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James Warrener catches up with Peterborough head coach, John Cranston, at the start of 2023 it felt like a good time to catch up and see how the club was doing and what goals were being set for 2024. We chatted at the club's recent awards evening. James - At the start of the year you mentioned wanting to get national recognition for the club. How has that gone? John - We got ...

The Touch World Cup in Nottingham this July will be far and away the biggest World Cup in the history of the sport. With approx. 190 teams from more than 40 nations, the Touch World Cup will see around 4,000 competitors, coaches, support staff and referees head to the East Midlands this July. With several thousand expected supporters also expected, the Touch World Cup is expect ...

England Touch and Barefoot Filmmaker have today launched the first episode of a new series, Touch: Road to World Cup, which will give a behind-the-scenes insight into what it takes to achieve high performance on the international stage. Episode 1 reflects back on the 2022 and 2023 European Touch Championships, featuring candid in-depth interviews with Dom Tripp and Niki Bird, t ...

As the England Touch begins the biggest year in its history, the Association is launching its 2024 survey to understand the state of play within the sport of Touch across the country. The survey is open to individuals and is not limited to members; we know that there are many thousands of people who play Touch who are not ETA members, but who are also important in creating and ...

Heading into 2024 and another massive year for Touch across England, the ETA is announcing changes to the referee leadership team. After sterling service as National Referee Manager (NRM), Robin Budd informed the ETA management that he intended to step down from the position at the end of 2023, which coincided with the birth of his twin daughters on December 28th. Robin’s enthu ...

In this season review James Warrener was joined by Peter Strachan from Leeds-based Yorkshire Thorns.  His first question to Peter was how would he rate their season and give it a mark out of 10. PS - "I am happy to give us eight out of 10 based on success at regional level where more clubs have been coming into the sport alongside national. We won the Regional Development Seri ...