10:10 AM BST Associated Press The Fiji Rugby Union has criticized two of its top professional players who have been arrested for failing to self-isolate after returning to Fiji from overseas. Fiji media named one of the players as backrower Semi Kunatani who plays for the London-based club Harlequins. He was a member of the
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12:44 PM BST Scotland fly-half Finn Russell has said that his feud with head coach Gregor Townsend, which kept him out of this year’s Six Nations, was blown “out of proportion.” The Racing 92 fly-half left Scotland’s training camp for disciplinary reasons a week prior to their Six Nations opener against Ireland after he breached
2:59 PM BST Newcastle Falcons’ promotion back to the Gallagher Premiership has been confirmed with Saracens relegated to England’s second tier. The Falcons are at the top of the Championship, 18 points clear of second-placed Ealing, and following the Rugby Football Union’s (RFU) decision to call off the rest of the 2019-20 season due to
7:41 AM BST Eddie Jones is set to extend his contract with England to take him through to the 2023 Rugby World Cup, according to ESPN sources. Jones’ contract was due to finish in 2021, but he is now poised to take England through another World Cup cycle, having led them to the 2019 final.
3:22 PM BST With rugby facing an indefinite hiatus due to the coronavirus, professional players are keeping fit from their homes and trying not to lapse into off-season mode. In England, the Gallagher Premiership is postponed until the weekend of April 24-26. As rugby waits for that deadline to likely shift further into the summer,
7:18 AM BST New Zealand Rugby has offered a grant of $[NZ]250,000 to each of the country’s five Super Rugby teams to help them get through the next three months while the game remains suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic. The intercontinental Super Rugby competition was shut down after round seven when the New Zealand
1:28 PM BST Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend has taken a 25% wage deferral, along with the Scottish Rugby board, due to the growing financial impact of the coronavirus outbreak. Edinburgh Rugby head coach Richard Cockerill and Glasgow Warriors head coach Dave Rennie have taken also taken 25% salary deferrals, while Scottish Rugby chief executive
1:28 PM BST Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend has taken a 25% wage deferral, along with the Scottish Rugby board, due to the growing financial impact of the coronavirus outbreak. Edinburgh Rugby head coach Richard Cockerill and Glasgow Warriors head coach Dave Rennie have taken also taken 25% salary deferrals, while Scottish Rugby chief executive
6:41 AM BST Rugby Australia [RA] stands to lose $[Aus]120 million should there be a total wipeout of the Super Rugby season and Wallabies’ domestic Test schedule due to the coronavirus pandemic. The governing body on Tuesday announced that it would be standing down 75 percent of its staff from April 1 to June 30
1:26 AM BST Associated Press NEW YORK — USA Rugby has decided to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy because its financial woes have been exacerbated by the coronavirus shutdown. In financial strife since 2018, USA Rugby had a recent attempt to restructure set back this month, when it suspended all activities indefinitely in the face