Former New Zealand flyhalf Lima Sopoaga will make his Samoa test debut in this weekend's Rugby World Cup warm-up with Ireland, the Samoan Rugby Union announced on Thursday. Sopoaga, 32 ...

Ireland play Romania in World Cup opener on 9 September Andy Gray Ireland 0-0 Samoa This is more like basketball than rugby ... nations in the other final warm-up matches. England lost to Fiji ...

Photo: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images The All Blacks are always ... and so they are rolled out to take on Samoa tomorrow morning in the only warm-up they have ahead of the three-Test series.

The All Blacks will play their first ever Test in the Pacific Islands next year against Samoa as part of their build-up to the World ... New Zealand Rugby Union chairman Brent Impey says the ...

Malielegaoi, who is also the chairperson of Samoa's rugby union, is delighted that his country will get a chance to face the All Blacks in New Zealand after Samoa hosted the world champions in 2015.

The final warm-up matches for this year's Rugby World Cup took place this weekend ... Hours after their Pacific neighbours overcame England, Samoa ran leading World Cup contenders and Six Nations ...

Ireland will look to wrap up their Rugby World Cup preparations with another victory when they take on Samoa in Bayonne, France/ Andy Farrell is likely to make numerous changes from the side that ...

This is more like basketball than rugby. There's three ... scrum just inside the Samoan half. There's been mixed results for the home nations in the other final warm-up matches.