All posts tagged "RFU"
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoYou can’t play without emotion
Coach to coach Steve Hill talks to Dan Protherough, the director of rugby at Bromsgrove RFC Why did you get into...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoYou can’t play without emotion
Coach to coach Steve Hill talks to Dan Protherough, the director of rugby at Bromsgrove RFC Why did you get into...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoYou can’t play without emotion
Coach to coach Steve Hill talks to Dan Protherough, the director of rugby at Bromsgrove RFC Why did you get into...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoBill Beaumont named interim chairman at RFU as Tom Ilube resigns amid scandal
Sir Bill Beaumont has been appointed Rugby Football Union chairman on an interim basis following the resignation of Tom Ilube. Ilube...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoTom Ilube resigns as RFU chairman amid pay controversy
Tom Ilube has resigned as chairman of the Rugby Football Union amid controversy over executive pay. The move follows an outcry...
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International Rugby
/ 12 months agoGrassroots revolt triggers vote over futures of RFU chief executive and chairman
Rugby Football Union chief executive Bill Sweeney and chairman Tom Ilube are facing motions calling for their removal after a grassroots...
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English Championship
/ 12 months agoCornish Pirates remove break clauses
By Sam Jackson Cornish Pirates have lifted the break clauses in player contracts which had been inserted in the summer amid...
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Letters
/ 12 months agoPromotion still needs too much hoop-jumping
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk I’m very pleased to...
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Letters
/ 12 months agoHundreds of voices cannot be ignored
FOLLOWING Nick Cain’s TRP articles and others in the national press, and the calls from the three former RFU chairmen for...
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Champions Cup
/ 12 months agoCalls for change gather support
THE process of convening an SGM of the RFU is a convoluted procedural affair, and this could be a useful ally...
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English Championship
/ 12 months agoKnights start well but Caldy fight back to deny bonus point
■ By GUY WILLIAMS Doncaster .........22pts Tries: Olowofela 3, Smith 15, Bennett 28 Conversions: Bennett 3, 28 Penalty: Bennett: 40 Caldy...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoLuc Jones talks up National League One as ‘one of the best in UK’
By Ben Jaycock Richmond scrum-half Luc Jones believes the entertainment value of National One reflects what used to make the Championship...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 12 months agoI can’t believe the RFU chiefs will walk away
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME I CANNOT believe that anyone would expect that Bill Sweeney or Tom...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoHaving a strong 2nd XV is crucial
Coach to coach Steve Hill talks to Dan Orwin, below, the head coach at Preston Grasshoppers in National Two North Why...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoCalls for RFU chiefs to quit at fever pitch
Mounting calls for RFU chiefs to quit By Nick Cain Calls for Bill Sweeney, the RFU chief executive, and Tom Ilube,...
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Champions Cup
/ 12 months agoJack Nowell: I’m loving life on and off the pitch at La Rochelle
By Brendan McGilligan As Jack Nowell stepped off the plane to start his La Rochelle career, he was stepping into the...
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Miscellaneous
/ 12 months ago‘Enforcer’ Udwin oversteps the mark
THE quango-like blindness to accountability in the top echelon of this RFU administration, and their erosion and disregard the democratic conventions...
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Letters
/ 12 months agoWhat we need is good leadership from the RFU
WE represent 50 former Blackheath Rugby Club players – the world’s oldest open club – including Doug Hursey, President of Kent....
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Letters
/ 12 months agoWorld 7s is a waste of time and money
WHY do we participate in the travelling circus that is the World Sevens Series? Rugby 7s is now very rarely played...
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Miscellaneous
/ 12 months agoWithout a doubt, we are living in the ‘shameless era’
IT was even worse than we first thought. To recap. The RFU were emerging from a ruinous Covid period, some of...
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Features
/ 12 months agoRFU Council must make a stand for whole game
By Jeff Probyn - A front row view of the game Now the Autumn Nation Series is over – with all...
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Latest News
/ 12 months agoDo simple things well is my mantra
Coach to coach Steve Hill talks to Alex White, below, the head of rugby at Syston and Loughborough University backs and...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoPressure builds on RFU chief to resign
By Nick Cain Tom Ilube’s tenure as RFU Board Chairman, and his financial credentials, will come under increased scrutiny with the...
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Letters
/ 1 year agoForbidden fruit is now too tempting
Just when you thought that it couldn’t get any worse at the RFU, CEO Billy Sweeney receives a ‘bonus’ of £358,000,...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoGreat to see Coventry doing so well
Last Saturday I went to Butts Park Arena to watch Northampton Saints edge out my team Coventry by 19-10 in the...
