France

Following on from France’s 30-10 victory over Italy in Paris yesterday, les Blues have added Remi Tales and Alexandre Lapandry to their ranks.

France matched Ireland's unbeaten start to the RBS 6 Nations Championship after a second-half try blitz underpinned an emphatic 30-10 victory over Italy in Paris.

Wales prop Adam Jones has given a rave review of his opposite number - Ireland front-row forward Cian Healy.

England endured heartbreak in their RBS 6 Nations opener as France substitute Gael Fickou struck with a late try that Maxime Machenaud converted to snatch a 26-24 victory.

Stade Francais fly-half Jules Plisson will make his France debut in Saturday's RBS 6 Nations clash against England.

Big-money imports to the Top 14 are damaging France's national team development, according to captain Pascal Pape.

France look set to be without their inspirational captain, and former World Player of the Year, Thierry Dusautoir, for the entire Six Nations because of injury.

With the Six Nations starting in under three weeks’ time, Talking Rugby Union’s Southern Hemisphere correspondent Scotty Donaldson asks who are you picking to win?

Experienced French campaigners Frederic Michalak and Francois Trinh-Duc have both been dropped from the fly-half position and the Six Nations squad itself, to make room for the uncapped Jules Plisson.

With the calendar year drawing to a close we at Talking Rugby Union wanted to know who ‘your’ World XV of 2013 is.

The All Blacks have won every test match in 2013 and are named The Unbeatables, but could you pick a World XV the beat The All Blacks?

The November Autumn Rugby Internationals Round 4 features ten mouth-watering matches including the All Blacks vs Ireland match which is sure to see history made

After another enthralling weekend of international rugby, with all of the world’s best teams in action, Talking Rugby Union wanted to bring you all of the scores, analysis and reaction.

With only one day to go until the second round of the 2013 QBE Autumn Internationals, there is something for everyone this weekend, with ten matches in the northern hemisphere.

England and France, neighbours, historical enemies and now united in the Rugby Champions Cup. The clubs on both sides of the channel are clear that they do not want to remain part of the Heineken Cup, at least in its current format.

Former Bath University student and Rotherham Titan, Joe Ellyatt, has recently made the biggest decision of his career and moved to France, signing for Stade Rouennais in Federal 2.

It was another exciting weekend of Six Nations rugby and the teams who could adapt best to conditions would be the teams that grabbed the glory, and where conditions managed to split the winners from the losers the round itself failed to shed any more light on the 2013 champions, setting up an epic battle on Saturday at the Millenium stadium in Cardiff.

Wow, what a weekend of rugby that was!

The draw for the 2015 Rugby World Cup has been made

Money and sport is an emotive issue. Footballers, we are told, are obscenely overpaid for kicking a bit of air-filled plastic around, with their manicured mates.