12:33 AM BST Former Prime Minister John Howard, Wallabies great John Eales and leading Australian businessman Sir Rod Eddington are all part of an Advisory Board set up to oversee Rugby Australia’s 2027 Rugby World Cup bid. New Rugby Australia chairman Hamish McLennan unveiled the Board on Tuesday morning, McLennan wasting little time in attempting
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2:04 PM BST Associated Press DUNEDIN, New Zealand — They call one section of the stadium The Zoo, and it’s easy to see why: thousands of university students in team colours standing on their seats, steadying trays of beer, swaying to music and erupting with joy when their team scores. “Craziness,” is how 20-year-old student
8:44 AM BST Players are heading toward a “legal dispute” with the Premiership Rugby to stop the league from imposing permanent salary cuts following a salary cap reduction, the Rugby Players Association (RPA) said on Wednesday. Premiership clubs voted unanimously on Monday to cut the salary cap by £1.4 million from the 2021-22 season. In
1:22 PM BST England prop Ellis Genge has said head coach Eddie Jones and himself suffered racist abuse during the tour to South Africa in 2018. The United Kingdom, along with several countries across the world, has seen the Black Lives Matter protests in various cities, which were sparked following the death of George Floyd,
11:07 PM BST World Rugby has announced the qualification process for the 2023 World Cup in France aimed at promoting a “genuine opportunity” for all unions, the game’s global body said on Monday. Twelve teams — South Africa, England, New Zealand, Wales, Japan, France, Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, Argentina and Fiji — have already qualified
10:35 AM BST French club Pau announced that they have dismissed former All Blacks fly-half Tom Taylor for leaving the country in March without permission during the coronavirus pandemic. Taylor, who played three tests for the All Blacks in 2013, left France on March 17 despite being asked to remain in the country in case
5:06 AM BST Crowds will be permitted to attend the opening round of Super Rugby Aotearoa this weekend, after New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed the country would shift to Alert Level 1 from midnight Monday [NZT]. In what is believed to be a first since the coronavirus pandemic put most professional sports on
6:44 PM BST Former France captain Jefferson Poirot has retired from international rugby at the age of 27 due to a lack of motivation. The Bordeaux-Begles prop said that he made the decision to retire from France duty immediately after his side’s 20-19 defeat to Wales during the Rugby World Cup in October and that
3:06 PM BST The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is seeking clarity on whether the UK government’s social distancing rules can be reduced from two metres to one so they can admit 40,000 fans into Twickenham Stadium for the November internationals, chief executive Bill Sweeney has said. Elite sport in England was given the green light
8:36 AM BST The Gallagher Premiership will aim to restart the season on Aug. 15, it announced on Friday. The league was originally scheduled to return on April 24 but has since been suspended indefinitely due to the coronavirus crisis. Last week, the UK government gave permission for elite sport to return behind closed doors