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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoDe Klerk puts mighty spring into the new South Africa
By Brendan Gallagher I don’t think I’m alone in thinking that Sale‘s Faf De Klerk could well have been the Premiership...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoAll Blacks star set for big move to Toulon
Mourad Boudjellal busy in recruitment again...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoJackson column: Surely Bok reserves don’t merit cap status
By Peter Jackson Charlie Faulkner will never forget his international debut, how he stood toe-to-toe against the All Blacks and slugged...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoEngland name Test side for second Test against Springboks
Brad Shields in for Chris Robshaw, as Jones shuffles pack
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Dream Team
/ 8 years agoDream Team: David Sisi, former London Irish and Bath back row
The Zebre back row picks the best he has played with and against?
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Featured
/ 8 years agoArgentina to host 2019 World Rugby U20 Championship
U20 Championship can deliver legacy for rugby in Argentina, says country's rugby chief
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Featured
/ 8 years agoGregor Townsend appoints Stuart Hogg as captain for USA trip
Stuart Hogg will lead a Scotland side featuring 12 changes for their Test against the USA in Houston in the early...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoRG Snyman takes the glory in win over England on debut
It was an impressive debut for the 23-year-old Bulls lock
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoWasps sign Kieran Brookes after decision to leave Franklin’s Gardens
Moving on to the Ricoh Arena
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGuscott column: We missed Joe Launchbury, Le Roux boosted Boks
Jeremy Guscott's viewpoint on where things went wrong for England in the first Test
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoLeicester Tigers centre George Catchpole retires from rugby
Calling it a day at the age of 24...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoYou haven’t heard the last of Spain, insists Jaime Nava
The Spain captain claims there is no justice in the system after his team are disqualified from the Rugby World Cup...
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Features
/ 8 years agoGoneva try helps Fiji open title defence with win over Samoa
PACIFIC NATIONS CUP ROUND-UP NEWCASTLE wing Vereniki Goneva was on the scoresheet as Fiji began their Pacific Nations Cup title defence...
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Features
/ 8 years agoSurely Bok reserves don’t merit cap status
PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Made to wait for his cap: Wales prop Charlie Faulkner PICTURE: Getty Images...
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Features
/ 8 years agoArgentina apart, where would rest of world be without those Kiwis?
WHEREVER you looked yesterday just about every country – England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Italy, France, Australia, Japan – had something in...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER NEW ZEALAND, ENGLAND AND HARLEQUINS CENTRE JAMIE SALMON Three years after being rejected by Kent at an U19 trial...
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Features
/ 8 years agoConnacht avoid red mist yet again
PETER JACKSON looks at the saints and sinners from Europe’s three main leagues For the first time in 15 years, Connacht...
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Features
/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
JAMES SCOTT WORCESTER & ENGLAND U20S LOCK James Scott might have been a footballer and could have been a top basketball...
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Features
/ 8 years agoHe likes a joke but Evans is no clown
ALEX BYWATER sits down in Argentina with jovial Welsh loosehead Rob Evans Coming force: Rob Evans PICTURES: Getty Images ROB Evans...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMcCafferty’s put his head in the Lions’ den
NICK CAIN READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK HAVING spent most of the season refusing to comment on matters pertaining to...
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Features
/ 8 years agoPichot is picking on wrong target in Shields
AGUSTIN Pichot wants to make the eligibility laws in rugby more stringent, so more power to his elbow. They are an...
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Features
/ 8 years agoRubbish like last week won’t grow game in US
COLIN BOAG Dud: Wales clash with South Africa in Washington last weekend Did you watch the Wales v South Africa match...
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Features
/ 8 years agoNorth is a winger, let him do his thing
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Best on the wing: George North PICTURE: Getty Images IT’S going to be vital for...
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Features
/ 8 years agoBack Jenkins to be in the starting XV come Japan
AS Warren Gatland’s boys prepare for their second Test with Argentina this week, a special word on back row co-captain Ellis...
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Features
/ 8 years agoWoodward’s way or the highway after Tour of Hell
BRENDAN GALLAGHER looks at how the infamous tour in 1998 helped turn England into world beaters Record defeat: Ben Sturnham on...
