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