Rugby News

The Warriors led 16-8 with twenty minutes left in Auckland. They lost by ten. Three late Dolphins tries sent Kristian Woolf’s side through to a first preliminary final.

An NFL stadium, and a first for both nations M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, home of the Ravens, stages a rugby Test on Saturday night. Kick-off is 5pm Eastern. Neither South Africa nor New Zealand has ever faced the other on American soil. The Springboks lead the series 2-1. They lost the opener at Ellis…

Racing 92 get Top 14 Saturday under way at 16h35 It is the second round of the championship, and the Paris side have an early start. Racing host LOU this afternoon at 16h35. The kick-off sits well ahead of the evening fixtures: it is the first rugby slot of the day for French viewers, and…

Mayol finally opens up Toulon have not played at home yet. Round one took them to Bayonne, so Saturday night is the first look their own crowd gets at this side. Gael Fickou is one of three players sharing the captaincy this season, a structure the club settled on over the summer. La Rochelle travel…

The Springboks pack dismantled New Zealand in Soweto. Hanyani Shimange says Dave Rennie has no way of repairing the damage, and that the maul defence is a coaching failure.

Two changes, one of them forced. Justin Marshall says that selection alone tells Dave Rennie how South Africa intend to close out Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry in Baltimore.

Sir Steve Hansen watched the third Test and came away with two problems. Both of them start before the ball is even in play.

Eight straight defeats one year, a final the next. Rob Baxter and Dafydd Jenkins have set out what Exeter want from the new PREM season.

Three Springboks greats have gone after Cam Roigard’s reaction in Soweto, and Schalk Burger wants the yellow card to land on the other side.