In the leafy confines of Pennyhill Park, their usual Surrey training base, the England rugby team have every facility they could possibly want. Head half a world away to La Plata in Argentina and the ...

1 UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 2 Department of Public and ...

Last Saturday, a young coach I have been working with asked me to watch his under-16 team play. The match was being played in the shadow of the Pyrenees in Perpignan. While the view was majestic, it ...

Background: In January 2007 the International Rugby Board implemented a new law for scrum engagement aimed at improving player welfare by reducing impact force and scrum collapses. In New Zealand the ...

Former referee Owen Doyle has called on World Rugby to find a “solution” to the scrum “shambles” following the Irish interpro derbies. Leinster claimed a victory over Munster while Ulster defeated ...