5:11 AM GMT Get ready, Australia. New Wallabies coach Dave Rennie and his guitar are headed Down Under. Australian rugby fans might be more interested in his coaching ability, and how he will set about improving the fortunes of a team that has won only 10 of its past 24 Tests. But they will also

10:28 PM GMT ESPN staff Super Rugby-winning former Chiefs coach Dave Rennie will replace Michael Cheika as Wallabies boss on three-and-a-half year deal, Rugby Australia has confirmed. The Kiwi will take on the Australia post after he finishes with Glasgow Warriors. He is yet to make any appointments to his backroom staff, but it is

8:48 AM GMT New Zealand Rugby chairman Brent Impey confirmed on Tuesday the All Blacks will announce Steve Hansen’s successor as head coach in December. Impey said earlier this month 26 homegrown coaches had been identified to take over from Hansen, who guided the All Blacks to the 2015 World Cup title and a third-place

12:00 PM GMT Saracens will not appeal against Premiership Rugby’s ruling that the club breached the league’s salary cap, meaning they will be docked 35 points in this season’s league table and be required to pay a £5.3 million fine. The back-to-back Premiership champions and reigning European champions now drop to the bottom of the

5:45 AM GMT ESPN staff Jamie Joseph is out of the running to coach the All Blacks after he inked a new deal to remain in charge of Japan through to the end of the 2023 Rugby World Cup. Joseph’s contract extension was unveiled by the Japan Rugby Football Union on Monday and ends any

6:24 PM GMT A weakened Saracens side began their European Champions Cup title defence with a crushing 30-10 defeat to French side Racing 92 on Sunday. Saracens were without England internationals Owen Farrell, Maro Itoje and Billy and Mako Vunipola, who were part of the World Cup campaign in which Eddie Jones’ side finished runners-up

5:27 PM GMT England head coach Eddie Jones has said that he feels made two selection mistakes in his side’s 32-12 Rugby World Cup final defeat to South Africa. Jones said that he should have started Harlequins’s Joe Marler at loose-head prop over Saracens’ Mako Vunipola, while the England coach also regrets his choice to

9:50 AM GMT The Scottish Rugby Union (SRU) has agreed to pay a £70,000 fine after comments made by its representatives about Typhoon Hagibis were found to have amounted to misconduct and “brought the game into disrepute”. The SRU was also ordered to issue a “meaningful” written apology to World Rugby for the comments —

2:09 PM GMT South Africa hooker Schalk Brits announced his retirement from all forms of rugby on Wednesday, the second time the 38-year-old has brought down the curtain on his career. Brits retired in May 2018 after leaving Saracens but was lured back by Springboks coach Rassie Erasmus and helped them lift the Rugby World

10:35 PM GMT ESPN staff New Zealand’s five Super Rugby franchises have unveiled their squads for the 2020 Super Rugby season, which kicks off on Jan. 31. Check out the full lists below. BLUES Forwards: Kurt Eklund, Ray Niuia, James Parsons, Alex Hodgman, Ezekiel Lindenmuth, Sione Mafileo, Marcel Renata, Karl Tu’inukuafe, Ofa Tuungafasi, Gerard Cowley-Tuioti,