Gloucester Rugby abandoned, have never come into effect and do not appear to for the foreseeable future. 2007 also saw the club reject the proposal of a new 20,000 all seater stadium in an area of the city nicknamed 'The Railway Triangle'. This was intended to be shared with the local football side. Kingsholm was also suggested in October 2007 as a possible temporary home for Gloucester City after their stadium Meadow Park was flooded and then abandoned following the summer floods. This move was, however, rejected by Gloucester Rugby Chairman, Tom Walkinshaw. In 2017, Gloucester Rugby announced that the Kingsholm Stadium
Rugby union at the Maccabiah Games population. However, despite this there have often been six or seven sides competing at the Maccabiah Games. Teams tend to be from the major English speaking nations (with the exception of NZ and Ireland), but teams from France, Chile and Uruguay have also competed. The Israel team is unique in being the only full national side at the Maccabiah, and which can contain non-Jewish Israeli players. Maccabiah rugby started at the 1981 Maccabiah Games, and has been played continually ever since. Rugby is played in many countries with sizable Jewish populations, notably France, the British Commonwealth and the USA. It