Rugby

Dec 16, 2022 England’s Rugby Football Union (RFU) on Friday approved the application by a bidder for the planned takeover of Wasps but rejected another for Worcester Warriors after an assessment by the governing body’s Club Financial Viability Group. Financially-hit Wasps and Worcester have both been suspended for going into administration and will drop from

Worcester’s application to return to professional rugby for the 2023-24 season has been rejected by the Rugby Football Union, but Wasps can return. Wasps have been given approval to play in the Championship, if they adhere to a number of conditions. The RFU board had been assessing the applications from bidders aiming to take over

The New Zealand scrum-half was speaking after competing in a time trial to promote team sponsor INEOS’ Grenadier car (From left to right) Aaron Smith, Anton Lienert-Brown,Ofa Tu’ungafasi and Codie Taylor pose with the INEOS Grenadier (INEOS) Aaron Smith claims All Blacks showed what they can do in bumpy 2022 Aaron Smith admits the All

French rugby chief Bernard Laporte has been given a two-year suspended prison sentence and a 75,000 euro (£64,000) fine for corruption, nine months before the country hosts the World Cup. Hours after the verdict the French Rugby Federation president stepped down as vice-chair of World Rugby. The world governing body has referred the matter to

Dec 13, 2022 Former England coach Eddie Jones will take charge of the Barbarians for their game against a World XV at Twickenham in May, the team said on Tuesday. Jones, 62, was sacked by England’s Rugby Football Union last week following a year in which England won only five of their 12 tests. 2

the court ruled that Laporte had showed “favouritism” in choosing France’s shirt sponsor Bernard Laporte on his way into court (Getty Images) Bernard Laporte gets two-year suspended prison sentence Bernard Laporte, president of the French Rugby Federation and vice-chairman of World Rugby, has been given a two-year suspended prison sentence and has been banned from

Dec 12, 2022 England captain Owen Farrell has said Eddie Jones was one of the best coaches he ever worked with and described his sacking as “unbelievably disappointing.” Jones was sacked by the Rugby Football Union (RFU) last week following a review of England’s Autumn Nations Series, with the team winning only five of their

Castres (12) 12 Pens: Dumora 4 Exeter Chiefs (12) 27 Tries: S Simmonds, Ewers, Maunder, Woodburn Pen: J Simmonds Cons: J Simmonds 2 Exeter Chiefs began their Heineken Champions Cup campaign with an impressive 27-12 bonus-point win at Castres. The visitors took a deserved lead when Sam Simmonds crossed out wide before Dave Ewers added

After failing to qualify for RWC 2023, the Eagles are making changes Gary Gold steps down as USA men’s boss (Getty Images) Gary Gold leaves USA Rugby as future World Cup plans formulate After the men’s Eagles failed to qualify for Rugby World Cup 2023 in France, losing in the two-legged final qualifier to Chile

Wasps had debts totalling £95m when the club went into administration, reports by administrators FRP have revealed. They show that the combined debts of the rugby club’s parent company Wasps Holdings and their three Coventry Building Society Arena companies have cost taxpayers millions of pounds. Dozens of local firms were also owed money, including Arena

Dec 6, 2022 Warren Gatland has left New Zealand Rugby with one final piece of advice before departing for Wales, imploring the governing body to sign Scott Robertson as the next All Blacks coach. It was on Monday revealed that Gatland would be returning to Cardiff after just three short years away, the Kiwi replacing

11:30 AM GMT England head coach Eddie Jones has been sacked by the Rugby Football Union (RFU) in the wake of a run of poor results, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) announced on Tuesday. The RFU announced Richard Cockerill will take over the running of the men’s team in the interim. 2 Related RFU CEO

The RFU have shot themselves in the foot, writes Josh Graham Eddie Jones amongst his England players (Getty Images) Opinion: Why England wrong to sack Jones now The RFU have finally fired their loaded gun as England sack Eddie Jones. But all those in charge of English rugby have managed to do is shoot themselves

Gatland will take charge of upcoming Six Nations and Rugby World Cup Warren Gatland returns for Wales (Getty Images) Warren Gatland returns for Wales as Wayne Pivac sacked Wayne Pivac has been sacked by Wales and replaced by his predecessor Warren Gatland following the WRU’s review into an abject Autumn Nations Series campaign. Gatland will

South Africa’s World Cup winner Sbu Nkosi has been reported missing by his club in Pretoria. The Bulls said their last contact with Nkosi was on 11 November and that they opened a missing person case with the police six days later. The 26-year-old winger missed out on the Springboks’ autumn internationals because of a

With a review looming, here’s what’s happened in the last 24 hours England Head Coach Eddie Jones (Getty Images) The latest on the Eddie Jones and RFU saga It has been widely reported that the review panel which will pick over England’s disappointing autumn campaign will meet on Monday. With a board meeting the next

Dec 2, 2022 ESPN staff The future of Super Rugby Pacific has been locked away until at least the end of 2030, with New Zealand Rugby and Rugby Australia rubber-stamping a plan to take the competition forward over the next eight years. After months of negotiation and more than just a few stern words, the

Last updated on 1 December 20221 December 2022.From the section Welsh Rugby New chair Ieuan Evans says the Welsh Rugby Union must act swiftly as they review Wales’ disappointing autumn campaign and the future of Wayne Pivac. The Wales head coach is under scrutiny after losing to Georgia amid three November defeats with predecessor Warren