Rugby News

An 18-year-old gets thrown into a title-race clash. Angus Grover starts at scrum-half as the unbeaten Waratahs host Western Force with four debutants in the XV.

A four-year push tied to the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup has reshaped grassroots numbers in England. The figures behind the growth, and the people who made it happen.

Neither too high, nor too low “You don’t want to get too high with the praise, and you don’t want to get too low with the criticism.” That’s the rule Maro Itoje has leaned on for years, and the Saracens and England captain took time to unpack it further. It comes down to balance built…

Pick up the pen A pen, tossed across an office floor in Limerick. That’s the scene everyone will remember from the extract of Peter O’Mahony’s autobiography, released ahead of the book hitting shelves on Thursday. It was a few weeks after Ireland’s quarter-final exit at the 2023 World Cup. O’Mahony, then Munster captain, sat down…

Back-to-back URC champions, yet nine defeats in eleven trips to South Africa. Jacques Nienaber knows exactly what waits for Leinster at Ellis Park.

A summer signing from the Ospreys, 22 Tests as Wales captain, and now the armband at Kingsholm. Dewi Lake will lead Gloucester into the new PREM season.

Captain No. 68, and not the name anyone expected Sixty-seven men had led the Springboks before Tuesday. Andre Esterhuizen is now the 68th, and Rassie Erasmus has once again gone somewhere nobody predicted, handing the 32-year-old centre the armband for Sunday’s Test against Australia at Optus Stadium in Perth. It isn’t a shot in the…

Five games unbeaten under Les Kiss, a lineout on the mend and one fewer back-rower. Tom Donnelly lays out how the Wallabies plan to handle the Springbok pack on Sunday.

Thirteen changes, a new captain and Handre Pollard back at ten. Rassie Erasmus has torn up the side that beat the All Blacks in Baltimore before Sunday’s Test against Australia in Perth.