The Rugby Paper Magazine - July 07, 2024

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July 07, 2024

Halliday calls for clarity on Championship funding issues

CHAMPIONSHIP clubs are calling for the funding issues surrounding next season’s reintroduction of promotion-relegation to be ratified urgently.

1 min

George: Keep the faith

ENGLAND skipper Jamie George told his side to keep the faith after their agonising 16-15 defeat to New Zealand continued their drought down under.

3 mins

Smith is enjoying the life of a tourist

MARCUS Smith has been throwing himself into touring life down under as he makes the most of the current trip to Japan and New Zealand.

3 mins

England go close but All Blacks have enough to take honours

ENGLAND may have rattled and rolled New Zealand at times in Dunedin yesterday, but it was still a case of so near, yet so far, for Steve Borthwick’s new-model side in a pulsating opening Test in which both teams scored two tries and the lead changed hands five times.

5 mins

England know this was a chance missed

AFTER Marcus Smith missed a penalty two minutes into the second half from 30 metres out and just to the left of the posts, the outside-half cursed himself with a two-word phrase that England supporters watching at the ground and at home would have struggled to top in terms of bad language.

4 mins

Towering talent who took Bath to the top

JACK Rowell’s contribution to Bath rugby was immeasurable from the beginning when he arrived at The Rec as coach in 1978 to his departure in 1994, when he took over as England coach, winning a Five Nations Grand Slam in 1995.

5 mins

RFU still has urgent questions to answer

THE biggest story of the season in the domestic game in England came three weeks ago when the Championship clubs defeated RFU/ Premiership attempts to enshrine the ring-fencing of the top league.

4 mins

The scrum has decided the last two World Cups

Ben Jaycock speaks to Northampton scrum coach Matt Fergurson about their victorious Premiership campaign and the game's issues around the set-piece

6 mins

New-look England put Fiji to the sword

DESPITE making 13 changes to their starting XV, England secured a second victory in a row by dismantling Fiji.

3 mins

Playing high stakes game to stay alive

WE’RE coming off the back of another good win against Fiji this week and one of the key messages was ‘staying alive’ and ‘expecting the unexpected’.

3 mins

YOUNG GUNS

CHARLIEMYALL LEICESTER & ENGLAND U20 CENTRE

2 mins

'It's about being the best player you can be'

PAUL REES FINDS OUT WHAT DRIVES NEW TIGERS COACH MICHAEL CHEIKA AND WHAT HE PLANS TO DO AT WELFORD ROAD

8 mins

Three hat-tricks for the Baa-Baas was a peak

THE FORMER SCOTLAND, BARBARIANS & GLASGOW WING

5 mins

Borthwick happy to go back for future

SO IT looks like Steve Borthwick has learned a lesson and decided what many thought was perhaps a step too far for the England coach to make.

4 mins

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The Rugby Paper, the UK's number 1 selling rugby title, brings you exclusive stories, reports and features on your device, published in exceptional clarity. It contains renowned journalists such as Nick Cain and Peter Jackson, and famous former players as columnists including Jeremy Guscott and Jeff Probyn. Published every Sunday, The Rugby Paper covers Rugby Union from national teams and Premiership / Rabo Direct down to grass roots.