Wales

Like England at the end of last week, Warren Gatland has announced his Welsh squad for the coming Autumn Internationals which feature uncapped Scarlets scrum-half Rhodri Williams, Cardiff centre Cory Allen and Ospreys winger Eli Walker.

With Scarlets captain, Jonathan Davies's contract expiring at the end of the season, will he be the next home-grown player, in an already long line, to leave the Welsh game?

World Cup winner and former London Wasp, Josh Lewsey, has been named Wales Rugby Union’s new Head of Rugby.

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!

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

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

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

"Rugby may have many problems but the gravest is undoubtedly that of the persistence of summer..."

The rugby world has witnessed the dramatic progression of the Welsh Dragons from underdogs to world beaters in the making in the last 12 months.

Scarlets fly-half Rhys Priestland has been viewed by many as the future number 10 for his region and for Wales after he forced his way into the national side's starting XV ahead of Wales' record cap holder Stephen Jones last year.

Michael Owen: Monthly Blog on the Summer Tests and Scotland's ambitions

The June International Matches leaves me wondering if there should be a Northern vs Southern Hemisphere rugby series at the end of the year, so some players who are injured now would still be available.

After initially rising to 4th place, Wales have now slipped behind England and France to 6th place in the latest IRB World Rankings as a result of their 3-0 series defeat to Australia in June.

When Gareth Delve received the call from Rob Howley last week to replace the injured Toby Faletau in the Wales squad for the remainder of their tour of Australia, the Cardiff-born back-rower must have been thinking 'here we go again'.

Despite the recent retirement of Wales' all-time leading try-scorer, former IRB International Player of the Year and one of the greatest players in the history of Welsh rugby, Warren Gatland's Wales have coped remarkably well on the wings without Japan bound Shane Williams.

New Zealand, Australia and South Africa each recorded their second wins of the summer against northern hemisphere tourists.

It was announced in 2010 that the 'Home Nations' would be reacquainted with the traditional summer tours to the Southern Hemisphere...

Here is my June International Rugby tests Team of Week One.