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Rugby Photographer of the Year 2024 winners unveiled

Adrian Dennis' photo of Racing 92’s Fijian wing Vinaya Habosi's dramatic last-ditch, try-saving tackle on Bath’s Joe Cokanasiga has been chosen as the Rugby Photograph of the Year 2024.

A try line tackle on England and Bath winger Joe Cokanasiga in an Investec Champions Cup clash against Racing 92 has seen a British photographer named Rugby Photographer of the Year.

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Adrian Dennis’s winning photograph, titled Tryline Tackle, features Racing 92’s Fijian wing Vinaya Habosi getting across to the corner of the pitch to stop Cokanasiga scoring and now forms part of a year-long rugby photography exhibition at the World Rugby Museum, Allianz Stadium, Twickenham.

The powerful image was chosen by a panel of expert judges from a 1,000-strong entry list worldwide for the fourth Rugby Photographer of the Year award. It was announced at the exhibition’s opening at the World Rugby Museum, Allianz Stadium on Thursday 30th January, with Cokanasiga even sending a video message to celebrate.

In addition to the overall awards, winners were declared in the categories of action, landscape, portrait, spirit and portfolio. A full list of winners can be found here.

Ampthill RFC
Sheltering from the heat in style at Ampthill – David Howlett’s beautiful image has won the Rugby Photograph of the Year 2024 landscape award.

“This year’s entry list was without doubt our strongest yet,” explains Alex Mead, Editor-in-Chief of Rugby Journal, the competition’s organisers.

“Yet again there was a hugely global presence, with images traversing the globe to all four corners of our rugby planet, so the winners did exceptionally well to just make the shortlist, let alone win their category or receive a bronze or silver commendation.”

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World Rugby Museum’s Phil McGowan said of the entries: “The standard is hugely impressive and the sheer diversity across the shortlist in every sense makes for a rich exhibition that paints a picture of rugby across the world at every level.”


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lK 26 days ago

Stunning shots!

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RedWarriors 22 minutes ago
The Springbok selection experiment is far from over

SA won two world cups but since 1987 there have been major issues with the draw and scheduling.


Lets look at Scotland and England. Scotland were ranked #9 immediately after RWC 2019.

They were ranked #7 a few months after and by 2023 they were ranked #5 in the world.

England were ranked #3 after RWC 2019 but by 2023 were #7 a full 3 ranking points behind Scotland.

There are 4 Pools. Because World Rugby used rankings from 2019, England were ranked #1 in their pool in with Argentina and Japan and Scotland were ranked #3 in their pool in with South Africa and Ireland. The pools went as youd expect: Scotland were eliminated and England got through to a QF where they got to play Fiji and scraped through to a semi.

At the end of that tournament England were now a full 3 ranking points ahead of Scotland. This wasn’t due to better rugby. It was entirely due to the draw.

Now England are in #6, Scotland are in #7 and England are favourites to be #1 Pool seeds (6 pool) in 2027 and Scotland will end up as #2 seeds.

In effect Scotland are still reeling from the draw in 2023 which was based on the rankings in 2027.

Considering the amount of admirable effort, money etc that Scotland have put into improving this is an utterly unforgivable outcome from World Rugby.

This isnt new Draw disasters and scheduling bias has been going on since the start.

The ONLY reason it is being dealt with now is because NZ and SA were affected and the world could see how ridiculous it was having the QFs with opponents that should be in SFs, and having great teams like Scotland not even qualify from their Pool.


(I don’t have beef with SA beyond their (and the Kiwis) high proportion of arrogant, brash supporters (see abuse directed at me above) and in the case of the NZ team, lack of respect for other teams.)

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RedWarriors 44 minutes ago
The Springbok selection experiment is far from over

Everyone agreed that the draw was absurd. NZ and SA were the most vocal in criticism before the Pool stages, but then the narrative changed after their squeeked through the QFs.

The reason you had to play France and England was because you lost to Ireland.

The draw helped you in that you got to play France in a QF where none of their players had knock-out winning experience. You play England first and then France, and your task becomes significantly harder. If you are also scheduled to play #5 ranked Scotland the week before France then you lose.


I thought Ireland did rise for the NZ match. Inside a week after Scotland and with resultant fatigue and injury. NZ prepared for a year for that match including identifying a potential infringemnt in Porters scrummaging which yielded 4 penalties. The NZ scrum coach remarked that the ref spent every scrum looking at Porter and not at NZ front row. Kudos, thats clever.


The fact we got within one score and went out attacking in their 22 shows we were right up for it. Particularly given NZ were so much better than SA in the final (except for the red).


Hats off to SA. But the idea that SA are a match for the great NZ team of the 2010s is ludicrous. SA were not the best team in there pool in both 2029 and 2023. They are average in between world cups. They have lost in 4 out of 5 matches against one opponent. Sorry but there it is.


(Anyone can spot a troll, using personal abuse against a person’s opinion being a pretty reliable indicator.)

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