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Top 20 wasted rugby talents countdown: No 5-1

18 April 2020 0 comments

Out countdown reaches its conclusion…

Lions Tour contenders RANKED – Jamie George faces challenge from bolters

17 April 2020 0 comments

Nick Cain ranks the five hookers leading the way to start for the Lions against the Springboks in 2021

Top 20 wasted rugby talents countdown: No 10-6

17 April 2020 0 comments

An All Blacks career derailed and the Caribbean-English trailblazer born in the wrong era

Top 20 wasted rugby talents countdown: No 15-11

16 April 2020 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher rankings of talents who didn’t fulfil their potential continues…

Q&A: Ben Smith – All Blacks would be wrong to start selecting Europe-based players

16 April 2020 0 comments

Legendary All Blacks full-back Ben Smith talks at length about his New Zealand career and time in France with Pau

London Irish building new dynasty around their Fantastic Four

15 April 2020 0 comments

Anthony Watson, Jonathan Joseph, Joe Cokanasiga, Delon Armitage all came through the Exiles pathway. Neale Harvey finds there’s four newbies ready to follow

Top 20 wasted rugby talents countdown: No 20-16

14 April 2020 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher ranks the players who could have achieved so much more in the game

Top 20 try saving tackles of all time: No.5-1

10 April 2020 0 comments

We reach the end of our countdown of the best individual moments in defence from the history of international rugby

Q&A: Gareth Steenson – I don’t know why there aren’t many Exeter players in the England squad

9 April 2020 0 comments

Read our in-depth interview with the Exeter Chiefs stalwart, who doesn’t know if he’ll be at Sandy Park next season

Top 20 try saving tackles of all time: No.20-16

7 April 2020 0 comments

One of the great World Cup tackles from Japan’s Ayumu Goromaru

Top 20 tries of all time countdown: No.1-5

6 April 2020 0 comments

Our countdown of the greatest tries reaches No.1

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

Top 20 tries of all time countdown: No.11-15

1 April 2020 0 comments

Part Two of our four-part special features Jonah Lomu and JPR Williams

Guscott column: Lions must be ready, Springboks will only get better

31 March 2020 0 comments

For a third consecutive tour of South Africa, the British & Irish Lions will be facing a world champion team

Gloucester wing Ollie Thorley upping his game in search of elusive England cap

30 March 2020 0 comments

What has been the message from Eddie Jones?

Lewis Thiede to leave Bristol Bears who await Sinckler’s arrival

30 March 2020 0 comments

Tighthead prop Thiede will exit Ashton Gate when his contract at Bristol expires

Saracens vice-captain Jackson Wray commits for season in Championship

30 March 2020 0 comments

Wray explains why leaving Saracens was never really an option for him

Wales face ace tighthead Tomas Francis staying with Exeter

25 March 2020 0 comments

Tomas Francis faces a choice between club and country

Guscott column: Why have flying 10s like Dan Carter disappeared?

24 March 2020 0 comments

Jeremy Guscott takes a special look at how the evolution of the role of centres has changed things for fly-halves

My Life in Rugby: Former England Sevens star Christian Lewis-Pratt

18 March 2020 0 comments

Lewis-Pratt also played XVs for Northampton, Leeds Tykes and London Irish

Young Guns: Newcastle Falcons fly-half Will Haydon-Wood

13 March 2020 0 comments

Going head-to-head with Gloucester’s George Barton for the England U20’s fly-half starting job

Italy game would have been ideal for England’s impactful trio to fully showcase talent

12 March 2020 0 comments

Nick Cain explains the difficulties for England in giving more game time to replacements and fringe players

My Life in Rugby: Former Leicester Tiger back Matt Smith

6 March 2020 0 comments

Now Leicester Tigers academy head coach after retiring last season

Jackson column: Alun Wyn Jones needs to walk tall at Twickenham

4 March 2020 0 comments

Wales need their captain and Ken ‘The Sheriff’ Owens to be on point for their Six Nations clash against England

PRO14 anticipate interruption to league due to spread of coronavirus

28 February 2020 0 comments

The PRO14 has already postponed two fixtures set to be held this weekend in Italy

