10:17 AM GMT Warren Gatland and Stuart Lancaster are among the names being considered to replace England head coach Eddie Jones in 2019, according to Rugby Football Union interim chief executive Nigel Melville. Jones will step down following the Rugby World Cup in Japan next year and the RFU will begin to draw up their
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5:07 AM GMT The immediate fate of Wallabies coach Michael Cheika will be decided at Rugby Australia’s board meeting next Monday while former Test hooker Brendan Cannon says the long-term solution to the team’s woes is David Nucifora. Employed as Ireland’s high performance director, Nucifora has been instrumental to the Grand Slam winners’ climb up
11:52 PM GMT Craig Dowd Close Craig Dowd played 60 Tests for New Zealand between 1993 and 2000, including in two World Cups, and he was part of the All Blacks team that won their first series in South Africa in 1996. He played for the Blues and Auckland in New Zealand domestic rugby, and
11:16 PM GMT Rugby legend David Campese has made the bold claim that the Wallabies can rebound from their worst Test campaign in 60 years and win the 2019 World Cup. Never predictable and always willing to back himself, Campese’s latest declaration would seem a leap of faith too far after Australia’s horror run of
6:55 PM GMT Jamie BraidwoodESPN TWICKENHAM, LONDON — Just when they were beginning to look broken and disjointed, the Barbarians pulled together as team and fought back from 21 points down to beat Argentina 38-35. Elton Jantjies’ 79th-minute drop-goal may have stolen the game away from the Pumas in the dying seconds, but in truth
2:22 PM GMT Jamie BraidwoodESPN Juan Manuel Leguizamon has said it will be “weird” to line up opposite his international teammates when he plays against Argentina for the Barbarians this weekend. Leguizamon is the only Argentine representative in the 23-man Barbarians squad to face the Pumas, joining 13 South Africans and players from six other
10:18 AM GMT ESPN staff Former South Africa rugby player Naka Drotské is in a stable condition after being shot multiple times during a home invasion on Thursday night.
Drotské and 1995 Rugby World Cup-winning teammate Os du Randt were visiting Drotské’s brother, Tinus, in Kameeldrift, when a group of armed robbers rushed in and
8:07 AM GMT World Cup-winning legend David Campese believes Rugby Australia would be panicking if it gambled on an overseas replacement for beleaguered Wallabies coach Michael Cheika. Insisting it’s too late for a coaching upheaval less than 10 months out from the 2019 World Cup in Japan, Campese says Australia’s under-performing players must also bear
Nov 30, 2018 NSW coach Daryl Gibson has identified defence and scrum time as the non-negotiables that must improve if the Waratahs are to be a Super Rugby title force in 2019. With the express intent of toughening up his 2018 semi-finalists, Gibson has assembled the most experienced coaching line-up of his six-year stint at
2:18 PM GMT Ellis Jenkins will require surgery after sustaining a “significant knee injury” during Wales’ November Test against South Africa, his club Cardiff Blues confirmed on Thursday. Jenkins, who was man of the match in Wales’ victory over the the Springboks, was stretchered off the pitch following the match on Nov.24. Wales head coach