All posts tagged "RFU"
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoManu Tuilagi, George Ford and Ellis Genge in contract stand-off with Leicester
The clock is ticking on Leicester and other Premiership clubs to agree adjusted contracts with their players
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoWelsh players set for long-term pay cuts
By ALEX BYWATER Crisis talks: Martyn Phillips and Gareth Davies, right WALES’ leading players have been told long-term pay cuts will...
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Latest News
/ 6 years ago‘Heartland’ competition will renew old rivalries
By NEALE HARVEY Realist: Jon Sharpe Proposal: Ed Griffiths COVENTRY chairman Jon Sharp says a new ‘Heartland’ competition could provide salvation...
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Features
/ 6 years agoRobshaw shows rugby’s heavy toll
Letters CHRIS Robshaw, who is leaving English rugby to join San Diego Legion, predicts more senior players could follow him to...
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Features
/ 6 years agoClubs hold aces in global power game
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK “What is wrong about having two international windows rather than a two-month block?”...
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Features
/ 6 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Former Bath and England captain Phil de Glanville
A captaincy with England which started with its challenges after succeeding Will Carling
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Peter Jackson
/ 6 years agoSo stylish even Sir Clive came for a lesson
Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools THERE are very few rugby clubs that can claim to have...
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Peter Jackson
/ 6 years agoChampion class of 2020 maintaining the highest standards
IT can’t be easy living up to brilliant teams of yesteryear but this season’s Wellington 1st XV have been right up...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoRing-fence could reduce the drain on RFU funding
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Ireally enjoyed last week’s article interviewing Plymouth Albion commercial manager Chris Bentley and his...
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Features
/ 6 years agoDismal England needed radical shake up and Carling delivered
TIME offers up perspective and what has become known as the ‘Carling era’ looks ever more important with the passing years,...
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Features
/ 6 years agoEveritt puts faith in kids for pyramid climb
NEWS EXTRA By JEREMY BLACKMORE NORWICH boss David Everitt says the club are rising like a phoenix from the ashes after...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoHard as nails Des Seabrook was the scourge of All Blacks
Obituary: Brendan Gallagher writes on the life of Orrell, Lancashire and North rugby figure, Des Seabrook
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: Players must be given a voice over salary cuts
Jeremy Guscott asserts why comprising agreed contracts in line with an obvious need to reduce spending is never easy when you...
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Features
/ 6 years agoSharks set their sights on Eddie
Target: Eddie Jones ENGLAND coach Eddie Jones has been mentioned Down Under as a potential shock candidate for a crosscode switch...
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Latest News
/ 6 years ago4-year doping ban
HAYWARDS Heath player Max Drage has been banned from all sport for four years until January 9, 2024 for steroid abuse....
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Features
/ 6 years agoSHAUN EDWARDS ON…
...Rob Howley’s potential return to the game after his ban I’m totally pleased. I keep coming back to Dean Richards, who...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoAlex aims to conquer England after France
By JON NEWCOMBE Channel-hopper: Alex Lozowski of Saracens skips the tackle of Munster’s Chris Farrell Inset: Chris Ashton PICTURE: Getty Images...
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Features
/ 6 years agoPlayers must be given a voice over salary cuts
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK Get the finances right: Lord Myners’ report gives Premiership a chance for a rethink...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoOghre, Willis and Barbeary can all get Wasps firing, says Richard Blaze
Blaze has moved back into coaching in the Premiership after success with England's Red Roses
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: New rule gives spirit of the game a red card
Peter Jackson looks at the thin ice rugby is treading after introducing the orange card
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoNew regime at Old Redcliffians as Kevin Coster leaves
Old Redcliffians were relegated from National Two South along with Sutton & Epsom and Bournemouth
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoRFU facing new round of staff cuts in cash crisis at Twickenham
The financial accounts for 2019 show the RFU have next to no reserves
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoRestarting season is rather ridiculous
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Why play on? Newcastle have been promoted. Here George Wacokecoke scores his...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoProbyn column: Give England stars Test fees but keep club pay down
Jeff Probyn looks at how central contracts would factor in today's current circumstances if that's the route the RFU went in...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoPremiership and Championship clubs cleared to return to training
Cleaning controls, PPE and temperature checks to be administered as rugby squads cleared to return
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoEddie on touchline is recipe for a riot
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK ONE of Eddie Jones’ strengths as a coach is that he has always...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoWorld Rugby law trials not for us says Davies
By SAM JACKSON Integrity: Gareth Davies WORLD Rugby have approved ten optional law trials to help reduce the risk of Covid-19...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoBaron’s Coronavirus Cup proposal dismissed
FRANCIS Baron’s idea of a major international tournament to be held in England in 2021 to ease the financial impact of...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWas this the greatest club Seven of all time?
Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring photographs, and explains the story behind the iconic image Iconic Rugby Pictures:...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoSpencer column: Cruel for Richmond but the game has moved on
TRP columnist Catherine Spencer reviews the big changes to the Premier 15s which saw Richmond lose out in the audit proces
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Features
/ 6 years agoUnbeaten season champions Caldy
The Rugby Paper’s National 2 North correspondents pick a Team of the Season Key man: Rhys Hayes shone at full-back for...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoDon’t let the gifted little ones get away
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Too small? Jeff Probyn won a record number of caps for an...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoGrassroots specialists share skeptical view over RFU £7m aid package
The RFU has been warned by grassroot specialists that its £7m financial aid package will be quickly be swallowed up as...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoHewett column: Bill Beaumont wears the crown, others wield the power
Chris Hewett shares his view that World Rugby's governance makes FIFA look like a beacon of democracy
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoNew kicking law will increase excitement
New role: Taulupe Faletau should get more opportunity to carry the ball from deep PICTURE: Getty Images I was really looking...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoBilly wears the crown, others wield the power
Midway through the BBC’s ancient but still mesmerising adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, there is a pivotal discussion between George...
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Features
/ 6 years agoMy new dawn: increase squad size, cut salaries
COLIN BOAG Fringe man: Ben Mercer playing for Cornish Pirates What I’m about to suggest will be seen by some as...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoElite clubs are not the only guilty parties
JEFF Probyn’s column last week is rightly scathing about the Premiership and EPCR, citing their lack of concern about the game...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoKick cost-cutting off with Sevens
WITH the RFU in a financial mess due to poor management, including overpaying their management and international players, why can they...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRegionalise yes, but do not reduce salary cap
I FULLY agree with Richard Homer’s idea on the letter’s page last week to regionalise the English leagues below the Championship,...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoRFU chief Bill Sweeney gives honest account of financial peril game faces
Sweeney spoke to the DCMS committee on Tuesday to discuss the shape of finances
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoTen of Premiership Rugby’s 13 member clubs consider breakaway
BT Sport's deal with PRL is up next year and has hastened talk of a breakaway to allow club's outright control...
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Featured
/ 6 years agoCanterbury and Adidas lose out to rival as England confirm new kit sponsor deal
England Men's team, Red Roses, Sevens and age grade teams will no longer wear Canterbury
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Features
/ 6 years agoMy Club – Otley: Nigel Melville looks back on where it all started
Nigel Melville recalls watching Roses matches at Cross Green as a boy with his father
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British and Irish Lions Tour
/ 6 years agoBritish & Irish Lions 2021 tour could be cancelled to preserve home unions finances, report claims
Lions 2021 tour to fall victim to backlogged Test calendar?
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoGlobal plan sees club season run into July
EXCLUSIVE ■By PETER JACKSON Mako may quit Sarries England prop Mako Vunipola says he has yet to decide whether to remain...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoNow ten teams talk about break from PRL
■By NICK CAIN THE plans for a breakaway from PRL by Premiership clubs is gathering momentum, with ten clubs now actively...
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Features
/ 6 years agoAmps fired up for a second ride in the Championship
■By WARREN MUGGLETON Star signing: Dave Ward has been magnificent AMPTHILL chairman Alex Radley described the club’s first Championship season as...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoHalf of Premiership clubs plan breakaway from PRL
Dispute over payment of £28m to clubs leads to consideration of Premier League-style breakaway
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Our Golden Goose is an endangered species
Nick Cain says rugby can come through its most precarious challenge if it becomes more transparent
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