France changed players, approach and tactics to torture Ireland 36-14 in Paris in the Six Nations. We look at the difference ...

A message to Super Rugby Pacific. South Africa doesn’t want back into your competition. Not now. Not ever. Super Rugby Pacific CEO Jack Mesley, speaking to Martin Devlin on DSPN, dismissed the idea of ...

Conviction in the performance, but caution in the storytelling summarised the French media reaction to their brutal 36-14 Six ...

Give JP Pietersen the Sharks job and let him get on with it. He is not an interim measure. In the past fortnight he has done ...

Antoine Dupont is the flex in a fantastic French match 23 that will be too powerful for Ireland in Paris in the Six Nations season opener. Dupont alters the physics of the contest, and he adds an ...

England didn’t just hammer Wales 48-7 at the Allianz Stadium in Twickenham; they reminded the visitors that they will only be good for the wooden spoon in the 2026 Six Nations. The contest was over ...

Super Rugby Pacific 2025 is a great tournament. It is very different to the rugby played up north in the Top 14, Vodacom United Rugby Championship and English Premiership, but that does not mean it ...

All Blacks coach Ian Foster must have hated Fiji’s 17-12 win against Georgia and absolutely loved Scotland’s B team winning 84-0 against Romania. Cringe is the only way to describe the coach of the ...

There have only been four Test wins for the Springboks against the All Blacks in New Zealand since the game turned professional in 1996. Mark Keohane rates his best one of the four. Firstly, any ...

England didn’t just hammer Wales 48-7 at the Allianz Stadium in Twickenham; they reminded the visitors that they will only be good for the wooden spoon in the 2026 Six Nations. The contest was over ...

Stormers lock Ruben van Heerden is an URC Award Winner: The big second-rower has won the the 2024/25 Tackle Machine category. He made 171 tackles, with a 98% accuracy. Ioan Lloyd, Harri Millard, Ruben ...

Los Pumas are a different beast since Felipe Contepomi has taken charge as head coach. Mark Keohane unpacks the potency of the Argentenians and highlights the point of difference in the 2025 Castle ...