Finally I am making progress in contacting players to receive primary data to contribute towards my project. As in my last post I said how I was to contact a much broader address in order to contact players through them such as the RFU or the WRU and finally I have got a reply from both, initially from the RFU to contact a specific person who deals with such enquiries as this and I did. He replied saying that he was limited to the contacts he has of players wit a career at such time, but he does have addresses so I am to send a written letter to him of who I want to receive the letter and he would then forward them on for me to the address. Instantly after I got a reply from Jan Hill who practically said the exact same thing so I assume that these are common details that agents have of players. I have worded a letter for 8 different people to send to the WRU which will hopefully get sent on because it will cost me a lot of money to send! My next step is to analyse the data I have collected from online and in books to see if it is reliable and to create a small document as evidence for this process. To the right are screenshots of the email from Jan Hill, and the email which I have sent to the WRU. 
   

Since my last post, I have not made too much progress in a sense of contacting individuals about their rugby careers from around 1995. It is unfortunate that I am unable to get hold of many because it would provide valuable information to add to my project, but because of their vast amount of fan mail, it will be very different to obtain an enthusiastic reply. I have decided to change my approach and contact more active websites which will have ways of contacting specific players more directly such as 'LeciesterTigersOfficialPage' or the 'RFU' or 'WRU'. Hopefully they will acknowledge my purpose and (if I pester them enough) they will send me ways of acquiring this information and see me as responsible enough to use it. I have little secondary research left to do now, it is just a matter of organising it in to a structured project because I have the books and have printed off the pages I need. (The picture on the right is a print screen of my e-mail to the RFU and a tweet to Gareth Thomas- this is the only form of contacting I seem to be able to do)

Recently I have been attempting to contact past rugby players which could be of use to my project in a sense of providing first person information. Unfortunately I have had little luck because I have sent several messages to players' websites and their twitters but have only recieved one reply from a man named Matt Hampson, who was only a last resort really because his career was after the icon event which I am researching, but he was still worth a message because of how active he is. I have been pestering him since about how I could possibly contact other players but to no use as he seems to be unable to contact them or have ways in which I could so it's back to step one for me really.
It appears extremely difficult for me because I am messaging legendary rugby players who played top flight rugby but they obviously have very busy lives now with motivational speaking and commentating over games etc. Perhaps in the future I will need to aim alot lower at players who were not international or well known but would be willing to answer the same questions as more famous players.
My research is going... average because there isn't really anything else I need to know, there may not even be anything else to know, I guess I will find out when it comes to planning my final piece; but before that I will need to produce a gant chart.