MEDIA GUIDE 2014-15 Club Media Contacts
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MEDIA GUIDE 2014-15 CLUB MEDIA CONTACTS Club Address Contact Email Club Address Contact Email Bath Rugby Helen Bayes London Welsh Farleigh House, Damian Dolan 01225 904113 [email protected] 5000 Oxford Business Park [email protected] Farleigh, Hungerford, 07584 528506 07758 774419 South, Oxford, OX4 2BH Bath, BA2 7RW Newcastle Falcons Exeter Chiefs Mark Stevens Kingston Park, Brunton Road, Ceryn Rowntree Sandy Park Stadium, 01392 890915 [email protected] Kenton Bank Foot, 0191 214 2805 [email protected] Sandy Park Way, Exeter, 07771 654730 Newcastle upon Tyne, 07764 933 219 EX2 7NN NE13 8AF Gloucester Rugby Northampton Saints Chris Duncan Wood Kingsholm Stadium, Franklin’s Gardens, Wearmouth 01452 872266 [email protected] [email protected] Kingsholm Road, Weedon Road, 01604 599125 07833 795745 Gloucester, GL1 3AX Northampton, NN5 5BG 07808 866270 Harlequins Sale Sharks Imogen Gaunt Dave Swanton Twickenham Stoop Sale FC Academy, 020 8410 6045 [email protected] 0161 286 8915 [email protected] Stadium, Langhorn Drive, Carrington Lane, 07785 629842 07702 906250 Twickenham, TW2 7SX Carrington, M31 4AE Saracens, Matthew Leicester Tigers Gary Sherrard Allianz Park Stadium, Hennessey Aylestone Road, 0116 217 1284 [email protected] [email protected] Greenlands Lane, 0203 675 7211 Leicester, LE2 7TR 07894 783345 London, NW4 1RL 07715 077892 London Irish Wasps Hazelwood Andrew Hogan Twyford Avenue Sports Melissa Platt Croysdale Avenue, Green St, 01932 750111 [email protected] Ground, Twyford 0208 896 4871 [email protected] Sunbury-on-Thames, 07545 602709 Avenue, Acton, 07809 512 172 Middlesex TW16 6QU London, W3 9QA FOR ACCREDITATION TO ANY AVIVA PREMIERSHIP RUGBY MATCH GO TO WWW.PREMIERSHIPRUGBYDATA.COM WELCOME Premiership Rugby Club media contacts Welcome • Welcome from Premiership Rugby • Welcome from Aviva Welcome to Aviva Premiership Rugby’s interactive media guide. We hope that it will make your lives easier in the 2014-15 season and beyond. Clubs • Bath Rugby The 3% rise in attendances last season shows that the league is in great shape. Once again, the Aviva Premiership has been the most competitive league in the • Exeter Chiefs world with 51% of all games being won by seven points or less. This season includes an exciting new chapter for European club rugby with the dawn of the • Gloucester Rugby European Rugby Champions Cup and European Rugby Challenge Cup and we can’t wait to see them kick off. • Harlequins • Leicester Tigers This guide includes information on all 12 Aviva Premiership Rugby teams, our partners and our community work. Premiership Rugby’s community programmes • London Irish have helped to make a difference to 260,000 children and young people in England and 54,000 in Brazil. These programmes are crucial to Premiership Rugby • London Welsh and if you ever want to write a story on how rugby is changing lives please contact us and we will arrange all you need to produce it. • Newcastle Falcons • Northampton Saints This guide is downloadable, on to any device, PC or Smart phone. We have made sure that all websites and email addresses contained within it are clickable. • Sale Sharks • Saracens So if you want to call, email or apply for accreditation for an Aviva Premiership Rugby match it is only a click away within this document. • Wasps In addition to this Aviva Premiership Rugby Guide, this is our chance to make sure that everyone is signed up to the Premiership Rugby media list. If you don’t get Fixtures & Media our press releases, please email Sophie Neal at [email protected] and we’ll sign you up. Accreditation Season Structure, We are delighted to confirm that Premiership Rugby’s statistician Stuart Farmer will continue to produce his excellent weekly previews of Aviva Premiership Salary Cap & FAQs Rugby which should arrive in your Inbox each Tuesday of an Aviva Premiership Rugby week. We can also take on bespoke statistical tasks for you so if your Referees newspaper, website, TV station or radio station is looking for specific statistics to enhance their coverage of Aviva Premiership Rugby then drop us a line. Logos History After a tremendous first season, BT Sport continues as our Broadcast Partner. Coverage will also continue on the BBC which includes coverage on BBC Five Live and every match live on a local BBC radio station. Partners Play and BreakThru The terrific work undertaken for radio stations by Talking Rugby is complimented by the fully free Premiership Rugby TV. The service currently has thousands of Other Media subscribers, and now needs no registration offering you match action from Aviva Premiership Rugby matches from three hours after the