Apr 18, 2023 Lachie Swinton’s World Cup hopes, and Waratahs’ Super Rugby chances, have been hit after the backrower copped a seven-week ban. It is the longest ban imposed on an Australian since Brumbies wing Chance Peni was hit with one of the same length five years ago. Waratahs will need to make the finals

11:32 AM BST South Africa head coach Jacques Nienaber is to quit his role after the Rugby World Cup in France this year to join Irish side Leinster, where he will replace senior coach Stuart Lancaster. Nienaber was assistant coach with the Springboks when they won the 2019 World Cup in Japan and was elevated

7:31 AM BST Michael Hooper is flirting with a career change, move abroad, an Olympic rugby sevens stint and even joking of a code switch as the Wallabies star weighs up his next move. The most-capped Australian skipper is off contract beyond this year’s Rugby World Cup and is adamant he has no idea what

1:51 AM BST Another weekend, another Round of Super Rugby Pacific in the books. The first bye round, we had just four games to keep us entertained in Round 7 with plenty of table reshuffling and a couple of score blowouts across the weekend. Read on as we review some of the Super — and

11:57 PM BST Australia’s rugby sevens men have fought back from a deflating quarter-final exit at the Singapore world series event to keep alive their hopes of qualifying for the Olympics. Nick Malouf’s team were hammered in the last-eight on Sunday by Argentina, who ran in five tries against them in a 29-12 trouncing. But

9:50 PM BST Liam Napier It used to be an area with an embarrassment of riches for New Zealand, with powerful, dashing wings, dominant throughout Super Rugby. But with less than six months until Rugby World Cup and with the news of Sevu Reece’s year ending injury, Ian Foster’s cupboard is looking, if not exactly

7:45 AM BST A report published on Tuesday found that racism exists at every level of elite rugby, including the England team. The report was commissioned by the Rugby Football Union (RFU) after former England centre Luther Burrell reported racist abuse he received during his career. “The qualitative research found that in every area of

2:51 PM BST A group of more than 150 former football, rugby league and rugby union players suffering from neurological impairments are due to join a class-action lawsuit against their respective governing bodies, lawyers representing the players said on Tuesday. London sports law firm Rylands Garth said it would issue proceedings in court on Tuesday

1:51 AM BST Another weekend, another Round of Super Rugby Pacific in the books. With the competition’s byes about to start, Round 6 was an important weekend for many teams as the ladder continues to take shape – and there looks like there will be a very real scrap for the final couple of places

Eddie Jones has made selection shocks in his first Wallabies squad for 2023 with Waratahs young gun Max Jorgensen and Rebels fly-half Carter Gordon making their way into the squad at the expense of Reds stars James O’Connor, Tate McDermott and Harry Wilson. Naming his 33-man squad ahead of his first training camp in April,