Leicester Tigers

Sounds similar to the set up they have with running a Leicester City academy in Thailand. I think the boys study at Ratcliff College as part of it?

Anyway, regardless of your opinion on that I think 6 year deals for coaches are bad moves. Makes it very difficult to manage them. There is College Football coach in America at University of Kentucky, a mid level team in the hardest division of College Football. For a long time he had either a 3 or ...

On Monday night, the panel made the point that one of the biggest challenges they face is to bridge the gap between Under 18's and First Team senior rugby, with the gap being so massive. This is something also made tougher without any A League like we all remember. To bridge this gap they want the ...

Rugbygramps wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 11:39 am True they were awful for his first 2 seasons and are likely to end up with as many trophies as Tigers this

We're only in his second season, and he took them from bottom to 8th in his first.

Think I'm right in saying teams are announced 10 this morning With it being a friendly, there is no set time for the teams to be released.... They sent an email saying they'd be released today, I thought it was noon but it might be ten am. I think people need to be prepared for this to be quite a c...

Super rugby Pacific with original names. Auckland Blues Wellington Hurricanes Canterbury crusaders (Christchurch) Waikato Chiefs (Hamilton I think) Otago Highlanders (Dunedin) Queensland Reds (assume Brisbane) New South Wales waratahs (assume Sydney) Melbourne rebels Western Force (Perth) ACT Brumb...

I agree. If your club has history don't meddle. If your club has no history nobody gives a monkeys because it has no association with the team. Who on earth gave the sharks handle to Sale? Doubt many get up the ship canal! I think it was their then owner who was a big fan of West Side Story, so the...

Sorry that Whitley took flack from the fans, he is young but the question is why did he come over to the Crumbie and argue, he should have stayed away over in the middle? Presumably he came over to thank the fans for attending the game, copped an earful, and responded, as emotions were no doubt hig...

Thom Smith was the one I had in mind he has had impressive showings for Doncaster but no one has signed him higher yet He signed for Jersey in the summer and doesn't appear to be playing anywhere at the moment, which is a massive shame. The kind of solid player who should be able to build a career ...

If the season ends as some fear it will be our third worst season in league rugby, the third worst in my lifetime. In our last 9 games we have: lost by 33, 17, 10, 14, and 23. And one where we threw it away on the final play to lose by 2. We've beaten: A championship team by 8 with a last second sco...

An old one but Jeremey Thrush (ex-Kiwi & Gloucester lock) and Nick Pickard (Tony from Hollyoaks).

Does playing university rugby at age 20 mean you're destined to be a Premiership player? What about the other players in the Loughborough team, do they all have pro contracts with Premiership clubs? I haven't seen him play, apart from that 10 minutes vs Bedford - how promising is he? Well he's in t...

Why on earth have we let Meredith go? He's a promising 10 who's just led Loughborough to a BUCS title, with a kicking tee record of something mad, like 97%. Wilkinson has had no chances and Pollard will be away for a fair bit of next season. Are we going to persist with Shillcock at 10 for those ti...

didn't the A league fold as it was too costly? Not really. It only actually died a full death with covid. It was run down because several clubs (notably Irish & Wasps) consistently failed to put out any kind of side or support it at all, filling their sides with guests whose main selection crit...

Senior academy is 18-24 and under 50K a year. Tom Manz is still only 22 this season so technically could have another 2 years in the dev squad Good point, I've just re-checked the regulations and they are more generous than I'd thought. They are about being 24 years old (inclusive) on 1st September...