Craig Joubert

New Zealand Rugby’s coffers are stuffed as fat as a Christmas turkey thanks to the British and Irish Lions. For six weeks stadiums from Whangarei to (...)

There are 77 minutes, 54 seconds on the clock and, as the dogs in the street now know, it’s 15-all. Freeze-frame Beauden Barrett’s restart. Kieran Rea(...)

The appointment of Wayne Barnes as referee for this Friday night’s Six Nations encounter away to Wales has, most probably, engendered a degree of anxi(...)

Vincent Clerc, Les Bleus enfant terrible, is responsible for arrowing more pain into Irish rugby hearts than any humongous French bruiser. At 35 now, (...)

Scotland will need no extra motivation for their meeting with Australia at Murrayfield on Saturday afternoon but the circumstances of that World Cup q(...)

Scotland captain Greig Laidlaw aims to take inspiration from their ultimately agonising World Cup quarter-final against Australia while blocking out t(...)

Australia 7 England 23 England’s heroic defence propelled them to a maiden series success Down Under as they beat Australia 23-7 at AAMI Stadium in M(...)

Australia will take the unprecedented step of attending England’s meeting with referee Craig Joubert as tensions mount ahead of Saturday’s second Test(...)

Referee Craig Joubert has admitted with hindsight he would have reconsidered his decision to award Australia a contentious penalty which saw them edge(...)

The Wales head coach Warren Gatland has apologised for referring to the insult Joe Marler aimed at Samson Lee as “just banter”. Marler is facing a fo(...)