All posts tagged "RFU"
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoMako leads the charge to cage Tigers again
By GARY FITZGERALD MAKO Vunipola admitted he was “gutted” at missing out on a 60th Test cap yesterday due to England’s...
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National League 2N
/ 6 years agoRegionalised leagues would strengthen the club game
MARK NELSON LANCASHIRE COUNTY COACH Change is in the air apparently, the structure of league rugby in the English club game...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoThe Pay-TV Golden Goose may be a turkey
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Over and out: England’s game yesterday will be their last in this...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoStay-away Vunipola is on slide in rankings
THERE have been plenty of mixed messages surrounding coronavirus, and the RFU have not been immune, with England’s decision to send...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoLeicester Tigers wrap up deal for Super Rugby lock
A position that Geordan Murphy has been keen to bolster at Leicester
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSaracens allay coronavirus fears over Vunipolas by making Mako available for selection
Mako Vunipola stands in line to play against Leicester Tigers this weekend after returning to the UK via Hong Kong recently
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoMako Vunipola to miss England’s clash with Wales as prop self-isolates following flight via Hong Kong
Coronavirus fears have seen Mako Vunipola held back from rejoining his England teammates in camp
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Features
/ 6 years agoBok lock Marvin says Yes to Tigers
Lion: Marvin Orie LEICESTER Tigers look to have ended their search for a new second row following talks with Lions ace...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoRams are head-butted by RFU points deduction
■ By NEALE HARVEY Hit hard: Gary Reynolds RAMS chief executive Gary Reynolds believes his club have been harshly treated by...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoSix Nations to go behind Sky paywall for £300m
■ By PETER JACKSON EXCLUSIVE Taking over? Sky THE Six Nations is in ‘very real danger’ of vanishing from free-toair television...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoFunds aren’t available to follow French route
Decline: Yorkshire Carnegie over-extened to fund huge wage bill PICTURE: Getty Images SO now the answer to English rugby’s problems is...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRude welcome awaits
IN THE wake of RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney’s announcement to slash funding to the Championship and across the 2000+ clubs...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoIreland’s Six Nations match against Italy postponed over coronavirus fears
A match which was scheduled to be held in Dublin on March 7
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Pro D2 can show the RFU how to run a second tier
Former Bath captain and Worcester DoR, Richard Hill, is currently in charge at Rouen in the second tier of French rugby
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoExclusive: Championship threaten to revive play-off system and add to Saracens woe
Life in the Championship next season might not be as straightforward as Saracens were expecting
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoEngland Sevens captain Tom Mitchell feels change in the wind post-Tokyo Olympics
RFU cuts to the Championship have given rise to questions over the future of the England Sevens programme
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoEngland open to allowing access for fly-on-the-wall TV documentary
Will Carling reveals England's aversion to allowing cameras behind the scenes has eased
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoEx-RFU chief raps cuts to Championship
Former RFU chairman Graeme Cattermole questions how the savings on the Championship budget cuts will be used elsewhere
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 years agoEx-RFU chief raps Tier Two cash cuts
By NICK CAIN ‘It’s poor’: Cattermole GRAEME Cattermole, former RFU chairman, has added his criticism to the slashing cuts to Championship...
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Six Nations
/ 6 years agoScarratt: England are a team for all seasons
By ADAM ELLIS High hopes: England’s Emily Scarratt TEAMS ENGLAND: McKenna, Dow, Scarratt, Reed, Breach, Daly- McLean, Riley; Cornborough, Davies, Bern,...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoThis crowing cockerill can show RFU how to run Tier Two
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE desultory manner in which the Championship clubs have been treated by the...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoU20s need to have top teams on parade
THE England U20’s 39-21 defeat by their Irish counterparts at Franklin’s Gardens on Friday night put an end to their hopes...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoSpare a thought for National League clubs
DID the Championship clubs really not see the RFU funding cuts coming, as all the “shock, horror” reactions would suggest? The...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoRFU executives should take pay cut
THE outrageous decision by the RFU to cut funding of the Championship by 50 per cent from next season is a...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoConsign this shameful class system to history
Giant killers: Duncan Roke, of the National League XV, on the attack against the Springboks in 2000 PICTURE: Getty Images BRENDAN...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoPerhaps it’s time to boycott the top tier
COULD this season get any worse? The whole salary cap saga proved just how poor the administration of the professional game...
