AFTER easing past Australia with a phenomenal all-court game in Brisbane, South Africa head coach Rassie Erasmus is expecting a reaction next week from the […]
NEW Zealand captain Ar-die Savea admitted their performance wasn’t “up to All Black standard” and hopes the pain of just their third ever defeat to […]
CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED IT WAS a close-run thing but, after crunching the numbers harder than a caffeine-fuelled psephologist on election night, we can now […]
RAYMOND Howell’s letter in last week’s Rugby Paper certainly raises some interesting issues over my article last week including whether or not I was describing […]
Twickenham is to be renamed Allianz Stadium from September after the Rugby Football Union signed a long-term deal with the insurance company. For the first […]
By PAUL EDDISON at Stade de France SEVENS queen Portia Woodman-Wickliffe bowed out in the perfect manner as New Zealand retained their Olympic women’s title. […]
BRISTOL made headlines this week with the signing of Argentina U20 full-back Benjamin Elizalde, below, ahead of the new season. Elizalde arrives in the West […]
CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED Rugby sevens – or SVNS, as a London-based team of funkily-dressed marketing executives have somehow succeeded in rebranding it – used […]
TOBY FREEMAN, THE FORMER EXETER, ORDIZIA, ROTHERHAM, NOTTINGHAM, CORNISH PIRATES & HARLEQUINS LOCK, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST… 1. Marlen […]
MY LIFEIN RUGBY THE FORMER SCOTLAND SEVENS INTERNATIONAL AND GLASGOW HAWKS/WARRIORS, WATERLOO AND BEDFORD BACK ROWER RORY McKAY IT’S been great watching the Rugby Sevens […]
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points BRENDAN GALLAGHER Captured: Gus Warr in action against Canada PICTURE: Alamy SCOTLAND, for reasons […]
CAIOJAMES WALES U18 & GLOUCESTER FLANKER Pocket rocket back row Caio James is unusually short for his position among the piano shifters but the Welsh […]