New Zealand

The All Blacks team to play England has been named. There is no room for either Dan Carter or Luke Romano returning from injury, while Malakai Fekitoa has missed out to Sonny Bill Williams.

Dan Carter has missed out on a place in New Zealand's match-day 23 for the clash against England at Twickenham on Saturday.

The All Blacks team to play England in the November Internationals is due to be named shortly, who would you select?

The November Internationals Round 1 went as predicted with wins for the All Blacks, Maori All Blacks and the Wallabies, but these matches were more a celebration of rugby than the results.

The All Blacks easily defeated the USA Eagles 74-6 in an exhibition game at Soldier Field, Chicago, was this the promotion that rugby or even AIG wanted?

There are only three games in the November Internationals 2014 Round 1 and only one of these is a test match. You could say it is the calm before the storm.

New Zealand clinched a last-ditch 29-28 win over Australia in the third and final Bledisloe Cup encounter of the season at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane.

American players on the books of Aviva Premiership clubs will be released to play against New Zealand in a fixture on 1st November.

The mighty All Blacks play Australia this weekend in what many class as a dead rubber but is that really the case? A loss would put them on a two game losing streak heading to the Rugby World Cup.

Secondary schools around New Zealand will this weekend begin their campaigns to qualify for the BNZ Condor Sevens finals in November.

Sonny Bill Williams looks set to be a part of the New Zealand Sevens All Blacks team to contest the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

We travel down to NZ with our local pundit and rugby tipster, Scott Donaldson. It was round 9 of New Zealand rugby's ITM Cup over the weekend.

This time next year we will be talking Rugby World Cup and be eagerly debating the perennial rugby union question: Northern or Southern Hemisphere ascendancy.

This competition is getting great coverage in the UK and NZ courtesy of Sky Sports Rugby. It is great to see different levels of rugby union being shown live.

The Central Coast 7s rugby tournament has received a late boost with the news that New Zealand Wasps will send a team to play in the womens' competition.

To complement our new Stock Watch and Position Watch features of we asked our reporter in New Zealand to take a look at the merits of Savea and Lomu.

The Rugby Championship Round 6 is here with two epic games with the two lower ranked teams hosting their better ranked opponents.

New Zealand clinched the 2014 Rugby Championship with a bonus-point 34-13 win over Argentina in La Plata.

TalkingRugbyUnion's Scott Donaldson didn't make the trip to Argentina this weekend to witness the penultimate round of The Rugby Championship, instead our New Zealand-based reporter watched the game at home.

We asked Scott Donaldson to cast his eye over the penultimate Rugby Championship Round.