Darren Childs steps down as Premiership Rugby chief executive to take CVC job

Childs will leave PRL in 'the coming weeks' after less than two years at the top of English rugby's top league

Mark McCall among ten coaching staff to sign new Saracens contracts

Ten senior coaching staff have committed their futures to the 2024-25 season at Saracens

Alun Wyn Jones signs one-year deal to stay in Welsh rugby

Wales captain Jones taking things one year at a time two years out from the 2023 Rugby World Cup

London Irish sign hooker Mike Willemse from Edinburgh

Willemse becomes the first new signing announced by the Exiles for the 2021-22 season

RFU complete Six Nations review and reiterates its ‘full support’ of Eddie Jones

Bill Sweeney and the RFU have completed their review of England's poor Six Nations campaign

The Cox Plate Tips | Betting, Nominations, Field & Betting

The W.S. Cox Plate refers to a thoroughbred horse race event meant for horses that are over under Weight for Age...

Bristol Bears missing key trio for Exeter showdown

Callum Sheedy set to miss 'a couple of weeks' due to a shoulder injury according to Bears director of rugby Pat...

No deal yet between IRFU and Tadhg Furlong

Furlong, 28, is yet to come to an agreement with the IRFU and Leinster

Sale Sharks confirm two-year deal with England centre Manu Tuilagi

Tuilagi is nearing full fitness for Sharks after injuring his Achilles in November

A look back at Japan’s performance in 2015 Rugby World Cup

The 2015 Rugby World Cup saw a surprising performance by underdog team Japan. Read on to know more about the match...

Preview: Make or break time in race for play-offs

Leicester Tigers arrive at the Rec on Sunday afternoon in good form, but Cam Redpath is upbeat about Bath's chances

Hepher: Positive heads won it against Wasps

Exeter Chiefs head coach Ali Hepher reacts to the champions' 43-13 win over Wasps in the Premiership

Forget Six Nations form, Maro Itoje can rattle the Boks | Jeremy Guscott

Itoje is so good that he will rise to the occasion in South Africa as a standout player for the Lions,...

Chris Harris can go from Scotland’s defensive rock to Bok basher for Lions

The Gloucester centre starred in aways wins at Twickenham and the Stade de France for Scotland in the Six Nations –...

Preview: Amps expect arm-wrestle against improving Hartpury

AMPTHILL welcome old National One rivals Hartpury back to Dillingham Park for the second time in the Championship, with director of...

Premiership’s treatment of Lions is a scandal | Nick Cain

Nick Cain aims both barrels at Premiership Rugby for playing innocent of being misinformed over Warren Gatland's timetable for the Lions...

Discipline needs to improve says Alex Sanderson

Sale boss rues red card despite Sharks win over Gloucester

Sale 25-22 Gloucester: Sharks’ 14 let off the hook by not so lethal Louis

Sharks win on home soil as Gloucester misfire in attack

Exeter 43-13 Wasps: Chiefs whip Wasps in hangover cure

Jonny Hill, Luke Cowan-Dickie and Ollie Devoto all on form for Chiefs

DREAM TEAM

STEVIE SCOTT, THE FORMER SCOTLAND AND EDINBURGH HOOKER CHOOSES THE BEST XV HE HAS PLAYED WITH OR AGAINST... 1. Allan ‘Chunk’...

Red card experiment erodes player welfare

COLIN BOAG Let me remind you of the mantra that player welfare is paramount to World Rugby and its Unions. Virtually no announcement...

No good for anyone

AFTER last weekend’s 45-0 and 67-3 hammerings handed out in the Women’s Six Nations, you have to ask what is the...

Pacific franchises can turn the tide

IT feels like a natural fit including Moana Pasifika and Fijian Drua in Super Rugby next year, alongside the other best...

Scrum improving, now sort out mess of driving maul

NOW that the powers that be have clamped down on scrums – in time taken, re-sets and scrummaging just to win...

Weakened Warriors

MICHAEL Reay (TRP letters April 4) may be right that the removal of relegation is improving Premiership matches, but not if...

Rainbow Cup guinea pigs trial new law variations

THE Rainbow Cup will be used to trial red card replacements, captain's challenge and goalline drop-outs. The Dragons get the new...

