All posts tagged "RFU"
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Latest News
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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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/ 2 years 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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/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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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/ 2 years 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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/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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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/ 2 years 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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/ 2 years 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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/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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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Latest News
/ 2 years agoMaro Itoje rejected offers from French clubs to fulfil England ambitions
Maro Itoje has revealed that he turned down lucrative offers from French club rugby due to his unfulfilled ambitions with England....
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Miscellaneous
/ 2 years agoStop giving No.9s so much protection
By Nick Cain - Read his expert opinion every week Welcome to the 2025 Six Nations, and, unfortunately, a new abomination...
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Miscellaneous
/ 2 years agoPromotion questions still need answers
REFERENCES in letters from RFU Board member Wayne Barnes and interim chair Bill Beaumont in support of the beleaguered current Twickenham...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoBill Sweeney needs to run game for the good of us all
RFU CEO Bill Sweeney is head of English Rugby not England Rugby. His strategy is to make the England teams successful...
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Features
/ 2 years agoI’m surprised by £30m offer to community game
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME England leaders: Maro Itoje and Jamie George and, inset, Bill Sweeney PICTURES:...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoDo the right thing, Bill Beaumont, and tell Bill Sweeney to be on his way
By Nick Cain Bill Beaumont has a duty to advise Bill Sweeney that his tenure as RFU chief executive is...
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Features
/ 2 years agoEngland need to focus on playing the full 80 during the Six Nations
By Jeff Probyn - A Front row view on the game So Steve Borthwick has decided that his England team need...
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Club Rugby
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years agoBill Sweeney determined to stay in RFU role until 2027
Bill Sweeney is determined to continue as Rugby Football Union chief executive until the 2027 World Cup and will only step...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoRFU chief Bill Sweeney ‘wanted to defer’ controversial bonus payment
Bill Sweeney, the under-fire chief executive of the Rugby Football Union, has revealed he wanted to defer the controversial bonus payment...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoWe are all paying for the financial errors of the RFU
Who, other than for self-aggrandisement, is going to invest in rugby? The Premiership has never ever returned a profit. Several leading...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoThe RFU Board has failed to do its job properly
The employment of the crisis management company, Teneo, by the incumbent RFU administration to help it weather the SGM storm is...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoReferees are not free from criticism
In a country in which we are lucky to have freedom of opinion and speech as a birthright, Wayne Barnes is...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoBill’s tour depends on fame, not facts
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Well, it hasn’t taken long for Bill Beaumont to reveal what we...
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International Rugby
/ 2 years agoBill Sweeney facing SGM following Six Nations
The RFU will hold a special general meeting after the men’s Six Nations with chief executive Bill Sweeney facing demands for...
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Letters
/ 2 years agoIs Bill Beaumont the right man for the job?
Rugby Union’s dire inability to handle the crisis threatening a great sport’s future is reflected in Sir Bill Beaumont’s hasty appointment...
Autumn Internationals
Steve Borthwick explains how England predecessors helped him block out the noise
Autumn Internationals
England scrum-halves Alex Mitchell and Archie McParland ruled out of Australia clash
Autumn Internationals
England fly-half Fin Smith cleared to face Australia as Nations Championship resumes
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