All posts tagged "RFU"
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Champions Cup
/ 8 months agoCai Griffiths: Worcester Warriors return to second tier ‘is not fair’
By Ben Jaycock The decision to give Worcester Warriors a place in next season’s Championship has sparked an angry response from...
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English Championship
/ 8 months agoHartpury boss Mark Cornwell baffled by no promotion to Premiership
By Luke Jarmyn Hartpury head coach Mark Cornwell has called the current issues surrounding the lack of promotion and relegation between...
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English Championship
/ 8 months agoWorcester Warriors to play in 14-team Championship
Worcester Warriors are set to return to professional rugby two and a half years after the club went into administration as...
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English Championship
/ 8 months agoWorcester Warriors return – RFU Board should tell us what it thinks
By Nick Cain - Read his expert opinion every week The first act of the new Tier 2 Board, which has...
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Latest News
/ 8 months agoSorry, Brian Moore, but it’s time to take your own advice
Brian Moore’s reputation as a wind-up merchant was assured after his goading of the French forwards before, during, and after their...
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Features
/ 8 months agoDudley was right about the money…
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME IT SEEMS that Dudley Wood, the former RFU secretary (equivalent of the...
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Latest News
/ 8 months agoMy aim is to nurture a love of the game
Steve Hill talks to James Melville, below, head of rugby at Harrow School What is your rugby playing background? A rather...
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Latest News
/ 8 months agoSyston build on local talent for promotion
By Ben Jaycock Fully amateur Syston are enjoying a double promotion with the first team stepping up to the National Leagues...
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English Championship
/ 8 months agoWorcester Warriors to return to professional rugby next season in revamped Championship
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Latest News
/ 8 months agoBill Sweeney’s survival is good news – Steve Diamond
By Paul Rees Steve Diamond believes calls to oust the RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney, who last week survived a no...
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Latest News
/ 8 months agoRFU must prioritise return of promotion to Premiership
By Nick Cain - Read his expert opinion every week In defeat, defiance. For supporters of the incumbent RFU administration who...
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English Championship
/ 8 months agoDoncaster Knights going back in time to celebrate 150th anniversary
By Ben Jaycock President: Steve Lloyd Doncaster Knights’ 150th anniversary coincides with club president Steve Lloyd’s 50th year of involvement at...
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Latest News
/ 8 months agoI like playing open, fast and attractive rugby
Coach to coach Steve Hill talks to Lieutenant Colonel Tim Osman, below, head coach of senior men’s Army Rugby What is...
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Columnists
/ 8 months agoJeff Probyn: Regional powers will help grow the game
By Jeff Probyn - A front row view of the game With the SGM now concluded, the English game will be...
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Latest News
/ 8 months agoRFU chief executive Bill Sweeney survives vote of no confidence at Special General Meeting
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English Championship
/ 9 months agoSimon Halliday’s blast: The RFU keeps ignoring the Championship
By Nick Cain Simon Halliday has slammed the proposed loan bail-out for Newcastle Falcons, the Premiership’s basement club, and the continued...
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Latest News
/ 9 months agoRecruitment freeze as Newcastle Falcons look for £5m
By Paul Rees Newcastle have frozen recruitment until their finances are sorted out with other clubs considering a £5m loan to...
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Latest News
/ 9 months agoThis Premiership cartel is strangling our game
By Nick Cain - Read his expert opinion every week Welcome to gridlock. Everything that is wrong with the English club...
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Miscellaneous
/ 9 months agoLaughton signed the best
NEVER in the once troubled conflict between the codes can anyone have made life so uncomfortably hot for the RFU and...
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Latest News
/ 9 months agoIt’s important to be clear and inclusive
Coach to coach Steve Hill talks to Chinnor director of rugby Nick Easter What is your playing background? I was a...
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English Championship
/ 9 months agoChampionship is low on stars, says Chinnor’s Luke Carter
By Ben Jaycock As Chinnor emerge from their ‘third pre-season’ of the campaign, veteran scrum-half Luke Carter says the Championship lacks...
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Latest News
/ 9 months agoNew free-to-air deal sees England on ITV for Six Nations
By Sam Jackson The BBC and ITV have agreed a new four-year deal for the Men’s Six Nations to remain on...
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Latest News
/ 9 months agoCambridge’s steep learning curve
By Ben Jaycock Cambridge have endured problems on and off the pitch this term, with COO Rowland Winter revealing they can’t...
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Latest News
/ 9 months agoTom Curry urges George Martin to avoid the phone
By Adam Hathaway Tom Curry has told sidelined George Martin to stay off his phone as the Leicester lock bids to...
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Letters
/ 9 months agoSir Bill Beaumont on renewing English rugby
Sir Bill Beaumont - Interim RFU Chair Spring is now upon us, and thoughts naturally turn towards regeneration and renewal after...
