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Radradra has been my player of the tournament

13 October 2019 0 comments

JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK WALES must be licking their lips with the prospect of France as their quarter- final opponents because they have […]

Give us more top level games, plead Uruguay

13 October 2019 0 comments

By ALEX BYWATER URUGUAY captain Juan Gaminara has told World Rugby the South Americans must take on the game’s best sides more than once every […]

Fast games suit super-fit Wales says training guru

8 October 2019 0 comments

How sports science has Wales ready to be unbroken in the humid conditions of Japan

Williams column: Hope has turned into belief after win over Aussies

8 October 2019 0 comments

How Wales’ win over the Wallabies changed their outlook for the rest of the World Cup

Problems will exist in the Pacific until we get a professional team, says Fiji coach McKee

8 October 2019 0 comments

John McKee reflects on the issues facing Fiji, Samoa and Tonga, with all three nations set to exit the World Cup in the pool stage

Georgia turn on the power to bury Los Teros

6 October 2019 0 comments

Georgia……………33 Uruguay……………7 GEORGIA scored five tries to bring Uruguay crashing down to earth at Kumagaya Stadium following the South Americans’ shock opening victory over Fiji. […]

Wales withstand Wallaby revival to claim epic win

6 October 2019 2 comments

By SAM JACKSON Diving in: Gareth Davies goes over to score Wales’ second try WALES held off a fierce Wallaby fightback to take control of […]

Dan will be ‘ready to go for Fiji’

6 October 2019 1 comment

DAN Biggar should be fit to face Fiji after a head injury forced him off. “As far as I understand, he hopefully will be ready […]

Fast games suit super-fit Wales says training guru

6 October 2019 0 comments

By ALEX BYWATER Belief: Ryan Chambers WALES’ World Cup campaign couldn’t have gone much better to date and off the field Warren Gatland’s support staff […]

Ball’s back on steam in Welsh boiler room

6 October 2019 0 comments

By ALEX BYWATER Hard yards: Jake Ball on the charge against Australia FROM forgotten man to irreplaceable World Cup star, Jake Ball has had quite […]

McKee plots to spoil pal Gatland’s party

6 October 2019 1 comment

By ALEX BYWATER JOHN McKee has known Warren Gatland for nearly two decades, but the Fiji head coach is still determined to throw a spanner […]

Hope has turned into belief after Aussie win

6 October 2019 0 comments

SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Word class rugby: Hadleigh Parkes score against Australia PICTURE: Getty Images THERE will be no sense of complacency from […]

Cut out the Pools and go straight to quarter-finals

6 October 2019 0 comments

COLIN BOAG Humiliation: New Zealand blitz Canada as Rieko Ioane goes over for their fifth try Are you enjoying the RWC so far? I am, […]

Refs must get grip of scrum – Baldwin

6 October 2019 0 comments

By STEFFAN THOMAS Concern: Baldwin SCOTT Baldwin believes inconsistent refereeing of the scrums has contributed to Wales’ set piece problems at the World Cup. Wales […]

Fiji flyers put on the style after half-time

6 October 2019 1 comment

Georgia……………10 Fiji……………45 FIJI ran in six second-half tries to record their first win of this World Cup and ease past Georgia in Higashiosaka. Having impressed […]

Jackson column: Class act as Manuel Diana remembers the fallen

3 October 2019 0 comments

Uruguay back row Manuel Diana paid tribute to the people of Kamaishi as a player who heralds from a club devastated in its own past

Cain column: Bravo Japan… now give us World Cup for Tier 2

2 October 2019 0 comments

Nick Cain outlines why a World Cup exclusive to Tier 2 nations is needed in the wake of Japan’s shock win over Ireland

Williams column: This Wales side have got Michael Cheika worried

29 September 2019 0 comments

Shane Williams previews the big clash in Pool A between Wales and Australia

Class act as Diana remembers the fallen

29 September 2019 0 comments

Emotional: Manuel Diana scores for Uruguay PICTURE: Getty Images PETER JACKSON Nobody following the World Cup beyond the banks of the River Plate in Montevideo […]

Canada need to evoke the 1991 spirit of Vimy Ridge

29 September 2019 0 comments

Enforcer: Norm Hadley CANADA tackle New Zealand on Wednesday and whenever the Canuks meet the All Blacks, which isn’t very often, your mind goes back […]

Key injuries mean Scots must change their approach

29 September 2019 0 comments

AS THEWorld Cup enters its second full week the stakes are getting higher and the tension mounting. Referees are also under massive scrutiny, it could […]

World Rugby must take blame for tackle farce

29 September 2019 0 comments

Let off: Samoa’s Rey Lee-Lo should have been red-carded I’m not a fan of World Rugby, primarily because it seems to me to be becoming […]

Campese: Aussies will be much slicker against Wales

29 September 2019 0 comments

DAVID Campese is predicting more World Cup woe for the Welsh today reminding Warren Gatland that “Australia always turn up to the big party!” The […]

Gallagher column: Tonga and Samoa should have a base in Auckland

26 September 2019 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher’s focusses on the lineage of Tonga, Samoa and Fiji’s squads, most of whom are based in New Zealand and Australia

