Wallabies can turn it around like in 2015 says Toomua

NEALE HARVEY Resilient: Wallaby centre Matt Toomua MATT Toomua promises Australia will respond to their 2018 debacle by ramming Kyle Sinckler’s...

Anscombe faces his big test against Farrell

Breakthrough: Gareth Anscombe in action against South Africa PICTURE: Getty Images GARETH Anscombe had a breakthrough campaign with Wales in November....

Jackman’s on the brink at Dragons

SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND “Players don’t know their roles. There is confusion everywhere!” BERNARD Jackman is living on borrowed...

Protheroe’s back with pointers from Piutau

■By JOHN HARDING Main man: Mat Protheroe celebrates a try for Bristol against Ealing last season Advice: Luke Morahan BEING sidelined...

Mooar insists Scarlets can become kings of Europe

■ By STEFFAN THOMAS Crusaders pedigree: Brad Mooar KIWI Brad Mooar has told Scarlets fans they can dream of European glory...

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Value of Six Nations is cut by 60 per cent in Guinness deal

By PETER JACKSON What it’s all about: Ireland celebrate winning Six Nations PICTURE: Getty Images THE Six Nations have been forced...

ROOM 101

THE LEICESTER PROP TAKES US THROUGH HIS PET HATES FROM THE RUGBY WORLD AND BEYOND GREG BATEMAN 1. Overly positive people...

Bath go for another Du Preez offspring

BATH have opened talks with Springbok international Dan du Preez about a move to the Rec next season. Du Preez who...

Wasps desperate to prevent Daly move to Sarries

Call in the lawyers: Wasps may go legal to keep Elliott Daly WASPS are making a last ditch attempt to stop...

Stay here, Sharks plead with Boks star De Klerk

BY NEILFISSLER Follow me on Twitter: @neilfissler SALE SHARKS want to sit down with Springboks scrum-half Faf de Klerk to discuss...

Youngs on sidelines

LEICESTER have suffered a blow after experienced hooker Tom Youngs was ruled out of their December fixtures with a knee injury....

Melville: New laws on tackles working

NEWS EXTRA NEALE HARVEY TRIAL LAWS banning tackling above the armpit line in the Championship Cup are having the desired effect,...

Bristol killed off by second-half blitz

■By WILL CARPENTER Fast start: Harry Thacker gets the applause after scoring Bristol’s first try after six minutes PICTURE: Getty Images...

Blanc score adds late gloss to the Slade show

■By ALEX BYWATER COLIN Slade’s try-double helped end Worcester’s unbeaten Challenge Cup run at the Stade du Hameau on Friday night....

Leiataua sin-bin opens door for Godwin

By DARAGH SMALL Connacht …22 Perpignan…10 KYLE Godwin’s late try clinched the win for Connacht who had to withstand a late...

Quins sent crashing by Ioane’s late breakaway

By ADAM ELLIS HARLEQUINS came crashing down from the high of beating Exeter as a last-minute try from wing Monty Ioane...

Clinical Sharks put the bite on 14-man Begles

By CHRIS ROGERS Double: Chris Ashton SALE made it three wins from three matches as Chris Ashton and Paolo Odogwu both...

Saints pile more woe on underfire Jackman

By NEALE HARVEY Stop that! Taqele Naiyaravoro dives in for Saints PICTURE: Getty Images Down: James Fish tackles Dragons’ Richard Hibbard...

Bonus point puts Ospreys in pole position in Pool 3

By STEFFAN THOMAS THE OSPREYS moved top of Pool 3 with a six-try bonus point victory over Stade Francais. Cory Allen...

Promotion stays but 16 teams is good move

READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK Concerns: Ealing Trailfinders have gates of around 1,000 APremiership table in which there is only...

Balmain progressing nicely now he’s seen the light

By STEFFAN THOMAS Coach: Ackermann Chance: Fraser Balmain HAVING emerged from sizeable shadows cast by Dan Cole and John Afoa, unsung...

Burrows loving high life since switch to Falcons

By JON NEWCOMBE Aiming for an 80-minute performance: Ryan Burrows PICTURES: Getty Images Rival: John Hardie RYAN Burrows achieved another memorable...

