Community Clubs Union

After a successful campaign against the tackle height variation, we are relaunching the CCU as a voice for the community game. Relaunching Oct 2024

[Dan Roan @danroan]

“Enormous & irreparable damage"

RFU financial loss & bonus backlash intensifies as 3 ex chairmen call for mass resignations https://t.co/YF5qHvGbJL

[Community Clubs Union @ccusport]

@JamesBoatman3 A union is the action of joining together or the fact of being joined together, the CCU will bring the clubs together thus forming a union.

[Community Clubs Union @ccusport]

@JamesBoatman3 We are NOT a competing Union. 50:50 split refers to the funding in the game. 50 to professional rugby and 50 to community. Recently Francis Baron (former RFU Chief Exec) stated that the funding was closer now to 70/30 in favour of pro rugby.

[Community Clubs Union @ccusport]

@JamesBoatman3 Hi James, all clubs are community clubs regardless of level. There is no membership criteria.

[Charlie Morgan @CharlieFelix]

News from yesterday. @ccusport re-launching next week with seven-point manifesto. They’re aiming to be represented on RFU council and hope to be staffed on a full-time basis. Fair to say that anger over Bill Sweeney pay is seriously high. https://t.co/Zg6ziiUaXh

[Charlie Morgan @CharlieFelix]

Temperature check on Bill Sweeney’s salary/bonus news. People all around the game are a) united and b) seething. https://t.co/EbTVlPAoCX

[Community Clubs Union @ccusport]

@RFU So according to @Scienceofsport we had a red zone, a green zone… and a “orange zone” now that’s gone and it’s all green?

[Will Kelleher @willgkelleher]

More from The Ruck — which is out now! — on tackle height, and the shambles therein.

Here are a few thoughts on it…

@TimesSport @ccusport

Listen to the whole episode here: https://t.co/7gKyzPfClx

[Community Clubs Union @ccusport]

@Oldsuliansrfc North Midlands are meeting with clubs tonight. The actual council meeting is in 2 weeks.

[Community Clubs Union @ccusport]

Well this is slightly unexpected…but HUGE news

[Community Clubs Union @ccusport]

So if we are wrong @Scienceofsport Ross Tucker (employed by @WorldRugby) the best place to tackle is the green zone? Sternum to waist. Waist to ankle is a lightly less deeper red (you call it orange). Perhaps @EnglandRugby could now let us know why the change from that?

[Community Clubs Union @ccusport]

@BulletBaxter Hi get your chair/secretary etc to email us [email protected]

[Telegraph Rugby @TelegraphRugby]

Bill Sweeney and the RFU have succeeded in rousing almost 300 clubs into open rebellion – their position is perilous

Comment from @oliverbrown_tel

#TelegraphRugby

[Will Kelleher @willgkelleher]

✍🏼 @owenslot“In this single most important change since the game went pro, it had lost the argument before it had started. There was no consultation, no warning, no explanation, no data, no breakdown about how the game would change & how we’d implement it.”https://t.co/xAvkKM7SPt

[Community Clubs Union @ccusport]

Well we couldn’t have said it better.

[Mike Cooper (RuckedOver) @RuckedOver]

Excellent point made by Oliver Brown in the Telegraph this morning.

How can the RFU be trusted to differentiate between the sternum and the waist when it can’t tell its arse from its elbow?

[Community Clubs Union @ccusport]

Seriously 🤷‍♂️

[chris jones @chrisjonespress]

“Yes, we’re looking to make sure that we are implementing a lower tackle height across all parts of the game,” Gilpin said. “How that’s actually implemented is slightly different in the community game to the elite game.” Alan Gilpin CEO @WorldRugby via @TelegraphSport

[Community Clubs Union @ccusport]

@Lewis15Neal Sorry completely disagree. This is going to get the players flooding back and not quit in all the supposed hysteria….

[Community Clubs Union @ccusport]

“What that looked like on the mannequin” this is from the women in rugby coach day (Friday) at Welford Rd. Is this the coaching all clubs will receive? “We are looking to make contact with this side area” yes mate that’s the hip and that’s hard as well.

[Community Clubs Union @ccusport]

Can we assume even a level 9, 3rd team player (sorry guys) at Old Rubberdoinans brings his knees up as well….and might actually break into a job. How does that look?

[Community Clubs Union @ccusport]

There is a full video we are putting on Facebook (twitter doesn’t allow long videos) not blaming the coaches but this is just tosh. We are also importing 2000 mannequins so clubs can have their own to help with tackle law changes 🙈