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This scrum is one of the best ways of cranking up the pressure on your opponent's defence. It is given to the attacking side after one of the defending team has grounded the ball inside their own goal ...

This is the moment rugby players scrummed down to push an ambulance of field to get a player who suffered a 'series of seizures' on the pitch to hospital. Footage posted online shows more than 15 ...

And thus, the war on the scrum continues, and it is by any estimation a struggle for the very soul of rugby union. No phase of play in the code exemplifies rugby’s values and mythos more than ...

Overall, Dobson was thrilled with the win and admitted it was the team’s fighting spirit that carried them through a game in ...

Lewis Gjaltema and Lucas Friday as they prepare for the Premiership Rugby Cup knockout stage. Law, 24, will join up with the squad, which includes fit scrum-halves Will Porter and Jake Murray ...