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Jun 15, 2025 - The devaluing of fixtures throughout the professional game is becoming a blight, and an understrength Argentina facing the Lions on Friday night at the Aviva...

Nov 2, 2025 - We are told the bench is now the ‘swingometer’ that dictates who wins at international and top club level.

Jul 27, 2025 - Henry Pollock looked lost at times against a First Nations & Pasifika selection which wanted to get in the faces of the Lions and show that Australian...

Dec 21, 2025 - Here is a message to all the referees, assistant referees, and television match officials confirmed this week for the 2026 Six Nations: Put an end to awarding...

Sep 21, 2025 - The Filipo Daugunu try which gave Australia two losing bonus points against Argentina in Sydney last weekend crossed a red line in terms of match officiating...

Jun 29, 2025 - The attempts by some within the Twickenham administration to characterise the Whole Game Union’s campaign to bring about democratic change at the RFU as the...

Aug 4, 2025 - There was a chance of three whitewashes taking place this weekend. The first was whether the Lions would claim a 3-0 series win over the Wallabies, and the...

Jun 8, 2025 - The Premiership finally lived up to the overblown hype pumped out about it when Bath and Bristol produced a genuinely competitive hammer-and-tongs playoff...

Jun 3, 2025 - The Premiership/ RFU’s stampede for money, and the pitfalls that come with it, is reflected in the franchise fix proposed by Bath owner Bruce Craig, and...

Oct 19, 2025 - Maro Itoje scaled one of the most significant peaks in rugby union as a winning Lions captain this summer, but he already faces another formidable climb, this...

Dec 31, 2025 - Top of my New Year’s wish-list for rugby union is for promotion and relegation to be restored as the cornerstone of the English club game.

Jul 13, 2025 - Joe Schmidt will be hailed as a miracle man if the Wallabies succeed in blindsiding the Lions to edge the forthcoming Test series which starts in Brisbane on...

Jan 5, 2026 - Speed could be England’s greatest asset as the Red Rose squad contemplate a New Year in which a Six Nations Grand Slam, and victory in the first Nations Cup,...

Jun 29, 2025 - We are about to find out about the depth in England’s playing resources, and whether the Premiership produces enough players ready to take the step up to...

Sep 7, 2025 - If international rugby union is the “shop window of the game”, the part that fires the imaginations and ambitions of young players, then it is logical that...

Jun 8, 2025 - Rugby Union has reached a critical crossroads in which the future of our sport is in the balance, particularly in England, Wales, and Scotland, but also...

Nov 23, 2025 - The eight-man bench is not an aspect of the pro game I support, and the lauding of England’s “Pom squad” as a key factor in their success this autumn has...

Sep 14, 2025 - Two years out from the 2027 World Cup, at the midway point of the 2025 Rugby Championship, with the 2025 Lions tour still fresh in the memory, and the autumn...

Nov 16, 2025 - The Rec was packed with 14,500 Red Rose fans last Saturday, England A were on home turf, and the second-string All Blacks XV were in town.

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Aug 10, 2025 - The Lions are back on the winning trail, but the high stakes surrounding the 2025 tour, whether sporting or commercial, means that getting an objective...