans appeared firs...

■ By PAUL REES GLOUCESTER won their first trophy for nine years last season and reached the Challenge Cup final, but when George Skivington went […] The post Skivington keen to build identity appeared first on The Ru...

RICH VASEY, THE CALDY BACKS/ATTACK COACH AND FORMER FLY-HALF CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST... 1. Mike MacDonald – Played at […] The post DREAM TEAM appeared first on The Rugby Paper.

THANK you to Tracey Turner for the lengthy appraisal of the challenges facing English rugby and the suggested solutions. Thank you, too, to The Rugby […] The post We must work on attracting more people into the game ap...

WHILST having some sympathy with both Cambridge and Chinnor, newly promoted to the RFU Championship I feel I must take issue with Paul Sheenan who […] The post Prem Cup better with 20 teams appeared first on The Rugby ...

I COULDN’T agree more with Brendan Gallagher’s suggestion that we must stop indulging the All Blacks and their haka. He missed a couple of points […] The post Quite right, Brendan, don't indulge ABs appeared first ...

RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER High point: England beating Ireland in Six Nations and, inset, Steve Borthwick PICTURES: […] The post Time for Borthwick to prove his worth a...

HAVE Septembers gone rogue although possibly not in the way anticipated by the doomsters proclaiming terminal global warming and the end of civilisation as we […] The post Sunny Septembers seem nothing but a distant me...

■ By SAM JACKSON Saracens ..........40pts Tries: Dan 10, Willis 24, Onyeama-Christie 38, 70; Burke 43, Adejimi 65 Conversions: Burke 11, 25, Burke 39, 44; […] The post New man at No.10 Burke gets Sarries running free...

■By TOM RILEY Coventry .......... 45pts Tries: Anstey 17, Ball 21, Nairau 28, Kvesic 34, Ma’asi 37, Opoku 76, Lane 80 Conversions: Mannion 17, 21, […] The post Nairau leads the charge in Coventry's power pack appea...

■ By BEN JAYCOCK Northampton................. 36pts Tries: Furbank 4, 14; Smith 26, Dingwall 34, Savala 44, Haffar 52 Conversions: Smith 4, 34, Savala 44 Bedford […] The post Furbank at the double as England lads ret...

■ By MARK STEVENS Exeter .............. 31pts Tries: Vermeulen 5, Feyi-Waboso 43, Brown-Bampoe 64, Woodburn 71, Dunne 73 Conversions: Hodge 6, 44, 69 Ulster ............... […] The post Exeter pass test but still wor...

■ By JAMES ORPIN Ealing T .............62pts Tries: Bird-Tulloch 15, Hampson 32, 48; Terry 38, 41; Ehizode 50, Newman 54, Collins 64, Gwynn 70, Shaw […] The post Ealing show champion pedigree in second half appeared ...

■ By JOHN WILKINS Benetton...........14pts Tries: Lynagh 52, Izekor 78 Conversions: Marin 53, 79 Harlequins .......19pts Tries: Els 7, Jibulu 35, Cleaves 62 Conversions: J […] The post Speedster Cleaves finishes the ...

■ By ROGER PANTING Bath .................................... 26pts Tries: Muir 14, Hill 56, Annett 64, Pepper 71 Conversions: Russell 56, Harris 64, 71 Penalties: L Evans […] The post Rusty Bath get in flow with thre...