Interview
France U20s skipper Hugo Reus: 'We need to win for my village'
Four times he has flown south from France in the last 13 months, his involvement at the 2023 and 2024 World Rugby U20 Championship…
Liam Heagney
19 Jul 2024, 0:51
World Rugby U20 Championship News
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Interview
'You shouldn’t really judge a whole programme on one particular game'
If the double doesn’t materialise, though, he doesn’t want people judging the RFU’s pathway programme based on a single resu…
Liam Heagney
18 Jul 2024, 2:51
Interview
Getting to know: Italy U20s No8 Jacopo Botturi
Skipper Botturi, who led the team to two wins – including a victory away to France – in a fourth-place Six Nations finish, wil…
Liam Heagney
18 Jul 2024, 2:03
Interview
Philippe Boher: 'We adapted our rugby specifically for this group'
France, of course, had their dominance in this grade interrupted by the pandemic after their two-in-a-row of 2018 and 2019, but th…
Liam Heagney
18 Jul 2024, 1:51
Analysis
Where are they now? The 2016 England U20 Championship-winning team
Ten of Martin Haag’s class of 2016, who defeated Ireland 45-21 in the final in Manchester, went on to play Test-level rugby, eig…
Liam Heagney
18 Jul 2024, 1:36
Scotland win promotion back to World Rugby U20 Championship
Scotland have secured promotion back to the World Rugby U20 Championship in 2025 after winning the second-tier U20 Trophy with a 4…
Jon Newcombe
17 Jul 2024, 15:49
Two England changes for World U20 Championship final versus France
Mark Mapletoft’s side demonstrated their ability to squeeze teams in that last four success, holding the Irish scoreless in the …
Liam Heagney
17 Jul 2024, 12:14
France make two changes for U20 Championship final versus England
The French, who are chasing a fourth successive world title in a row, swatted aside New Zealand 55-31 in their semi-final last Sun…
Liam Heagney
17 Jul 2024, 7:22
Interview
Getting to know: England U20s scrum-half Ollie Allan
With that pesky leg ailment since healed, Allan has returned to the England squad and been a key component in what has been achiev…
Liam Heagney
17 Jul 2024, 2:17
What to watch in men's rugby: U20 Championship, Trophy finals
Silverware is up for grabs in Edinburgh and Cape Town this week as the World Rugby U20 Championship and Trophy reach their conclus…
Martyn Thomas
16 Jul 2024, 14:27
Interview
'The bright side' Vernon Bason has taken from heavy loss to France
The Baby Blacks had defeated France in a pool match in Stellenbosch 10 days earlier, Rico Simpson kicking an 80th-minute penalty t…
Liam Heagney
16 Jul 2024, 14:03
Interview
Brent Liufau: 'Special night playing against my cousin for New Zealand'
France versus New Zealand was a spicy rematch last Sunday at the World Rugby U20 Championship. The French, the defending three-in-…
Liam Heagney
16 Jul 2024, 4:51
Analysis
Four World Rugby U20 Championship semi-final talking points
Sunday at the World Rugby U20 Championship in Cape Town began with a blue sky, quite the contrast to match day there’s brutal we…
Liam Heagney
15 Jul 2024, 9:44
Interview
Willie Faloon: 'I wouldn’t have done an awful lot differently'
Defeat when a team hasn’t performed fully is the worst kind of loss. That was the ordeal Ireland were put through in Cape Town o…
Liam Heagney
15 Jul 2024, 7:17
Interview
Mark Mapletoft: 'Four-fifths up the mountain... now for the summit'
Having drawn their last two matches with Ireland, they finally put the squeeze on the age-grade rivals, dominating in the scrum an…
Liam Heagney
15 Jul 2024, 5:55
Interview
England U20s hooker Craig Wright: 'It’s a real weapon of ours'
With Ireland eventually beaten 31-20, the hooker had just finished belting out Zombie in his team’s dressing room when he stroll…
Liam Heagney
15 Jul 2024, 4:40
Interview
Jono Gibbes' reaction to France U20s putting 55 points on New Zealand
The Baby Blacks came into the fixture at the Cape Town Stadium having beaten the French 27-26 just 10 days earlier in a pool match…
Liam Heagney
14 Jul 2024, 16:18
Seven-try France hammer New Zealand to book U20 final versus England
Beaten 26-27 by an 80th-minute Baby Blacks penalty in a July 4 pool match in Stellenbosch, the French only reached the last four a…
Liam Heagney
14 Jul 2024, 13:54
England scrum their way to U20 final with deserved win over Ireland
Two points up at the break, Mark Mapletoft’s side took a firm grip on the previously frenetic exchanges and the second period be…
Liam Heagney
14 Jul 2024, 11:27
Interview
Nathan Michelow: 'It's one that we all want to smash them in really'
The lobby of the England team hotel in Cape Town was as busy as a railway station concourse when RugbyPass dropped by in midweek t…
Liam Heagney
14 Jul 2024, 3:39
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