All posts tagged "RFU"
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Letters
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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
/ 2 years 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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Jeff Probyn
/ 2 years agoEngland still can’t hold it together
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Class act: Marcus Smith has brought a new dimension to England’s attack...
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International Rugby
/ 2 years agoDanny Cipriani says Eddie Jones ‘not someone that I’d want to lead my country’
Danny Cipriani has become the latest former England player to criticise Eddie Jones’ coaching methods, accusing the Australian of an overly...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoHard to find out the truth about Eddie’s ‘reign of fear’
ONE of the realities of rugby union in the pro era is that players who criticise a coach who kept them...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoTry bragging rights on the line for Otley’s Crossland
■ By BEN JAYCOCK Over the moon: Otley’s Eddie Crossland EDDIE Crossland is enjoying a try-scoring battle with his cousin Josh...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoGosforth made to fight all the way
SCHOOLS RUGBY By TOM JEFFERIES THE national second stage of the RFU ACE Boys League kicked off this week, with the...
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Guest Blogs
/ 2 years agoHow to Bet on Rugby League: Latest Odds
Different countries like different sports and it does not mean that a popular sporting activity is equally big in all corners...
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English Gallagher Premiership
/ 2 years agoSale and England forward Jonny Hill given 10-week ban for fan altercation
Sale Sharks and England forward Jonny Hill has received a 10-week ban, four of which are suspended, after accepting a charge...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoItoje full of hope for new PGP deal
■ By ADAM HATHAWAY MARO Itoje has given a snapshot of how the new PGP agreement between clubs and the RFU...
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