World Cup

This afternoon the highly respected Chris Jones of BBC Rugby tweeted "The average Top 14 club budget at €21.2m, with €7.4m of that going to player wages last season". The expectation must be with the TV money from Canal + that figure will rise this season and again next season.

Robbie Henshaw’s rise to international rugby has been one of the least talked about success stories of the last year.

Wayne Barnes and JP Doyle are the two English officials included among the 12 referees appointed for the 2015 World Cup.

As the 2015 Rugby World Cup draws ever closer Mike Stanton continues to look at some of the best young players that could feature at the 2015 Rugby World Cup. This week it is French midfield mystero, Gael Fickou.

Dai Young believes Wasps stars Joe Simpson and Elliot Daly will struggle to crack England's World Cup squad, admitting "I don't know what more they can do".

As the 2015 Rugby World Cup draws ever closer Mike Stanton continues to look at some of the best young players that could feature at the 2015 Rugby World Cup. This week it is Exeter Chiefs’ playmaker, Henry Slade.

Jonny Wilkinson has rubbished reports he will join England's back-room staff for the World Cup, claiming "they've already got all the coaches they need".

Debbie Jevans has resigned as chief executive of the Rugby World Cup 2015 organising committee due to "personal reasons".

A new and official ticket re-sale service for the 2015 Rugby World Cup begins this week.

ITV will reunite a number of England's 2003 World Cup-winning heroes as part of their broadcasting line-up for this year's tournament.

World Rugby boss Brett Gosper has claimed his tweet was "over-interpreted" into partisanship when posting that hosts England failing to reach the World Cup quarter-finals would be "not the words we want to hear".

Bold selection calls can make or break a team in a Rugby World Cup year, but even with that guillotine hanging overhead, the time is nigh to give Henry Slade the reins to England Rugby.

As the 2015 Rugby World Cup draws ever closer Mike Stanton continues to look at some of the best young players that could feature at the 2015 Rugby World Cup. This week it is fly halves, and a certain Springbok called Handré Pollard.

World Cup in crisis - what are the odds of England being knocked out of the cricket, rugby and football group stages?

Talking Rugby Union caught up with former England captain and Leicester Tigers legend Lewis Moody this week to hear his thoughts on Steffon Armitage’s omission from the England side and the upcoming World Cup

As we enter a World Cup year Mike Stanton continues to look at some of the best young players that could feature at the 2015 Rugby World Cup: Edoardo Gori

The stadium where David Beckham's penalty handed England a football World Cup victory over Argentina in 2002 heads the list of venues to host Rugby World Cup 2019 in Japan.

As we enter a World Cup year Mike Stanton continues to look at some of the best young players that could feature at the 2015 Rugby World Cup: Tyler Ardron

The Rugby World Cup produces heroes; whether you follow rugby or not, names like Wilkinson and Lomu resonate. The wingers and fly-halves seem to take the glory.

The Barbarians will entertain Samoa in the first-ever rugby union match at London's Olympic Stadium in August.