Announcements

Following on from lance2010s original thread (click here), The Rugby Forum is inviting its members to get their creative juices flowing and design your own box art for the upcoming Rugby 2012 title from HB Studios.

Be you an amateur with MS Paint or a Photoshop expert, we want to see what you can produce! Who are the cover stars you want? What image in your mind does Rugby 2012 convey? How excited are you?

Well send it in! As everything posted on The Rugby Forum is also seen by the staff of HB Studios themselves, who knows, your idea may just be used for the final release itself!

So crack open the paint pots and stretch out your canvases, let's get your creative juices flowing!

Click here to join in!

The TRFies awards polls are now open as The Rugby Forums annual celebration of all things rugby with our members enters it 5th year. Unlike the IRB awards, TRFies are not decided by sponsors, instead all prizes are openly decided by our own members

Head over to the TRFies forum and cast your votes now!

Click here for the TRFies 2010!

The Rugby Forum is pleased to announce it's latest Signing of Olyy to the moderators team.

Midlander Olyy, who became a TRF member in April 2008, is quoted as saying "I've been made a mod, which is cool!"

"I can't remember how I found the forum, I started properly posting in the run up to the Lions tour"

The rest of the staff and community welcome Olyy to the TRF moderators team.

With sad regret however, we have to bid thanks to Sir Speedy who this week has decided to leave the TRF staff. As he joins the TRF Legends roster, the TRF management would like to thank him for his valued efforts over the years and look forward to his continued contributions as a regular forum member.

Sorry to ask again, but currently, all three of TRF's owners are totally skint!

We received a fantastic amount of donations for the new software and the new skin, which also cost money. With the added surprise of HB Studios being our official partners, I am sure you're all of the opinion that this is money well spent!

The reason we need some more money is simple house keeping. The domain name is due for renewal in just over a month. I took out a 4 year renewal with my own money 4 years ago, and how has that time flown by... This time I was looking to have a 10 year renewal. Not only does it mean TRF is sorted for 10 years, it's also something of a bargain.

There's also hosting costs. Until last summer we used to have adverts that paid for the hosting costs but they had to pull out because of the credit crunch. I am trying to source a new form of highly unnoticeable adverts but until I do, I've got about 4 months hosting left.

I know you've paid up recently enough, it was in January in fact, but if just a few of you donated a couple of £ each then we'd have more than enough hosting to keep TRF going for a long, long time. I would really appreciate any sort of donations you can afford.

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