France changed players, approach and tactics to torture Ireland 36-24 in Paris in the Six Nations. We look at the difference ...

England didn’t just hammer Wales 48-7 at the Allianz Stadium in Twickenham; they reminded the visitors that they will only be good for the wooden spoon in the 2026 Six Nations. The contest was over ...

Conviction in the performance, but caution in the storytelling summarised the French media reaction to their brutal 36-14 Six ...

All Blacks coach Ian Foster must have hated Fiji’s 17-12 win against Georgia and absolutely loved Scotland’s B team winning 84-0 against Romania. Cringe is the only way to describe the coach of the ...

Antoine Dupont is the flex in a fantastic French match 23 that will be too powerful for Ireland in Paris in the Six Nations season opener. Dupont alters the physics of the contest, and he adds an ...

Give JP Pietersen the Sharks job and let him get on with it. He is not an interim measure. In the past fortnight he has done ...

The Sharks host the Stormers in one of two South African URC derbies to end the first half of the league season. The Lions ...

South Africa’s rugby coaches are the best in the world, internationally and at club level. It is why, right now, South Africa is the No 1 nation in the sport. Rassie Erasmus, the 2019 World ...

Los Pumas are a different beast since Felipe Contepomi has taken charge as head coach. Mark Keohane unpacks the potency of the Argentenians and highlights the point of difference in the 2025 Castle ...

Bath’s South African coach, the former Bulls and Springbok assistant coach Johann van Graan’s Bath will play their first of three possible finals as they go in hunt of a historic English treble ...

Damian de Allende, in a 30 minute cameo for Munster, towered above all other South African backs at Loftus in the United Rugby Championship. Springbok midfielder De Allende, on his return from injury, ...

Rassie Erasmus played four very different starting XVs in July, but individually the biggest Springboks winners were Canan Moodie and Grant Williams, writes Mark Keohane. Moodie and Williams started ...