The Rugby Paper - August 25, 2024

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August 25, 2024

Blow for England as Jones quits

BACK-TO-BACK World Cup-winning defence coach Felix Jones has left his role with England after sources revealed he was unsettled by an unstable working environment.

1 min

PGP deal is looking good for all - Baxter

EXETER Chiefs director of rugby Rob Baxter remains hopeful that plans being drawn up as part of the new Professional Game Partnership between the RFU and Premiership Rugby will ultimately prove fruitful for all sides.

3 mins

It's going to be a thriller van Graan

JOHANN van Graan is predicting a Gallagher Premiership 2024/25 season to set pulses racing.

2 mins

Playing in Cardiff will help us - Lam

PAT Lam has told Bristol supporters who are unhappy next season’s home Premiership fixture against Bath has been moved to Cardiff’s Principality Stadium that they should remember what happened to Worcester, Wasps and London Irish.

3 mins

Revived Genge is raring to go

ELLIS Genge spent a rare summer off fishing and intends to make a ‘turbot’ charged start to the coming campaign after missing out on England’s summer tour to New Zealand because of a calf injury sustained in Bristol’s final match of the season.

4 mins

Move to Glasgow suits Schickerling

IT wasn't all that long ago that Patrick Schickerling was being ear-marked as a potential England bolter, a player who was set for an exciting and dazzling career on the international stage.

2 mins

Rosslyn Park show Barnes how it's done

NATIONAL One Rosslyn Park illustrated their league superiority by dispatching their London rivals Barnes 52-12.

4 mins

Ospreys are improving every season - Booth

TOBY Booth has his eyes on a prize for his ever-improving Ospreys this season and if he achieves his ambitious goal it will scratch an itch that has been with him for almost 20 years.

3 mins

Robertson needs to redress the balance

IT WAS a cheap shot, admittedly, but only a pacifist or a fool would spurn the opportunity to kick the New Zealanders when they're down. \"What's the difference between the All Blacks and an arsonist?\" your columnist asked a radio host during a breakfast broadcast in 1998, eventually breaking an unnervingly long silence with the punchline: \"No arsonist would lose his last five matches.\"

3 mins

Boulton's respect for game he loves

COLIN Boulton of Derby County stands astride the Himalayan peaks of Football League champions, the only uncapped goalkeeper to have been a permanent fixture throughout two triumphant campaigns.

5 mins

Six-try Fiji prove too strong for Samoa

FIJI started their bid for a sixth Pacific Nations Cup title with a 42-16, six-try win over arch rivals Samoa in Suva on Friday

1 min

James will prove to be a star at Racing

HERE'S a little prediction that will either leave me with egg on my face or looking like Nostradamus come next June.

3 mins

Rae: Good to see promotion back

WITH promotion a realistic possibility for Championship clubs heading into the new season it has created renewed excitement levels across the league.

2 mins

BBC will be covering all 32 World Cup games

WORLD Rugby CEO Alan Gilpin believes a groundbreaking partnership with the BBC will ensure a 'generational moment' for women's rugby is seized at next summer's World Cup.

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