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Stick or twist? The choice at 10

25 August 2024 0 comments

Paul Rees looks ahead to New Zealand’s heavyweight matches against world champions South Africa The Rugby Championship title could be decided in the next two […]

Bracken: Head injury ‘scandal’ must end

22 August 2021 0 comments

Rugby desperately needs its own seat belt when it comes to head injury, says Kyran Bracken

Richard Cockerill now in frame to replace Eddie Jones

15 August 2021 0 comments

Set to become England’s forwards coach this week, where does Richard Cockerill’s arrival leave England’s plan for post-RWC2023

Eddie Jones completes recruitment of Martin Gleeson to succeed Amor

6 August 2021 1 comment

As revealed by TRP back on April 11, Martin Gleeson will leave Wasps to join the England programme as attack coach

IRFU put block on move for one of Andy Farrell’s assistants

1 August 2021 0 comments

Dwayne Peel had hoped to bring Ireland forwards coach Simon Easterby back to the Scarlets

Tom de Glanville aims to make Eddie Jones re-consider

1 August 2021 0 comments

Bath full-back Tom de Glanville discusses his England hopes with Adam Ellis after call-ups to two of Eddie Jones’ training squads

Richard Cockerill ponders England job after talks with Eddie Jones

1 August 2021 0 comments

England’s new forwards coach?

Now head analyst quits Eddie Jones staff

1 August 2021 0 comments

John Mitchell will be followed out the door by England head analyst Joe Lewis

Rugby World Cup 2023 | Who Will Claim the Last 8 Spots?

19 March 2021 0 comments

Twelve teams have already booked a spot at the 2023 World Cup in France, and here we take a look at the teams that are […]

All Blacks great Dan Carter retires at the age of 38

20 February 2021 2 comments

The three-time World Rugby Men’s Player of the Year brings the curtain down on an illustrious career in professional rugby

Johnny Sexton says there is ‘no reason’ why he can’t play at RWC2023

2 December 2020 0 comments

Johnny Sexton is on 94 caps for Ireland and insists there is still plenty of aspirations he would like to realise before considering retirement

Rob Howley signs up for Canada’s Rugby World Cup campaign

23 September 2020 0 comments

Ex-Wales attack coach Rob Howley takes first steps into coaching after ban for betting

SCHEDULE: Wales must win to miss meeting England at RWC2023

15 September 2020 0 comments

Peter Jackson runs through the autumn schedule for nations in both hemispheres

PRPW condemn World Rugby for its dismissal of Veilomani report

25 July 2020 0 comments

World Rugby claimed the PRPW-commissioned Veilomani report included ‘unsubstantiated and errorneous’ accusations

All Black Jerome Kaino joins war against corruption in Pacific

16 July 2020 0 comments

Kaino has joined Dan Leo’s fight to advocate for greater transparency in the governance of Pacific Island rugby

World Rugby seek new referees chief as Alain Rolland moves on

15 July 2020 0 comments

The former Leinster scrum-half is leaving his role as high-performance officials manager

6 questions with England and Northampton flanker Lewis Ludlam

6 July 2020 0 comments

A snapshot quiz with the openside on his relationship with his father and return to training with Saints

Regrets? Chris Robshaw bows out with some at Harlequins and England

1 July 2020 0 comments

The former England captain explains how the gut-wrenching loss to Wales at the 2015 Rugby World Cup still rankles

World Rugby reveal qualification map for France Rugby World Cup 2023

8 June 2020 0 comments

Eight qualification spots are up for grabs at 2023 Rugby World Cup

‘I can’t respect you, I think you are a bit of a snake’ – Sam Burgess slams Mike Ford

4 June 2020 0 comments

Burgess lifts the lid on his take of what went wrong in England’s World Cup and his exit at Bath

My goal is France in 2023, says Worcester centre Ollie Lawrence

29 May 2020 0 comments

The competition is stacking up behind England main man Manu Tuilagi

Josh Adams pins rapid progression on coach now doing wonders at Saints

15 May 2020 0 comments

The Wales wing talks Neale Harvey through his influences at old club Worcester Warriors

We’ll use defeat in Japan to come back stronger just as the All Blacks did in 2011, says England’s Anthony Watson

14 May 2020 0 comments

The England and Bath full-back want to win, at club and international level

Agustin Pichot quits World Rugby after election defeat

13 May 2020 0 comments

“I cannot conceive of occupying a place just for the sake of occupying it” – Pichot

