IRELAND HAVE named a side to face Samoa in their first November Test, with a few little changes from Joe Schmidt before his first match in charge.

THERE WAS some scintillating rugby on show at the Dubai Sevens, with Fiji going home with the spoils. But they weren’t the only ones to cross the whitewash in style,…

The game at Twickenham last weekend was served up merely as an aperitif to this weekend’s main dish, seven Test fixtures, as the tectonic plates of Northern and Southern Hemisphere…

Glasgow Warriors counter-attacking from kicks

Gregor Townsend has drilled his team to exploit space when returning kicks and the team – who were top try-scorers in last season’s RaboDirect Pro12 – have been putting their…