Is Steve Borthwick’s time running out? The Rugby Paper Roundup examines England’s struggles, the Fiji challenge, Wales’ revival and plenty more talking points from around the world of rugby.
Youngsters from the School of Hard Knocks were given a behind-the-scenes taste of elite rugby after spending a week with the Barbarians ahead of their men’s and women’s fixtures against Wales national rugby union team.
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Chris Hewett explores what makes a great captain, arguing there is no single blueprint for leadership as he compares Ben Stokes with rugby’s most influential skippers.
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Prem champions Northampton and last year’s winners Bath have been drawn in the same tough Champions Cup pool for next season along with URC runners-up Bulls and Billy Vunipola’s Top 14 beaten finalists Montpellier.
■By SAM JACKSON TOM Harrison, chief executive of Six Nations Rugby, is confident the Nations Championship will become a $1 billion sports brand, generating almost double what it stands to make in its opening media rights cycle. He told The…
Steve Borthwick’s reign as England coach is teetering on the brink after they crashed to a seven tries to three defeat to a rampant South Africa in Johannesburg.
Will Jordan and Cam Roigard both scored twice as New Zealand opened the inaugural Nations Championship with a thrilling victory over France in Christchurch.
Ireland launched their Nations Championship campaign with a dramatic victory over Australia in Sydney after Thomas Clarkson’s late try and Sam Prendergast’s nerveless conversion sealed a remarkable comeback.
Fabien Brau-Boirie, below, endured a frustrating spell, first failing to gather Matthieu Jalibert’s kick in-goal before later having a try ruled out for a knock-on. Attissogbe then finished in the corner to cut the gap to one point,…
AFTER a long losing run, it was Wales’ third consecutive win, following on from victories over Italy and the Barbarians, a fact which their skipper, Dewi Lake, was keen to point out. He said: “That’s three wins now and it’s important that…
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Nick Cain explores how England are harming themselves by excluding Jack and Tom Willis, urging the RFU to scrap its overseas player eligibility policy.
The Nations Championship naysayers – and there is an army of them – should take a look at the competition’s inaugural fixture between New Zealand and France in Christchurch yesterday.
Brendan Gallagher settled down to watch six Nations Championship Test matches in a row. How did he find it? And did he make it all the way from New Zealand to Argentina via Japan and South Africa? Read on to find out...
The most predictable story of the week concerned yet another revamp of the much-maligned, used-and-abused Champions Cup, which was once the Lord Mayor’s Show of club rugby but has long been mutating into the other thing.