Four World Rugby U20 Championship match day three talking points
Wales versus defending champions France in Pool A is essentially a play-off to decide who clinches the single best runner-up spot …
A seasoned rugby journalist, Liam hails from Limerick and has covered World Cups, Lions tours, Six Nations Championships and European Cup campaigns since 2000. He became a content editor at RugbyPass in 2019 after joining from the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday in Ireland.
Wales versus defending champions France in Pool A is essentially a play-off to decide who clinches the single best runner-up spot …
Three matches are scheduled for Athlone: Ireland-Australia (2pm local time), France-Wales (4:30pm) and South Africa-England (7pm).…
Only Pieter-Steph du Toit and Kwagga Smith from the starting pack remained on the field with the match delicately poised at 13-8 i…
Before this weekend’s 27-20 win in Pretoria, the Springboks had lost their last three encounters with Ireland, losing in Dublin …
The reigning Guinness Six Nations champions never got going in Pretoria until it was too late, losing 20-27 at Loftus Versfeld and…
Marler’s early exit resulted in a Test debut for his Harlequins teammate Fin Baxter, who didn’t let his side down in his maide…
Marler is not alone in liking the look of Asher Opoku-Fordjour. Alex Sanderson, the youngster’s boss at the Sharks, is constantl…
Despite knocking around at altitude for over a week, Ireland were flat for far too long a stretch on the high veldt while South Af…
Andy Farrell has given his reaction to a frustrating 20-27 defeat for Ireland on Saturday evening in Pretoria, suggesting his team…
After all the talk, South Africa’s big day finally arrived and they had their chance to avenge last September’s Rugby World Cu…
There were thrilling finishes, loads of excellent tries and even the novelty of needing a review to judge whether the final kick o…
The Irish looked set to be beaten as they had surrendered an early 12-0 lead and were trailing 15-16 and were fortunate not to be …
The Junior Boks had won the previous two games they had played against the Argentinians. Now, with the tables drastically turned, …
The Baby Blacks place-kicker had his frustrations during his team’s ding-dong match with France, the defending champions.
The Baby Blacks trailed 0-11 at the break following an opening period where they were heavily penalised on the penalty count, culm…
RugbyPass will spend the day at the Danie Craven where the all-European clash of the Irish and the Georgians gets things going at …
His exotic-sounding name is rooted in the Iberian Peninsula as both his parents hail from Spain, but he is very much a born-and-ra…
The Capetonian, who celebrated his 20th birthday last week ahead of the opening-round win over Fiji at DHL Stadium, was part of Ba…
It’s the sort of programme that should have rugby fans having two gadgets on the go at the same time so that none of the action …
A year ago he was coming to the age-grade event in Cape Town off the back of a challenging season in England. Part of the Wasps ac…