Alain Rolland

World Rugby has claimed this week’s introduction of two new categories of dangerous tackling offences, sanctioning reckless and accidental head contac(...)

The Ed Morrison interview begins like most rugby conversations nowadays: the wonderful All Blacks versus Ireland mini-series flows into deep concerns(...)

Michael Cheika has accused Eddie Jones of tarnishing his legacy with his “vitriolic” comments about Australia during the series whitewash over the Wal(...)

Alain Rolland’s inbox on these cold November mornings must make for the grimmest reading. Wallabies coach Michael Cheika was very clear after this 27(...)

THE BEST  No Borders – Playing Rugby For Ireland by Tom English (Arena Sport, €31.60) Oral histories are tricky to get right. An oral history (...)

One of the things which makes the World Cup such an incredibly hard tournament to win is in order to do so a team needs to hit its peak at exactly the(...)

England’s 2007 World Cup campaign couldn’t have started more disastrously. With an aging squad filled with creaking legs and missing talisman Jonny Wi(...)

Wales have reached two World Cup semi-finals and on both occasions they have come away with questions of what might have been having had a man sent of(...)

George North is fit to play in Wales’s World Cup warm-up matches after missing the final 10 weeks of last season on the advice of a specialist having (...)

George North is fit to play in Wales’s World Cup warm-up matches after missing the final 10 weeks of last season on the advice of a specialist having (...)