While it's not the Grand Slam showdown like some would have predicted, this afternoon's meeting of Ireland and France is everything but.

The scrum is a way to restart play after certain stoppages, like a forward pass or knock-on, or when the ball becomes unplayable in a ruck or maul.

Not Cardiff scrum-half Johan Mulder as the South African number nine epically put his former teammate Asenathi Ntlabakanye ...

Nonetheless, it is indeed an enigma. The scrum is broken. And World Rugby have come up with nothing to fix it, no law trial that attempts to resolve this calamitous set-piece, to make it a lot safer.

This is the moment rugby players scrummed down to push an ambulance of field to get a player who suffered a 'series of seizures' on the pitch to hospital. Footage posted online shows more than 15 ...

Who should be considered England’s most valuable individual from the recent Six Nations Championship? Either one of the ...

Alex Mitchell once tried sidestepping an entire team; now the Northampton scrum half explains to Daniel Schofield, the deputy rugby correspondent at the Daily Telegraph, how he has taken his game to a ...

There have been many times in rugby history where what is a dominant scrum in one particular game can find itself under pressure against the same opponents a few weeks later. That’s because ...

Super Rugby has had its best start in years. This has created headlines about the on-field action (rather than off-field) that the competition has wanted for years – but one of the reasons ...

One of the big phrases in French rugby is "No scrum, no win", and it's a motto that will ring true for Ireland this week as Les Bleus come to Dublin. If Ireland’s scrum has a repeat performance ...

The dreaded Welsh bounce people had been talking about midweek after Warren Gatland departed happened and Ireland at times seemed ill-prepared, especially in the first half, where the scrum ...

As a collision sport, rugby union has a relatively high overall injury incidence, with most injuries being associated with contact events. Historically, the set scrum has been a focus of the sports ...