#RugbyUnited set to take it to the next level

The founder of #rugbyunited, Trevor Large, is excited about the next few months as he believes his initiative can really take off during this year’s World Cup.

Trevor began #rugbyunited in 2011 when Samoan Eliota Sapolu was given masses of support on Twitter after his controversial comments about Samoa rugby.

Trevor noticed that fans from all different clubs and nations got behind Sapolu and he decided to bring these fans together on a more permanent basis through #rugbyunited.

Now, Trevor with many others at #rugbyunited, are extremely keen to keep progressing and are hoping that fans and clubs across the world will be even more involved with #rugbyunited when England kick off the World Cup against Fiji in just under seven weeks’ time.

“We have got a lot of initiatives we are working on at the moment, “he explained.

“Thanks to twitter this year, we now have the @rugbyunited twitter account given to us which was already an account but it was dormant.  So now what we want for the World Cup is to get the @rugbyunited to every single game.

“We want to give the twitter log in to fans going to the games so people will be able to see fans at the game, taking photos and really showing off what #rugbyunited is all about.

For people that don’t know what #rugbyunited is, it is a cohesive social platform which brings rugby fans from all around the world together, predominately over twitter. 

In December 2011, Trevor wanted to start bringing rugby communities together from across the globe and came up with this simple but now hugely successful idea to coin the phrase #rugbyunited.

“On Twitter, we have 130 plus twitter accounts, that run loads of club and countries and we tweet in over 24 languages,” said Trevor.

“For example, we have clubs that represent the Premiership, Pro 12s, Super 15 and some of the French clubs in the Pro 12s aswell along with the top 50 nations registered by the IRB so we cover a whole spectrum of rugby and fans which is brought together over the social platform #rugbyunited.”

Fans play a key part in making this brilliant idea work so well and #rugbyunited encourages fans to get involved in projects such as the #rugbypass which has taken off quite recently on YouTube.

“We want people do whatever they want! We have never been prescriptive what happens.

“People use it for a whole range of different things to suit their own needs. People use #rugbyunited for news and views and interactions such as the #rugbypass just to keep the community engaged, have fun with it and enjoy talking rugby.”