Refereeing levels have been sub-standard, World Rugby admits

24 September 2019 0 comments

There have been a number of controversial decisions made so far at the World Cup

Fijian giant Ratuva is on his way to join the Scarlets

22 September 2019 0 comments

By STEFFAN THOMAS THE Scarlets are set to sign Fiji World Cup lock Tevita Ratuva from Bordeaux- Begles. Ratuva is a member of the Fijian […]

Let the counties reps run our amateur game

22 September 2019 0 comments

COLIN BOAG Investment needed: Fiji did well against Australia, how much better with more money? Iwas on the list of the people who received an […]

DREAMTEAM

22 September 2019 0 comments

GARRY LAW, DARLINGTON MP HEAD COACH AND FORMER BORDERS, SCOTLAND A, VIADANA, LAZIO AND ROTHERHAM UTILITY BACK, CHOOSES HIS BEST XV PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST […]

Tonga and Samoa should have a base in Auckland

22 September 2019 2 comments

BRENDAN GALLAGHER Exile returns: Steve Mafi played for Australia U20 before going back to Tonga Tonga will briefly enter our rugby consciousness later this morning […]

These Sevens stars can shine bright in Japan

22 September 2019 0 comments

Gold: Leone Nakarawa SEVENS sometimes gets a bad wrap with the perception being that it has become a sport apart and doesn’t connect with the […]

HOW ALL THE OTHER WORLD CUPS STARTED

22 September 2019 1 comment

1987 New Zealand v Italy (Eden Park): The ceremony consisted of schoolkids and scouts shambling around the ground with the 16 flags. The rugby though […]

Baxter’s new breed prove their qualities

22 September 2019 2 comments

By MIKE SINCLAIR THE next generation of Exeter forwards showed they have been wellschooled in the Chiefs’ brand of pack attrition. They forced Bath to […]

Wallabies comeback dodges banana skin

22 September 2019 1 comment

By GARY FITGERALD Revving it up: Samu Kerevi scores Australia’s fifth try PICTURE: Getty Images Breakaway: Waisea Nayacalevu puts Fiji 21-12 ahead MICHAEL Cheika agreed […]

McKee: Hodge deserved a yellow

22 September 2019 0 comments

JOHN McKee claimed the decision by fellow Kiwi Ben O’Keeffe not to punish Reece Hodge for a no-arms tackle was crucial in his team’s failed […]

I’ll prove Eddie was wrong to drop me, says Nathan Hughes

17 September 2019 0 comments

“You train all your life for a big goal like the World Cup and sometimes you have obstacles put in your way and this is just one of them” – Hughes

Japan will go ballistic if Blossoms bloom at Rugby World Cup

17 September 2019 0 comments

Nick Cain sets out the teams who are likely to be in the quarter-finals, and pegs Japan and Fiji to be the ones who could spring a surprise

Skipper Vui must be at his best to inspire this underpowered Samoan challenge

15 September 2019 1 comment

Play-maker: Fly-half Tusi Pisi SAMOA have always been underdogs, but they used to punch above their weight and the question in Japan is – can […]

Little things matter if the Canucks are to progress

15 September 2019 0 comments

CANADA Hope: Evan Olmstead CANADA emerged from last year’s last-chance saloon as convincing winners of the repechage tournament to continue the tradition of there always […]

Young Guns: Newcastle Falcons scrum-half Cameron Nordli-Kelemeti

13 September 2019 0 comments

Nordli-Kelemeti explains to Neale Harvey how he found rugby after the death of his mother when he was six

Gallagher column: So troubling to see Devin Toner replaced by a mercenary

13 September 2019 0 comments

South Africa-born lock Jean Kleyn will be playing in the World Cup for Ireland

WRU dish out ‘confetti’ caps to their reserve team

1 September 2019 1 comment

THERE was a time when the Welsh Rugby Union went to elaborate lengths to avoid awarding caps, almost as if it were a cost-cutting measure. […]

Fast tempo impressed me, it’s key to success

25 August 2019 1 comment

SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND WALES are set to make a host of changes for Saturday’s World Cup warm-up clash with Ireland and normally […]

Cheika takes chance on veteran Pocock

25 August 2019 1 comment

AUSTRALIA coach Michael Cheika has named back rower David Pocock in his World Cup squad, despite the forward’s fitness concerns. Pocock, 31, has not played […]

Spare a thought for speedsters who will miss World Cup

25 August 2019 0 comments

THERE is no question that some bright new shiny stars on the wing will announce themselves in Japan next month so there is no need […]

Police escort put us on glory road

25 August 2019 1 comment

MY LIFEIN RUGBY NIGEL POMPHREY THE FORMER BRISTOL AND ENGLAND XV LOCK ALL three of our Cup Finals appearances in the 1980s were memorable occasions […]

Cruden fails with last-gasp kick to hand Castres win

25 August 2019 1 comment

Seventy days after Toulouse lifted the Boucliers de Brennus for the first time in nine years, the new Top 14 season kicked off with high […]

Matavesi gets his World Cup call again from Fiji

18 August 2019 0 comments

Japan challenge: Matavesi NEWCASTLE Falcons centre Josh Matavesi has been named in Fiji’s squad for the World Cup. The 28-year-old has been capped by his […]