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A new trophy, a first meeting and a squad drawn from three cultures. Triston Reilly leads the First Nations and Pasifika XV into Teufaiva Stadium on Friday.

He was born in Fiji, made his name in Australia and played a World Cup in Wallaby gold. Isi Naisarani will finally pull on a Fijian jersey in 2027.

The Chiefs teased a big announcement and then delivered it. Taha Kemara heads home to Hamilton in 2027, to the ground he used to kick a ball around as a schoolboy.

Two Exeter locks had the same shoulder operation this summer. Only one of them will be fit for the Premiership opener against Gloucester.

Whitney Hansen has named her matchday 23 for the Johannesburg double-header, and her 2024 Player of the Year is not in it. Ruahei Demant starts on the bench.

Dave Rennie said the Springboks walk around at the scrum. Their scrum coach answered today, and he left almost no room for doubt.

He did not watch a single game live He knew the scores. He just chose not to live through them. Maro Itoje spent the summer away from England. The England captain missed the Nations Championship and the three Tests against South Africa, Fiji and Argentina. While his team-mates were out there, he watched the matches…

A directive, not a law change World Rugby put out an implementation directive on the maul back in June. It does not rewrite the law. It tells referees how to handle players who end up on the wrong side of the ball. The principle is simple enough. A defender who drifts past the ball has…

Never an All Black, captain anyway Tom Christie has never worn the black jersey. The real one. He played for the All Blacks XV, the side on the fringes, the one you watch while waiting for a call that never comes. Newcastle could not care less. The English club have handed him the captaincy for…