Happy New Year! When the Pandemic hit the world in 2020 and impacted the sporting landscape as well as our whole way of life, I observed that it was a chance for rugby to reset and go back to the future, ie embrace some traditional values and I believe I was right. There has been recently so […]

This year of all years has been incredibly tough on professional rugby. All the touring teams from the Southern Hemisphere have been in ‘ bubbles ‘ for months and must be mentally and physically exhausted. The injury lists at professional clubs are at epidemic levels and when are we going to respond to the trend […]

  It may not have been a World Cup but Ian Foster, the All Blacks coach, emphasised that they want to win every match. If other teams, including most notably England, needed to understand the levels they need to attain, look no further than Lansdowne Road on Saturday. I was there, partly because I had […]

Autumn Internationals – Work in Progress 2023 🍁 We all want to celebrate the return of International Rugby with crowds and let us be a little more understanding of the difficult protocols still in place for players and management! It is not easy and by and large we can be grateful. I sense that the […]