Pollard returns at 10 - South Africa announce team to play Tonga
2 years ago by Ultimate RugbySouth Africa head coach Jacques Nienaber has made 12 changes to his starting side to face Tonga in Stade de Marseille on Sunday 1 October, with fit-again fly-half Handre Pollard returning for his first...
Vermeulen and Matera join Jones in Barbarians side
2 years ago by Ultimate RugbySouth African World Cup winner Duane Vermeulen and Argentine back row star Pablo Matera will be hot footing it from France to join up with the Barbarians squad being assembled to face Wales at Principality...
Munster Head Coach Graham Rowntree Signs New Contract
2 years ago by Ultimate RugbyMunster Rugby and the IRFU are pleased to confirm that Head Coach Graham Rowntree has signed a two-year contract extension to stay at the province until at least 2026. In his first season as Head Coach...
Ampthill team to face Tigers challenge
2 years ago by Ultimate RugbyAmpthill Head Coach Paul Turner takes his side to Leicester Tigers' Mattioli Woods Welford Road in what he describes as “by far the biggest game in our club’s history” as the teams...
Leicester Tigers name side to play Ampthill
2 years ago by Ultimate RugbyDan McKellar has named the matchday squad for Sunday’s Premiership Rugby Cup game against Ampthill Rugby at Mattioli Woods Welford Road. The Leicester Tigers Head Coach has made twelve changes to...
Warren Gatland shifts team announcement for Australia Rugby World Cup Clash
2 years ago by Ultimate RugbyWales are weighing up the fitness of Tommy Reffell as they prepare to name their team to face Australia at the end of this week. Having named their teams to face Fiji and Portugal three days before the...
Nienaber makes wholesale changes for Rugby World Cup duel with Ireland
2 years ago by Ultimate RugbySpringbok coach Jacques Nienaber made 13 personnel changes and a positional switch as well naming a seven-one split in favour of the forwards on the replacements’ bench for Saturday’s third...
South Africa fly-half Pollard to replace injured hooker Marx
2 years ago by Ultimate RugbySouth Africa have confirmed that fly-half Handre Pollard has replaced hooker Malcolm Marx in their squad for Rugby World Cup 2023. Marx suffered a "long-term" knee injury in training on Wednesday,...
Nienaber names four scrumhalves to face Romania
2 years ago by Ultimate RugbyCobus Reinach will start at scrumhalf, with Jaden Hendrikse providing cover off the replacements’ bench, while Grant Williams shows his versatility by starting on the right wing. Faf de Klerk will...
Lake returns as Wales captain - Gatland names team to play Portugal
2 years ago by Ultimate RugbyWales arrived in Nice from Bordeaux on Monday afternoon and have been preparing for this fixture from their match city training base. Tomos Williams starts at scrum-half to win his 50th cap for Wales....
