All posts tagged "RFU"
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoHunslet become dual-code outfit
■ By JON NEWCOMBE A DUAL-CODE rugby club is set to return to the Rugby League heartland of Leeds, with Jason...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoHalliday calls for clarity on Championship funding issues
By NICK CAIN Championship clubs are calling for the funding issues surrounding next season’s reintroduction of promotion-relegation to be ratified urgently....
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Columnists
/ 2 years agoRFU still has urgent questions to answer
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK The biggest story of the season in the domestic game in England came...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoJeff’s right about game’s direction
I AGREE totally with Jeff Probyn’s column (June 23) “heading in different directions”. How disappointing that the only minor “give-away” by...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoJack’s philosophy? Win today, win tomorrow…
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Of all the enduring memories from Jack Rowell’s tumultuous time in charge of...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoDangers of brain trauma not new
The perceived wisdom is that rugby was not overly aware of the dangers of concussion and brain trauma back in the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoScratch XV that downed Boks
Brendan Gallagher was at Sixways when a National League One team caused a big upset - here he looks back to the...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoBoden is happy to take on Coventry challenge
By JON NEWCOMBE STEVE Boden is enjoying being back in rugby in a more hands on coaching role in an environment...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoIt’s just a question of standards
IT has almost gone under the radar that Tom Ilube’s recent bid to secure a new three-year term as RFU Board...
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Features
/ 2 years agoGolden oldies who had speed to burn
Rob Cole looks back at rugby players like Ken Jones and Jack Gregory who enjoyed success at the Olympic Games... It's...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoI’d love to see a proper derby
Steve Hill puts the questions to Garry Law, below, the head coach at Darlington Mowden Park RFC Why did you get...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoHonesty is best policy, says Old Reds’ Cox
Coach to Coach Steve Hill puts the questions to Dan Cox, below, head coach at Bristol-based club Old Redcliffians Why did...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoWe’re all heading in different directions
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Sunday Mixed signals: The Championship is being seen as development tool –...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoAn explosion of young talent…
BRENDAN GALLAGHER LOOKS BACK AT THE 1974 ENGLAND SCHOOLS TEAM’S TOUR OF AUSTRALIA Over the coming weeks, Brendan Gallagher will be...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoDeadlock broken as promotion restored
By NICK CAIN Promotion and relegation between the Premiership and Championship has been restored from next season after the Championship clubs...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoCov’s chief: We’ll drop to Nat leagues
By LUKE JARMYN Coventry chief executive Nick Johnston says the Championship club remains prepared to drop down to the national leagues...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoWebber to run the Hounds
By JON NEWCOMBE Former England hooker Rob Webber has been appointed interim head coach of Chicago Hounds for the remainder of...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoReturn of relegation is reason to cheer
NICK CAIN The restoration of promotion and relegation, which this column has advocated non-stop since the RFU’s ring-fence moratorium in 2021,...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoI think RFU will bow to Prem clubs
LETTERS SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@ therugbypaper.co.uk ON Friday...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoTeam Brittany show what might have happened in Cornwall
RUGBY MATTERS GO west young man. The phrase, attributed to American newspaper editor Horace Greeley, became a byword for the expansion...
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Bill Beaumont Cup
/ 2 years agoKent hold on to take honours in thriller
Men’s Division 1 Kent …………………. 31pts Tries: Denham 48, Jones 50, 65 Conversions: Evans 49, 51, 66 Penalties: Evans 5, 36,...
