Rugby World Cup News

The team to play Wales on Saturday has been announced, only surprises are Leicester centre Dan Hipkiss will make his England debut and Joe Worsley has been moved to open-side flanker, with Martin Corry on the blind-side and Nick Easter completing the back row.
Andy Farrell gets another chance at inside centre in a new-look pairing […]

Agustin Pichot will captain the 30-man Pumas squad, which has been announced as one of the first final squads. Not surprisingly Leinster fly-half Felipe Contepomi and Stade Francais full-back Juan Martin Hernandez are also named, the surprise names are Horacio Agulla and Federico Serra who were not in the original 41 preliminary squad named at […]

Next weekend sees the first round of World Cup warm up games. Both Wales and England will want to look at combinations and although both sides would like to win, we think both coaches will do some tinkering and perhaps not play a couple of guys they have already decided are in their World Cup […]

New Zealand are still 1/2 odds on to win the Rugby World Cup 2007. The latest odds for everyone else which show some lengthening for the European nations are: South Africa 5/1, Australia 9/1, France 10/1, Ireland 16/1, England 25/1, Argentina and Wales 33/1, Italy and Scotland 300/1, Samoa 500/1, Fiji 1000/1, Tonga 2000/1 […]

Now the Tri-Nations are over it seemed the right time to show the current IRB World Rankings for the team who will be in France in September.  New Zealand are firmly in 1st place followed by Australia, France, South Africa and Ireland. Argentina still hold 6th place above England, then Wales, Italy and Samoa make […]

The International Rugby Board are reviewing the number of teams to take part in the 2011 Rugby World Cup.  Syd Millar has said they will decide by October this year as to if they will reduce the finalists to 16 or remain at the current 20 teams the format which has existed since 1999.
It will […]

As we expected Rugby union bosses have announced that the 2011 World Cup final will be held at Auckland’s Eden Park. The venue, which hosted the inaugural World Cup final in 1987, currently holds 45,472 but that will be increased to 60,000 ahead of the tournament. The final will take place on the weekend of […]

This short clip should wet your appetite for the upcoming RWC in France, the video is in French too.

Download and print this Rugby World Cup sweepstake kit. It has all you need to set up a sweepstake in the office, pub or club with all the teams and their pools. Cut them out and put them in a hat for the people taking part to draw out. It doesn’t matter how many […]

John Connelly announced his squad on Monday night at the John Eales dinner. The 30 man squad had a couple of surprises for those outside the inner circle, with the uncapped Berrick Barnes at 21 the youngest member of the squad and  Greg Holmes selected without playing in the last 7 tests. It was no […]