All posts tagged "RFU"
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Letters
/ 2 years agoTime to rebuild RFU for the good of all
DURING my early 20s I played for an East Midlands club in Level 9. It was a great experience for a...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoSorry Chris, but we’re heading up another cul-de-sac
I KNOW it has been the season of goodwill, but Chris Hewett’s comment that the RFU is pointing in the right...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoPitfalls ahead for England’s new management company
AN England player group taking over the squad negotiations on remuneration – whether from RFU hybrid contracts, match fees, or sponsorship...
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Features
/ 2 years agoCall for more diversity among referees
Jon Newcombe talks to high-level ex-ref David Rose On Boxing Day, Sam Allison became the first black referee to take charge...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoSet-piece domination still the key to victory
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME I always try to be honest in what I write, but I...
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Club Rugby
/ 2 years agoRegional results
Results and tables supplied by the RFU ... Continue reading... Access all our premium content from as little as 14p per...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoHalliday: No way we can agree RFU deal
By NICK CAIN Simon Halliday has condemned the threat by RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney to relegate the 11 Championship clubs...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoRae: Championship has much to offer
By JON NEWCOMBE Coventry head coach Alex Rae has launched a staunch defence of the Championship in the wake of Bill...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoRFU has utterly failed to bring the game together
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK HERE’S wishing The Rugby Paper’s loyal readers, and fans of the game everywhere,...
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Paul Rees
/ 2 years agoReasons to be cheerful for rugby’s year ahead
Paul Rees canvasses the views of Premiership directors of rugby and finds there is a fair amount of optimism IT IS...
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Chris Hewett
/ 2 years agoAt last we are going in right direction
It is always easier to bury English rugby’s alleged leaders than to praise them, but it would run counter to the...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoWe need ‘whole game solution’
IT is significant that the latest statement by the Championship clubs, seeking to protect their position in the English rugby hierarchy,...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoCounty champs should return
BEN Coneybeare describes the ‘scintillating atmosphere’ at the recent Redruth versus Camborne Cornish derby in front of over 3,000 fans. Thanks...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoTV deal for Tier Two
WITH Coventry attracting a record crowd of 5,047 to Butts Park Arena for the Boxing Day clash with Nottingham, Ampthill RFC...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoTalented players will still miss out
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME With the start of a new year, it’s the beginning of a...
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Coach to Coach
/ 2 years agoCoach to Coach with Martin Webdale
Former Richmond director of rugby Steve Hill, below, talks to Martin Webdale, the head coach at Loughborough University, above Steve Hill:...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoAgree new PGP deal quickly, urge DoRs
By PAUL REES Premiership clubs expect the details of the new Professional Game Partnership (PGP) with the RFU to be agreed...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoEaster urges RFU not to divide National One
By LUKE JARMYN Nick Easter fears that RFU plans to split National One in two, with a north and south divide,...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoSweeney’s words causing deep anger
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK There is something radically wrong when the chief executive of the RFU –...
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Features
/ 2 years agoBeing called to the bar was my proudest day
MY LIFEIN RUGBY THE FORMER WORCESTER AND HARLEQUINS SECOND ROW TURNED NFL PLAYER CHRISTIAN SCOTLAND-WILLIAMSON Crashing home: Scotland-Williamson scoring for Worcester...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoTime of goodwill to all (well, nearly all)
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER hands out his Christmas goodies... HO HO HO. I’m normally more of a scrooge than a Santa...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoSupport the survivors, not fallen
WHAT would be the point of resurrecting London Irish and Wasps? Wasps were never financially viable at High Wycombe or in...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoSecrets of learning about the dark arts
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME LAST week’s paper, and in particular Nick Cain’s article, put a smile...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoFears ‘it will take years’ to sort sport out
By LUKE JARMYN Hartpury University’s senior coaches believe it will take several years before English Rugby’s landscape across the Premiership and...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoWinterbottom: New tackle law ‘unhelpful’
By MATTHEW LUDDINGTON Peter Winterbottom believes that the RFU’s new tackle height laws are pointless because community rugby never had a...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 2 years agoHenry’s French leave won’t hold him back
JEREMY GUSCOTT IT’S time for the RFU/Premiership to wake up and go, ‘Wow, what’s wrong with us that a young player...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoHunt is on for next generation of props
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Five years ago there was a scrum feature in The Rugby Paper which...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoSo-called ‘partners’ deserve justice
NICK CAIN One of the most incomprehensible aspects of this season is that the PGP (Professional Game Partnership) is missing one...
