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The Rolling Maul IIWhen the perfect rolling maul is on the move it is almost impossible to stop. It is like discovering the secret of perpetual motion. You cannot tackle a player legally. You cannot get at the ball. There is not much of a front to drive against. The only option left is to…infringe.
Rugby soon to end it's Olympic exileRugby union will not feature in the Olympic Games, but the sport will end its long exile in 2016 after a long battle by the International Rugby Board to gain admission, first by the late Vernon Pugh and then by one of his successors as chairman, Bernard Lapasset.
Bringing a top lineout drive back down to earthMartin Johnson’s great Leicester lineout was a mighty hard thing to stop, but American Football provided a few clues
Victor Matfield: LineoutCOMING SOON…Victor Matfield shares with you the technical and tactical lineout skills he has developed over his playing and coaching career.
Financial dark cloud looms over Welsh rugby.On the day that Gavin Henson signed for London Welsh, his fifth club in less than two years, the financial dark cloud looming over Welsh rugby grew darker.
Is rugby becoming another soccer?In the amateur era, rugby was known as a tough game where justice was frequently administered by the players on the field.
The price of Anglo-Saxon stoicismThe tours showed, yet again, that there the game in New Zealand and Australia is fundamentally different to that in Europe.
The Rolling Maul Part IBrendon Ratcliffe loves the rolling maul. If forwards are piano shifters, then the rolling maul is the Steinway of rugby.
All Blacks v IrelandWithout Dan Carter and five other changes to the starting lineup, have the All Blacks given Ireland a sniff of a historic first win in the final test of the series?
Australia v WalesJG thinks that the afternoon test match in Sydney presents Wales with an opportunity to beat Australia in what will be their fifth encounter in nine months
South Africa v EnglandHeyneke Meyer has outsmarted Stuart Lancaster in the first two tests between the Springboks and England.
Take them out wide EnglandPlaying for the shirt in England Sport has become conventional wisdom after England’s problems in NZ.
