To: Secretaries / Chief Executive Officers of Unions and Regional Associations in Membership of the IRB
From: David Carrigy
Head of External & Member Relations
Date: May 23, 2012
Re: IRB Special & Annual Meeting of Council 2012
IRB Council Decisions: Notice of Approved Law Trials
At its Special and Annual Meetings held on May 15, 2012 Council agreed to the following Law Amendments:
Notice of Approved Global Law Trials
(1) Approved Law Trials - attached Annex One
Decision implementation
The approved Global Law Trials shall be implemented by all Unions and come into effect from the start of the next Northern Hemisphere season at, or around,...
The new head coach for the RN Women's team is Lt (Dominic ‘Bali') Salisbury RN. Bali will take over from Lt (Sam) Cuff RN who has moved over to the Navy Sharks team as well as being appointed as the Head Coach to Bath RFC Women's team, a great opportunity to expand his coaching portfolio.
Bali is thrilled to take up the appointment and has already met with the Women's TSG and some of the players during the build up to this year's Army v Navy game. He said; ‘I am absolutely thrilled to be given this opportunity to coach at the representative level, it will be a new challenge for me but one I am relishing. I am currently involved with the Naval Medics team as a pl...
The Royal Navy Rugby Union took on the Army Rugby Union in a ‘winner takes all' for the 2012 Babcock Inter Service Competition Trophy.
The Navy Teams met on Friday night at the Lensbury Club which was to be their home for the next couple of days. This also allowed the President of the RNRU, Admiral Sir Trevor Soar KCB OBE, to present the playing shirts to both the RN Women and the RN Mariners. The evening also saw the presentation of the special Soapy Watson Memorial Trophy. The Soapy Watson Memorial Trophy is presented in memory of former RN Veteran and Senior XV Team Manager WO Soapy Watson, who was also a mainstay of Command and Establishment level r...
And so to the main event of the day as the RN Senior XV with 11 new caps so far this season, took on one of the most experienced Army teams seen on the hallowed turf of Twickenham. This was an Army team that was able to call upon a Premiership Prop and an England International Sevens player from the bench.
The game started with all the passion expected by the 65,000 crowd and it was not long before the trusted boot of Skipper POAET (Dave) Pascoe (RNAS Culdrose) gave the lead to the Navy 0-3. However, this was answered by Army Full Back Cummings 3-3.
The loss of Sgt (Gaz) Evans (1ASRM) after 10 minutes gave replacement No 8 ET (WE) (Ian) Cooper (HMS Ambush) his 5 th Cap. On t...
