All posts tagged "RFU"
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoTop English clubs need to play with more adventure
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Last weekend was a shocker for the Premiership clubs, losing all their...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoScots back in pole for takeover of Worcester
By Neale Harvey Worcester are set to agree a takeover by the Scottish Rugby Union after a bid from former Swindon...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoScots back in pole for takeover of Worcester
By NEALE HARVEY Failed bid: Jed McCrory WORCESTER are set to agree a takeover by the Scottish Rugby Union after a...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoBoozing fans give true rugby lovers headache
NICK CAIN IT is rare in Rugby Union that the disciplinary focus shifts from what happens on the pitch to what...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoWorld Cup ban would end abuse of Test window
ENGLAND’S decision to play four Autumn Tests in 2018 flaunts the World Rugby delineation of three weekends allocated for international rugby...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoRFU funding for EQPs gives England a big advantage
JEFF PROBYN Money bags: Top 14 contenders Montpellier have a raft of Test stars including François Steyn and Nemani Nadolo PICTURE:...
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Features
/ 8 years agoAre Game Board now plotting a ten-team Premier?
WE could be heading back into the shadowlands of clandestine decisionmaking, with the idea being floated that the Premiership could be...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoBig increase in RFU funding
A RECORD £99.6m was invested in English Rugby Union in the last year, the RFU have revealed. The annual report shows...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoHave a Cup for Championship teams as well
REGARDING recent discussions on the Anglo-Welsh Cup, I would agree with Colin Boag that the competition certainly needs a re-vamp. The...
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Features
/ 8 years agoEddie’s got too much talent to choose from
COLIN BOAG Now that the Autumn internationals are behind us, whose stock rose, and whose fell? Eddie Jones’ problem remains that...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoJackson column: How Clem Thomas seized once in a lifetime opportunity
Ahead of Wales v New Zealand, Peter Jackson recalls when Clem Thomas overcame personal tragedy
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoIt’s a mad, mad world as Bernie bashes Bill
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE international administration of Rugby Union was left embarrassed and in abject disarray...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoMagnificent Mickey, 93, digs in for another day to cherish
MICKY Steele-Bodger is a name to conjure with, one of those you might find in a ‘Flashman’ novel. What the 93-year-old...
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Premiership
/ 8 years agoHow Clem seized once in a lifetime opportunity
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Even now, more than 20 years after his death, Clem Thomas remains as...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoPlans to expand Tier Two to 14 on hold says Melville
By NEALE HARVEY PLANS to expand the Championship from 12 to 14 teams next season have been postponed after clubs failed...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoHogan insists Newcastle will make the grade
NEWCASTLE managing director Mick Hogan insists his club will meet its English-qualified player (EQP) targets despite falling short over the first...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoBeal lit up Arms Park long before Twickenham
Over the last 20 years almost as many embryonic Lions have taken their first steps at what must be the most...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoPumas rugby needs a re-boot starting with new selection policy
BRENDAN GALLAGHER Misfiring: Juan Martin Hernandez VERDICT Patience is a virtue – as the Pumas discovered when they went through 30...
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoVunipolas in cash boost for Welsh kids
By PETER JACKSON WELSH rugby has found inspiring new sponsors – England’s Vunipola brothers. Their financial support for the grass-roots game...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoBackwards step to block 17-year-olds
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk I’VE learned recently during...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoIncreased funding would help us to house more teams
IT WAS disappointing to read Jeff Probyn’s apparent dismissal of the benefit to be had from the proposed increase in RFU...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoWho do loan deals benefit in long run?
WHEN is a rugby club not a rugby club? When it is merely an accommodation for a Premiership club. Last week...
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Features
/ 8 years agoRobshaw so honest in messy Marland affair
COLIN BOAG The saga of Marlon Yarde’s ignominious departure from Quins, and his move to Sale, finally got resolved last week,...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoCain column: NFL ‘partnership’ will be far from friendly
Nick Cain examines the NFL's growing access to the European market which has seen two matches played at Twickenham this autumn
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Autumn Internationals
/ 8 years agoSet an example with more cash for struggling Samoa
With no mandatory obligation to cough up more money, Colin Boag writes why the RFU should offer cash-strapped Samoa a higher...
