Matt Williams

Rugby World Cup performances are the end result of years of failure by Australia’s high performance coaching system

Matt Williams: Ireland will have to get two scores ahead as early as possible if they are to beat the Springboks on Saturday

Matt Williams: Whether you’re Clint Eastwood or a rugby fan with no name, there has been plenty to enjoy and ponder in the first acts of the Rugby World Cup

Rugby World Cup: South Africa have legally exploited a safety-law loophole, but we should be concerned about their seven replacement forwards

The first Rugby World Cup was the sport’s version of Woodstock, changing the cultural landscape forever. We must nurture a tournament that reminds us that no one owns this game

To win the World Cup it may well require a talented disrupter, someone brave enough to break with the current fashion of negative tactics that has dominated recent editions

Every national team is completely reliant upon the quality of the high performance system below them

Youth sport allows us to learn how to handle the emotional mouses and cauliflower ears that every life has to endure

Farrell’s men will likely face the rock and hard place options of who they want to face in a World Cup quarter-final – New Zealand or France

The United States would already be a mighty rugby force if not for presidential intervention

Since November 2022 the Springboks’ monolithic game plan has lost to France, Ireland and New Zealand

He was a wise pioneer whose coaching of superior scrum technique contributed in a huge way to the development of Irish rugby

Australians hope Saturday’s match against South Africa is the first step on a long journey back to the top

Talk of a two-horse race between northern giants France and Ireland doesn’t take into account New Zealand’s superb form or South Africa’s doggedness

Banning competitive sport does not teach kids how to cope with the world