Rugby Union

View image | gettyimages.com   England have become the first host nation of a Rugby World Cup to be knocked out in the group stages in the competitions history, completing their worst ever tournament in the process, and after defeats against both Wales and Australia, The Sports Lowdown looks at ...

View image | gettyimages.com   Springboks captain Jean de Villiers has announced his retirement from international rugby after breaking his jaw, ruling him out of the remainder of the 2015 Rugby World Cup. De Villiers, who has made 109 appearances for the Springboks including 37 as captain, was injured in ...

View image | gettyimages.com   Scotland came back to beat the USA after a faltering first half to remain top of their group with another bonus point victory. It was a game of two halves in which the USA made the most of Scotland’s errors in the first period and ...

View image | gettyimages.com Australia have put themselves in a very good position to qualify for the knock-out rounds of the Rugby World Cup, with a convincing victory over Uruguay. The Wallabies won 65-3 to send them to the top of Pool A. Nearly 40,000 spectators gathered at Villa Park ...

   At the end of the Six nations Championship England were left devastated having missed a golden opportunity to win the title for the first time since 2011.  Nevertheless, under Stuart Lancaster’s management England had forged an identity with a free flowing style and a strong self-belief that they could ...

View image | gettyimages.com Stuart Lancaster has named an unchanged team for Friday’s opening game of the Rugby World Cup at Twickenham with Sam Burgess a surprise inclusion amongst the replacements. England go into the World Cup with increasing momentum and Friday’s match against Fiji will be a stiff test ...

View image | gettyimages.com The Rugby World Cup starts on the 18th September when England face Fiji at Twickenham. Then for the following 7 weeks 20 teams will battle it out for the Rugby World Cup. There are teams that look like they could challenge for the World Cup which ...

View image | gettyimages.com England have announced their squad for the upcoming Rugby World Cup with Sam Burgess the biggest surprise in the squad, having ousted Luther Burrell for one of the centre positions. Exeter’s Henry Slade is also included in a squad that contains a mixture of both youth ...

View image | gettyimages.com With the Rugby World Cup just around the corner, Wales Head Coach Warren Gatland has sprung a huge surprise with the axing of James Hook, Richard Hibbard and Mike Phillips from his squad.  All three players have also played for the British and Irish Lions but ...

England winger Chris Ashton has been dropped from the nation’s pre-World Cup training squad. Ashton, who has scored 19 tries for England in 39 appearances, was the biggest name of seven players that head coach Stuart Lancaster was forced to leave out. He said; “The competition for places has been very ...