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Dec 12, 2024 | 
northantstelegraph.co.uk | James Price
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! now21 community pubs in the East Midlands, have successfully collected over 1,200 advent calendars to donate to local community groups in need ensuring those experiencing hardship this year can still enjoy the countdown to Christmas. The pubs are part of Proper Pubs, the award-winning community wet-led division of Admiral Taverns – which operates more than 200 pubs across England, Scotland and Wales.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
therugbyjournal.com | Eleanor Bradley |James Price
Hannah is only 25 years old, but she has been part of the furniture of this England side for what feels like forever. First capped in 2017 against Canada when she was only eighteen, she was one of the original players offered a full-time RFU contract just over a year later, so she’s been an ever-present figure in the modern, fully professionalised Red Roses.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
therugbyjournal.com | Eleanor Bradley |James Price
Three years later, in 1963, Newport had their greatest day. The All Blacks were coming back to Rodney Parade, eleven years on from Brian’s first meeting with them. “I got a call from a Western Mail reporter a few days before the game and he said, ‘do you realise if you win on Wednesday, you will be only the second Welsh player to beat New Zealand, Australia and South Africa in Wales?’ I said, ‘no pressure then’.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
therugbyjournal.com | Eleanor Bradley |James Price
When Worcester Warriors went into administration in late September 2022, Matt Kvesic was lost. He’d played over 260 professional club games, he’d been capped by England, but now he was facing redundancy at thirty years old. He didn’t have the safety net of youth. The likes of Ted Hill and Ollie Lawrence were rich with suitors when the Worcester party came to an end; still in their early twenties and with England potential, they were the tastiest morsels for the vulture clubs circling.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | James Price
James PriceSeptember 2, 2024 at 5:55 AM·4 min readIn the latest sign of their capitulation to teaching unions and low standards, the new Labour Government are scrapping the one-word descriptors that categorises a school’s overall review from Ofsted. I’m sure that many voters could already think of a few one-word reviews of the Government’s time in office so far, and this decision is unlikely to encourage any of them to be “outstanding”.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
therugbyjournal.com | Eleanor Bradley |James Price
“Of course, when we agree this, the final step will be for national team [to join]. This is the dream for every Georgian. Nobody was expecting two or three years ago that Georgia will join the Six Nations at under-18s, under-20, but now we are talking, we are ready, and we need to open doors for this, because we deserve it.”Continuing to challenge the top teams in the world will only further emphasise the need to include Georgia at the top table.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
therugbyjournal.com | Eleanor Bradley |James Price
“However, that was the year the league decided to go from twelve to fourteen teams. Nobody had done the arithmetic and thought, ‘Sky are going to give us this amount of money, which we divide by twelve; if we divide it by fourteen, we’re going to get less, aren’t we?’. Then, when Richmond and ourselves showed the merest signs of financial difficulty, we were not supported by the league.”In the summer of 1999, Tiarks quit the club.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
therugbyjournal.com | Eleanor Bradley |James Price
Auckland, the ‘city of sails’ on the North Island of New Zealand, is over 11,000 miles away from the UK, a distance that felt even greater for Paula George, known to everyone as ‘Georgie’, as she began her treatment for ovarian cancer in 2019. With her Kiwi wife, Jo, this part of the world has been home for almost twenty years, since the end of her long playing career for Wasps and England, and where they wanted to raise their twins, Jacob and Taylor.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
rugby.com.au | James Price
Rugby is an important part of life in Georgia and their national team the Lelos, have overcome massive odds to be where they are todayWith the subtropical Black Sea coast to the west, the 5000m Caucasus mountains to the north and a trio of UNESCO World Heritage sites, not to mention a dominant international rugby side, Georgia packs plenty into the land it calls home.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
therugbyjournal.com | Eleanor Bradley |James Price
Measuring success in development pathways is no easy task. You can look at the numbers of senior internationals who have progressed through the pathway, but even that isn’t simplistic. “Conor [O’Shea] is not saying to me: ‘John, there has to be two players from your England Under-18s every single year that goes on and wins thirty-plus caps. One year we might have ten players, another you might have five, and the next year you might not have any.
