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Three Tests, three referees and no real explanation. Kyle Sinckler finally supplies one, and hands New Zealand a legal escape hatch for Baltimore.

Rassie Erasmus made only two changes for Saturday’s series decider in Baltimore. Damian Willemse returns at full-back, Morne van den Berg gets the nine shirt.

9:05pm at Marcel-Deflandre, to wrap up the weekend Jack Willis is out of the trip. Stade Toulousain head to Charente-Maritime without their England flanker, who was forced off with an injury this week. For La Rochelle, this is their first real test of the season on home turf, with the league only two rounds in.…

The bench did it again South Africa beat New Zealand 29-24 on Saturday night at FNB Stadium in Soweto, the third Test of Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry. Malcolm Marx was the difference. The hooker sat at the centre of a Springbok display Planet Rugby called an “obliteration”. Rassie Erasmus timed his Bomb Squad the way he…

Cheslin Kolbe broke his jaw inside ten minutes in Soweto and will not travel to Baltimore. Rassie Erasmus named four more Springboks staying behind.

One win each, and Soweto gets the last word Two Tests, two winners, nothing settled. The All Blacks took the opener at Ellis Park 33-16, a scoreline that sent South Africa’s coaching staff hunting for answers in a hurry. Cape Town flipped it. The Springboks won 33-26 to drag the 2026 series back level, which…

Nine changes, seven days apart Nine. That is how many alterations Les Kiss has made to his starting XV for the second Test against Argentina, named Friday ahead of Saturday’s meeting at Estadio Malvinas Argentinas in Mendoza. A week ago in San Salvador de Jujuy, Australia won 27-21. A result, certainly. A performance, not really.…

Nine changes for Australia in Mendoza. Tom Wright reaches 50 caps, Harry Wilson takes the armband back and Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii returns to midfield.

Knee surgery, and a back row missing its spine Jack Willis went under the knife. That single line reshapes Toulouse’s opening weekend, because Anthony Jelonch is not available either, and the reigning French champions now travel to La Rochelle with two of the biggest names in their back row watching from elsewhere. Of all the…