All posts tagged "RFU"
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Nick Cain
/ 11 years agoNick Cain: Let’s draft top young talent each season
What do Dan Cole, Billy Twelvetrees, Tom Youngs and Owen Farrell of the current England squad have in common? The answer...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoEXCLUSIVE: Clubs in threat to play during World Cup
Simmering tensions between Premiership Rugby and the RFU over World Cup compensation set to explode.
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My Life in Rugby
/ 11 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Scott Barrow – former Worcester, Orrell, Rotherham, Glasgow, Leeds & Fylde centre
If helping to keep Leeds in the Premiership in the 2010 was one of the highlights of my career getting relegated...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 11 years agoTyson Keats EXCLUSIVE – I felt like a black sheep but it wasn’t my fault
Scrum-half breaks silence over fake-passport affair that led to London Welsh’s relegation from Premiership.
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European Rugby
/ 12 years agoTwickenham to stage inaugural Champions Cup final
The inaugural Champions Cup final will be hosted at Twickenham it was announced today. The Challenge Cup decider will go ahead...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoEngland name side for WRWC semi-final against Ireland
England Women’s Head Coach Gary Street has made six changes for Wednesday’s Rugby World Cup semi-final clash against Ireland at the...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoEngland change seven for final WRWC pool match
England have made seven changes for their final Rugby World Cup pool match against Canada in Marcoussis tomorrow. Lichfield’s Sarah Hunter...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Warburton would be perfect fit at Kassam
Despite the fact we are in the ‘Dead Zone’ and there is no rugby to watch, there is still much bubbling...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 12 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Ian Davies – Cornish Pirates DoR
I wasn’t as good as my old friend Scott Quinnell playing for the New Dock Stars as a youngster but I...
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My Life in Rugby
/ 12 years agoMy Life in Rugby: Alan Martinovic – Hartpury College and former Colston’s director of rugby
There was a no grand plan when I joined Colston’s. The first XV won only one game in 1986 so to...
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Featured
/ 12 years agoGlint of gold sustains Ben Ryan on Fiji’s rocky road to Rio
TRP meets Ben Ryan after one year in charge of the most famous Sevens rugby team.
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Girls go full-time and and full-on for big prize
Without fanfare or fuss a minor revolution has been taking place in and around Surrey Sports Park in Guildford this summer...
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English Championship
/ 12 years agoMike Friday: Top tier link-up is a must for Championship
Takeover by Premiership Rugby would transport the second tier on to a different level.
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 12 years agoJeremy Guscott: England must get fit to compete
Stuart Lancaster will have learned some important lessons on this tour, first and foremost that you cannot chop and change a...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoSteroid user hit with two-year ban
Ralph Cooke has been suspended for two years for an anti-doping violation by the RFU. The Blackheath player tested positive for...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoClifton College Rugby Course with Ryan Jones
The aim of the course is to improve the player in four aspects technical, physical, mental, tactical. Technically the course will...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 12 years ago“I can break down coaching’s male only culture,” says Giselle Mather
London Irish academy manager has her sights on becoming the first female Premiership coach.
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Top 14 cash could tear apart the All Blacks
The suggestion that Aaron Smith, the New Zealand scrum-half, has been sounded out by Toulouse about joining the French club after...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain talks to England full-back Mike Brown about his remarkable transformation
Mike Brown is England‘s torch-bearer, but one with a difference. He is the man at the back, rather than the front,...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Tour from Hell did English rugby the power of good
Isn’t it strange how a perception of history over time can appear to alter what actually happened? Like all the fuss...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 12 years agoNorthampton Saints fear exodus of stars unless salary cap is raised
President Keith Barwell fears Northampton may struggle to keep top stars in future unless salary cap restrictions are lifted.
