Much is getting produced of the scrapping of Rob Andrew’s role at Twickenham following new RFU CEO John Steele’s strategic overview this week. Searching at the nation’s message boards it seems as if “good riddance” and “it is about time” are the prevailing sentiments getting expressed by England rugby fans. This is not a look [...]

Wake up Maggie I feel I’ve acquired something to say to you… Huge congratulations to England Women’s flanker Maggie Alphonsi who before this week was announced as the winner of the the prestigious Pat Marshall Award at the Rugby Writers’ Dinner, beating off the challenge of the likes of Richie McCaw and Victor Matfield. The [...]

It would show up that England now have two hopes of successful the 6 Nations this yr… …Bob Desire and No Desire. Next the autumn collection, and regardless of what properly were two stuffings by New Zealand and South Africa, I imagined I detected ample assure in the all round England performances to be quietly [...]

The names introduced this week in the England EPS for the six Nations had been predictable adequate. In some circumstances that may well be quite comforting (the 2003 squad a lot more or much less picked by itself for instance) but not, I’d suggest, under present conditions. The summer time tour to Oz and the [...]

It is with some shock that I realise that it’s some 14 months since I final took to the rugby field in anger. Until a few weeks ago that was even now far more recently than a certain Welsh tangerine-gentleman but now I’m very significantly out on my personal in my rugby isolation. I do, [...]