All posts tagged "RFU"
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Club Rugby
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year agoVickery & Regan named in lawsuit
Two of England’s 2003 World Cup winners, Phil Vickery and Mark Regan, are among the 295 players taking legal action against...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoPirates rule out move for new Truro stadium
By SAM JACKSON Cornish Pirates have sold Truro City FC to the Canadian sports consortium that owns Cornwall Rugby League FC,...
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Premiership
/ 1 year agoLawes delays decision on his future until Six Nations
By JON NEWCOMBE Courtney Lawes will make a decision on his Northampton future during the Six Nations window in February. Lawes...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 1 year agoTop flight bosses demand answers
Premiership bosses are set to attend a Christmas crisis summit meeting after growing restless that there is no clear direction over...
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Nick Cain
/ 1 year agoItoje is the best man to captain England
NICK CAIN - READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Maro Itoje should be England’s next captain following Owen Farrell’s decision to...
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Letters
/ 1 year agoGame is bigger than RFU Board and Premiership
THE more I learn of the dire situation English rugby finds itself in, the more I worry that our government is...
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National League 2W
/ 1 year agoHigh-scoring games make it great ‘fun’ for Campbell
By BEN JAYCOCK National Two West has been the highest-scoring division in the National Leagues so far this season and Hinckley...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoSweeney reports £4m profit for RFU
The RFU made a profit of £4m in 2022-23 despite three Premiership clubs and the Championship winners Jersey Reds going out...
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Club Rugby
/ 1 year 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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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 1 year agoLudlam closing in on move to Toulon
Northampton Saints back row Lewis Ludlam’s highly anticipated move to Toulon, first rumoured in The Rugby Paper’s Blindside Column in early...
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Premiership
/ 1 year agoBaron calls for block on £296m PGP plan
By NICK CAIN Francis Baron has called for the RFU Council to insist that the RFU Board puts a moratorium on...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoDallaglio: We need clarity on Prem 2
By BEN JAYCOCK Lawrence Dallaglio is calling for clarity from the RFU and Premiership Rugby over plans for a Premiership 1/Premiership...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 1 year agoSinfield has a taste of Carrington
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER England defence coach Kevin Sinfield was at Manchester United’s Carrington training base last week on...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 1 year agoArundell may be first to get hybrid contract
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER England star Henry Arundell could be one of the first players offered a new hybrid...
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Jeremy Guscott
/ 1 year agoFearing players going abroad is a false storm
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE... EVERY WEEK WORLD Cups provide rugby union with an opportunity to reset, and the actions taken...
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Nick Cain
/ 1 year ago20 years on and little to give us any real hope
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THIS week saw the 20th anniversary celebrations of the 2003 England squad winning...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoCoventry show right style to pull in crowds
By BEN JAYCOCK Rugby attendances are mostly on the decline in the top two divisions in England, but Coventry’s scintillating style...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoA game in desperate need of some answers
RUGBY MATTERS BRENDAN GALLAGHER A weekly look at the game’s other talking points IF THERE is one thing I have learned...
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National League One
/ 1 year agoWinger Walker revelling in the freedom of his new Park life
By EDDIE MCATEER With 16 tries from ten games, Rosslyn Park winger Charlie Walker is thriving in National One this season....
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Schools / Universities
/ 1 year agoYoung England hopefuls meet at St George’s
England U18s met at St George’s Park this weekend for their first northern regional camp of the 2023/24 season. Head coach...
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National League 2E
/ 1 year agoOsborne still believes that Dons belong in National 2
By MATTHEW LUDDINGTON Last season Wimbledon won Regional 1 South Central, accumulating 105 points with a sole loss in their opening...
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Features
/ 1 year agoReturning from the ‘dead’ to play again
Jon Newcombe talks to Morgan MacRae, the Welsh hooker determined to resurrect his career HAVING gone into cardiac arrest and having...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoWhat’s in The Rugby Paper: 26/11/23
Following a consequential round of derby action in the Premiership, the league continues with four more reports and a preview in The...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoPolice investigating racial abuse of Monye
Police are investigating Ugo Monye’s accusation of racist abuse by a supporter following an appearance he made as a pundit at...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoSweeney’s PGP plan facing big obstacles
By NICK CAIN The Championship’s unanimous rejection of the RFU’s plans to turn it into a ‘Premiership 2’ franchise league is...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoBaxter: Focus on all the good stuff
By PAUL REES Rob Baxter believes that the 15 per cent drop in Premiership attendances from last season, revealed by The...
