Tom Williams (rugby player, born 1983) member of the “200 Club” having represented Harlequins for over 200 1st games. During the 2008–09 Heineken Cup quarter final against Leinster, Williams was told to fake a blood injury by Dean Richards to allow a tactical substitition to reintroduce Nick Evans leading to the bloodgate scandal. This resulted in a 12-month ban for Williams, (reduced to four months on appeal), a three-year ban for former director of rugby Dean Richards as well as a two-year ban for physiotherapist Steph Brennan from the ERC with a £260,000 fine for the club. Tom remains the only one to apologise for this
Tasmanian Rugby Union inaugural winners. The women’s fifteen-a-side rugby competition in Tasmania concluded in 2009 due to lack of numbers. The ladies who played were very passionate about the game of rugby, however at that time Tasmania only had four teams in the women’s division, Devonport Rugby Club, Eastern Suburbs Rugby Union Football Club Inc., Taroona Rugby Club and Glenorchy Rugby Union Football Club. In 2015 Tasmania produced the first representative girls rugby sevens team. The under 17 age group team represented Tasmania in the graysonline.com Australian Sevens Development Tournament in Wagga Wagga. They will faced teams from Victoria, NSW, Queensland, ACT and