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Hopes for Premiership season restart boosted by Government backing
By Online Editors
The suspended Gallagher Premiership season has been given the go-ahead to take a big first step in preparations to conclude the currently suspended 2019/20 campaign. It follows the publication of guidelines by the UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport.
These pointers from the DCMS will allow Premiership Rugby to further develop its plans with the Government and other sports bodies for a return to individual or small group training that strictly adheres to UK Government and Public Health England guidance.
Darren Childs, the Premiership Rugby CEO, said: “With the support of all stakeholders, our job is now to find a safe way for one of our greatest national sports to thrive.
“Our priority is the health and safety of supporters, players, management, staff and the wider community, so our season will resume only when it is safe to do so. I’d like to thank the RFU, RPA and Professional Game Board for their high levels of collaboration throughout the crisis.”
In a statement, Premiership Rugby added: “During the lockdown, Premiership Rugby clubs and supporters have made an inspiring response to the crisis, supporting their communities. We would also like to thank those many rugby supporters who are key workers and those who have offered their services to the community as volunteers.
“Premiership Rugby is pleased to continue to participate with a Government co-ordinated group of sporting bodies working through the challenges facing the industry; with the support of DCMS, RFU and RPA, as well as BT Sport and our commercial partners.
“Premiership Rugby continues to give its full support to the lockdown measures and urges everyone to follow Government advice and we would like to reiterate that our thoughts and those of our clubs are with all those directly affected by the pandemic.”
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There are plenty of great Australian coaches who could do a better job than Schmidt.
Go to commentsThis piece is nothing more than the result of revisionist fancy of Northern Hemisphere rugby fans. Seeing what they want to see, helped but some surprisingly good results and a desire to get excited about doing something well.
I went back through the 6N highlights and sure enough in every English win I remembered seeing these exact holes on the inside, that are supposedly the fallout out of a Felix Jones system breaking down in the hands of some replacement. Every time the commentators mentioned England being targeted up the seam/around the ruck or whatever. Each game had a try scored on the inside of the blitz, no doubt it was a theme throughout all of their games. Will Jordan specifically says that Holland had design that move to target space he saw during their home series win.
Well I'm here to tell you they were the same holes in a Felix Jones system being built as well. This woe is now sentiment has got to stop. The game is on a high, these games have been fantastic! It is Englands attack that has seen their stocks increase this year, and no doubt that is what SB told him was the teams priority. Or it's simply science, with Englands elite players having worked towards a new player welfare and management system, as part of new partnership with the ERU, that's dictating what the players can and can't put their bodies through.
The only bit of truth in this article is that Felix is not there to work on fixing his defence. England threw away another good chance of winning in the weekend when they froze all enterprise under pressure when no longer playing attacking footy for the second half. That mindset helped (or not helped if you like) of course by all this knee jerk, red brained criticism.
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