Watch: Catrakilis – career highlights
Following the announcement of his retirement, look back at highlights from the career of Demetri Catrakilis – one of the most talented flyhalves who never represented the Springboks at Test level.
NZR boss hits out at ‘counter-intuitive’ Euro clubs
New Zealand Rugby chief executive Mark Robinson has criticised English Premiership and French Top 14 clubs for stalling the global season talks during World Rugby’s virtual meeting on Monday.
European clubs to thwart plans for global season?
Europe’s top rugby clubs could oppose plans for a global season, according to a report in the Times.
Vaccine key in rugby context
World Rugby boss Bill Beaumont says a vaccine for Covid-19 would be important for the game to resume with ‘absolute confidence’.
One Saffa makes all-time Top 14 Dream Team
Veteran Springbok lock Bakkies Botha has been named as one of the best players in the history of the French Top 14.
Watch: Reinach’s Saints tries
World Cup-winning scrumhalf Cobus Reinach has scored an incredible 31 tries in only two-and-a-half seasons since arriving at Franklin’s Gardens from the Sharks in 2017. Check out this compilation of all of his tries for Northampton Saints ahead of his departure from the club at season’s end.
Top 14, Premiership demand input in shaping of Test calendar
The governing bodies of professional rugby in France and England have asked World Rugby to be involved in drawing up the calendar of post-coronavirus international matches.
Best of YouTube: Nigel Owens – The Referee Grand Master
Check out this compilation of some of the wittiest and most comical moments from one of the game’s great characters, Welsh referee Nigel Owens.
Best of YouTube: Greatest plays in rugby
In another selection from YouTube, here’s a three-part compilation of some of the most ridiculous plays in rugby.
Ireland prop tests positive for banned substance
James Cronin has been suspended for a month for an anti-doping violation after a mix-up in a pharmacy led to him receiving the wrong medication.
