Rugby World Cup News

Martin Johnson will give all bar one of last weeks starting 15 another chance against South Africa this week. The only change to the starting 15 sees James Haskell start ahead of Tom Croft at 6 Croft moving to the bench.
England team
England: Armitage; Sackey, Noon, Flutey, Monye; Cipriani, Care; Sheridan, Mears, Vickery, Borthwick (capt), […]

England will rue the lost chances against Australia as they slip down to 5th in the rankings behind Argentina. The other change sees Fiji replacing Italy in the top 10.
Rankings on 18/11/08
New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, Argentina, England, France, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Fiji.

Following the first round of match’s here are the latest IRB top 10. England and France have both moved up one place whilst Argentina and Wales have moved down. The games this weekend will perhaps have more relevance for the England, Ireland and Scotland ranking.
Rankings
New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, England, Argentina, France, Wales, […]

Martin Johnson has recalled former captain Phil Vickery and lock Tom Palmer to the starting 15 to face Australia at Twickenham on Saturday. Vickery takes over from Matt Stevens at tight-head prop, while Palmer replaces Nick Kennedy, a try-scoring debutant in the 39-13 win over the Pacific Islands.
Kennedy is out of the 22 altogether, with […]

We know you will have seen the new 2008/09 Home strip for Wales but did you know they have a totally new style Away strip.
Away
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The new strip for Wales is manufactured by Under Armour and is a big change from the past as it is yellow with white bottoms […]

The International Rugby Board has announced the pools, dates and venues for the IRB Junior World Championship 2009 in Japan.
Reigning champions and number one seeds New Zealand top Pool A in Nagoya and will be joined by Argentina, Ireland and Uruguay, who will be playing in their first Championship after earning promotion after winning the […]

England manager Martin Johnson has picked four uncapped players for his first game in charge against the Pacific Islanders on Saturday. Full-back Delon Armitage, wing Ugo Monye, inside centre Riki Flutey and lock Nick Kennedy will all start, while hooker Dylan Hartley is on the bench.
Other changes are;Nick Easter comes in for the injured Luke […]

Keven Mealamu captains the All Blacks for the first time.
New Zealand have named three new caps in their side for Saturday’s Test match against Scotland at Murrayfield. Prop Jamie Mackintosh, loose forward Liam Messam and lock Kieran Read start in new captain Keven Mealamu’s 15. Mealamu becomes the 63rd player to captain the All Blacks […]

Well both sides have made changes for this special Bledisloe Cup match being played in Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Stadium.Australia coach Robbie Deans has made five changes bringing in;Drew Mitchell, Richard Brown, Dean Mumm, Mark Chisholm and Luke Burgess were all added to the side that lost to New Zealand in Brisbane last […]

The USA men’s Sevens team went undefeated in the competition in Nassau, Bahamas. USA beat Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana and Bermuda before triumphing over Canada in the final, 21-12. Thus both qualify so this weekend the last qualifying team will come from the Africa tournament in Tunisia.
In the women’s event the fortunes were reversed, Canada […]