'The Rugby Championship is in danger of becoming an unlevel playing field'
Player welfare risks to much-travelled Springboks and Pumas are growing unacceptably high.
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Opinion
Rugby World Cup
Opinion
Predicting Andy Farrell's 33-man Ireland Rugby World Cup squad
As the Rugby World Cup approaches head coaches across the globe are sharpening their pencils and their axes, as they go about the …
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Rugby World Cup
Opinion
England need to solve their identity crisis fast – Andy Goode
We’re edging ever closer to the starting XV that’ll be rolled out to face Argentina on September 9 and now we need to see the …
International
Opinion
Springboks can still win World Cup with Plan B
The best thing about a bulletproof strategy is that there is little need for another one. Four years ago in Japan, South Africa bu…
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Australia: 'Crocodile Eddie' backs instincts to regenerate Wallabies
Can Eddie Jones pull off a stroke of genius after his stunning Rugby World Cup squad announcement?
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Rugby World Cup
Opinion
Eddie Jones will win a World Cup with Australia, but not this one
In the wake of a challenging period under former coach Dave Rennie, Rugby Australia decided to take the Wallabies in a completely …
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'I did hope it would expand more' - how do New Zealand Rugby capitalise on surge of women's game?
What must New Zealand Rugby do to capture the momentum generated by the Women's World Cup?
Rugby World Cup
Opinion
Brad Weber would’ve been the next-best option for the World Cup
But if we’re looking for a bloke to bark at forwards in the way Smith so effectively does, then Weber would’ve been the next-b…
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Rugby World Cup
Opinion
Final chapter of this Boks' era has been written
Looking back on this era, winning the World Cup did not bring world dominance for South African rugby. It will have to go down as …
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WXV 1
Opinion
Why South Africa hosting WXV2 is a step forward on National Women's Day
The WXV is simply the start. Strong performances against higher ranked opposition could galvanise a rugby-hungry public and morph …
Rugby World Cup
Opinion
The All Blacks are comfortably the world's third best team right now
Both of them have logged wins over all of the Southern Hemisphere powers over this cycle, France has a 5-2 record against the Rugb…
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Why the Bledisloe Cup's future could be decided by a fly-half arms race
New Zealand and Australia have the crucial task of developing callow play-makers on their next Rugby World Cup cycles.
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