Rassie Erasmus has taken to social media to rather cleverly send a clear message about some of the latest world rugby law ...

Pushover Try - a try scored by the forward pack as a unit in a scrum by pushing the opposition's scrum pack backwards across the tryline while dragging the ball underneath them. Typically scored from ...

France fly half Romain Ntamack was sent off late in their one-sided win over Wales in the opening clash of the 2025 Six ...

Australia's Super Bowl star Jordan Mailata has urged fellow rugby convert Louis Rees-Zammit not give up his NFL dream despite ...

Head-on-head contact in the tackle comes under Law 9 of the Laws of Rugby Union ... including leading with the elbow or forearm, or jumping into, or over, a tackler” and Law 9.13 goes on ...

Men's Six Nations Championship gets underway on January 31. Here's a crash course on the rules and origins of the 15-a-side ...

Double defending champions pull away in the second half to kick-start pursuit of historic third straight title ...

Fear not – The Sporting News is here to walk you through the basics of rugby union so you can sit ... A ruck can form after a tackle, when the player tackled must release the ball.

As growing numbers of women experience rugby ... jumping and landing were other contributing factors. Forwards had a greater risk of leakage because of their increased involvement in tackle ...

Lawes was a one-man mechanism for balancing forward packs because he covered so many bases: line-out jumping ... He lasted 80 minutes, topping the tackle count with 13. In the 72nd minute ...