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Rugby Notes: Scotland v England Calcutta Cup clash highlights deficiencies Feb 09 2012

Stuart Lancaster celebrated the only try of last weekend’s Calcutta Cup match with such reckless abandon he smacked his hand straight into the booth ceiling and suffered a cut finger that required a couple of stitches.Read

Solutions sought for Championship season Jan 26 2012

The shape and future of the Championship was back on the agenda at last week’s meeting of tier two clubs.Read

Rugby Notes: RFU clubs have to learn to live within their means Jan 13 2012

While the darker side of human nature might lead some in the Championship to view Plymouth Albion’s financial troubles as offering a potential reprieve from a tortuous relegation battle, it would take a pretty twisted individual to wish ill on such a proud oval-ball institution.Read

Rugby Notes: Worcester Warriors desperate for some bite Jan 06 2012

A few weeks ago Worcester’s defence coach, Phil Larder, told me rugby coaches are employed not so much in professional sport as the ‘improvement industry’Read

Rugby Notes: Matt Long urges Birmingham & Solihull Bees to persevere Dec 15 2011

Matt Long came over all Curtis Mayfield when he urged his bee-leaguered team-mates to keep on keeping on.Read

Rugby Notes: European competition won't be welcomed by part-timers Dec 08 2011

Plans to take the British & Irish Cup to the continent are not so much in their infancy or embryonic, as lacking parents who have actually met.Read

Rugby Notes: Call off the Twitter ban Dec 01 2011

Having been prodded out of their inertia by outspoken Gloucesterman – there’s an oxymoron for you – Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu, the Thought Police are on the march again and they’re heading right for a Twitter-feed near you.Read

Rugby Notes: Moseley victory brings huge confidence boost Nov 10 2011

To those who don’t watch Moseley on a regular basis Saturday’s victory over then Championship leaders Bristol might have come as a complete shockRead

Rugby Notes: Crowds love winners Nov 03 2011

There were a couple of extremely impressive matches that took place last Saturday, both in terms of events on the field and off it.Read

Rugby Notes: Warren Gatland is no World Cup villain Oct 20 2011

The International Rugby Board has already done enough to deprive the Rugby World Cup of its best team, it must not now punish the tournament’s best coach for revealing he rejected the temptation to cheat during the most important game of his career.Read

Rugby Notes: Oval ball game not immune to Tevez-type sulks Oct 07 2011

If you excuse the drunken boorishness and excessive nudity, the conduct of rugby union players has always tended to compare well with that of their association footballing cousins.Read

Rugby notes: England rugby stars now in same public territory as footballers Sep 29 2011

Now the Famous Flying Dwarfs of Queenstown have regained their equilibrium, England’s players have returned to more sober pastimes and their campaign is finally about to finish with the sport’s minor nations, the time is right to reflect on the infamous events of Altitude Bar.Read

Rugby Notes: Referees must stop rugby breaking down at the breakdown Sep 15 2011

For most rugby supporters last Saturday was a very good day. How often is it possible to watch five live games in little more than 12 hours?Read

Play-offs format must be looked again at by the RFU May 26 2011

Worcester’s triumph in the Championship relegation play-offs tells us both something about the victors and the structure they have had to negotiate to have their obvious supremacy rubber-stumped by the Rugby Football Union.Read

Rugby Notes: Time will be judge of Ian Smith's legacy at Moseley Apr 22 2011

For the second year running Moseley have successfully negotiated sport’s only true Group of Death, yet the extent of that achievement will probably not be known until this time next season.Read

Rugby Notes: Birmingham & Solihull Bees hit bad form at a bad time Apr 21 2011

The problem with being mercurial and possessing the quicksilver, fluid qualities that are so appealing and easy on the eye, is the volatility that goes with it.Read

Rugby Notes: Birmingham & Solihull relegation the right end by the wrong means Apr 14 2011

Not even the most one-eyed Silhillian could argue with the fact the right team have been relegated from the Championship.Read

Rugby Notes: Bees looking for big finale from Taulava Apr 08 2011

Russell Earnshaw has backed Semisi Taulava to sign off at Damson Park with a big performance against Moseley this weekend.Read

Rugby Notes: Worcester head coach Richard Hill right to cherry pick Championship talent Mar 31 2011

During his tenure at Bristol Richard Hill built his reputation on finding rough diamonds in the Championship and polishing them into gems worthy of the Premiership.Read

Rugby Notes: Time to sort out the scrum and breakdown Mar 25 2011

Having just watched a thrilling, if slightly Keystone Cops-like, Birmingham derby in which ten tries were scored and the lead changed hands six times, it might seem like an odd juncture to grumble about rugby union as a spectacle capable of attracting bums to seats.Read

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