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University rugby should be part of RFU pathway

18 February 2024 0 comments

Coach to Coach Former Richmond director of rugby Steve Hill puts the questions to John Barnes, below, director of rugby at Hartpury RFC Why did […]

Why the RFU needs to justify its CVC payments

11 February 2024 0 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE recent observation by CVC that rugby union is too fragmented on the broadcast and commercial fronts, […]

At last! Freeman and Roots give Borthwick reasons to be cheerful

4 February 2024 0 comments

SIX NATIONS 2024 By NICK CAIN Italy………………………………. 24pts Tries: A Garbisi 11, Allan 26, Ioane 85 Conversions: Allan 13, 27; P Garbisi 86 Penalties: Allan […]

RFU double standards alive and well

4 February 2024 0 comments

Surprise, surprise, double standards are alive and well at the RFU. The latest example is the decision is to give a dispensation to Junior Kpoku, […]

Rams would be happy to play in RFU’s new Tier 2

28 January 2024 1 comment

By JON NEWCOMBE National One leaders Rams are among the clubs to have submitted an expression of interest to join the new Tier 2 League […]

‘RFU deal would cut our funds by 50%’

14 January 2024 0 comments

By JON NEWCOMBE Championship clubs would be nearly 50 per cent worse off in real terms if they agree to the Tier 2 funding model […]

RFU’s sorry failure to respond to flood

14 January 2024 0 comments

While the game in the East Midlands drowns, the RFU lifeboat is in the dry dock with the crew nowhere to be seen. If ever […]

Time to rebuild RFU for the good of all

7 January 2024 0 comments

DURING my early 20s I played for an East Midlands club in Level 9. It was a great experience for a young man making his […]

Halliday: No way we can agree RFU deal

31 December 2023 1 comment

By NICK CAIN Simon Halliday has condemned the threat by RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney to relegate the 11 Championship clubs if they fail to […]

RFU has utterly failed to bring the game together

31 December 2023 0 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK HERE’S wishing The Rugby Paper’s loyal readers, and fans of the game everywhere, a happy and healthy […]

Reasons to be cheerful for rugby’s year ahead

31 December 2023 0 comments

Paul Rees canvasses the views of Premiership directors of rugby and finds there is a fair amount of optimism IT IS another year the professional […]

Easter urges RFU not to divide National One

24 December 2023 0 comments

By LUKE JARMYN Nick Easter fears that RFU plans to split National One in two, with a north and south divide, will see it lose […]

Baron: RFU heading for £59m loss this year

10 December 2023 0 comments

Baron accuses RFU of ‘deliberate obfuscation’ By NICK CAIN Francis Baron has accused the RFU hierarchy of publishing misleading interpretations of its own financial position, […]

Pau no match for powerful Sharks

10 December 2023 0 comments

By SAM JACKSON Sharks ……….. 45 Pau ………………… 5 LUKHANYO Am and Eben Etzebeth scored two tries apiece as the Sharks launched their maiden Challenge […]

Game is bigger than RFU Board and Premiership

3 December 2023 0 comments

THE more I learn of the dire situation English rugby finds itself in, the more I worry that our government is not the only institution […]

Sweeney reports £4m profit for RFU

3 December 2023 0 comments

The RFU made a profit of £4m in 2022-23 despite three Premiership clubs and the Championship winners Jersey Reds going out of business because of […]

Hanley: RFU should go into inner cities to grow player pool

19 November 2023 0 comments

By BEN JAYCOCK Steve Hanley is urging the RFU to copy France and go into the inner cities to grow the sport’s player pool, rather […]

Humphreys to take charge at IRFU

5 November 2023 0 comments

David Humphreys has been appointed as the Irish Rugby Football Union’s new performance director. The 52-year-old succeeds Australian David Nucifora, who will leave the role […]

George urges RFU to listen to old boys

29 October 2023 0 comments

By ADAM HATHAWAY Jamie George has urged the RFU to listen to England’s seasoned internationals before rubber-stamping proposals over new playing contracts. Twickenham chiefs have […]

RFU must not hide behind English success

22 October 2023 0 comments

SO Jersey Reds have ceased trading and may very well go to the wall like the three Premiership teams, but unlike those Premiership teams many […]

Championship clubs raise RFU concerns

8 October 2023 0 comments

The Championship clubs held an emergency session on Wednesday to discuss the way ahead in the context of both the progress of the Professional Game […]

RFU must provide a pathway for everyone

8 October 2023 0 comments

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME WELL, who would have believed it? One of the best teams in the Championship calling in […]

Rae: RFU’s funding approach ‘criminal’

1 October 2023 1 comment

By LUKE JARMYN Alex Rae has labelled the RFU’s funding approach to the Championship as “criminal” after seeing his former club Jersey Reds cease trading. […]

Shame of the RFU blazers

1 October 2023 0 comments

It’s funny what tugs at your emotions and I was caught unaware last week by the traditional pre-season picture of the Premiership club skippers or […]

