Franks is now one of New Zealand’s double World Cup winners, having started all seven matches when they won the Webb Ellis Cup in 2011, and featured in six out…
Tournaments
Five talking points from the World Cup final
As New Zealand are crowned world champions for a record third time, Rugby World looks at the big questions to come out of RWC 2015
World Cup 2015 final: New Zealand 34-17 Australia
History turned Black at Twickenham as New Zealand, led by an inspired Dan Carter, became the first ever team to win back-to-back World Cups, the first side to lift the Webb…
World Cup 2015: South Africa 24-13 Argentina
What's hot and what's not from the third-place play-off at the Olympic Stadium
Rugby World Cup Statistics
By David Marsh Most turnovers David Pocock has so far made 14 turnovers during Australia’s campaign with not one other player reaching double-figures. Despite playing with the unfamiliar No 8…
Farewell to Conrad Smith, the All Blacks facilitator
By Will Macpherson This weekend we bid farewell to a raft of once-in-a-generation All Blacks, the backbone of the world’s most successful team. Indeed, the first – the only one…
Inside the mind of Michael Cheika
FOR SOMEONE who never saw himself as a coach (Wallaby icon David Campese first suggested him for a job) and doesn’t need to coach (he’s a self-made millionaire), Michael Cheika…
RWC Final – New Zealand v Australia: Guide to the teams
The All Blacks and the Wallabies will contest their first World Cup final ever tomorrow at Twickenham. For those of you who haven’t been following their progress closely, he’s a…
All Black Jerome Kaino as you’ve never heard him
IT WAS the middle of the 2011 World Cup when Jerome Kaino discovered just how much winning the thing meant to his fellow New Zealanders. In camp with the All…
Concussion: A special report
THE LINE wasn’t great but you could pick up the slight slur in his words. “I’m still trying to get over the last head knock, over two years ago,” Glen…