International Rugby News
Coach Eamonn Hogan sits down with Bruce McLane in Part 1 of a two-part series. Hogan starts this part with a detailed look at how the old PRO Rugby in America developed and educated coaches, managers, and players, and, for all its faults, helped when MLR came to town.
Check out also Hogan's book on rugby drills, which you can buy below.
Several mainstream news sources are reporting that the USOPC (US Olympic and Paralympic Committee) is going to lose hundreds of millions of dollars because of the postponement of the 2020 Olympics to 2021.
According to several sources close to the issue, USA Rugby may have been thrown a fragile lifeline by World Rugby.
Based on what we have heard and seen on Friday, here’s the situation:
This is an Opinion Column by Goff Rugby Report Editor Alex Goff—Why should World Rugby bail out USA Rugby this time? Maybe because World Rugby is partly responsible.
World Rugby has pumped a lot of money into USA Rugby in recent years, but that money often has come with strings attached. Sometimes the costs of those strings have been a bit much.
Former London Irish captain and longtime professional George Skivington, now forwards coach at London Irish, sits down with Bruce McLane to talk about forward attacking tactics in the modern professional game.
This is a special deep dive into life at the coalface.