Time to put your national allegiances aside. A tough ask, we appreciate, but we want to know which of the RBS 6 Nations sides you genuinely believe will lift the…
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RW’s players to watch for 2016
By Alex Shaw With 2015 and the Rugby World Cup now well and truly in the history books, it’s time to start looking ahead at the next cycle. International sides…
The Big Pro12 Interview: Can it keep pace with the Premiership and Top 14?
With the Aviva Premiership and Top 14 growing ever more powerful, RW spoke to Pro12 Managing Director Martin Anayi and Pro12 Chairman Gerald Davies about the challenges ahead and reasons…
Top 14: French leave no easy option
So Jonathan Davies is the latest player to fall short in France. The 27-year-old centre announced last week that he’ll be rejoining the Scarlets next summer, declining to take up…
30 Minutes with… Ireland scrum-half Conor Murray
Scrum-half Conor Murray gives an insight into life inside the Ireland camp
Rugby World Cup 2015: Alternative Awards
Philanthropy award of the World Cup – Sonny Bill Williams Good old Sonny Bill. In a career where he has been accused of putting his own ambitions before the team,…
Skinstad: Boks have reasons for optimism
Even though the Springboks bowed out in heroic, agonising circumstances to the All Blacks in the World Cup semi-final last weekend, their 2007 World Cup winning backrow, Bobby Skinstad, says…
For the Northern Hemisphere, it’s been a tournament of what-ifs
By Will Macpherson Bear with me here: I have never seen my Facebook newsfeed look quite like it. First, the evening of Saturday October 3: England go out of the…
Five things we’ve learnt: Ireland v Argentina
By Whiff of Cordite And so it comes to pass – Ireland go out at a World Cup quarter final. Nothing to see here? Move on. Well maybe, but this…
World Cup 2015: Ireland 20-43 Argentina
This quarter-final victory felt like the culmination of an eight-year project for Argentina. Finally we can stop talking about 2007 because the nation has totally re-invented its style. Gone is…