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What is the Rugby Championship

What is the Rugby Championship? Not to be confused with the Championship (the second tier of English club rugby), the Rugby Championship is an annual tournament that features the best…

Rugby World Cup ball

This year’s Rugby World Cup will feature the ‘most balanced rugby match ball’ ever used at the sport’s showpiece event. Gilbert, who have supplied balls for every tournament since 1995,…

dreams for Rugby World Cup

There’s a strange excitement coursing through my veins every time I think about this year’s Rugby World Cup, and for once it’s not reckless optimism regarding England’s chance of lifting…

WXV explained

But who is taking part? Where is it being held, how does it work and what is the end goal? This is WXV explained… What is WXV? WXV is a…

Borthwick bold call

‘Huge’, ‘significant’ and even ‘uncharacteristic’ are some of the words used to describe the Steve Borthwick bold call to drop Owen Farrell from the England starting line-up to face France.…

making of van Poortvliet

Jack van Poortvliet was a teenager in possession of a shotgun when he first made an impression on the man whose place he was set to take in the Leicester…