10:50 PM GMT Premiership Rugby are set to finalise a £200 million-plus deal with CVC Capital Partners before Christmas, according to reports on Tuesday. The 13 members of Premiership Rugby, comprising of the 12 top-flight clubs and London Irish, are close to agreeing to the deal, which would sell a 30 percent share of the
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1:41 PM GMT Johnny Sexton has signed a contract extension with the Irish Rugby Football Union which will see him play rugby in Ireland up to the end of the 2020/21 season. The IRFU announced Tuesday that Leinster fly-half Sexton, who was recently named 2018 World Rugby player of the year, had extended his stay.
Dec 11, 2018 ESPN staff Pote Human has been appointed head coach of the Bulls’ Super Rugby team, replacing John Mitchell after the New Zealander departed the Pretoria-based franchise in September to take up a position as England’s defence coach. Human’s appointment for the 2019 season was something of a shock even though he had
Dec 11, 2018 ESPN staff Rassie Erasmus will step down as Springboks coach after the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan. Erasmus made the announcement in an exclusive and wide-ranging interview with SuperSport commentator Matt Pearce, in which he reflected on his first year in charge as both head coach of the Boks and Director
2:17 PM GMT South Africa will play just two home Tests next year during a curtailed build-up to the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan, with Johannesburg and Pretoria set to host the matches. There is no June international window in World Cup year and the Rugby Championship has been cut to three fixtures per
10:29 AM GMT Edinburgh head coach Richard Cockerill has said the England job can be “a hiding to nothing” amid speculation he could succeed Eddie Jones. A number of names, including Warren Gatland and Stuart Lancaster, have been linked to the position since interim RFU chief executive Nigel Melville told reporters that the search to
8:04 AM GMT Maro Itoje is expected to be fit for the start of the Six Nations in February after Saracens’ director of rugby Mark McCall said the England forward does not need surgery to repair a knee injury. Itoje, 24, was injured at England’s training camp in Portugal before the start of the November
If you want to know why Australian Rugby is in a complete mess, all you have to do is watch the abomination of a media conference that those goons who run the game came up with on Monday. Blink, sneeze or brush away a blowfly and you would have completely missed it. Media conferences are
10:05 PM GMT Michael Cheika’s fate as Wallabies coach will be determined at a high-stakes Rugby Australia board meeting in Sydney on Monday. But any announcement, or changes to Cheika’s wider coaching panel, are unlikely to be announced until Wednesday at the earliest as the governing body digests the Wallabies’ worst season in 60 years.
9:19 AM GMT A Premiership club will be relegated this season after RFU chief executive Nigel Melville branded the idea of ring-fencing English rugby’s top flight as “wishful thinking”. Just four points separate the bottom seven clubs in the table with historically significant clubs such as Leicester, Bath and Northampton all involved in the fight