Morgan fighting to remain in the frame

By STEFFAN THOMAS New cap: Luke Morgan LUKE Morgan has vowed not to become a Wales one cap wonder and push...

Deano: We have spirit to hit back

DEAN Richards insists his Falcons need to turn things round quickly if they are to get back to winning ways when...

Patched-up Falcons no match for Cockerill

By GARY FITZGERALD Over the line: Hamish Watson scores the opening try for Edinburgh PICTURES: Getty Images Scragged: Sonatane Takulua can’t...

Late tries give Toulon the edge in clash of the French giants playing catch-up

By SAM JACKSON Toulon …38pts Tries: Penalty try 31 Lakafia 47, Monribot 71, Nakosi 76 Conversions: Penalty try 31, Belleau 47,...

Beware backlash warns Dwayne

FORMER Wales and Scarlets favourite Dwayne Peel, now Ulster’s backs coach, was pleased with the clinical finishing on display. He said:...

Sloppy Scarlets sign own death warrants

By ROGER PANTING Not quite enough: Steffan Evans slides in to score for Scarlets PICTURES: Getty Images SCARLETS’ European Cup hopes...

Timid Tigers fight for pride after white flag at Bristol

By NEALE HARVEY Under fire: Murphy MATT Toomua has called for a resilient response as Leicester fight to put memories of...

Baxter: ‘It was error after error after error’

BOSS Rob Baxter admitted that Exeter are struggling to take their usually efficient Premiership performances into Europe. “First you have to...

Rennie’s rampant Warriors in fine nick for knockouts

By ALEX BYWATER GEORGE Horne ran the show with a man-of-thematch display as Glasgow dismantled Lyon. Horne was supreme at scrum-half,...

Chiefs set for a hard crash out of Europe

By MIKE SINCLAIR Backing up: Willi Heinz dives over to score for Gloucester PICTURES: Getty Images Early hope: Don Armand lands...

Sarries suffer Itoje blow but Mako’s back in front row

By NEALE HARVEY Return: Mako Vunipola INFLUENTIAL lock Maro Itoje misses out as Saracens seek back-toback wins over Cardiff that will...

Dynamic duo return to operate backline

Preview Munster v Castres Today, Kick-off 1pm. Thomond Pk FOUR months of waiting are over for Munster fans who will finally...

Top clubs shake-up

Bragging rights: Gloucester’s Gerbrandt Grobler celebrates Willi Heinz’s early try in their big win over Exeter PICTURE: Getty Images BLINDSIDE EXCLUSIVE...

Young Gun: Northampton Saints hooker Samson Ma’asi

A look at one of Northampton's up-and-coming front row forwards

Ben Moon intent on casting shadow over Mako and Genge

'I enjoyed the entire experience during the autumn'

De Kock column: Northern hemisphere’s no.9s are getting better and better

Neil de Kock analyses the Lions options at scrum-half

James Grayson signs senior contract with Northampton Saints

A deal running until 2021

Armed robbery victim Naka Drotske has been ‘through hell and back’, family say

Former Cheetahs head coach Naka Drotske has successfully undergone surgery to reconstruct his elbow, his family has said. The veteran Springboks...

Worcester Warriors hand first-team contract to centre Ollie Lawrence

"It is only a matter of time before he pulls on the England jersey" – Solomons

Luke Cowan-Dickie back at the negotiating table with Exeter Chiefs

News on Cowan-Dickie, Dave Ewers and Greg Holmes

Pack will have to be at Test standard to beat Leinster, says Bath’s Ewels

England lock anticipating ferocious clash against kings of Europe

Warren Gatland on England’s radar, as RFU plan talks

Does the head coach job at Twickenham await Gatland?

Jackson column: Curse of knee injuries blindsides Wales

No.6s in short supply to Gatland ahead of Six Nations

Guscott column: Joe Cokanasiga has all the attributes to be an England great

The Bath winger has made a fast start to life on the international stage

Ransom: I didn’t get enough love at London Irish

The former Exile and Saracens full-back will play in the Varsity match this week for Oxford

Leigh Halfpenny to remain sidelined for Scarlets

Unavailable for the region's Champions Cup match against Ulster

2019 is set to be a big year for new rugby betting sites

This is set to be a seminal year for the sport of Rugby Union, with the latest iteration of the World...