International Rugby News
Various organizations within USA Rugby have some form of leverage.
NCR has a potential membership pool of 15,000, and a large percentage of that pool is happy to play rugby within their own competitive group. Thus, the potential threat from USA Rugby to ban cross-divisional play between NCR teams and non-NCR teams carries little weight with those teams.
After USA Rugby's plans for a new dues structure became public, some organizations are pushing back.
USA Rugby Provides New Dues Breakdown
Joan Ryan studied what makes a championship baseball team succeed so much that she wrote a book about it.
We know all about the stats and the metrics, but what about leadership, locker room cohesion, and a united sense of purpose? What about the intangibles and team chemistry. That's what Ryan talks about with Bruce Mclane and the insights are fascinating.
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The next thing in short-form video rugby content is coming together as a new venture, Rugbyfactory.tv, and is hitting the internet via all major social media platforms.
Rugby makes you do some weird things.
It makes you hang out with some odd people, and pack up and do some unexpected things; and there’s a series of films that spells all of that out in classic weird-rugby-guy detail.