Where does all the money go in Fiji? Josh Matavesi echoes Dan Leo’s questioning of governance

12 May 2020 0 comments

Dan Leo has called for the IOC to examine World Rugby’s governance after the Francis Kean debacle

Exclusive: Plan for rugby’s global calendar sees Six Nations run into May

5 May 2020 0 comments

Peter Jackson exclusively reports on how the club and international calendar could be about to shift its axis

Canterbury and Adidas lose out to rival as England confirm new kit sponsor deal

5 May 2020 0 comments

England Men’s team, Red Roses, Sevens and age grade teams will no longer wear Canterbury

Bill Beaumont re-elected to second term as World Rugby chairman

2 May 2020 0 comments

First round of voting sees Beaumont pass 26 votes required to be elected

Georgian rugby icon Mamuka Gorgodze announces retirement

1 May 2020 0 comments

Gorgodze won’t get end-of-season farewell after Top 14 season abandoned

WRU announces its support for Bill Beaumont in World Rugby election race

29 April 2020 0 comments

Six votes in the bag for Bill Beaumont as Wales join France agree to add their support to re-election bid

World Rugby election: Agustin Pichot could be five votes short of winning

29 April 2020 0 comments

Pichot appears unlikely to win chairmanship as European powers stands behind Beaumont’s bid

Taqele Naiyaravoro keen to switch allegiance to Fiji

28 April 2020 0 comments

Wallabies wing Naiyaravoro has expressed his desire to play for Fiji depending on the outcome of the World Rugby election

Raelene Castle quits as chief executive of Rugby Australia

23 April 2020 0 comments

CEO leaves position after facing extreme scrutiny and receiving vote of no confidence from 11 former Wallabies captains

Fiji chairman forced to resign from World Rugby Council amid allegations of homophobia

21 April 2020 0 comments

World Rugby withdraw candidacy for executive committee and place on World Rugby Council of FRU chairman Francis Kean

World Rugby announces eight-figure global relief fund for unions

16 April 2020 0 comments

Together with the Six Nations and Sanzaar, World Rugby are examining the rugby calendar

Argentina abandon 2027 Rugby World Cup bid, lend backing to Australia

16 April 2020 0 comments

The world will have to wait a little longer for the first Rugby World Cup in South America

Bill Beaumont outlines vision for World Rugby amid election challenge from Pichot

14 April 2020 0 comments

The former England captain is seeking another term as World Rugby chairman

Agustin Pichot promises a new ‘global game’ with late bid to chair World Rugby

13 April 2020 0 comments

Ex-Argentina scrum-half and World Rugby vice-chairman to rival Bill Beaumont in election

Japan’s Top League comes calling for Wales star Hadleigh Parkes

8 April 2020 0 comments

Could a big payday be coming to the Wales centre?

At my age I questioned whether I should be in the England squad – Willi Heinz

3 April 2020 0 comments

Gloucester scrum-half Heinz praises the worth of Eddie Jones to English rugby after showing faith in him and the rest of the England squad

Eddie Jones signs contract extension through to 2023 Rugby World Cup

2 April 2020 0 comments

Eddie Jones now stands to become England’s longest-serving head coach in history

End these crooked feeds at the scrum, says ref Nigel Owens

31 March 2020 0 comments

No referee is more experienced in Test rugby, so what does Nigel Owens see wrong with the scrum?

Rehab in Austria, texts from Eddie, and an Exeter double – we talk to Jack Nowell

27 March 2020 0 comments

The Pumas try cost me dear but it was a beauty! Jack Nowell is chomping at the bit to be back with Exeter and England

Michael Cheika opens up on rollercoaster ride with Wallabies

26 March 2020 0 comments

Michael Cheika has reflected on his five-year tenure with the Wallabies, saying the shortcomings of 2019 still ‘hurts’

World Rugby to hold expert forum before outlining transgender policy

21 February 2020 0 comments

London forum will discuss the biology of transgender rugby players to ascertain selection guidelines

England World Cup star George Kruis set to exit Saracens

8 January 2020 0 comments

A big name departure could be on the cards for Saracens and the England lock department

Obituaries: The rugby players and pioneers we lost in 2019

2 January 2020 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher remembers those influenced the sport greatly

The most spectacular tries of the 2019 Rugby World Cup

27 December 2019 0 comments

Josh Adam – WALES v Fiji In a breakthrough year for the former Worcester Warriors wing, the highlight arguably came against Fiji and their electric […]