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English Championship
/ 6 years agoRFU CEO Bill Sweeney responds to outcry from Championship clubs
Sweeney justifies cuts to Championship funding in reply to clubs' letter voicing grave concerns
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoEngland prop Harry Williams anticipates damaging impact on second two
The Exeter Chiefs prop speaks out about how cuts to the second tier 'are not ideal'
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoChampionship cuts: Concerned chairmen issue open letter to Bill Sweeney
The Championship Clubs Committee (CCC) write to RFU CEO Bill Sweeney in The Rugby Paper
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoEddie’s insults may have lost the players
It may not have been pretty, but at last England have kickstarted the journey to France 2023 with a much-needed win...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoWorld Cup man Mark Wilson back on track with Sale Sharks
Wilson knows there's plenty of work to be done to add to his 18 England caps
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoJersey Reds typify Championship disbelief with damning condemnation of RFU
Jersey Reds chairman Mark Morgan criticises Bill Sweeney for ill-thought actions and lack of clarity given to Championship clubs by RFU
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoRFU and PRL slash funding to the Championship by 50%
Championship clubs hang on a cliff edge as funding from central power is cut from £8.1 to £4.3m
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoComplacency began after All Blacks victory
Struggling: England concede a try to French captain Charles Ollivon PICTURE: Getty Images I just can’t understand why Eddie Jones told...
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Features
/ 6 years agoPRL must hand over control of salary cap
COLIN BOAG Under scrutiny: Saracens in better times. Lord Myners I have questioned whether Premiership Rugby would include supporters in their...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoSharks join fight for Premier 15s licence as RFU audit looms
SALE Sharks have launched a bid to enter the Premier 15s next season. The RFU will award four licences in March...
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Features
/ 6 years agoI’m banking on Myners to end this Sarries saga
BEING both a proud Cornishman – and therefore surely a rugby man – and a razor sharp former Financial Services Minister,...
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National League One
/ 6 years agoFight for survival will bring best out of Titans
By JON NEWCOMBE CARETAKER head coach Steve Salvin thinks Rotherham’s desperate situation at the foot of the National One table could...
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Sevens World Series
/ 6 years agoWho would open their books for scrutiny?
Academy boys: Owen Farrell and Maro Itoje PICTURE: Getty Images Saracens, Saracens, Saracens, it seems that’s all this season has been...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoShanahan says cut league size
Rising star: Teenager Jack Musk showed his quality against Clermont Auvergne PICTURE: Getty Images By NEALE HARVEY BLACKHEATH head coach James...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoDivert Tier Two funds to national leagues
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk PICKING up the thread...
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Featured
/ 6 years agoMatt Proudfoot: How England’s new forwards coach left a mark on Pieter-Steph du Toit and Schalk Brits
The two Springboks reveal the inner teachings of Proudfoot who worked under Rassie Erasmus in the World Cup triumph
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Vindictive owners get their pound of flesh off Saracens
Nick Cain believes the punishment served to Saracens bears no relation to their crimes
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoLyon offer an escape route to trio of Saracens superstars
What will this mean for their England careers?
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National League One
/ 6 years agoFylde flyer Hadfield banned for doping violation
NEWS EXTRA By SAM JACKSON FYLDE’S Henry Hadfield has been banned from all sport for two years after failing a drug...
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Club Rugby
/ 6 years agoSaracens salary cap judge says: PRL should lift cloak of privacy
“PRL will probably disagree strongly with my remarks” - Lord Dyson lifts the lid on his thoughts about the Saracens salary...
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Challenge Cup
/ 6 years agoCockerill left chasing bonus point at Agen
By GARY HEATLY POOL 3 Bordeaux …….32 Edinburgh…….17 BORDEAUX-Begles progressed to the knock-out stages with victory over Edinburgh Rugby. And the...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoFarrell got away with another cheap shot
It seems that Saracens just cannot keep out of the headlines for all the wrong reasons, no matter what they do....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 6 years agoHill was right – there are too many games
YOUR interview with Steve Hill, latterly of Sidcup, Oxford Univ and now Richmond, was a well-reasoned plea to keep our great...
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