Captain’s review will cut chance of cheating – Blackett

What is the correct review system for rugby to practice? Wasps head coach Lee Blackett believes the less the TMO is...

Lions will be motivated by pain of World Cup – McBryde

  NEW British & Irish Lions forwards coach Robin McBryde says his team can use the hurt of Wales’ and England’s...

Zebo keen to relaunch Test career

Coming home: Simon Zebo SIMON Zebo will leave Racing 92 this summer to return to Munster on a one-year deal. Cork-born...

Deans: Professional rugby needs to hit reset

FORMER Australia coach Robbie Deans has called on World Rugby to put the game’s players at the forefront of the decision-making...

Jantjies jets in after Pau secure Top 14 survival

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN This was supposed to be derby weekend in France’s Top 14. The usual celebrations were already out of...

My Life in Rugby – Chris Czekaj: I won Challenge Cup after leg break horror

FOUR years after I’d scored on my Wales debut in 2005 against Canada, I did so again in the same corner...

Joseph brings in foreign legion for Lions job

NEWS EXTRA By MATT MCILRAITH JAPAN will be without seven of the side that beat Scotland at the World Cupwhen they face...

Maybe clubs are reason England failed, not Eddie

JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME The European Champions Cup has reached the quarter-final stage last weekend with a...

Gleave on board for Rainbow Cup

RUGBY SHORTS GLOUCESTER hooker Todd Gleave has joined Ospreys on loan for the rest of the season. The 25-year-old has made...

‘Medical joker’ Barry joins Vannes ex-pats

RUGBY SHORTS NEWCASTLE lock Darren Barry has joined Gloucester centre Harry Trinder as a ‘medical joker’ signing at French Pro D2...

Lloyd cleared of foul play charges

RUGBY SHORTS CARDIFF Blues scrum-half Lloyd Williams has been cleared of stamping on London Irish flyhalf Paddy Jackson. The 31-year-old Wales...

Sopoaga confirms Wasps exit for Lyon

RUGBY SHORTS WASPS fly-half Lima Sopoaga will join French Top 14 club Lyon at the end of the season. The 30-year-old...

Long-term deal for Young at Cardiff

RUGBY SHORTS CARDIFF Blues director of rugby Dai Young has signed a “long-term contract” although terms of the deal are undisclosed. Young,...

Scarlets Williams set for shoulder surgery

RUGBY SHORTS WALES centre Johnny Williams will not play again this season due to a shoulder injury. The 24-year-old suffered the blow...

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Young Guns: Harlequins hooker Sam Riley

  Few up-and-coming players can claim to have such a rich abundance of coaching nous available to them to the degree of...

Robshaw faces op on injured shoulder

MLR ROUND-UP By SAM JACKSON CHRIS ROBSHAW’S debut for the San Diego Legion ended in agony as the former England captain...

Super Rugby Aotearoa: Hodgman red card helps Highlanders

Ben Jaycock reports on Round 8 of Super Rugby Aotearoa, as the Highlanders clinched victory at the Forsyth Barr Stadium

Top League: Rocket man Alex Goode burns off Freddie

Matt McIlraith reports on the elimination play-offs in Japan's Top League, as Goode's NEC Green Rockets advance over Freddie Burns' Shokki...

Super Rugby AU: Last-gasp Miotti on target for the Force

DOMINGO MIOTTI rescued victory for the Force with the final kick of the game to sour the Waratahs’ hopes of winning...

Enjoy the game was John Dawes’ golden rule

A striking captain whose nerve held up in the chaos of a frantic Test match, Peter Jackson pays tribute to John...

Green light for Pacific Islanders’ inclusion

NEWS EXTRA By SAM JACKSON PACIFIC islands teams Moana Pasifika and Fijian Drua have been granted conditional licences to join a...

Farrell back for Sarries at Doncaster

OWEN Farrell makes his return for Saracens when they travel to Doncaster in the Championship today after recovering from a calf...

Soccer skills helping George Barton kick on at Gloucester

The young Gloucester fly-half had the chance to play in the Football League with Cheltenham Town before