Monthly Archives: November 2011

Richie Gray, inventor of the revolutionary Rhino Collision King rucking machine yesterday won the coveted Technical Innovation Award at the Rugby Expo Awards Dinner at Twickenham.

Former England scrum half Peter Richards presented the award to a delighted Gray, who thanked all at Rhino for the support he had received since meeting Rhino CEO Reg Clark at Martin Johnson’s introduction in April this year.

Having commenced production in June, the machine was already in use by Wales, England, Scotland and Georgia at the Rugby World Cup and is also already being manufactured under licence in the US and New Zealand.

Rhino Rugby is an Official Supplier at the Rugby Expo to be held at Twickenham. The latter day is club open day so please come and visit us at Stand B1. In addition to our mainstream equipment business, staff from Rhino Teamwear and from our fashion brand RhinoGB will be exhibiting alongside us, and Rhino-Turf, our artificial playing surface brand, will be providing the interactive zone feature on day two.

We look forward very much to seeing you there.

Visit Rhino Rugby at Rugby Expo Stand B1
23-24 NOVEMBER TWICKENHAM

Rhino Rugby has been shortlisted for two separate awards at Rugby Expo’s Rugby Awards Dinner next week.

The company’s long track record of low profile but effective CSR activity through support of charities and programmes such as SCRUMSMART, the not for profit campaign to promote safe and effective fully contested scrummaging in rugby union (which spawned the IRB/RFU sponsored measurement of forces in scrummaging project at Bath University, amongst other things), coupled with our higher profile sponsorship of the British & Irish Lions, England and Wales and a number of professional clubs in both codes, has been recognised by nomination for the Sponsor of the Year Award.

Richie Gray’s Rhino Collision King, described by forward coaching guru Jim Telfer as ‘one of the biggest breakthroughs in rugby training equipment in recent years’ has additionally been nominated for the Technical Innovation Award.

The above nominations follow on from CEO Reg Clark’s winning the Rugby Business Person of the Year award at the 2008 Expo and election amongst the 20 Most Influential persons in world rugby at the 2010 Expo.

We are extremely proud of both nominations this year and will keep our fingers crossed for further success!

See Rhino Rugby at the Rugby Expo 2011 November 23 - 24
Visit us on stand B1

UPDATE: Rhino Rugby and Richie Grey won the Technical Innovation award for The Collision King

RaboDirect Pro12 - Rhino Vortex Elite Rugby Ball

Reg Clark and Karl Hogan with the newly minted RaboDirect PRO12 trophy at the Aviva Stadium

The recent Leinster vs Munster game in the RaboDirect PRO12 - billed as 'Fever at the Aviva 2' and attended by close to 50,000 fans - developed into a goal kicking contest between Ireland's leading fly halves - Johnny Sexton for Leinster and Ronan O'Gara for Munster, who between them achieved a remarkable strike rate of 13 out of 14 successful kicks at goal from a wide variety of angles and distances.

This was extremely gratifying to Rhino CEO Reg Clark and Irish Sales Agent Karl Hogan, attending the event as guests of Celtic Rugby, in the Rhino Vortex Elite's first season as Official Ball of the competition.

The reception of players and coaches to the new ball has been overwhelming positive - far be it for us to compare that with ball controversies in other recent high profile rugby tournaments!