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France set for 12-month power struggle
Bernard Laporte is set to bid for FFR presidency after France's disastrous World Cup campaign
World Cup 2015: Australia 35-34 Scotland
Australia won a breathtaking quarter-final, with a Bernard Foley penalty with seconds left on the clock. The Wallabies had come out of the traps confidently, playing a controlled, expansive game,…
World Cup 2015: New Zealand 62-13 France
A review of the New Zealand v France 2015 World Cup quarter-final at the Millennium Stadium
World Cup 2015: South Africa 23 – 19 Wales
A 74th-minute try from veteran scrum-half and skipper Fourie du Preez took South Africa into the semi-finals of the World Cup and broke Welsh hearts, as, until then, Sam Warburton‘s…
World Cup quarter-final preview: Ireland reignite rivalry with Argentina
By David Marsh After an impressive 24-9 win over France to finish at the summit of pool D, Joe Schmidt’s Ireland have set up a World Cup quarter-final showdown with Argentina at the Millennium…
Joel Stransky backs HITZ and the Springboks
Joel Stransky knows a thing or two about winning the Rugby World Cup and the former South Africa fly-half believes Wales’ quest to do exactly that will end this weekend
Why the term ‘minnow’ should disappear from rugby’s lexicon
By Will Macpherson Sadly, we’ve bid farewell to Japan, Georgia, Uruguay, USA and the rest of the Rugby World Cup’s smaller teams. They lit up the tournament with their upsets,…
KO: Boris Johnson knocks over boy during rugby game in Japan
Japan have arguably been one of the stand-out highlights thus far in the Rugby World Cup. The passion has filtered to the nation but it seems Boris Johnson wanted to…
Fourie du Preez – the comeback king
Of course, the fact that du Preez has the talent to play in the latter stages of a World Cup is not in question – he won the thing in…