World Rugby announces the qualification process for Rugby World Cup 2023
6 years ago by Ultimate RugbyWorld Rugby has announced details of the qualification process for Rugby World Cup 2023 in France. Following the most competitive and widely-acclaimed Rugby World Cup to date in Japan, the qualification...
Book review: The self-roast of Ian Smith
6 years ago by Rugby WorldFormer Scotland full-back Ian Smith is perfectly happy to play up his limitations. But amid the frazzled nerves and sceptical selectors is an outstanding autobiography Space invader: on the attack against...
WATCH: Awesome James Hook montage shows how mercurial he really was
6 years ago by Rugby DumpA YouTube montage has emerged showing the career highlights of Wales legend James Hook after the fly half announced his retirement from professional rugby earlier this week.
Most Capped Test XV of the 2010s
6 years ago by Ultimate RugbyThe best of the best of 2010s, we take a look at the most capped Tier One Test Team of the 2010s. Only players from Tier 1 side feature in our side while only their caps between 2010 and...
The INCREDIBLY Talented U20 Class Of 2010
6 years ago by Ultimate RugbyWe continue to look back at past U20 World Championship and have a look at where some of the players who have had gone to reach the pinnacle of test rugby and star on the domestic scene. Kurtley...
Remembering Jerry Collins, 5 Years On
6 years ago by Ultimate RugbyOn the cold, crisp evening of June the 9th 2007, after a meekly contested ruck deep in New Zealand’s half, murmurs flitted around the Wespac Stadium at the sight of the hirsute, formidable and feared...
Praise from all corners as Wales legend James Hook ends outstanding career
6 years ago by Rugby DumpPlayers from past and present have paid tribute to Wales’ James Hook, after his professional career came to an end this week.
Burgess accuses 'snake' Ford of disrupting England's 2015 World Cup camp
6 years ago by Ultimate RugbySam Burgess has accused Mike Ford of disrupting his World Cup campaign with England, and of trying to "sabotage' coach Stuart Lancaster. Sam Burgess has accused his former Bath coach...
The Breakdown | Then and now: rising through crisis will always be England's rugby ritual
6 years ago by The GuardianWhen England toured South Africa this week in 1972 they were in disastrous form, but ‘lambs to the slaughter became lions’England faced Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in successive weeks in...
Sam Burgess accuses Mike Ford of using him as 'pawn' to play politics during England's dire 2015 Rugby World Cup campaign
6 years ago by Ultimate RugbyFormer Rugby league star Sam Burgess has spoken out on the fallout from the 2015 World Cup as well as his swift departure from Bath in the aftermath and has called his then-Bath coach...