Dream Team: Ealing Trailfinders lock James Cannon

27 February 2020 0 comments

A forward who represented Northampton Saints, Wasps and Connacht

World Rugby to assemble working group to deliberate breakdown rules

27 February 2020 0 comments

Coaches, players, team medics and game administrators will meet in Paris next week to discuss the function of the ruck

England bring down Ireland’s Grand Slam dream

23 February 2020 0 comments

In their first match at Twickenham of 2020, England kept the game out of Ireland’s control to win 24-12

Jonathan Joseph on the wing for England, Daly to full-back

21 February 2020 0 comments

England head coach makes changes to the backline after George Furbank is ruled out of Ireland clash

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

Rugby Matters: 2020 is no comparison to the thuggery of 1980

20 February 2020 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher recalls the most brutally physical of Five Nations championships in 1980

Cain column: Championship should go down legal route in this bloody battle

18 February 2020 0 comments

Nick Cain questions whether Bill Sweeney is doing the bidding of the Premiership’s shareholders

Jackson column: Lions eye 2021 tour warm-up in Cardiff

12 February 2020 0 comments

The Lions plan on facing the Barbarians on home soil before jetting off to South Africa in 2021

Cain column: Enigma of Eddie Jones is a problem for England

11 February 2020 0 comments

Is this England team veering from one extreme to the other after the World Cup defeat?

Young Guns: Saracens hooker Theo Dan

7 February 2020 0 comments

Starting for England U20s in their match against Scotland this weekend

Young Guns: London Irish prop Luke Green

5 February 2020 0 comments

Get to know the England U20 tighthead who will start against Scotland this weekend at Myreside

Jacques Vermeulen kicking on at Exeter after brush with Nick Easter

5 February 2020 0 comments

Neale Harvey meets Exeter Chiefs’ Jacques Vermeulen and Jannes Kirsten – both already making an impact

Jackson column: Sean Lineen led the way for Six Nations invasion

5 February 2020 0 comments

How the trickle of Kiwis into the Six Nations started with Scotland centre Sean Lineen

Cain column: Pressure can turn even the best refs into homers

5 February 2020 0 comments

EDDIE Jones has a habit of stirring the pot, and he did it in the build-up to England‘s Six Nations opener against France in Paris, […]

Talent-spotter Paul Turner seeking more gems for WRU

4 February 2020 0 comments

“The Welsh Exiles programme has gone from strength to strength” – how can Wales find more Tompkins and Rowlands?

Nick Tompkins must start for Wales, says Shane Williams

4 February 2020 0 comments

Nick Tompkins is a must-start for Saturday’s trip to Ireland after impressing on debut

Williams column: Old dog Dan Biggar can drive new Wales era forth

29 January 2020 0 comments

Chris Boyd has got Dan Biggar playing with no limits, writes Shane Williams

Jackson column: No bumps in the road for Wayne Pivac in his first match

29 January 2020 0 comments

As Wales prepare to face Italy in the Six Nations, Peter Jackson looks at how Pivac’s predecessors fared in their first matches in charge

Israel Folau finds new club in Catalan Dragons

28 January 2020 0 comments

Catalan Dragons wanted to give Folau ‘a new opportunity to shine on the pitch’

Matt Proudfoot: How England’s new forwards coach left a mark on Pieter-Steph du Toit and Schalk Brits

24 January 2020 0 comments

The two Springboks reveal the inner teachings of Proudfoot who worked under Rassie Erasmus in the World Cup triumph

Rugby Matters: New Broom Galthie has the leeway to go for broke with France

23 January 2020 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher writes how a new-found desire to nurture homegrown talent in the Top 14 has allowed Fabien Galthie to rewrite the rhetoric

Jackson column: Mystery of James Hook and the Wales No.10 shirt

23 January 2020 0 comments

Peter Jackson ponders why James Hook was rarely considered to play at outside half for Wales under Warren Gatland

LEAKED: How Saracens breached the salary cap

23 January 2020 0 comments

Saracens co-investments broken down across property, hospitality and image rights

Williams column: Wayne Pivac has shocked a few and I am glad

22 January 2020 0 comments

Shane Williams praises the shrewd picks of Nick Tompkins and Will Rowlands in the Wales squad for the Six Nations

Premiership Rugby finally break cover over Saracens farrago

22 January 2020 0 comments

Chief executive Darren Childs says Premiership Rugby acted to protect the integrity of the league

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