We have had the first round of games in the Air new Zealand Cup and no surprises. A few sides were rusty and took time to get going but otherwise results and score line were much as expected, all the winners achieving bonus points except Taranaki and one drawn game 27 all Northland v North [...]

Congratulations to Basingstoke RFC’s Mission Manjaro team back safe and well after 10 very memorable days in Tanzania. Jim Dixon, Ollie Rogers, Ross Stirling, Richard Cheetham, Lee Champion & Darren Lillywhite achieved their objective and reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. After having presented St Judes school with donated rugby gear and given them a [...]

Our featured site this month is one of the newer sites therugbyblog. James another rugby fan started the site only a couple of months ago. James told us that his primary aim was to practice his journalistic and writing skills, something that he loves doing. He would like to be a rugby journalist one day [...]

The Ospreys will begin the defence of their Magners League title away at Cardiff Blues on Friday, 31 August. The next day sees Llanelli Scarlets host Newport Gwent Dragons. The fixtures will be reversed the following weekend as the Welsh regions enter the competition two weeks before the Irish and Scottish sides. The first full [...]

Here is a great little video to get Kiwis ready for the Rugby World Cup, God Defend New Zealand:

Former England hooker Steve Thompson is to take up a coaching and consultancy role with French side Brive. Steve was forced to retire from playing in April because of a serious neck injury, and prior to this he had been approached in January to move to Brive as a player.  It is great to hear [...]

Last week we told you Edinburgh were back in the fold and we thought matters had been resolved, but we were wrong. Now we have the threat of legal action. We will keep an eye on the situation and report on the next stage in the proceedings, obviously the matter and therefore problems will rumble [...]

Edinburgh have ended their rift with the Scottish Rugby Union and pledged to allow 12 players to attend training with the national squad.  It is great news to see that commonsense has prevailed and the rift ended. A disciplinary panel ruled the club broke rules by stopping players joining World Cup training earlier this month. [...]

On the 30 August 2007 their is an official O2 ENGLAND RUGBY send off dinner in the new O2 Arena in London. All the squad will be in attendance. I guess you need to book early if you want a ticket! Anyway, we thought it was worth a posting for all those who have not [...]

We have just reached peace and accord in England and France and now the chaos has spread to Scotland. The long running dispute between Edinburgh Rugby ltd and the Scotland Ruby Union (SRU) has led to the Edinburgh club resigning. There is some confusion as to if they will or will not restrict their players [...]