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Features
/ 2 years agoSetting the agenda for rugby
Paul Rees looks ahead to the issues that will be addressed in this week's meeting of the Premiership's top men The...
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Champions Cup
/ 2 years agoRyan has to wise up and show respect
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Maybe one day James Ryan will find it in him to send a...
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Premiership Women's Rugby
/ 2 years agoLetters
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon, SW19 4EU email: newsdesk @therugbypaper.co.uk ABC is not...
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Coach to Coach
/ 2 years agoCoach to Coach with Richie Williams
Former Richmond director of rugby Steve Hill talks to Cambridge director of rugby Richie Williams Steve Hill: How and why did...
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Challenge Cup
/ 2 years agoSocial media can hurt even the best
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Last weekend saw some of the best rugby we have seen this...
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Club Rugby
/ 2 years agoRegional results
Results and tables supplied by the RFU ... Continue reading... Access all our premium content from as little as 14p per...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoBaron: RFU heading for £59m loss this year
Baron accuses RFU of ‘deliberate obfuscation’ By NICK CAIN Francis Baron has accused the RFU hierarchy of publishing misleading interpretations of...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoWilliams: I’d back call to get rid of Sweeney
By LUKE JARMYN The Championship’s joint top try scorer David Williams has called for Sport England or another organisation to get...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years ago£750,000 payoff for Jones just staggering
We have now discovered that Eddie Jones was almost certainly paid the equivalent of a full year’s £750,000 salary in a...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoRocketing ticket prices proving tough on fans
Assistant Editor Ben Jaycock surveys the top two divisions to find out which clubs charge the most - and where you...
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Features
/ 2 years agoWe need the game to be more exciting
Former RFU President Bob Reeves on how to solve rugby’s problems WHAT game do we want? If we asked, ‘what game...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoToxic social media
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk THE recent decision by...
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Coach to Coach
/ 2 years agoCoach to Coach with Paul Morris
Former Richmond director of rugby Steve Hill talks to Cinderford director of rugby Paul Morris Steve Hill: How and why did...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoIs promotion to Championship far too big a gamble to take?
By BEN JAYCOCK Blackheath have aspirations to go as far as they can in the rugby pyramid, but head coach James...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoExtreme views we can do without
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME I can't help but wonder what is happening to this game of...
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Club Rugby
/ 2 years agoRegional results
Results and tables supplied by the RFU ... Continue reading... Access all our premium content from as little as 14p per...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoVickery & Regan named in lawsuit
Two of England’s 2003 World Cup winners, Phil Vickery and Mark Regan, are among the 295 players taking legal action against...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoPirates rule out move for new Truro stadium
By SAM JACKSON Cornish Pirates have sold Truro City FC to the Canadian sports consortium that owns Cornwall Rugby League FC,...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoLawes delays decision on his future until Six Nations
By JON NEWCOMBE Courtney Lawes will make a decision on his Northampton future during the Six Nations window in February. Lawes...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoTop flight bosses demand answers
Premiership bosses are set to attend a Christmas crisis summit meeting after growing restless that there is no clear direction over...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoItoje is the best man to captain England
NICK CAIN - READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Maro Itoje should be England’s next captain following Owen Farrell’s decision to...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoGame is bigger than RFU Board and Premiership
THE more I learn of the dire situation English rugby finds itself in, the more I worry that our government is...