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Letters
/ 1 year agoWe keep pressing self-destruct button
It is high time English rugby with its huge resources, in both player and financial terms, ceased pressing the wretched self-destruct...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoWelfare of rugby in England is at stake
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK The Championship clubs are standing up to be counted by sticking an iron...
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Nick Cain
/ 1 year agoWe can’t afford a weak Six Nations
There was a ray of sunshine for the Lions this week when their preparations for the 2025 tour of Australia were...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 1 year agoLyon put marker down for Itoje
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Lyon have emerged as a potential shock destination for England and Lions lock Maro Itoje,...
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Schools / Universities
/ 1 year agoHanley: RFU should go into inner cities to grow player pool
By BEN JAYCOCK Steve Hanley is urging the RFU to copy France and go into the inner cities to grow the...
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English Championship
/ 1 year agoCambridge set to make up for tough opening
By BEN JAYCOCK Cambridge have had a difficult start to their first season in the Championship and but director of rugby...
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Coach to Coach
/ 1 year agoCoach to Coach with Gareth Lewis
Former Richmond director of rugby Steve Hill, above, talks to Rotherham head coach Gareth Lewis, below. After 10 years of successful...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 1 year agoYoung guns who fired the triumph of 2003
RUGBY MATTERS While we rightly ruminate on the 20th anniversary of England’s World Cup triumph we should also doff a 30th...
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Jeff Probyn
/ 1 year agoBorthwick should not cut time with players
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME With the RFU now preparing for a new relationship with the Premiership...
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English Championship
/ 2 years agoLack of jeopardy is costing us, says Davies
By BEN JAYCOCK Caldy director of rugby Gareth Davies says the sting has been taken from this season’s Championship due to...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agomember some big Euro-Quins I sort of made sure
NATHAN Catt has joined the RFU from Bath and will operate as the England rugby pathway’s designated scrum coach for the...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoGame in England is heading for a storm
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK THE return of England A – the national second team known as the...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoCOACH TO COACH
FORMER RICHMOND DIRECTOR OF RUGBY STEVE HILL, FAR LEFT, TALKS TO GISELLE MATHER, DIRECTOR OF WOMEN’S RUGBY AT EALING TRAILFINDERS Giselle...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 2 years agoThis diminished Premiership is benefiting no-one
RUGBY MATTERS TIME waits for no man. As the World Cup recedes in the rear-view mirror and we concentrate on the...
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Club Rugby
/ 2 years agoLightning stars help to guide way for next gen
NEWS EXTRA By BEN JAYCOCK HAVING just graduated from the England U18s setup, contracted transitional Red Roses players Grace Clifford and...
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Club Rugby
/ 2 years agoA lack of pathway is halting our progress
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME Well, here we are back to rugby at the club level and...
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Coach to Coach
/ 2 years agoCoach to Coach with Armand Roux
Former Richmond director of rugby Steve Hill, above, talks to Dorking director of rugby Armand Roux, below Armand Roux was a...
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National League 2E
/ 2 years agoAllen aiming for long-term success at the Hawks
By OLLY PINHEY Luke Allen is in his first year as Henley Hawks’ director of rugby but knows exactly where he...
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Premiership
/ 2 years agoGeorge urges RFU to listen to old boys
By ADAM HATHAWAY Jamie George has urged the RFU to listen to England’s seasoned internationals before rubber-stamping proposals over new playing...
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Blindside - rugby transfers
/ 2 years agoAndrew pads up at ECB
ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER Former England fly-half Rob Andrew is taking on a major role in English cricket after...
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Nick Cain
/ 2 years agoEngland will struggle to replace Marler and Cole
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Here is a prediction. England will not win another World Cup, or Six...
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Red Roses
/ 2 years agoRed Roses: Alex Matthews
Position: Flanker DOB: 03/08/93 Community Club: Camberley Rugby Club Club: Gloucester-Hartpury Birthplace: Camberley, Surrey Red Roses Debut: November 2011 vs France Caps:...
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoWasps keen to return to ‘highest level’
By SAM JACKSON Wasps want to reform as a club “at the highest level possible” but may need to wait until...
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George Skivington playing it smart at Gloucester
English Championship
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