With England’s Test series in New Zealand well underway, with two Tests and a tour match down with just this weekend’s game in Hamilton left, TRU looks at whether the All Blacks should be able to select overseas players.
Ahead of Stuart Lancaster’s team unveiling tonight, we at Talking Rugby Union wanted to highlight the key decisions he faces when selecting his starting XV?
England head coach Stuart Lancaster has confirmed that Freddie Burns will start Saturday's final Test against New Zealand after Owen Farrell was ruled out with a knee injury.
England recorded a first win on their tour of New Zealand this morning in Christchurch, as the weekday team blew past the Crusaders by 38 points to seven.
Ed Slater has demanded England's midweek team raise morale for Saturday's final Test against New Zealand by recording a first victory on tour at Christchurch's AMI Stadium.
England slumped to a series defeat to New Zealand after being picked apart with clinical efficiency in a devastating second-half spell at the Forsyth Barr Stadium.
Although the majority of the sporting headlines over the next few months will be dominated by football and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, that doesn’t mean that rugby players cannot get in on the act.
In the biggest team selection of Stuart Lancaster’s career, the England Coach made five changes to the team that started the first Test in Auckland with the standout decision being to move Manu Tuilagi to man the right wing.
Powerful try-machine Julian Savea is the only change made to Steve Hanson’s squad for the second Test in Dunedin as Israel Dagg makes way with thigh and knee problems.
Stuart Lancaster will tonight reveal the most intriguing team selection of his two-and-a-half-year reign as head coach, as England seek to extend their series against New Zealand to a decider.
Electric scrum-half Danny Care missed out on England’s first Test of the series in Auckland after suffering a shoulder injury in training; however, the Harlequin is now fit again and ready to pit himself against the best side in the world.
As the action finally dies down in Auckland after a fantastic opening test to the three-match series, Talking Rugby Union’s man in the land of the black fern brings his thoughts and reaction from the game…
London Scottish skipper Mark Bright's outstanding season and remarkable try scoring exploits have been rewarded further this week after the number eight was called up to the England Sevens squad ahead of this summer's Commonwealth Games.
England slipped to a painful late defeat in their first Test against New Zealand knowing that a glorious opportunity to topple the world champions had eluded them.