New Zealand

The Rugby Championship's penultimate round saw favourites New Zealand and South Africa both take convincing victories.

South Africa forwards coach Johann van Graan says that his side will have to be 'very clever and very clinical' if they are to beat New Zealand in the 2013 Rugby Championship decider on Saturday.

Argentina and New Zealand are stepping up their preparations for Saturday's Rugby Championship clash in La Plata.

It was South Africa who made the biggest statement of the third round of the 2013 Rugby Championship with an emphatic 38-12 crushing of Australia.

New Zealand coach Steve Hansen and vice-captain Kieran Read offer their thoughts following New Zealand's 28-13 Rugby Championship win over Argentina.

New Zealand captain Richie McCaw says he and his side are expecting this weekend's Rugby Championship clash against Argentina to be 'physical'.

The All Blacks welcome Argentina to Auckland as huge competition favourites while the wounded Wallabies, who have not yet recorded a vicoty in the 2013 tournament, host South Africa on Saturday night.

After another action packed round of rugby in the 2013 Rugby Championship, it is the All Blacks and Springboks who sit at the top of the table.

New Zealand scrum-half Aaron Smith and Australia captain James Horwill look ahead to this weekend's New Zealand-Australia Bledisloe Cup and Rugby Championship clash in Wellington.

The Rugby Championship Round 1 was exciting with two really high scoring matches. Why were so many points scored?

Following New Zealand's 47-29 Rugby Championship 2013 win over Australia, watch reaction from Steve Hansen, Ewen McKenzie and James Horwill.

The All Blacks are the hot favourites to win the Rugby Championship in 2013. Can anyone beat them?

It is almost the end of 2012 and I thought that I would name a World Rugby Team of 2012 to encourage debate

The draw for the 2015 Rugby World Cup has been made

New Zealand rugby is structured very differently to in England.

Rugby in the northern hemisphere is power based. Fear of defeat outweighs ambition. This has been starkly proved in the Autumn Series.

As an All Blacks supporter it's always interesting to see how opposition sides respond to the Haka, and Italy's response in Rome on the weekend spoke volumes about their sides' mindset going in to the match.

Here is my Autumn International Test Rugby Review following the weekend, from a New Zealand perspective.

The recent chat suggesting that Richie McCaw is the best All Black rugby player of all time is an interesting debate

The ITM Cup has been labelled a "coach killer" by some coaches because of the lack of time not only for players to recover from injuries sustained during matches with short turnarounds, but also for the lack of opportunities for coaches to rectify poor performances because training time is so limited.