Rugby News

Ma'a Nonu celebrated his 100th New Zealand cap with a try as they thrashed Tonga 47-9 at St James' Park.

Huddersfield have been fined £1,000 by the Rugby Football League for breaching its rules on concussion.

England coaches Andy Farrell and Graham Rowntree will have restricted match-day access in the World Cup Pool A fixture against Uruguay after being found to have breached the match officials' protocol, World Rugby has ann...

Ireland boss Joe Schmidt has made three changes to his team to face France at the Millennium Stadium on Sunday in their World Cup Pool D decider.

Joe Launchbury admits there will be no place on the mantelpiece for the "embarrassing" man of the match award he received as England crashed out of the World Cup.

South African Nick Mallett has not been contacted over the role of England head coach, the Rugby Union Football has insisted.

Wales will fight fire with fire and not allow Australia to dictate terms in the Pool A decider at Twickenham on Saturday, says assistant coach Shaun Edwards.

Charlie King previews Scotland's must-win match against the eliminated Samoans, with a win putting them through to the quarter-finals

Stuart Lancaster has called on the Rugby Football Union to conduct their review into England's World Cup "privately and confidentially" following a report that Nick Mallett had been approached over the role of head coach...

Australia head coach Michael Cheika expects Saturday's showdown with Wales will be their most brutal match of the World Cup yet.

Tom Mordey selects his five favourite Grand Final moments, including Sean Long's heroics in the 2002 decider.

Sergio Parisse is out of Italy's last Pool D match at the World Cup, with coach Jacques Brunel making two changes to his starting XV to play Romania on Sunday.

Jamie Hosie previews the winner-takes-all clash in Pool D, where Ireland take on France

Tom Mordey continues to look back at his favourite Grand Final moments, including the last Old Trafford between Wigan and Leeds in 1998.

Argentina have rung the changes for their final Rugby World Cup Pool C clash against Namibia at Leicester on Sunday.

On the pitch, Barrie McDermott and Terry O'Connor liked nothing better than tearing into the opposition.

Mike Cooper previews the decider in Pool A, as Wales and Australia meet in a mouth-watering clash at Twickenham

Jamie Hosie looks ahead to England's ignominious dead rubber against Uruguay in Manchester this weekend

France have recalled No 8 Louis Picamoles and wing Noa Nakaitaci for Sunday's World Cup Pool D decider with Ireland at the Millennium Stadium.

Kevin Sinfield and props Kylie Leuluai and Jamie Peacock have been named in the Leeds squad for the last time ahead of Saturday's Grand Final.

Ex-Springbok coach Nick Mallett has confirmed an RFU approach this week, but that he ruled himself out of the England job after the 2011 debacle

Joe Ogden looks ahead to Friday night's clash between New Zealand & Tonga, with the All Blacks looking to finish the group stage undefeated