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Ellis Jenkins to see multiple specialists before undergoing surgery for ‘significant’ knee injury

29 November 2018 0 comments

Cardiff Blues and WRU work with specialists to try and keep flanker’s World Cup dream alive

Guscott column: Gap is closing in North-South divide

29 November 2018 0 comments

Times are changing…

How beasting from O’Connell put George Robson on the road to academic life

28 November 2018 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher catches up with the former Quins lock now preparing for the Varsity Match with Oxford

Johan Ackermann waits on Franco Mostert’s availability for Gloucester amid dispute

27 November 2018 0 comments

Franco Mostert is in Gloucester, met his teammates, but is grounded from playing

Jack Nowell to be sidelined for nine weeks, Rob Baxter confirms

27 November 2018 0 comments

A big doubt for Exeter’s remaining Champions Cup pool stage matches

Team up and travel together with InsideJapan

27 November 2018 0 comments

Were you lucky enough to secure Rugby World Cup tickets in the ballot? With less than a year to go it’s time to firm up […]

Wayne Pivac goes public with Scarlets’ interest in Premiership wing

27 November 2018 0 comments

Cardiff Blues have also shown interest

Sam Burgess lets rip at ‘selfish players’ who cost England at the 2015 World Cup

27 November 2018 0 comments

Former England and Bath centre has his say on players who had their ‘own agendas’

Andy Farrell to become head coach of Ireland after 2019 Rugby World Cup

26 November 2018 0 comments

Joe Schmidt’s successful reign to come to an end, IRFU confirms

Michael Lynagh has his say on what England-Australia rivalry means to the Wallabies

23 November 2018 0 comments

There’s plenty of history between the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere giants

Cain column: Exit of RFU CEO Steve Brown exposes growing split in rugby

23 November 2018 0 comments

Nick Cain explains how the RFU’s agreement with the Premiership and the revamp to Twickenham’s East Stand caused headaches

Wales team to wear rainbow laces in show of support to Gareth Thomas

22 November 2018 0 comments

Wales make act of solidarity to LGBT community following attack on 100-cap Thomas

Jackson column: Wales must find more to beat the Springboks

22 November 2018 0 comments

Wales have put the fright on South Africa in their past three meetings, but things have changed

How English rugby shattered the All Blacks mystique on the same anniversary as their 2003 World Cup triumph

21 November 2018 0 comments

November 22 is a big day for some in the North West Counties…

Room 101: Gloucester utility back Tom Hudson

21 November 2018 0 comments

Not a fan of the winter darkness

Guscott column: England must beat Wallabies in convincing fashion

21 November 2018 0 comments

Jeremy Guscott questions whether the players who were given a chance against Japan will be trusted against the Aussies

Is technology improving or spoiling the game?

17 November 2018 0 comments

Love it or hate it, there has been no escaping the technology in England’s autumn series so far. Both of their opening games (against South […]

Guscott column: England are finding their courage again

15 November 2018 0 comments

Tenacious performance against the All Blacks is building hope again

Cain column: Don’t sacrifice Lions Tour for a duff cup competition

13 November 2018 0 comments

Killing off the Lions Tour is criminal, writes Nick Cain

Dream Team: Bristol Bears hooker Tom Lindsay

13 November 2018 0 comments

Formerly of Wasps, Gloucester and Bedford

Zach Kibirige on Newcastle’s competition for places with Goneva, Sinoti Sinoti and the emerging Adam Radwan

9 November 2018 0 comments

Radwan is a massive ‘weapon for us’ says Falcons teammate

Williams column: Wales will be ready for the Aussies now

7 November 2018 0 comments

Limit the game to forwards play and Wales can be victorious over Wallabies

Jackson column: How Melon made a real prune out of Ronan O’Gara

7 November 2018 0 comments

A whopping 134 Tests epitomised by one moment of prop brilliance in 2005

Gallagher column: Where have Eddie’s bullying forwards got to?

2 November 2018 0 comments

Time is running out for Eddie to sort out his pack

Dream Team: Bath second row Dave Attwood

2 November 2018 0 comments

Attwood picks a XV from his time at the Rec, Bristol, Gloucester and Toulon

Dream Team: Bristol Bears flanker Steven Luatua picks his XV

26 October 2018 0 comments

A team steeped with All Blacks

Young Gun – Sale Sharks fly-half Kieran Wilkinson

25 October 2018 0 comments

… A fly-half named Wilkinson

I’d like to emulate Halfpenny with Champions Cup success at Toulon, says Rhys Webb

20 October 2018 0 comments

With his international career in limbo after new WRU’s new selection policy, we caught up with the Wales scrum-half on the Cote d’Azur

Jackson column: Mike Brown wins the new ‘Bionic Elbow’ man

18 October 2018 0 comments

The ever-present Harlequins full-back has reached 301 appearances

Gallagher column: I still feel the stress of that French fightback in 1999

18 October 2018 0 comments

New Zealand 31-43 France, a match that had the heart racing even for the neutrals

Room 101: Exeter Chiefs wing Olly Woodburn

18 October 2018 0 comments

Three things the Chief has a real dislike for

Crisis? What crisis? Steve Brown says RFU is in good shape

17 October 2018 0 comments

Nick Cain meets the RFU chief executive who reflects on the financial implications facing the body

Dream Team: London Irish and former Wasps and Leinster centre Brendan Macken

12 October 2018 0 comments

This is some team…

Guscott column: Alex Goode and Liam Williams can be European Player of the Year nominees when they set the Champions Cup alight

11 October 2018 0 comments

Jeremy Guscott makes his picks of players to watch in this season’s Champions Cup

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