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Woodward dismisses RFU talk and commits to 2016 Olympics

Saturday, 30 July 2011

Sir Clive Woodward will not come riding in to the aid of the ailing Rugby Football Union after insisting he will stay with the British Olympic Association until the Games in 2016.

Peter Bills: Can the Springboks win the World Cup by playing in the past?

Tuesday, 26 July 2011

Talking Rugby: The South Africans will try to retain their World Cup crown by playing virtually a similar game to 2007.

Even my dad told me that thumping Chris was wrong

Sunday, 24 July 2011

Hugh Godwin: Rising England star Manu Tuilagi reveals the fallout from that punch.

Richard Parks: Risking life and limb to hit heights for cancer charity

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Ex-Wales player survives crevasses, frostbite and avalanches to complete Grand Slam of seven summits and 'three poles' in record time. He tells Matt Lloyd what he learnt along the way.

Peter Bills: Australia defeat sends shockwaves through rugby elite

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Talking Rugby: A single rugby result last weekend will have caused something close to panic in a lot of major rugby unions around the world. For sure, eyebrows will have been raised inside the Welsh and Springbok camps.

Baron condemns successors for 'wrecking' RFU

Friday, 15 July 2011

The former chief executive of the Rugby Football Union Francis Baron has expressed his anger at the way the organisation has been "wrecked" since his departure.

Woodward committed to Olympic role '100 per cent'

Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Wyn Griffiths: Sir Clive Woodward yesterday reiterated that he would stay in his role with the BOA for the next year, rather than leaving to take a job with the RFU ahead of this autumn's World Cup.

Thomas issues legal threat over report

Tuesday, 12 July 2011

The Rugby Football Union’s acting chief executive Martyn Thomas has threatened to sue the governing body’s chief disciplinary officer Jeff Blackett over the latter’s daming report into the sacking John Steele as chief executive.

Thomas quits to plunge RFU into further turmoil

Monday, 11 July 2011

Tony Roche: Damaged chairman steps down after humiliating review of last month's sacking of John Steele.

Robinson retires for the second time

Friday, 8 July 2011

Wyn Griffiths: World Cup winner Jason Robinson has announced his retirement from rugby for the second and, he insists, final time.

Wales forward Popham retires

Monday, 4 July 2011

The former Wales international Alix Popham has been forced to retire due to a shoulder injury.

Crusaders shine a beacon of hope for Christchurch's suffering citizens

Saturday, 2 July 2011

Homeless side's run to Super 15 semi-final has given city struck by two earthquakes a boost, writes Winston Aldworth in Auckland.

Peter Bills: Big task facing teams that confront the All Blacks

Monday, 27 June 2011

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Peter Bills: England's overseas player selection row

Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Talking Rugby... So England select some overseas players available to them and certain critics, including from the players’ ranks, moan. How predictable. England for the little Englanders, eh?

London 2012: Woodward role is bad news for RFU

Thursday, 16 June 2011

Sir Clive Woodward is to be the British team's chef de mission at the first winter Youth Olympics in January in Innsbruck.

RFU director Vaughan abstained from Steele vote

Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Rugby Football Union business operations director Paul Vaughan confirmed today he abstained from the vote to oust John Steele as chief executive.

Former No 9 Melville enters the media scrum as he applies for top job at RFU

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Nigel Melville has never been short of courage: during his playing days as a scrum-half armed with a pass so fast and precise that it was widely assumed to have been a gift from the rugby gods, he was routinely targeted by bully-boy forwards yet always came back for more.