Former Sydney Roosters and New Zealand Kiwis utility Joseph Manu has scored on debut for Toyota Verblitz in Japan Rugby League One
The 31-year-old is one of eight members of this year’s Rugby Championship-winning South Africa squad lacing up their boots as the league gets under way on December 21.
Wales are on the ropes and in an arena where results matter, they need to give the Welsh public something to cheer about
It was music to New Zealand ears. They had won the final of the U19s tournament that was staged in Ireland in 2007, and it was only natural that they carried over that success into the following year at U20s level with a 38-3 win in the final in Wales in June 2008.
Significant injuries to Richie Gray and Luke Crosbie cast a cloud over the visitors’ victory.
Head coach Gregor Townsend has today named a 39-player squad for the upcoming 2024 Guinness Six Nations, with four uncapped players among the selection.
Aaron Smith and Dan Carter have been named as the greatest All Blacks halfback and first-five of all-time by a panel of rugby experts and the Kiwi public.
When Gordonton’s Aaron Hopa died in a tragic diving accident off Whangamata on December 8, 1998, so too did an incredible Kiwi life shaped by rugby, whanau and aroha. Ben Stanley tells the story of the Greatest All Black you never knew.