New Zealand

As we enter a World Cup year Mike Stanton takes a look at some of the best young players that could feature at the 2015 Rugby World Cup: Nathan Harris

London Irish have announced the signing of New Zealand World Cup winner Ben Franks.

Gloucester have announced the signing of New Zealand international lock Jeremy Thrush.

New Zealand star Dan Carter has announced he will join wealthy French club Racing Metro at the end of 2015 on a three-year contract.

Steve Hansen has signed a contract extension that will keep him at the helm of New Zealand until 2017.

New Zealand back-row colossus Kieran Read has targeted an improvement from the All Blacks at next year's World Cup.

All Blacks lock Brodie Retallick has been crowned this year's World Rugby player of the year.

There is plenty of rugby union for fans around the world to debate this coming weekend. Talking Rugby Union have shared several articles this week, centred on Stuart Lancaster and his England team.

Richie McCaw will become the first rugby union player to captain his country in 100 Tests when New Zealand face Wales at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday.

Keven Mealamu says that New Zealand "need to do better" in the critical breakdown area as they target a winning tour finale against Wales next Saturday.

The November Autumn Internationals Round 3 saw some close matches with the damp conditions keeping the scores close in most games.

Scotland head coach Vern Cotter insists his men will learn valuable lessons from their brave defeat to New Zealand.

The All Blacks have made a stunning 13 changes to their team to play Scotland with only captain Richie McCaw and outside back Ben Smith starting from the team that beat England.

Dan Carter will make his first Test start of 2014 when world champions New Zealand face Scotland at Murrayfield on Saturday.

The All Blacks selectors will name their team to play Scotland at Murrayfield later this week, but our man Scott Donaldson thought it would be fun to try to guess this team.

The November Internationals Round 2 saw some great test match rugby union, depending on who you support.

What can we learn from 2014 so far...

New Zealand head coach Steve Hansen insists Sonny Bill Williams is a "massively better" player in his second spell in rugby union.

Stuart Lancaster is backing uncapped wing Semesa Rokoduguni and new father Dave Attwood to rise to the challenge of tackling world champions New Zealand at Twickenham on Saturday.

In stark contrast to Round 1, there are ten games in the November Internationals 2014 Round 2 and if you get through this round with a 100 per cent record then as Fitzy used to say, "full credit".