The Rugby Post

The job is done. The score stands. South Africa secured their second consecutive Rugby Championship title, clawing their way past Argentina with a tight 29-27 victory at Twickenham. Rassie Erasmus’s squad made history, becoming the first Springbok team to secure back-to-back titles in the competition. But the celebration is short. The calendar turns to November,…

Forget the traditions. Forget the history. Forget the dusty club ties. Something new is coming for rugby, backed by money so big it bends reality. It’s called R360, and it’s a direct challenge to the old order, a global franchise circuit built on disruption, high salaries, and cold, hard finance. But a revolution isn’t measured…

At the breakdown, rugby is fought in microseconds and inches. Since World Rugby issued its March 2020 enforcement guidelines to refocus refereeing (rather than rewrite laws), the breakdown has become not just a tactical battleground but a litmus test for safety, consistency, and legitimacy.  In that sense, this is rugby’s fifty-second war – a melee…

Four teams. Four rounds played. Two wins and two losses apiece. This isn’t a rugby championship; it’s a knife fight. Total points separate the hunters from the hunted, making this run-in perhaps the most unpredictable finale the competition has ever seen. The title is hanging by a thread. The numbers The math is brutal. After…

Rugby used to be simple. Bone against bone. Earth against sky. A tough game played by hard men. Now, it is complicated. Overwritten by committees, strangled by flow charts, judged by men squinting at screens in a cold, distant room. The focus is brain injury – a necessary fight – but the methods have turned…

Rassie Erasmus doesn’t do quiet negotiations. He deals in blunt reality and absolute control. So when reports hit the street suggesting his future with the Springboks is far from settled, despite the shiny new double World Cup silverware, you know the stakes are high. Erasmus, the mastermind behind South Africa’s back-to-back Rugby World Cup titles…

The clock stopped. The quarter-final heat was on. France was clawing back ground against Ireland, but something far uglier than standard rugby violence unfolded at the bottom of a ruck. French flanker Axelle Berthoumieu, age 25, got low and got dirty. She bit Aoife Wafer. Wafer showed the marks to the Assistant Referee immediately. No…

Another day, another shake-up in the world of rugby. World Rugby, with its usual blend of grand pronouncements and quiet manoeuvres, has unveiled the WXV Global Series. It’s meant to be a revolution for the women’s game, a grand design to transform the global women’s rugby calendar and pave a clearer path to the 2029…