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Aussie-themed bar Walkabout, which underwent a major upgrade previous year , will be showing the world cup games through September and October. It was a pretty cool scene when I was 12 years old to see him. You’ve got a core group that I believe will be playing at their...

“They were taken by the history here”, Brown told Reuters on a bitingly cold early Spring day in the Midlands as some of his under 14 players went through their routines in replica long flannels, white shirts and red caps while being filmed for a documentary to be...

There will be four tours of Rugby School per day during the Rugby World Cup, and the town has been singled out to host a Rugby World Cup Fan Zone.

Georgia scrumhalf Vasil Lobzhanidze will become the youngest player in Rugby World Cup history after being selected in the team to play Tonga on Saturday.

“I’ve always been very attached to Canada despite living in Australia and sounding not particularly Canadian”.

Recalling the fateful incident at the Millennium Stadium which led to his withdrawal from the World Cup and plunged Welsh rugby into a state of grief, Halfpenny said: ‘I remember seeing the Italian outside-half chipping the ball over the line and I have gone for it.

“The All Blacks haven’t won it out of New Zealand and that’s something that, at some stage, someone will do”.

A clean sweep against the remaining sides in their pool, Tonga, Georgia and Namibia should be enough to get Argentina into the quarter-finals and a clash against the winners of Pool D, likely to be either France or Ireland.

“I don’t care about the score, I just want to play well and win”, he said, adding that prop Samson Lee and full-back Liam Williams would both get run-outs after slowly coming back from injury.

Nathan White has claimed that Ireland will be punished for a complacent approach in their World Cup opener against Canada.

Courtney Lawes insists England are braced to survive an early onslaught from Fiji out of the expectation that the Islanders will be vulnerable when Friday’s World Cup opener nears its conclusion.

Scotland coach Vern Cotter has praised his team’s improvement in the scrum and at the breakdown during the second half of their 28-22 defeat to Ireland on Saturday.

Gatland must submit his final 31-man squad on August 31, and on the evidence of Saturday’s defeat the likes of fly-half James Hook could now be skating close to missing the cut.

Ireland flanker Tommy O’Donnell has been ruled out of contention for the Rugby World Cup after dislocating his hip in a warm-up match against Wales on Saturday.

It means the World Cup dream is about to end for some as the countdown continues towards Gatland’s final 31-man World Cup squad announcement later this month.