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Features
/ 8 years agoEDDIE JONES ON.…
…Beach training in Portugal We have got a couple of different coaches coming up. Physically some players need something different, mentally...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoThrowing money at problem won’t help grassroots grow
Ambitious plans: RFU chief executive Steve Brown PICTURE: Getty Images The well known Bible quote, “let he who is without sin...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoAki gets green light as Zebo bombs out
By SAM JACKSON Qualified: Connacht centre Bundee Aki NEW Zealand-born centre Bundee Aki has won his first Ireland call-up for the...
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Features
/ 8 years agoSet an example with more cash for struggling Samoa
COLIN BOAG Making a fist of it: Samoa should be well rewarded for their Twickenham date The new chief executive of...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoIt’s time the RFU honoured first black international
Brendan Gallagher takes a look at the distinguished moment in history set by Plymouth player Jamie Peters
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Miscellaneous
/ 8 years agoHill calls for Championship expansion and axe for cup
By LUKE JARMYN EXPANDING the Championship to 14 teams and scrapping the British & Irish Cup is the only move that...
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Challenge Cup
/ 8 years agoBlues build momentum with big win in Toulouse
By ALEX BYWATER IN WHAT must rank as one of the best results in their recent history, Cardiff Blues claimed a...
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Challenge Cup
/ 8 years agoRUGBY MATTERS
It’s time the RFU honoured the first black international BRENDAN GALLAGHER A new weekly look at the game’s other talking points...
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The Rugby Championship
/ 8 years agoWhat ever happened to that war on gouging?
Sven Cronk knows how it feels to be poked in the eye as the innocent victim of a gouging offence like...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoCain column: ‘Teflon Rob’ could have done so much more
By Nick Cain ROB Andrew’s reputation as the Teflon man of English rugby may have taken a knock when he was...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 years agoTeflon Rob could have done so much more
ROB Andrew’s reputation as the Teflon man of English rugby may have taken a knock when he was sacked as the...
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoPrem clubs need more RFU backing
IF Stephen Brown, the new man at Twickenham, expects England to rule the world he must start by helping the owners...
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National League 3
/ 8 years agoMy simple way to stop threatened player walk-out
Natural break: Wasps’ Guy Armitage is tackled by Ospreys’ Joe Thomas as he runs in to score in last season’s Anglo...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoLeonard, Brown join Lions board for 2021
JASONLeonard and Steve Brown have been appointed to the board of the British & Irish Lions as representatives from the RFU....
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The Rugby Paper
/ 8 years agoSurely consistency across the board is not too much to ask
WHEN will the RFU take action regarding ongoing inconsistency of refereeing. In Sunday’s Wasps v Bath game, Nathan Hughes, when charging...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMealy-mouthed friends make Kyle’s ‘dig’ worse
COLIN BOAG As a confirmed grumpy old man, the list of things that irritate me beyond belief is a lengthy one,...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoCain column: Players have not been consulted over extending the season
By Nick Cain PLAYERS and coaches in the Premiership have started to align in their resistance to the World Rugby blueprint...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoLions prop Morris gets Dallas job
FORMER Wales and Lions prop Darren Morris has been appointed team boss of Dallas RFC. The much-travelled 42- year-old has been...
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Nick Cain
/ 8 years agoNick Cain: It’s wrong Eddie must wait a year to face those NZ bullets
Eddie Jones was in full ogre-slaying mode this week, sounding like the armour-plated incarnation of St George as he talked about...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 8 years agoJeff Probyn: Hate to say it, but Worcester are looking doomed already
There is no substitute for playing the game, try as you might and no matter what you do, nothing matches actually...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoAre the RFU players asked to play too many games?
The hottest debate happening right now is a number of games professional RFU players have to play each season. The Rugby...
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Latest News
/ 8 years agoDickson targets top-flight debut in November
By NEALE HARVEY FORMER Harlequins scrum-half Karl Dickson has stated his desire to officiate at the highest level after impressing on...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 8 years agoJeff Probyn: New RFU boss has a big job – save our game!
The news that the RFU have appointed Steve Brown as CEO should bring a sigh of relief from the whole game...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 8 years agoSale coach tells his young England wannabes to up their game
Sale coach Jon Callard has warned the club’s rising stars to up their performances away from home or risk jeopardising their...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoEngland name 17 contracted Sevens players
By NICK VERDIER NEWS EXTRA The RFU have named the 17 women who have been awarded professional Sevens contracts ahead of...
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