There is no dividing line drawn on the ‘standings’ table on the HSBC Sevens World Series website, but it’s as solid and real as the device on which you’re reading…
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European Champions Cup – Head to heads
If you take the law of averages, only one away side a year prevails at the Champions Cup quarter-final stage – a statistic that this year’s four English teams will…
French great Julien Bonnaire has one final swansong
Few players in the world game today are as respected and as experienced as Clermont flanker Julien Bonnaire. Capped 75 times by France, the 36-year-old played in the 2011 World…
Five things we learnt in world rugby in March
Rugby needs to embrace missed tackles March proved that missed tackles are good for world rugby. This may seem like an odd thing to say, but elite rugby needs to…
Brian O’Driscoll on Leinster’s European Champions Cup chances
Brian O’Driscoll believes that anything could happen for his former side in the next round of the European Champions Cup. This weekend Leinster host Bath, Clermont face Northampton Saints, Racing…
Mini rugby video: How to punt kick
Okay, you’re not going to be able to kick the ball as far as Dan Carter or Mike Brown straightaway, but the punt is the first kicking style that mini…
Jonny Wilkinson and fellow stars give back to grass roots
On a windy and blustery day in Farnborough some of the world’s elite rugby players, past and present, assembled in Farborough for the game between the world’s smallest club, Racal…
George Gregan talks to Rugby World
During the second day of the Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens, Rugby World got the chance to talk with former Australia and Brumbies scrum-half George Gregan. He took time out…
Change is coming for the HSBC Sevens World Series
While the party goes on in Hong Kong, World Rugby are preparing to see out changes to the HSBC Sevens World Series. Next season the Series will shift from nine…
Brian O’Driscoll takes on Waisale Serevi
The Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens is an exciting enough event, but kids attending an HSBC festival of rugby got a special treat earlier this week. Not only were they…