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Regional academies would reduce number of lost players
So that’s the end of European Rugby Cup Ltd’s involvement in Europe – and what an end, as both teams ensured...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Why Bruce Craig’s vision for global season will fail to see the light
Last week’s interview encapsulating Bath chairman Bruce Craig’s vision of the future of global rugby showed some interesting, if slightly naive...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Less use of the TMO? Then stop these ref witch-hunts
Hard to believe that it is just a week since Leicester‘s Richard Cockerill called for referees to be less reliant on...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: A couple of England-Wales tickets, sir? That’ll be £630
The last England-Wales match at Twickenham grossed around £5m in ticket money. The next one will top £20m. For the World...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: IRB must raise qualification period to at least eight years
The two biggest spending clubs in France and England, Toulon and Saracens, have proved that money can buy success. Although it...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: On the march with Trelawny’s Army, rugby’s great outsiders
So the European legislators, God bless, have finally caught up with the rugby world and officially recognised Cornwall as being very...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher and the Championship play-offs
The Championship play-offs have attracted more than their fair share of criticism over the last four years which I find astounding...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Clubs’ greed over World Cup is simply shameful
There is something quite sinister about the unbridled celebrations and smug reflections by some of the Aviva Premiership clubs’ owners on...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Game’s flashpoints stem from inconsistent refereeing
Empathy. Consistency. Clarity. Accuracy. All those crucial factors were missing for large tracts of the officiating in the Wild West Premiership...
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Featured
/ 12 years agoEXCLUSIVE: Jamie Noon calls for leniency on England’s selection policy
Former England centre Jamie Noon believes the RFU should take a more relaxed stance when it comes to picking France-based players.
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Reduce top-flight payments and grow grassroots game
The debate by the RFU council this week about the restructuring of lower leagues has opened a can of worms that...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoTavis Knoyle and Sila Puafisi facing RFU hearing tomorrow
Gloucester duo Tavis Knoyle and Sila Puafisi will appear before a RFU Disciplinary Panel in London tomorrow following Saturday’s Premiership match...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoSchoolboy threw bottle at West Country derby
Gloucester confirmed a bottle was thrown at referee Tim Wigglesworth and his assistants on Saturday after an ill-tempered West Country derby...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoThe new face of European Rugby
After months of negotiations, the future of European rugby has finally been sorted with all the European stakeholders agreeing the new...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoRFU statement on European Rugby
RFU Chairman Bill Beaumont CBE said: “The benefits will be seen far and wide, from the clubs to the supporters, sponsors...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: Here’s how All Blacks Test could have moved
There are times when it is blatantly obvious that the standards of excellence now demanded of England‘s professional rugby players are...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoLeague restructuring vote faces two-month delay
Opponents of RFU plans to reduce the size of leagues below the Champi- onship have scored a crucial victory fol- lowing...
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Featured
/ 12 years agoRFU fail in bid to get All Blacks Test switch
Concerted attempts by the RFU to change the Test schedule for England’s summer tour of New Zealand in June have failed.
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: 150 years on and rugby’s oldest rivalry just as fierce
They have been knocking lumps out of each other for 150 years now so it was probably fitting that Richmond and...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 12 years agoJacques Burger: Rugby’s brutal so don’t play if you can’t take the pain
Jacques Burger, arguably Premiership Rugby’s toughest tackler, admits to being concerned over the long-term effects of professional rugby’s relentless brutality.
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English Championship
/ 12 years agoRFU face legal action over league restructure
The Rugby Football Union faces court action by lower league clubs unless controversial plans to restructure the National Leagues are dropped.
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoThe EDRU are aiming to beat the Welsh and take on the world!
The England Deaf Rugby Union team are looking for individual player sponsorships to assist the players with travelling cost and to...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoFalcon Kieran Brookes hit with six-week ban
Newcastle Falcons tighthead prop Kieran Brookes has been handed a six week ban for acts contrary to good sportsmanship, contrary to...
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Latest News
/ 12 years agoEngland Sevens to take on Wales at Twickenham
England will take on Wales in a one-off Sevens international staged immediately after Sunday’s RBS 6 Nations contest between the countries...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 years agoJeff Probyn: Barrie-Jon Mather’s baptism must be a warning for Sam Burgess
The fanfare that has followed the news that Sam Burgess is to play for Bath next year is once again fostering...
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Nick Cain
/ 12 years agoNick Cain: ‘Slammin Sam’ Burgess could be hit for England
Sam Burgess might just be the answer to England‘s 2015 prayers. The idea of an outstanding 18 stone, 6ft 5ins athlete...
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Peter Jackson
/ 12 years agoPeter Jackson: Ordeal of Iestyn Harris is a warning to Sam Burgess
The Welsh Rugby Union’s first central contract, as awarded to Iestyn Harris, amounted to £1.6m with half of it paid to...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher talks Calcutta Cup with Peter Brown
It’s exactly 50 years ago since Peter Brown started taking the sword to the Sassenachs in earnest and, save for Robert...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Georgia on my mind as the cosy club stick together
Lacking a degree in applied mathematics I only look at the IRB world rankings once a year and that is in...












