All posts tagged "RFU"
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Features
/ 5 years agoFunding grassroots should be priority
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Am I the only person who thinks it is a little hypocritical...
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Features
/ 5 years agoHaskell broke the oldest rule
Boys on tour: James Haskell, top left, with clockwise Simon Shaw, Nick Easter, Chris Ashton and Dylan Hartley in 2011. Shaw...
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Features
/ 5 years agoRed Rose Rachael in awe of visionary Sadleir
By ADAM ELLIS NEWS EXTRA RACHAEL Burford has commended World Rugby for launching their Coaching Internship Programme that has allowed Red...
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International Rugby
/ 5 years agoEngland Men’s Sevens captain Tom Mitchell agrees next move ahead of Tokyo Olympics
It's been a tricky period for players of the scrapped England Sevens programme to negotiate before Tokyo next summer
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoCain column: Why can I mingle in a shop but not at rugby?
It's time for Bill Sweeney to rattle the government's cage, writes Nick Cain
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Featured
/ 5 years agoQ&A – Mark Lavery: If we can’t have a crowd we can’t have a Championship
Neale Harvey gauges the views of Ampthill director of rugy Mark Lavery on the issues facing a league short of income
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoTransfer news: Bath’s search for a No.10 and a new job for Ed Griffiths
Bath turn long-winded search for a No.10 to Stormers fly-half Willemse
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoPlayers will go from feast to famine, says Alan Solomons
The Worcester Warriors director of rugby is envisaging development players to bear the impact of unprecedented times in rugby
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoGovernment hits pause button on return of fans to stadiums
Fears for RFU, Premiership and Championship finances as government orders matches to be played behind closed doors
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoBangor lead the way – when will RFU follow?
By JON NEWCOMBE THE long wait for community rugby to be played in the UK has finally come to an end...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoGive RFU a break, they have been hit hardest
AS a long-time public advocate for community rugby, I have often been critical of the RFU’s inability to lend greater support...
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Features
/ 5 years agoMakes no sense to relegate Saracens
COLIN BOAG Small steps forwards: Gloucester play Harlequins in front of 1,000 fans at Kingsholm Sometimes we have to push our...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoSolomons: Players will go from feast to famine
By NEALE HARVEY WORCESTER supremo Alan Solomons fears player development will be halted in its tracks unless Championship and National League...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoProbyn column: Bill Sweeney’s legacy will hinge on talks with Premiership
Sweeney's skill for collective bargaining will be his biggest test, writes Jeff Probyn
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoRugby Matters: Rosslyn Park Sevens will be even more prestigious
Brendan Gallagher views how the current health crisis is affecting schools rugby
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoBristol Bears appeal three-game ban for Siale Piutau
A hearing with an appeals panel will now take place on Thursday, as Alan Solomons offers his views on the matter
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoTwo Premiership players test positive for COVID-19
A total of seven personnel at Premiership clubs have tested positive after the latest round of screening
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Features
/ 5 years agoSweeney’s legacy will depend on Prem talks
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Rich pickings: Players are paid more to represent England than any other...
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English Championship
/ 5 years agoYorkshire Carnegie renamed and pledge to get ‘back to roots’
Carnegie will become Leeds Tykes once again, says new chairman
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoFrustrated Blackheath director of rugby James Shanahan calls for 2020-21 start
Shanahan wants the governing bodies involved in sport's return to take the brakes off rugby
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Autumn Internationals
/ 5 years agoRFU pushes to have 20,000 fans permitted to attend October clash with Barbarians
Fans wishing to buy tickets can only do so for themselves and others in their household
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoDual-role Alex Brown shares his blueprint for Gloucester success
Brown is tasked with the smooth running of the Gloucester team under its new coaching heads, while keeping things tight off...
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoBill Sweeney urged to take the axe to untouched RFU-Premiership fund
Is the RFU chief executive keeping Premiership clubs happy so they release England players this autumn?
