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Women’s Lions sponsors will provide funding to avoid imbalance

16 April 2024 0 comments

A £3 million grant funded by Royal London will attempt to provide more balance among the Home Nations, ensuring the women’s British and Irish Lions […]

More local derbies in the north would help

14 April 2024 0 comments

Former Richmond boss Steve Hill talks to Ben Woods, below, the head coach at Tynedale in National Two North Why did you get into coaching […]

University game plays huge role in development

17 March 2024 0 comments

Former Richmond director of rugby Steve Hill puts the questions to Gareth Elliott, below, head of men’s rugby at Exeter University in Nat 2 West […]

University rugby should be part of RFU pathway

18 February 2024 0 comments

Coach to Coach Former Richmond director of rugby Steve Hill puts the questions to John Barnes, below, director of rugby at Hartpury RFC Why did […]

Take away the contact and you don’t have a game left

11 February 2024 0 comments

With the Six Nations now in full swing the last thing the game needs is further condemnation about how it’s played but last week the […]

A case of third time lucky for Neville

3 December 2023 0 comments

RUGBY MATTERS – A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Sport is full of sliding doors moments, and one of the […]

Seabourne keen to spread word to rebuild Leeds

22 October 2023 0 comments

By EDDIE MCATEER Leeds Tykes have started the season with a bang as they sit top of National Two North with seven wins from seven […]

Why Is Rugby Gaining Ground in a Non-Traditional Market Like Kentucky?

7 September 2023 0 comments

Rugby, a sport often associated with international strongholds, is finding unexpected traction in Kentucky. Factors contributing to its rise range from increased media coverage to […]

When I needed a helping hand…

11 June 2023 0 comments

RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER You could fill a noisy bar with the journalists past and present queuing to buy David Emery a thank you drink. […]

Titcombe on song to seal it for England

14 May 2023 0 comments

England Students ENGLAND Students sealed a 25-21 win over France Universities last Saturday, marking the side’s first win on French soil in 17 years. Dubbed […]

Rosslyn Park Sevens: Under 18s Girls – Cardinal Newman make their mark

26 March 2023 0 comments

It is almost unprecedented for a team to dominate at Rosslyn Park quite as much as Cardinal Newman’s U18s did, but their 258 points for […]

RFU has no right to deliver this low blow

22 January 2023 2 comments

NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK The RFU has just introduced one of the biggest changes to the game in its 152-year history, […]

Whiffin steps up for Highlanders

9 October 2022 2 comments

By JON NEWCOMBE EXCLUSIVE Richard Whiffin is hugely excited at the prospect of becoming the first Englishman to coach a New Zealand franchise in Super […]

Callard predicts brighter future for Leeds

4 September 2022 0 comments

By NICK POWELL LEEDS Tykes head coach Jon Callard is aiming high for this season. In the 2019/20 Championship season Leeds were in dire financial […]

‘I’m very passionate, I don’t like watching’

26 June 2022 3 comments

Claudia MacDonald tells Ben Jaycock how she’s desperate to regain her fitness and return to action Claudia MacDonald thought she just had a case of […]

England to host 2025 Rugby World Cup

12 May 2022 0 comments

England will host the 2025 women’s Rugby World Cup, with a multi-city and multi-region approach planned to help the game grow. Women’s rugby has grown […]

Women make their mark at Cambridge as well

9 January 2022 0 comments

HQ heroines: Cambridge women’s team at Twickenahm in 2017 WOMEN’S rugby started to really blossom in the late 1980s. England played their first international against […]

England Sevens prepare for 2022 relaunch

19 December 2021 0 comments

NEWS EXTRA ENGLAND Sevens will return to the World Series in both the men’s and women’s competition in Malaga (January 21-23) after Great Britain Sevens […]

Tigers tie up gives kids route through

22 August 2021 1 comment

Paul Rees finds out more about Nottingham’s new partnership with Leicester Tigers Nottingham were among the leading clubs in England 30 years ago with players […]

Rugby values help Future Hope boys to blossom

20 December 2020 0 comments

TWENTY years on I set myself the task this week of zapping the phone and tracking down a few of the Future Hope team to […]

Worcester Warriors director of rugby Alan Solomons

Players will go from feast to famine, says Alan Solomons

22 September 2020 0 comments

The Worcester Warriors director of rugby is envisaging development players to bear the impact of unprecedented times in rugby

Solomons: Players will go from feast to famine

20 September 2020 0 comments

By NEALE HARVEY WORCESTER supremo Alan Solomons fears player development will be halted in its tracks unless Championship and National League sides get back up […]

Yorkshire Carnegie academy product Alex Rieder livid at programme’s collapse

22 July 2020 0 comments

Former Wasps flanker Alex Rieder labels the disbandedment of Yorkshire Carnegie’s academy ‘a joke’

Diversity sounds good – but are the people there?

5 July 2020 1 comment

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME On the climb: Bill Beaumont was elected as one of the first National members of the […]

Four-try Owsley seals the glory

16 February 2020 0 comments

By RHODRI MORGAN Worthing …………….10 Clifton ………………..24 CLIFTON secured a comfortable win with the addition of a bonus point over Worthing as they continue to […]

Talent-spotter Paul Turner seeking more gems for WRU

4 February 2020 0 comments

“The Welsh Exiles programme has gone from strength to strength” – how can Wales find more Tompkins and Rowlands?

Talent-spotter Turner seeking more gems

2 February 2020 1 comment

By STEFFAN THOMAS New recruits: Nick Tompkins, left, and Will Rowlands PAUL Turner hopes the work he has done in identifying rough diamonds in England […]

Beaumont joins critics of RFU cuts to student game

23 June 2019 0 comments

By AMELIA JABRY Students graduate: Sale No.8 Josh Beaumont ENGLAND Students are facing an uncertain future after RFU cutbacks, despite offering an ideal environment for […]

Memorial to rugby’s fallen in the Great War

11 November 2018 0 comments

ONE of rugby’s many tributes to those who fell during World War 1 this weekend has been a special commemoration gathering at Compiegne, organised by […]

RFU funding for EQPs gives England a big advantage

10 December 2017 1 comment

JEFF PROBYN Money bags: Top 14 contenders Montpellier have a raft of Test stars including François Steyn and Nemani Nadolo PICTURE: Getty Images It’s not […]

London Welsh double act with a five-year masterplan

18 August 2017 0 comments

The John Dawes suite at Old Deer Park is adorned with memorabilia from the bygone age when London Welsh were the finest club side in […]

College rugby set for lift off predicts Morris

11 June 2017 2 comments

By NEALE ARVEY UNIVERSITIES and colleges will have a greater say in the development of Premiership players in future, according to outgoing Loughborough Students rugby […]

Rugby opportunities in the north-west

26 January 2017 0 comments

The Rugby Football Union’s Return to Rugby programme is one of many initiatives currently helping sports enthusiasts in the north-west to kickstart a career in […]

Brendan Gallagher: Are China ready to rush through the open door?

4 November 2016 0 comments

Will Rugby ever crack China or indeed vice versa? I ask that question again in light of the rather startling announcement in midweek of a […]

Brendan Gallagher feature: How the ale and hearty Varsity girls reached HQ

27 November 2015 0 comments

It all started in a pub, as most of the best rugby stories do, back in the summer of 1987 and so good was the […]

National One salary cap ‘would spell disaster’

13 February 2015 0 comments

“Salary cap would be the death knell for the community game” – Cinderford treasurer Barry Holmes

England students name squad for Portugal clash

20 January 2015 0 comments

England students have named their 23-man squad to take on Portugal’s national team in Lisbon on Saturday. More than 50 students from 20 universities across […]