French scrum-half Maxime Lucu is a paradox. He's never placed rugby on a pedestal, yet the game has always relied on him - as ...

Record-breaker Ivania Wong has a deep respect for the pioneers of 1996 who made it possible for the Queensland Reds to reach ...

With just a few months to go until the Lions' tour of Australia this summer, The i Paper assesses key areas the head coach ...

Of all the rugby positions, prop is the one that perhaps benefits most from experience and the men holding up the scrum often develop ... the Springbok scrummaging machine nicknamed ‘The Tank ...

In a 12-try thriller, scores from Jack Brown, Fergus Watson, Ollie Blyth-Lafferty, Cameron Van Wyk and Freddy Douglas were ...

Super Rugby may be 'shrinking to glory', and the Australians are the driving force behind an enticing new season.

When Tommy Freeman was selected in the centres this week, Steve Borthwick asked him to stand up in front of the team and ...

Captain Dan Sheehan took exception to his opposite number Elliot Dee after Wales eked out another scrum ... by the Irish machine. But having been silenced for some time, Welsh rugby had found ...

Coming into this tournament, Ireland had their sights set on becoming the first team in Six Nations history to record three ...

After three rounds of Super Rugby Pacific action, we take a closer look at the players who are leading the respective individual statistics categories.

France: Hooker Lyam Akrab hoovered up all the tries, but No 8 Elyjah Ibsaiene is a simply astonishing ball carrier for an ...

A well-documented aspect of the decline of Barcelona was the so-called ‘Messi-dependencia’, where the team eventually ...