Tom Vinicombe is Southern Hemisphere features editor for RugbyPass. Tom has travelled the world covering rugby and lived in Europe, Asia and Oceania.
Springboks head coach Rassie Erasmus has named a hugely changed team for his side's final pool match of the Rugby World Cup but wi…
Argentina head coach Mario Ledesma will be camped out in front of the TV tomorrow praying that Tonga are somehow able to upset Fra…
Jordie Barrett is an exceptionally talented footballer. He's now been given the opportunity to add another string to his bow and w…
Rieko Ioane's fall from grace has been almost as sudden as his emergence as a rugby superstar. In his first start in almost two mo…
Atu Moli was called upon to play for 80 minutes for the All Blacks in their match against Canada. Only a year ago there was a very…
New Zealand travelled to the south of Japan with the expectation that they would crush Canada - a side that hasn't come within 50 …
Following Scotland’s opening loss to Ireland, the world was quick to criticise the Scottish side for their subdued performance a…
Joe Schmidt has rung the changes for Ireland for their next World Cup opposition, Russia. In total, just four players who started …
There was plenty of debate heading into Wales' match with Australia over who was the favourite, but there'll be no questions now o…
Wales head coach Warren Gatland has stuck with the XV that dispatched of Georgia without too much trouble last week and named almo…
Joe Schmidt has made four changes to Ireland's starting lineup for their game against tournament hosts Japan.
For a team that has never won a Rugby World Cup match in 20 attempts, things aren't about to get any easier for Namibia.
For the first quarter of the New Zealand's victory against South Africa, the All Blacks were under the pump. That slow start didn'…
Eddie Jones has named a formidable side for England's second match of the World Cup, against the untested United States whilst ret…
World Rugby have acted on a number of cases of foul play identified in the first two days of the 2019 Rugby World Cup.
It's been arguably two of the best opening days of a World Cup in the history of the competition with a victory for the hosts as w…
On Saturday night, New Zealand's new broadcast partner for the World Cup faced a huge test. Spark Sport, unfortunately, was unable…
Joe Schmidt has named his Irish side to take on Scotland in their opening World Cup match and there are few surprises.
As has been well-telegraphed, Wallabies coach Michael Cheika has reinstated the Michael Hooper-David Pocock axis for their opening…
John McKee has named a strong lineup for Fiji's opening game of the 2019 Rugby World Cup, including six players that started the l…
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