Pressure mounts on RFU hierarchy

24 September 2023 0 comments

By NICK CAIN The RFU Board and its administrators, chief executive Bill Sweeney and chairman Tom Ilube, have been slammed by Championship clubs for conducting […]

RFU hierarchy must address core financial issues

24 September 2023 2 comments

NICK CAIN The reaction to the landmark RFU Council letter in which 30 members have challenged the current leadership of RFU Board chairman Tom Ilube, […]

RFU face major leadership challenge

17 September 2023 1 comment

By NICK CAIN The RFU Council has challenged the leadership of the RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney and Board chairman Tom Ilube in the biggest […]

RFU will honour Watson contract

27 August 2023 0 comments

The RFU are set to continue picking up the tab for Anthony Watson despite the winger being ruled out of the World Cup with a […]

‘I’d signed for Salford day before RFU called’

27 August 2023 0 comments

My Life in Rugby with Peter Williams – The former England, Lancashire and Orrell fly-half talks about his life in the game I signed for […]

Don’t let RFU make an ass of the laws

20 August 2023 0 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE Owen Farrell disciplinary fiasco has multiple layers, but the one that looks most skewwhiff is the […]

What a mess, all RFU’s own doing

20 August 2023 0 comments

RATHER than act like gentlemen and play by the rules, England seem to think they can manipulate them for their own benefit – and not […]

We should not wait so long for RFU review

30 July 2023 0 comments

NICK CAIN IT is inconceivable that in any other era in English rugby a vote of no-confidence in the governance of the RFU Board, and […]

Here’s my plan for RFU to save money

16 July 2023 0 comments

IF the RFU and the Premiership clubs want to save money, may I offer a simple solution? Bring their teams into line with the grassroots […]

RFU needs to strike the right financial balance

2 July 2023 0 comments

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME EARLIER this week, the RFU president Nigel Gillingham, sent out a newsletter outlining many of the […]

I’d support legal case against RFU

28 May 2023 0 comments

WELL said, Mark Morgan of Jersey Reds in The Rugby Paper on May 15. “The sport is not thriving at any level” – he is […]

Masterful Skelton is the talk of the town

28 May 2023 0 comments

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST IF Simon Shaw of England was a 20-storey tower block of a lock blessed with penthouse levels of skill and self-restraint, […]

RFU must explain why they allowed Prem ring-fence

21 May 2023 0 comments

IN The Rugby Paper last Sunday, a picture alongside the National One Dream Team shows how much winning promotion means to the Cambridge players. They […]

RFU failed to enforce regulatory standards

21 May 2023 1 comment

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Nothing holds a mirror up to all that is wrong with the elite end of English rugby […]

RFU Council still does far more than most people realise

14 May 2023 0 comments

There have been a few comments in the Press lately about how some professional players seem to think that the RFU Council does nothing for […]

RFU is destroying community game

7 May 2023 1 comment

WELL another grassroots season has finally come to a shambolic end all thanks to the RFU. The leagues were changed to reduce the amount of […]

RFU should capitalise on success of Reds – Biljon

7 May 2023 0 comments

By BEN JAYCOCK Harvey Biljon fears the RFU’s strict policy on promotion may come back to haunt them as he believes they’ve missed an opportunity […]

Crisis as RFU hit by £50m bombshell

30 April 2023 2 comments

By NICK CAIN EXCLUSIVE A £50 million bombshell looks destined to sink the current RFU administration headed by chief executive Bill Sweeney and Board chairman […]

Powerful Park show champion qualities

23 April 2023 0 comments

By NICK DOYLE Otley……………….. 10pts Sedgley P……….28pts Super Sedgley Park Tigers finished off their season with another bonus-point win, although they didn’t have it all […]

RFU finds Burrell’s claims are true

9 April 2023 0 comments

An RFU investigation found Luther Burrell’s claims of racism in rugby were true, prompting the governing body to fast-track publication of a new strategy to […]

Taking the pizza! RFU is not fit for purpose

9 April 2023 0 comments

NICK CAIN At at time when the Community game in England needs all the help it can get, we are faced with one RFU fiasco […]

RFU needs to harness the top coaches

19 March 2023 0 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Why is it that England’s best coaches are currently inspiring Ireland and France, the nations that are […]

Did RFU give job to Borthwick too soon?

19 March 2023 0 comments

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME After watching a record defeat at home against a side that had struggled to hit form […]

Allowing Wasps move reflects badly on RFU

5 March 2023 0 comments

SEVERAL years ago, Wasps relocated to Coventry, thereby sabotaging any hopes which Coventry rugby club may have had about reaching the Premiership. Even if the […]

RFU in line for Chelsea bonanza

26 February 2023 0 comments

The RFU could be set for another massive cash windfall with Twickenham on the short list of potential grounds that Premier League Chelsea are looking […]