final whistle. Try it out at Contacts www.premiershiprugby.tv. WWW.AVIVAPREMIERSHIPRUGBY.COM WELCOME Premiership Rugby Club media contacts Welcome • Welcome from In addition, Premiership Rugby’s YouTube channel now has 28,000 subscribers and a library of clips which grows every week. If you want to watch highlights or Premiership Rugby features from our clubs head to Premiership Rugby TV or our YouTube Channel, where there are ‘shelves’ for every side. • Welcome from Aviva Clubs Also on our YouTube channel is a brilliant new video which shows you the Premiership Rugby story – watch it by clicking here. • Bath Rugby • Exeter Chiefs Social media continues to play an ever more important role in all our lives and in addition to @premrugby and our Facebook account (180,000 followers and • Gloucester Rugby counting) this season we will focus on our Instagram account so look out for that. • Harlequins • Leicester Tigers We are in constant dialogue with the Rugby Union Writers’ Club and are delighted to announce that the deal offering you 10 per cent off Aviva products – • London Irish courtesy of our title sponsor - has been extended for 2014-15. If you are a member, please email either of us for details. • London Welsh • Newcastle Falcons We will continue to use the same accreditation system this season. Please contact us if you do not have a username and password because it’s the only way to • Northampton Saints book your accreditation for the game. • Sale Sharks • Saracens If you are doing any stories on Aviva Premiership Rugby let us know in case we can provide some information, check some facts or statistics or provide a • Wasps spokesperson for your story and that applies to each of our 12 Aviva Premiership Rugby clubs. Fixtures & Media Also any suggestions for improvements we can make to the communications side of Aviva Premiership Rugby then please contact us. We know some of you have Accreditation seen more top flight rugby than anyone else on the planet so we value your opinions on all facets of Aviva Premiership Rugby. Season Structure, Salary Cap & FAQs Referees Logos History Paul Morgan Sophie Neal Communications Director Communications Manager Partners Mob: 07557 477796 Tel: 07813 689124 Play and BreakThru Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Other Media Contacts AVIVA PREMIERSHIP RUGBY OFFICIAL MEDIA GUIDE 2014/15 WELCOME AVIVA Club media contacts Welcome • Welcome from Premiership Rugby • Welcome from Aviva This is our fifth season as Aviva Premiership Rugby and with the Rugby World Cup round the corner it is an exciting time to be at the heart of club rugby. Clubs We go into the 2014-15 season with a new champion club – Northampton Saints – and the return of London Welsh to the top flight. Every year we are treated • Bath Rugby to an even tenser league, tighter games and yet more thrilling match action. • Exeter Chiefs • Gloucester Rugby Whilst the clubs deliver for us on the pitch, we continue to ensure that we are engaging our customers and employees with the rugby. The number of our 15 • Harlequins million customers who have experienced the rugby firsthand has grown year on year and there are plans to do more this season including bringing them • Leicester Tigers highlights of the on pitch action through our Aviva App. • London Irish • London Welsh This season also sees the development of our investment in the grassroots of the game as we move to the Aviva Tackling Numbers programme – ensuring that • Newcastle Falcons we are improving the numeracy skills of primary school children through the power of sport. Each year we’ll see 13,000 children go through the programme • Northampton Saints delivered by our 12 Aviva Premiership Rugby clubs. We’re excited about the difference that we are going to make not only to their physical wellbeing but also • Sale Sharks tackling an issue that is wider than just sport – the financial numeracy of the next generation. • Saracens • Wasps We also have a new partnership with Synergy who’ll be working with you, the rugby media, to continue the great work that you do. The media are the shop Fixtures & Media window for the game and are vital in ensuring we continue to deliver compelling coverage for the fans of this great club competition. So whatever your needs Accreditation are – from selfies, to the in-depth interview we look forward to working with you this season. Season Structure, Salary Cap & FAQs Looking forward to another cracking season. Referees Logos History Louisa Cheetham Partners Senior Sponsorship & CR Manager Play and BreakThru Mob: 07800 699199 Email: [email protected] Other Media Contacts WWW.AVIVAPREMIERSHIPRUGBY.COM CLUBS Bath Rugby NAME OF CLUB Club media contacts CLUB STRIPS Bath Rugby