4:07 AM BST All Blacks lock Brodie Retallick will miss at least another three weeks of Super Rugby as he continues his recovery from a wrist injury, Chiefs coach Colin Cooper said Tuesday. The former World Player of the Year has been sidelined since tearing ligaments in his wrist during the win over the Blues

1:09 PM BST Waratahs lock Jed Holloway has been suspended for three weeks after pleading guilty to elbowing Sharks’ prop Thomas du Toit in the head. He was sent off in the 45th minute of Saturday’s 23-15 Super Rugby loss at Sydney’s Bankwest Stadium. 1 Related The ban means Holloway will miss the Waratahs’ two

12:00 PM BST Leinster coach John Fogarty will join the Ireland coaching staff after the 2019 World Cup, the club confirmed Monday. Fogarty will assume the role of Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) National Academy forwards coach from July. 1. The 41-year-old will replace Greg Leek who intends to leave the position to coach Japanese

2:47 PM BST Former France scrum half Fabien Galthie will replace Jacques Brunel as the country’s head coach after this year’s Rugby World Cup, French Rugby Federation chief Bernard Laporte has said. Galthie played 64 times for France, captaining the side to a Six Nations Grand Slam in 2002 and at the 2003 World Cup.

After the first three games of Round 11 followed the form guide, the closing trio were always going to be tough to call. They were won by the Sharks, Stormers and Jaguares with the biggest margin being the eight points by which the Durban-based outfit edged NSW on their first outing at Bankwest Stadium. Defeats

2:36 PM BST The Waratahs have spoiled their own welcome party to the new Bankwest Stadium in western Sydney and have likely ended any chances of a playoff appearance after hot-headed moments saw both a red and yellow card handed out in the second half of their 23-15 loss to the Sharks. Deadlocked at 10-all

10:28 AM BST Ireland international Bundee Aki has apologised for ‘liking’ a controversial social media post from Australian star Israel Folau. Folau, 30, declared on his Instagram account that “hell awaits” homosexuals, drunks, adulterers, liars, fornicators, thieves, atheists and idolaters. Aki liked the post at the time but he has now taken to Twitter to

9:45 AM BST Lions coach Swys de Bruin expects to return to his job “soon” after leaving the team’s Super Rugby tour of Australasia with a stress-related illness. De Bruin returned to South Africa on the advice of Lions team doctor Rob Collins, and missed last weekend’s 23-17 victory over the Waikato Chiefs, as well

4:15 AM BST Kurtley Beale worries about Israel Folau’s mental health but says the NSW Waratahs and Wallabies must move on. A state and Australia teammate of Folau’s since 2013, Beale can empathise with the dual international’s plight having himself taken on – and won – an employment battle with Rugby Australia five years ago.

2:24 AM BST Star Crusaders five-eighth Richie Mo’unga has re-signed with New Zealand Rugby on a three-year deal in a major coup for the All Blacks. One of the rising playmakers of world rugby, the 24-year-old has shunned serious offshore interest to remain in Christchurch until at least 2022. Mo’unga’s main impact until now has