October 2024

The Rugby World Season Preview issue for the 2024-25 campaign is available to buy in shops now!

Subscribers will already have a copy of our latest issue which includes a comprehensive team guide for every single Gallagher Premiership and United Rugby Championship side. Look out for our Premiership Women’s Rugby guides in next month’s issue.

Related: Premiership rugby shirts 2024-25 revealed and ranked

What’s in the Rugby World Season Preview?

  • Every team in the Premiership and URC previewed
Premiership rugby shirts

Northampton Saints lift the Premiership trophy (Getty Images)

We preview all 10 Premiership and16 URC sides ahead of the upcoming season, looking at their chances for success in 2024-25.

  • Ellie Kildunne’s Olympic diary
Ellie Kildunne's Paris 2024 Olympic Games diary

Ellie Kildunne’s Paris 2024 Olympic Games diary

Team GB and Red Roses star Ellie Kildunne gives us a first-person account of playing rugby sevens at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

  • How Toulouse became the greatest club side in the world
Toulouse v Bordeaux predictions

Santiago Chocobares (left) celebrates scoring a try with Romain Ntamack (Getty Images)

Sam Peters investigates how Pierre Villepreux has helped develop Toulouse into the best club side in the world.

  • Introducing a grass roots legend, Simon ‘Shoulders’ Baker
Simon 'Shoulders' Baker of Old Brockleians

Simon ‘Shoulders’ Baker of Old Brockleians (Dom Thomas)

We head down to Old Brockleains RFC to meet Simon ‘Shoulder’ Baker, a legend of the grass roots scene who has a story for every day of the week.

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