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Features
/ 2 years agoPirates were one hell of a club to be at for so long
Feature MARLEN WALKER THE NOW-RETIRED CORNISH PIRATES PROP MY LIFE IN RUGBY Beating Saracens when we hadn’t played for almost a...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoRFU opens books to Team England Rugby as player contract talks reach key stage
The Rugby Football Union has opened up its books to Team England Rugby Ltd as talks over future player contracts reach...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoChampionship clubs seeking more talks
Championship clubs have called for more talks with the RFU and claim they face being pushed into bankruptcy unless they receive...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoHampson can keep on playing and coaching
By JON NEWCOMBE Craig Hampson has come to an agreement that will allow him to continue playing with Ealing Trailfinders while...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoConnection to the elite is missing
In last week’s paper, Nick Cain raised issues for Premiership clubs and their acolytes at the RFU to ponder. He asks...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoBorthwick needs a clear direction
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK The fog around England’s take-off as an attacking force in the latter stages...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoRFU Council must halt PGP or face turmoil
GET ready for a fracture in the English club game resulting in months of strife if the RFU Board’s attempt to...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoTime for Borthwick to stamp his mark
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME It's been well worth waiting until the end of the season to...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 2 years agoBristol’s rise built on solid team values
Steve Hill puts the questions to former hooker Dave Ward, the head coach at Bristol Bears Women Why did you get into...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 2 years agoTwickenham security ‘all over’ any attempted protests at Premiership final
Premiership Rugby has been assured that security at Twickenham is “all over” any potential repeat of last year’s protests when Northampton...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoMcCaw’s vision for harmony
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK If the current power struggle in New Zealand rugby intensifies, with the NZRPA...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 2 years agoOnly one full house in ‘greatest season’ finale
NICK CAIN Here's something for the RFU mandarins and Premiership owners who are hell-bent on keeping England’s top league ring-fenced to...
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National Leagues
/ 2 years agoFind a style of play you believe in
Steve Hill talks to Peter Evans, below, the player/head coach at Billingham RFC who have just finished their first season at...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoDowson’s right, let’s be more like French
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME In agreement: Mark McCall and, right, Phil Dowson PICTURES: Getty Images IT...
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Club Rugby
/ 2 years agoLoney fears for future of the County Champs
By LUKE JARMYN Lancashire boss Alex Loney is fired up for next weekend’s must-win ‘War of the Roses’ against Yorkshire and...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoConcern over refereeing
By BEN JAYCOCK Chester fourth official Martin Buck was part of the elite refereeing group between 2007-12 and believes the standards...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoThere’s too much dangerous play around the ruck
AS a long-standing player and supporter of local rugby I feel like tearing my hair out when I see or hear...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoI think RFU could have opinions, too
SO the Premiership name might have to go. Premiership Rugby now have a new “chief growth officer” called Rob Calder who...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 years agoTalk of jeopardy is wide of the mark
THINKING ALLOWED It happened during the early stages of the 2003 World Cup in Australia, when two of the union game’s...
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National Leagues
/ 2 years agoToo many law changes-just let players play
Steve Hill puts the questions to James Shanahan, the head coach of Blackheath RFC and Cambridge University Why did you get...
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Features
/ 2 years agoFormer RFU supremo Morgan dies aged 88
FORMER England No.8, selector and RFU president Derek Morgan died on Friday at the age of 88. He played nine Tests...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoCattle prods for a proper pathway
By LUKE JARMYN Cornish Pirates’ coach Gavin Cattle believes this season’s success for the Penzance-based club is a clear indicator that...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoTop flight losing its soul, and integrity
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK GLOUCESTER’S 90-0 capitulation to Northampton at Franklin’s Gardens last weekend reflected all that...
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Club Rugby
/ 2 years agoI put everything into coaching, emotion is key
Steve Hill puts the questions to Pete Davies head coach of Oxford Harlequins who have just been promoted to Level 4 Why...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 2 years agoA thrilling ride but now it’s time to call it a day
MY LIFE IN RUGBY CHARLIE BECKETT - THE DONCASTER AND FORMER LEICESTER, LONDON WELSH, GLOUCESTER, JERSEY, AMPTHILL AND EASTWOOD SECOND ROW...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoI’m still supporter of relegation – Diamond
By PAUL REES Newcastle may be adrift at the bottom of the Premiership but Steve Diamond remains an advocate for promotion...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoWarning for Vunipola but Sarries carry on as usual
By BEN JAYCOCK BILLY Vunipola put his club Saracens through a PR disaster when he was arrested in Mallorca but director...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoFocus on aspiration
THE Championship clubs deserve far more than they are getting in terms of RFU funding and access to the top flight....
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoTime to put an end to marquee players
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK ARE marquee players, or coaches, worth it, or are they just a Premiership...
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