Following Ian Ritchie’s appointment as Chief Executive Officer of the Rugby Football Union, it is confirmed that he will leave the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club and take up the RFU role on 27th February 2012. Ritchie also stands down as the Independent Non-Executive Director of The Football League and from the...
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The Rugby Football Union (RFU) Council met today to discuss the findings and recommendations of the Blackett Review panel set up by the Council on 10th June following the departure of John Steele to look into recent events at the Union. The panel and its terms of reference were announced publicly on 15th June...
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Allan Munro, the Chairman of the Scottish Rugby Board today (14 June) announced that Chief Executive Gordon McKie was leaving the organisation with immediate effect. Commenting on his departure, Munro said: “Gordon has provided great leadership, accountability, stability and transformed Scottish Rugby in the past six years. “He has achieved a great deal during...
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The International Rugby Board has announced that the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union (SLRFU) has been restored to full IRB Member Union status with immediate effect. The decision, taken by the IRB Council, after a comprehensive review of membership status of the SLRFU, follows the successful completion of the Union’s Annual General Meeting and...
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The Rugby Football Union (RFU) and Premiership Rugby have today announced that Ian Metcalfe, RFU Board Director, will replace Martyn Thomas, Chairman of the RFU Board, as Chairman of the Professional Game Board (PGB) with immediate effect. The Professional Game Board was formed out of the eight year deal signed three years ago by...
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The Rugby Football Union (RFU) Board of Directors met today to review the recommendations of John Steele, its new Chief Executive, for changes to the organisation in preparation for the Rugby World Cup in 2015. The recommendations, made after a comprehensive and exhaustive review of the business, were unanimously approved. Martyn Thomas, Chairman of...
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The Rugby Football Union (RFU) today held its Special General Meeting at Twickenham. The resolution being voted on was “That Rule 15.4 be deleted and the following inserted in its place: ‘The Chairman of the Board of Directors shall be subject to annual election.’” The SGM was called at the request of the Nominations...
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West Coast Rugby has been stripped of five competition points and fined $2,500 today following a hearing before a subcommittee of the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) Board in Wellington today. The hearing was convened to investigate a complaint that West Coast had breached the NZRU Player Eligibility Regulations during their Lochore Cup and...
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Professional English rugby union clubs are using satellite technology in games this season to gather performance data as part of a PhD study into the physical demands of top flight rugby. Players at eight Aviva Premiership clubs are already wearing Global Positioning System (GPS) monitors in matches following a dispensation relating to Law 4...
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The vexed question of which team should Warren Gatland pick to play Italy is a talking point in the Welsh Message Board (WMB). RR poster “Hook”, poses this question and offers Gatland the following advice: “I think its important we don’t make the same mistake as Gats did last year but I would make...
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