IRB Mini-Tournament Squad Lists
Saturday marks the beginning of a new mini-tournament featuring Italy, Samoa, Scotland and hosts South Africa, with IRB world ranking points on the line. Check out their detailed squad info.
Saturday marks the beginning of a new mini-tournament featuring Italy, Samoa, Scotland and hosts South Africa, with IRB world ranking points on the line. Check out their detailed squad info.
With few truly world-class, and some certainly underwhelming, performances, this year’s tournament XV has an eclectic and somewhat unexpected look to it. Who made it? Read on to find out.
The final week in the tournament saw some outstanding individual efforts, particularly from the Italians and, of course, the Welsh. Also, for the first time there are no English players!
So the dust has settled on this year’s Six Nations tournament, and Wales saved their best for last, crushing England to retain their title as champions. On to the Lions!
The tournament that never was? One that had promised so much only six weeks ago has been mired in damp weather and despairingly bland tactics. Will the final weekend deliver?
Another slow week where a decent performance was enough to get noticed. The backs hardly saw the ball as the forwards were happy to just scrum and maul all day.
After a two week break the Six Nations returned on the weekend, but one would hardly notice given the lack of expansive rugby on offer. Maybe next week, we hope.
Will England continue their march towards the Grand Slam? Can a renewed Scotland hold out a resurgent Wales at Edinburgh? Do France have what it takes to win in Dublin?
Retirements, half-retirements, forced retirements, career milestones… it’s been a busy week in the rugby world. Squad changes aplenty, injury in and outs, leading point scorers, here’s what you should know!
It seems odd that the two best individual performances of the week were from a losing side. A sign of overly pragmatic game plans perhaps? Here are this week’s picks.