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Put differences aside to rebuild the Premiership

The RFU have announced that for the Championship and below, the final league tables will be decided on a best playing record formula, meaning that Newcastle will, surprise, surprise, be promoted back to the Premiership, replacing Saracens.

Now is time to change our pyramid structure

AS EVER just read my TRP cover to cover and now with the RFU having announced how teams this season will be promoted and relegated as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, timing is good to consider league structure at Levels 1 to 4.

Marquee players could take bigger hit

A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME

Loyalty of Jackson is a beacon for rugby

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST

Inverdale's demand for grassroots shake-up

JOHN Inverdale has called for a root and branch review of how community rugby operates amid the wreckage of the coronavirus crisis.

Exiles aim to build on Welsh legacy

Steffan Thomas finds out London Welsh have gone back to their roots to mount a recovery

Adam powers up the Quins program

Colin Boag talks to Britain’s strongest man, Harlequins S&C coach Adam Bishop.

Bath Stars In Revolt Over Their Pay-Cuts

Bath players have demanded showdown talks with the club in a bid to overturn a decision to impose a 25 per cent pay cut on them due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Shock and awe as 747 swoops on Ellis Park

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of Rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful

We must go down,reprieve would cause bitterness

ALEX Sanderson says Saracens are going through the season from hell, in which the inferno engulfing the club has come in waves, but that they will endure the heat and forge a new destiny.

These RFU pay-cuts should be permanent

THE decision by Eddie Jones to follow Bill Sweeney and the rest of the RFU’s top tier executives in taking a 25 per cent pay cut to his estimated £750,000 annual salary is welcome news.

Rugby tours the world but at home there is North v South open revolt

Brendan Gallagher contiues his expert and authorative look at the history of Rugby Union

Lions must be ready, these Boks will only get better

THE 2021 Lions tour of South Africa will be harder to win than the one I was on in 1997 because at five weeks, and eight matches, it is a much shorter tour.

Burke came close but my record still stands!

EVERYONE needs opportunities to get on in life, whether it’s through good luck, good timing or someone else’s misfortune, and I am thankful to the ones that have come my way.

Basham leads charge for Wales' next generation

In Wales we never seem to have a problem in bringing through young players and right now it appears to be the back row which is the hottest area of the production line.

Why have flying 10s like Carter all disappeared?

The most exciting midfield in this season’s Six Nations, at least in prospect, was the French. When their side was announced to play England my first thought was that a 10-12-13 combination of Romain Ntamack, Virimi Vakatawa and Gael Fickou was a mouthwatering trio.

Wales face ace Tomas staying at the Chiefs

WALES prop Tom Francis fears coronavirus will force him into choosing between club and country.

Te'o's season ends at Exiles before it starts

HAVING represented his country at fullback, on the wing, at scrum-half and even hooker, as well as playing Sevens, Mike Te’o would be happy to play in any position on any field right now.

On the blind side : Lozowski opts to join Toulouse

SARACENS back Alex Lozowski is heading to play in France next season after agreeing to a one-year contract with Toulouse.

Griffiths pledges to save Championship

EDWARD Griffiths, the former chief executive of Saracens, is confident he can chart a way forward for Championship clubs worried about their future.

Willis stakes his claim for England honours

WASPS turnover king Jack Willis says he is doing everything in his power to enter the conversation around England selection for July’s tour of Japan.

Pools panel may decide final league positions

SOCCER-STYLE ‘pools panels’ could be convened to determine National League promotion and relegation issues in the increasingly likely event of the season being abandoned.

Give more credit to Academies – Wilks

INCREASING salary cap credits for homegrown players rather than ring-fencing the Premiership is the key to unlocking English rugby’s talent pathway, says Leicester academy boss Dave Wilks.

Six Nations TV Sell-Out Brings Rage On Twitter

The Rugby Paper’s front page revelation about the Six Nations’ imminent danger of disappearing from free-to-air television prompted a volcanic reaction. The eruptions went on for days on end.

It Just Makes You Regret That Display In Paris

Jeremy Guscott outspoken and unmissable... Every week

It's no joke! Alun Wyn wants Joe on carpet

ALUN Wyn Jones demanded disciplinary action against England’s Joe Marler last night for grabbing him painfully by the testicles during Wales’ defeat at Twickenham.

The Pay-TV Golden Goose may be a turkey

So, the union have posted a multi-million-pound loss and expect to make another next year, while admitting they are seeing a decline in participation and will need a major restructuring in how the game is run.

Eight-try Chiefs show their attacking edge

EXETER belied the often-peddled but mistaken belief that they are a forward-oriented outfit who grind sides down as their all-singing, all-dancing eight-try display ran Bath ragged.