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Stephen Vaughan hoping to do a Gloucester at Wasps
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Stephen Vaughan has joined Wasps Group as chief executive (sports) after seven years spearheading Gloucester rugby. He will be tasked with developing Wasps rugby and Wasps netball brands and lead the club’s corporate and commercial teams.
During a seven-year spell at Kingsholm, Vaughan led a long-term transformation which culminated in Gloucester achieving its first play-off finish for eight years last season.
Stuart Cain becomes chief executive (venue) and is leading the venue management side of the business. He joined Wasps two years ago from the NEC Group where as managing director he led the commercialisation of venues including the NEC, ICC, Genting Arena and Arena Birmingham.
Nick Eastwood steps into a deputy chairman role as part of the changes. Eastwood said: “Stephen has an impressive track record of delivering results wherever he has been, so we are really excited to have him on board.
“He was the main architect of Gloucester’s recent success and he will be a great asset for us moving forward. Stephen’s role is focused away from the pitch but he will be supporting Dai Young where needed, as well as harnessing and forging new relationships with current and potential club partners.”
Vaughan, who held senior management positions with travel giant Thomas Cook including a leading role at London 2012, revealed his excitement at the challenge ahead. He added: “The opportunity to come and work for such a household name in the rugby world was too good to turn down.
“Given the tradition of the Wasps brand and the first-class facilities that it has at Ricoh Arena, there is so much potential here and I can’t wait to get started on helping Wasps go from strength to strength.”
Cain added: “Wasps is much more than a rugby and netball club. Ricoh Arena is a leading conference, exhibition and concert venue in its own right.
“It makes absolute sense to focus on the two key drivers of future success – a winning, well-supported sports operation and a venue that brings people to the region seven days a week, day and night.”
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Firstly England were terrific for 82 minutes and deserve the plaudits.
Borthwick, though, must be the luckiest coach around .
Had a broken arm not occured Marcus would still be no 10 , had Russell put the kick over and France not dropped the ball , had Lawrence not been injured the scenario would be very different .
England beat the worst team in the northern hemisphere , let’s not get carried away .
The forwards scored 6 of the 10 tries and Mitchell’s was somewhat flukish .
The speed and power of play was the difference and the forwards were unrecognisable from previous games.
Had Marcus had such a ride in his games he too would have been praised for his play .
Ford came on against a poor and beaten team with the score 40 up . Easy peasy. Short memories fail to remember against Nz and Aus , top teams, he lost both games.
The changes were forced on Borthwick , not by natural selection and they have been all for the better.
Let's trust this is the start of bigger things and the excellent squad Borthwick has kick on . No pun intended.
Go to commentsI still think Englands 6 nations was a curates egg, both good and bad in parts, and it’s still far to early to declare that Borthwick and Co have now created a team to take on all comers.
This England sides win ratio against sides ranked above them is still pitifull.
The Autumn will tell us much more.
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