4+ hour, 1+ min ago  (209+ words) Champ final is too tight to call " it should be a cracker! The Rugby Paper IT'S difficult to think of a more satisfying conclusion to a stellar season of Champ Rugby than this afternoon's clash between Bedford Blues and Worcester…...

4+ hour ago  (51+ words) The Rugby Paper Having reached the play-offs for the first time, they took an early lead through a breakaway score from full-back Cam Winnett and then, after trailing 21-7 at the break, they cut the deficit to just five points through…...

4+ hour ago  (107+ words) The Rugby Paper GEORGE Furbank scored a last-minute try to defeat Gloucester and secure Northampton Saints home advantage in the Prem semi-finals " By GARY FITZGERALD League leaders Saints " who had already secured a play-off spot " were made to sweat in…...

4+ hour ago  (165+ words) FIRST team backs Gareth Simpson, Louie Johnson and Sam Spink will all leave Saracens at the end of the season. Scrum-half Simpson, 28, below, made 48 appearances for Sarries, including six this season in the Prem Cup and three in the Prem…...

4+ hour, 1+ min ago  (95+ words) The Rugby Paper Ben Jaycock canvassed the views of The Rugby Paper's Champ reporters to select the 2025/26 Team of the Season Tobi Wilson Dean Adamson Morgan Passman Rory Scannell Kyle Whyte Scott Buckley Alfie Petch Josh Caulfield EALING Trailfinders again…...

4+ hour ago  (104+ words) The Rugby Paper By DAVID EVANS DEFENDING champions Leinster bounced back from their Champions Cup final thrashing by Bordeaux with a comfortable win in Dublin It was always going to be a tough ask for the Lions who had not…...

4+ hour, 1+ min ago  (98+ words) The Rugby Paper CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED THERESA May " remember her? " had an awful lot to say about Brexit, social care and the knightly credentials of Geoffrey Boycott, but on the subject of rugby she was as quiet as a…...

4+ hour ago  (99+ words) The Rugby Paper " By SIMON CASEY MUNSTER'S title challenge came to a bruising end as last season's finalists Bulls powered to victory in Pretoria The defeat brings the curtain down on a campaign head coach Clayton Mc Millan described as…...

4+ hour, 1+ min ago  (299+ words) The Rugby Paper RUGBY MATTERS THE European finals in sweltering Bilbao proved to be a humbling weekend for Irish sides with both Ulster and Leinster taking a hiding against Top 14 opponents and predictably those brutal defeats resulted in renewed claims…...

4+ hour, 1+ min ago  (111+ words) The Rugby Paper Preview " By BEN JAYCOCK LOUGHBOROUGH Lightning's play-off hopes will go on the line when they host Saracens in their final PWR fixture of the regular season Nathan Smith's side remain in the hunt for a top-four finish…...