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Miscellaneous
/ 5 years agoSweeney urged to battle the ‘fat cats’
■ By NEALE HARVEY TAKING an axe to Premiership funding would earn RFU boss Bill Sweeney applause from the community game,...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoBrown’s got blueprint for long-term success
■ By NEALE HARVEY Rookie head coach: George Skivington, left, watches on as Gloucester warm-up for the Worcester match last week...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoFrustrated Blackeath boss Shanahan calls for action
■ By WARREN MUGGLETON BLACKHEATH director of rugby James Shanahan says ‘stop messing about’ and get community rugby started again. NCA...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoSaracens prop Alec Clarey calls for return of England Students
The England Students programme is on hold while the RFU exacts cutbacks in funding
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Club Rugby
/ 5 years agoCalls for more volunteers to help maintain grassroots pitches
Time is paramount to prepare pitches at the local level for winter, says Grounds Management Association boss
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoClarey calls for return of students’ stepping stone
By NEALE HARVEY Progress: Alec Clarey SARACENS prop Alec Clarey believes the RFU must find a way of resuscitating the England...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoGrassroots need more matches to kick-start interest
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk SURELY the lower leagues,...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 5 years agoRugby Matters: England Sevens scrapping sounds alarm bell for World Sevens Series
Brendan Gallagher believes the England Sevens programme did everyything for player development, but nothing for silverware on the Sevens circuit
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoEngland Sevens flyer Dan Norton becomes latest London Irish signing
The World Sevens Series tries record-holder has been on the circuit for the past 12 years
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoSad to say but 7s had lost its way
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points Rare win: Dan Bibby celebrates with Ethan Waddleton...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoRowe: Prem clubs will not survive without fans
By NEALE HARVEY EXETER chairman Tony Rowe fears Premiership clubs may go bust by Christmas unless crowds return and income levels...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoRugby used to be for all sizes
THEgame has changed… if I had a pound for every time I’ve heard that, rich I might be. But has the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoCommunity game is sadly bottom of list
THIS week we saw the excruciating decision by the game to make every community rugby coach and regional development officer redundant....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years agoUse this dire situation to better our great game
TWELVE months ago we were poised to enjoy a groundbreaking World Cup being played in Japan away from the home of...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoToby Booth earns big endorsement from Ospreys great
Former Wales and Ospreys prop Paul James believes the region have bagged themselves a 'big asset' in new head coach Booth
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoWallace: ‘New expectations’ at Leicester Tigers under head coach Steve Borthwick
New signing Luke Wallace says Borthwick has already been inspiring the Tigers squad with a team meeting held in the stands...
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Columnists
/ 5 years agoCain column: Ed Griffiths must bin four-year promotion-relegation moratorium in proposal
The 76-page Championship revamp proposal drafted by Ed Griffiths would see promotion to the Premiership offset for four years
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 5 years agoPremiership ring-fencing inevitable says Gloucester owner Martin St Quinton
St Quinton is staunch in his belief that all 13 members of PRL should be in the Premiership
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoTigers will be fierce again under Borthwick
By NEALE HARVEY Getting up to speed: Luke Wallace training with Leicester this week BACK row warrior Luke Wallace has shone...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoBooth will be a big asset for Ospreys says James
By ALEX BYWATER All-rounder: Toby Booth coaching at Bath “CLASS ACT” Toby Booth has been backed to bring the good times...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 5 years ago‘Heartland’ has chance of success but boost to 14 teams
AS Jeff Probyn wrote last week, if Ed Griffiths' comprehensive proposals for the future of England’s second tier are to have...
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Miscellaneous
/ 5 years agoRing-fence inevitable says owner of Gloucs
By COLIN BOAG GLOUCESTER owner Martin St Quinton believes ring-fencing the Premiership is inevitable, describing the current situation of a team...
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Features
/ 5 years agoRFU should get grassroots playing again, not the Prem
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME JEFF PROBYN Scrum is danger area: Sixteen players in a tiny space breathng the...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoRFU must stop being transfixed on top level says Lewis
By JACK ZORAB BOURNVILLE director of rugby Dean Lewis has labelled the RFU ‘diabolical’ in their selection process for the women’s...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoGriffiths’ plan gets the nod to carry on talking
By JON NEWCOMBE Blueprint: Edward Griffiths ED GRIFFITHS hopes his plan to restructure Championship rugby will help end “the Punch &...
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Latest News
/ 5 years agoAlbion blast ‘culturally and spiritually illiterate RFU’
NEALE HARVEY PLYMOUTH Albion owner Dave Venables has accused the RFU of displaying “Dickensian authoritarian arrogance” after seeing his club docked...
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