3:20 PM BST Brian O’Driscoll has tipped Exeter Chiefs as favourites to lift the Champions Cup title this season, along with recent winners Leinster and Saracens. Exeter have yet to make it further than the quarterfinals of the competition and were beaten twice by eventual champions Leinster in the pool stages of the tournament last

9:42 AM BST Bath director of rugby Todd Blackadder has described Semesa Rokoduguni as “one of the most gifted players I have ever worked with” after he signed a new long-term contract with the club. Details of the England international’s new deal have not been released but it will extend his stay at the club

2:13 AM BST It will be a Red Hill reunion at Ballymore next season with Peter Ryan joining his former rugby league teammate Brad Thorn on the Queensland Reds coaching staff. Thorn has pinched Ryan from the Brumbies to be the Reds’ defensive coach alongside returning attack coach Jim McKay in a coup for the

10:38 PM BST Jamie Braidwood Former Ireland captain Brian O’Driscoll says Conor Murray’s decision to extend his contract with Munster and the Irish Rugby Football Union will encourage other players to stay in the country. Scrum-half Murray will now remain in Ireland until 2022, dismissing fears that he would leave Ireland to play elsewhere following

10:00 PM BST Jamie BraidwoodESPN Former Ireland captain Brian O’Driscoll says Conor Murray’s decision to extend his contract with Munster and the Irish Rugby Football Union will encourage other players to stay in the country. Scrum-half Murray will now remain in Ireland until 2022, dismissing fears that he would leave Ireland to play elsewhere following

12:50 PM BST KweséESPN Staff Johan Goosen has fractured his right ankle and will be out for a minimum of 12 weeks just months after his controversial return to French rugby at Montpellier. The former Springboks flyhalf also pulled ligaments as he was tackled by Toulon wing Daniel Ikpefan and fell awkwardly in only the

5:27 AM BST Wallabies prop Tom Robertson faces a race against time to be fit for next year’s Rugby World Cup after scans confirmed he would need surgery on his knee to repair a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). The 24-cap loosehead prop suffered the injury during training last week as the Wallabies prepared for

11:24 PM BST 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

4:10 PM BST Wales international Taulupe Faletau is out of his country’s upcoming November Tests after breaking his arm, his club Bath have announced. The 27-year-old picked up the injury as his side suffered defeat at the hands of Exeter Chiefs on Friday. Faletau was set to feature for Wales against Scotland, Australia, Tonga and

2:47 AM BST Michael Cheika has declared it’s up to Wallabies players, not him, to ensure their miracle win over Argentina proves a defining moment in their evolution and not just another false dawn. After celebrating one of the most astonishing comebacks in Test history in Salta, Australia’s attention has shifted to the next steps