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Letters
/ 1 year agoTough for clubs to get permission for 10,001
I HAVE every sympathy with my old friend Simon Halliday, the outgoing Chairman of the Championship Board, and the Championship clubs...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoIt’s time for a root and branch clearout at RFU
By Nick Cain - Read his expert opinion every week In what sort of world does the wage packet of one...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoTime for RFU to put those tin hats on
If there has been an unusual amount of activity in one corner of the commodities market over recent days, blame Twickenham,...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoCup games were pretty tough on us, admits Cornish Pirates coach Gavin Cattle
By Mark Stevens As clubs across English rugby’s top two divisions return to league action this weekend, questions continue to be...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoSeveral clubs are battered by Storm Bert
By Luke Jarmyn A number of rugby clubs across England and Wales have been left “devastated”, decimated and at risk of...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoIt’s hard to recall when the RFU was so ineptly run
YOU know something really bad is afoot when an annual report reads like an expensive defence document being presented at the...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoOur club ethos is to build from within
Coach to coach Steve Hill talks to Tim Robinson, below, head coach at Scunthorpe in Regional North East 1 Why did...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoGreening and Byrne join head injury lawsuit
NEWS EXTRA BRITISH and Irish Lions Lee Byrne and Phil Greening are among 390 rugby union players taking part in the...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoRFU give support for Maher visa application
OLYMPIC bronze medallist Ilona Maher could appear in this season’s Premiership Women’s Rugby after the RFU said it had supported her...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 1 year agoWe’ll reject changes to promotion, vow Championship clubs
By Nick Cain Championship clubs are refusing to accept late changes to promotion-relegation regulations. They assert it contravenes the RFU Council’s...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoHard to see how the top brass are surviving
THE mantra being chanted within Twickenham’s walls is that the RFU’s finances are rosy despite it being about to make a...
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Letters
/ 1 year agoPaul Sheehan
French show how it’s done AFTER five successive defeats, should England get rid of its overseas player rule? While they’re about...
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Letters
/ 1 year agoWe need an agenda for regeneration and change
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO: The Rugby Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@therugbypaper.co.uk SACKING head coach Steve...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoMega-league will struggle to take off -Baxter
By PAUL REES ROB Baxter believes reported plans for a world franchise league that would sign up 280 players, with the...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoBaker plans to measure up at Hornets
By BEN JAYCOCK COREY Baker admits he’s gone from being a big fish in a small pond to the polar opposite...
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Schools / Universities
/ 1 year agoHartpury, Gordon’s through to final
By TOM JEFFREYS SOUTHERN dominance continued in the RFU ACE League as Gordon’s and Hartpury booked places in the grand final....
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International Rugby
/ 1 year agoEngland A set up is ‘critical’ for development – Mark Mapletoft
By Ollie Aust Mark Mapletoft was at the helm for the first England A fixture of the season, as they ran...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 1 year agoWe’re going in right direction – Steve Borthwick
By Adam Hathaway at Twickenham England boss Steve Borthwick is not fearing the chop – despite adding a 29-20 defeat to...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 1 year agoCheslin Kolbe’s double piles the pain on England
By Nick Cain England...............................20pts Tries: Sleightholme 4, Underhill 26 Conversions: Smith 5, 27 Penalties: Smith 16, 52 South Africa..................... 29pts Tries:...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoEngland are being outsmarted too often
PAUL REES ENGLAND’S revival under Steve Borthwick was designed to be built on defence, but South Africa’s decisive try yesterday was...
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Letters
/ 1 year agoI fear that young players will be lost to the game if chances missed
I REFER to Geoff Stalker’s letter of October 27 regarding schools rugby. Some points perhaps need to be amplified so that...
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Letters
/ 1 year agoEngland look like a clueless rabble
Another one bites the dust: England feel the pain against Wallabies I WATCHED with a g rowing sense of bewilderment as...
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Letters
/ 1 year agoTwo great games in one day
I SAW two of the best matches of the season last Saturday. The first was “live” between Stow on the Wold...
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International Rugby
/ 1 year agoBuilding blocks for England’s future
England A’s fixture against their Australian counterparts at The Stoop at 2pm today is an essential building block for any head...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoYou need to have that buzz on pitch
Coach to coach Steve Hill talks to Tom Coleman, below, head coach at Bishop’s Stortford Why did you get into coaching...
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