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Features
/ 8 years agoBoden banking on that Yorkshire grit
JON NEWCOMBE talks to Steve Boden about stepping up to the head coach role at Carnegie Making his point: Carnegie head...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoEngland know it’s make or break for them in Johannesburg Test
Nick Cain summarises what's at stake between England and their hosts South Africa – and looks at the new players on...
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Featured
/ 8 years agoTom Curry and Billy Vunipola in England’s back row to play Boks
Full team news as Billy Vunipola starts his first Test for England in over a year
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Featured
/ 8 years agoSouth Africa name team to take on England in first Test
Duane Vermeulen, Faf de Klerk and Willie le Roux are in for the Boks...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 years agoGallagher column: Hero pathfinders fought the cause of black players in Apartheid-era South Africa
Brendan Gallagher looks at the trailblazers who paved the way for Siya Kolisi to become the first black Springboks captain 24...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoPolota-Nau takes summer break to repay Tigers and deliver play-off shot in 2019
The Leicester hooker wants to take a run at next year's World Cup but only after taking Leicester to the Premiership...
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoFoundations are in place for a long Saracens reign, says Wyles
The retiring American reflects on the club's forged dynasty
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Club Rugby
/ 8 years agoThomas the Tank rolls out of Exeter with mission complete
Back in New Zealand after eight enjoyable years in England with the Chiefs and Leicester
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Featured
/ 8 years agoDallaglio: Eddie must give Danny Cipriani a chance at fly-half
Dallaglio says Eddie Jones is waiting on a prayer after four defeats on the bounce for England
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Featured
/ 8 years agoWales edge South Africa in Washington thanks to late Ryan Elias try
A third-straight win over South Africa for Wales, but this Test match left a lot to be desired
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Features
/ 8 years agoYOUNG GUNS
JORDAN OLOWOFELA LEICESTER FULL-BACK Atry-double in the Junior World Cup opener against Argentina continued the recent run of success for England...
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Features
/ 8 years agoAshton resumes place as top gun in Europe
PETER JACKSON consults his stats book to reveal Europe’s top points scorers for 2017-18 Out in front: Toulon ace Chris Ashton...
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Features
/ 8 years agoDon’t blame Eddie for all these injury troubles
COLIN BOAG Knockabout game: England v Barbarians was end of season fun It has been open season on Eddie Jones in...
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Features
/ 8 years agoDREAM TEAM
JUSTIN BURNELL, PONTYPRIDD COACH AND FORMER BRIDGEND, PONTY, NEATH AND CARDIFF FLANKER, CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR...
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Features
/ 8 years agoEngland should copy the Saracens style of play
JEREMY GUSCOTT Champions: Saracens know how to win games PICTURE: Getty Images ENGLAND’S defeat by the Barbarians will have only a...
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Features
/ 8 years agoNew-look Wales bid to emulate success of ‘99
ALEX BYWATER talks to the Welsh coaching duo hoping for more glory days in Argentina History boys: Chris Wyatt scores for...
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Features
/ 8 years agoDead dogs, muggers… welcome to Argentina!
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Needs to be at his best: Rob Evans faces a big test in Argentina INEVER...
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Features
/ 8 years agoUS game critics are all just talking nonsense
I SIMPLY can’t understand those who have spent the last week slamming Wales’ clash with South Africa in Washington. Yes there...
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Features
/ 8 years agoHope on the High Veldt … if you forget the drubbings
BRENDAN GALLAGHER looks back at the big England wins on tour against the Springboks Try-scorer: Ben Clarke England have taken some...
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Features
/ 8 years agoHow Bok tour turned whitewashed England into All Black beaters
Skipper in ‘72: John Pullin I’M NOTsure how much store Eddie Jones puts in history but the last time England travelled...
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Features
/ 8 years agoMY LIFEIN RUGBY
DAVE SEYMOUR THE FORMER SARACENS, SALE AND ENGLAND SEVENS FORWARD To have started, and ended, my career working for Steve Diamond...
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Featured
/ 8 years ago50 tournaments for England captain Tom Mitchell and he says Sevens can only grow
England have been drawn in a pool with Kenya, USA and Russia for the event at Twickenham
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