Women’s Rugby in England
What does the future hold for Women’s Rugby?
The Matt Ratana Rugby Foundation – Family Day
On 25th September 2020 the worst thing happened to Police Sergeant Matt Ratana, he was shot dead inside a police custody facility in London. The New Zealand born officer had […]
Project Turn-Over UK
In late 2019, before Covid Life struck , I met with Joeri Peperkamp, the Founder of a project based on rugby and its values in Holland, aimed at helping young […]
Leinster Rugby – How has it’s success been grown?
I’ve been a fan of Leinster from afar for many years but had no idea how this provincial rugby team came across its players. I asked Nathan Johns a very […]
Go Again – What’s it all about?
A Twitter connection led me to Bob Broomhead and his Go Again project, it looked like the sort of thing that pressed a lot of buttons for me, we had […]
Red Card Shenanigans – The Disciplinary Process
I wrote an article during the enforced break due to Covid about the Disciplinary goings on this year, out of 8 hearings, only 2 of the offences had seen a […]
Disciplinary Matters – Does Sir need to brush up?
The Premiership Clubs have just had a 2 week break from playing; which means the officials have had the same time to have a bit of chat and a brush […]
Project Players and International Rugby 2020
A comment by a young rugby writer about Italy and project players got me thinking and on the back of that I wrote an article on Italy and where they […]
European Rugby 2021 – What will it look like?
2021 sees a change to the way the Champions Cup is structured. The competition will consist of 2 Pool of 12 teams. The 24 teams, 8 from each league – […]
Owen Farrell – That Tackle – and Hysteria over fact media.
I heard someone talking about the media early on in the Covid Lockdown – it went along the lines of – It’s all about being first, facts aren’t important. Let’s […]
Premiership Rugby – Where are we now?
Rugby Union feels a long way in the past at the moment, what was a fairly unpleasant season as a Saracens fan came to an abrupt halt on the weekend […]
Some Salary Cap Shizzle
I started writing about rugby for the site In The Loose, before setting up my own thing. I’ve always considered myself to be fair, impartial and unbiased, in fact I […]
A Rugby Player in the Making – Ben Lee
My game day Saturday morning started early at Allianz Park, I arrived at 10:30 to meet up with staunch Saracens fans Debs and James Lee and their 15 year old […]
What does a Premiership Rugby Squad look like?
And so the Salary Cap debacle rumbles on; the 35 points deduction and £5.36 million fine have been accepted by Saracens. That’s left the club at rock bottom in the […]
The Joys of Being a Saracens Fan, Toxic Media and Thinking before you Type
It’s been a torrid few weeks to be an England and Saracens fan, a time that started with such hope saw a crowd of us rock up at Allianz Park at 8am on a Saturday morning to watch England win the World Cup. That didn’t quite go to plan as South Africa pretty much did to us what we did […]
A Six Nations Review
Guest Blogger Jez Denton with some thoughts on this years 6 Nations As the 2019 edition of the six nations comes to an end, I’m going to take the opportunity […]
365 Sporting Days 