Ian Ritchie, Chief Executive of the RFU, has today informed the RFU Board of Directors, management and staff that he will retire at the end of the summer. Ian Ritchie, 63, joined the RFU in February 2012. Under his leadership, the RFU has delivered record revenue and investment into professional and community rugby. In this
The RPA Players’ Awards 2017 in association with England Rugby took place yesterday evening at the Battersea Evolution in London. In total ten awards were made on the night but there was only one for women’s rugby. That award, England Women’s Player of the Year went to to the incredible Tamara Taylor. Taylor earned her 102nd cap in
The Rugby Football Union (RFU) today announced a long-term partnership with Secure Trading, specialists in online payment processing. The four-year agreement will see Secure Trading become the Principal Partner to England Sevens, and become front-of-shirt sponsor of the men’s and women’s senior England Sevens squads. Secure Trading’s support for rugby sevens in England will extend
Lichfield Ladies have, since the first announcement that they will be excluded from the newly introduced Super Rugby League, acted with tremendous dignity whilst not concealing the shock and crushing disappointment at the massive blow to the heart of their club. They have now issued an official statement in response to the RFU upholding their
Supporters wishing to attend Women’s Rugby World Cup 2017 now have more opportunities to see the best players in the world as additional tickets to the tournament’s pool stages have been released. With exactly 100 days to go until the 12 teams arrive in Ireland to battle it out for the top prize in the
The RFU have announced that the appeal process has been completed and neither Lichfield Ladies RFC or Thurrock RFC have been successful. The process determined that the original decision was reached in a fair manner (and that was the brief). The appeal process did not consider whether or not the original decision, was correct indeed how
On Sunday Bristol Ladies 2nd XV fell to a 25 – 12 defeat away from home at the hands of Teddington Ladies. The score was 10 – 5 at half time, with Liv Jones scoring for Bristol in the first half. Jones, playing on the wing, scored again in the second half, this time Cars Cox
Yesterday saw Bristol Ladies 2nd XV secure a convincing 45 – 22 victory over Plymouth Albion Ladies, away from home. Plymouth, who are league leaders and were previously unbeaten this season held the visitors off by two points up until the 60th minute when fortunes changed for the home side, when Bristol stormed to 20 unanswered
Twenty six unanswered second half points secured England Women an opening Six Nations win against France at Twickenham Stadium on Saturday night. The Red Roses were forced to fight back from a 0-13 deficit at half time after France took a convincing lead with tries from Shannon Izar and Gaëlle Mignot as well as a
Wales Women have announced their 32-player squad for the upcoming Women’s Six Nations. Head coach Rowland Phillips finalised his selection after yesterday’s victory against Ireland at Donnybrook – a result which means Wales Women have now won four from four since Phillips took charge in 2016. Phillips says that cutting down a squad of approximately
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