Saracens boss Mark McCall has defended the decision to rest the club’s England stars from the Investec Champions Cup last-16 ...

British and Irish Lions coach Andy Farrell has leaned on his Ireland connections by appointing Simon Easterby, Andrew Goodman and John Fogarty, along with Richard Wigglesworth and John Dalziel, as his ...

Van der Merwe is the second high-profile Scotland back to have an injury issue ahead of the Lions tour after Sione Tuipulotu ...

Pierre Schoeman believes John Dalziel’s appointment to the British & Irish Lions’ coaching team is thoroughly deserved but he ...

It is just under a month until head coach Andy Farrell names his squad for the tour - but the former England international has already named a Scot in his backroom staff after forwards coach John ...

It’s time for our Monday wrap of who has their name in lights and who is making the headlines for all the wrong reasons after ...

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It can take four months to sail from the British Isles to the port of Brisbane, where the first British and Irish Lions Tests ...

John Fogarty is already imagining how a Lions Tour can transform his own coaching career – but his first priority was ...

The knock-on effect is that Paul O’Connell ought also to benefit from heading the Irish adventure to Georgia and Portugal, ...

There has been plenty said about Andy Farrell in the wake of his British and Irish Lions coaching staff being unveiled.

British and Irish Lions head coach Andy Farrell (third left) poses with his assistants Richard Wigglesworth, Simon Easterby, ...