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News Extra
/ 9 months agoNorthampton Saints boss calls for salary cap to be lowered
Northampton Saints chief executive Julia Chapman says the Premiership’s salary cap must be lowered again if the game is to become...
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Features
/ 9 months agoI joined in with La Marseillaise, but quietly – Florent Rossigneux
MY LIFE IN RUGBY THE FORMER RACING 92, SYDNEY UNIVERSITY, STADE FRANCAIS, RICHMOND, WASPS, BEDFORD & LONDON WELSH BACK-ROWER FLORENT ROSSIGNEUX...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 9 months agoEngland’s defence too good for Italy
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Out on his own: Marcus Smith breaks clear to score England’s fourth...
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Latest News
/ 9 months agoFrancis Baron: It’s time for the entire RFU Board to go
By Nick Cain Francis Baron has called for the replacement of the entire RFU Board, adding a radical dimension to the...
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Latest News
/ 9 months agoPressure is building on the RFU Board to stand down
By Nick Cain - Read his expert opinion every week The Whole Game Union has added its weight to the call...
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Latest News
/ 9 months agoBen Youngs lifts the lid on Steve Borthwick – but too late
By Nick Cain Ben Youngs lifted the lid last week on Steve Borthwick being a “risk-averse” coach, and stated that the...
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Club Rugby
/ 9 months 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
/ 9 months agoKnights can take on the best again, says Smith
By CONOR MCLARNON Focus: Doncaster Knights flanker Thom Smith DONCASTER flanker Thom Smith feels he and his fellow players shoulder the...
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Latest News
/ 9 months agoPlayers must pack their own parachute
Coach to coach Steve Hill talks to Paul Westgate, below, the head of performance rugby at the University of Nottingham How...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 9 months agoEngland need a true, open pathway
By Jeff Probyn - A front row view of the game So, Bill Beaumont is calling for a game in unison...
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Latest News
/ 9 months agoRFU offers grassroots more say
The RFU has promised to give grassroots clubs more control over community rugby as the governing body attempts to win support...
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Latest News
/ 9 months agoLee Blackett’s backing for England pathway plan
By Mark Stevens Lee Blackett believes England Rugby have been meticulously developing its resources in a concerted effort to unearth a...
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Miscellaneous
/ 9 months agoSupport for change at RFU keeps on building
By Nick Cain - Read his expert opinion every week As the SGM vote calling for regime change at the RFU...
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Latest News
/ 9 months agoRFU’s roadshow yet to placate anger of clubs
THE newly formed Whole Game Union has grown with now over 200 clubs joining its ranks and still increasing its membership....
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Latest News
/ 9 months agoOxford out to halt Cambridge treble
■By ROB COLE PREVIEW... Oxford University v Cambridge University Saturday, March 8. Kick-off 3pm, StoneX WHEN Luke Wyllie dislocated his kneecap...
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Latest News
/ 9 months agoDark Blues set sights on revenge
INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day may have been around for more than 100 years, but it is only 10 years since the women...
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Latest News
/ 9 months agoEngland hit back at Rob Baxter’s criticism of Immanuel Feyi-Waboso’s treatment
England have rejected Exeter boss Rob Baxter‘s claim that Immanuel Feyi-Waboso’s shoulder surgery was delayed because there were no Rugby Football...
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Latest News
/ 10 months agoContinued study a must for academy graduates
Steve Hill talks to Wayne Thompson, below, the head of Gloucester academy What was your playing background and how did you...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 10 months agoStart off with the ‘new’ and finish with the old
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME FIND it hard to understand why there are now so many breaks...
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Latest News
/ 10 months agoEx-Navy chief aims broadside at ‘one-way’ RFU Roadshow
By NICK CAIN PADDY McAlpine, the chairman of Chichester RFC – a level six community club – has slammed the RFU...
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Latest News
/ 10 months agoSix Nations – England need to be more consistent
By Nick Cain - Read his expert opinion every week Driving force: Tom Willis has the power to make headway up...
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Club Rugby
/ 10 months 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
/ 10 months agoBedford Blues give Bath’s all-stars a lesson in resilience
Steve Diamond’s observation that Bath have a squad of around 70 players, but still appear to be within the £6.4m Premiership...
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Latest News
/ 10 months agoNaval officer who was sunk by RFU
IT’S been a tad busy of late with much to discuss but the recent passing of former RFU secretary Tony Hallett...
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Features
/ 10 months agoYoung Guns – Bath Winger Charlie Griffin
By Conor McLarnon Up-and-coming Bath winger Charlie Griffin hopes to replicate the playing style of senior international Freddie Steward in a...
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