Scotland’s shock defeat of Australia has Mark Reason waxing lyrical about the skillful delight of wet weather rugby

Topic: News & Opinions

It will need a few more All Black injuries to justify Ireland’s increasing optimism about their chances against New Zealand this summer.

Topic: News & Opinions

Mark Reason hates the bonus point system and says it creates manifestly unjust outcomes at the end of the season which is why no other sport will have anything to do with it.

Topic: News & Opinions

Players get dropped after a sequence of bad games, but Bryce Lawrence carries on like a man who would have to fail a drug test before losing his job as a top ref.

Topic: News & Opinions

Mark Reason examines how influential the restart was at the weekend’s Super 15 and reckons the influence of Aussie Rules has been big in New Zealand rugby.

Topic: Set Piece

Jimmy Cowan will be a folk hero down Gloucester way but just what sort of value will he bring to English rugby.

Topic: News & Opinions

Last weekend Ulster proved that too many coaches send on replacements as an exercise in self-justification.

Topic: News & Opinions

Stuart Lancaster’s appointment as England coach is a sad example of the mob ruling the head.

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The new list of elite refs looks biased and could throw up some shockers in the summer tests between the northern and southern hemispheres.

Topic: News & Opinions

Is this the XV that will wear the Lions shirt in the first test against Australia.

Topic: News & Opinions