LONDON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is to roll out a new, non-contact form of the game in schools in a bid to arrest the decline in the sport at school level, the governing ...

The truth is that it was nothing more than a demand by the Championship clubs for more cash and a demand by some RFU Council members, particularly a section of referees, to go back to the days ...

Both could be seen mingling with attendees at a buffet lunch beforehand, along with RFU president Rob Udwin, senior vice-president Deborah Griffin, executive director of rugby development Steve ...

"We've started exchanges with the RFU (Rugby Football Union) and Premiership. It's absolutely right that the current gap in funding makes it difficult for someone who goes up then to stay up.

A two-thirds majority vote would then be required to oust chairman Ilube and press RFU directors to remove chief executive Sweeney whose compensation package triggered this crisis at the top of ...

It was on the eve of England’s opening World Cup match against Argentina in Marseille that the last real threat of a challenge to the leadership took place, when 30 members of the RFU’s 65 ...

Were they to seek a temporary home, Twickenham could potentially fit the bill with its southwest London location and 82,000 capacity, and the RFU has suggested it would be open to discussion over ...

After the assessment, the RFU has started implementing T1 Rugby, a non-contact version of the sport, in schools with the goal of having 5,000 schools participating in T1 Rugby within the next four ...

Sweeney came to the RFU from the British Olympic Association in 2019 Grassroots clubs have been promised more control over community rugby as the Rugby Football Union (RFU) attempts to see off a ...

The sport was rocked when the RFU’s accounts showed that chief executive Bill Sweeney was paid £1.1 million, including a bonus of £358,000, against a backdrop of 42 redundancies and a loss of ...