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 ...

Not Cardiff scrum-half Johan Mulder as the South African number nine epically put his former teammate Asenathi Ntlabakanye ...

There have been many times in rugby history where what is a dominant scrum in one particular game can find itself under pressure against the same opponents a few weeks later. That’s because ...

One of the big phrases in French rugby is "No scrum, no win", and it's a motto that will ring true for Ireland this week as Les Bleus come to Dublin. If Ireland’s scrum has a repeat performance ...

“Playing rugby has been my life from a young age and ... "I kept playing, thinking it was a pulled muscle. But now I know, I was two millimetres away from catastrophe, from death.

The dreaded Welsh bounce people had been talking about midweek after Warren Gatland departed happened and Ireland at times seemed ill-prepared, especially in the first half, where the scrum ...

As a collision sport, rugby union has a relatively high overall injury incidence, with most injuries being associated with contact events. Historically, the set scrum has been a focus of the sports ...

What was particularly striking about the line-up in Rome was their youth, with Galthié keeping an eye on 2027. Leo Barre, brought in at full-back, was the oldest member of France’s back three at 22 ...

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Chapeau Fabien. Chapeau Les Blues. This was the moment when France finally shrugged off their World Cup blues, which had lingered for far too long. On the evidence of this display, France look ...

The reminder that there is a massive stumbling block to their quest to remain No 1 for the next few years and cap it with a three-peat in Rugby World ... Kolisi flexing his muscles in the same ...