Northern Edition

News
NEWS
READ

Latest News

Trending Articles

Rugby Transfers

Women's Rugby

Opinion

Editors Picks

Ref Watch

Features

Most Comments

All News

CONTRIBUTORS

Tom Vinicombe

Nick Bishop

Owain Jones

Lucy Lomax

Liam Heagney

Ben Smith

Chris Jones

Gregor Paul

All Contributors
All News

All Contributors
FEATURED ARTICLES

John Ferguson

Why the Wallabies won't be following the Springboks' rush defence under Schmidt

While an attack under Schmidt will be more intricate than seen in previous Wallabies teams the team’s defence and breakdown work will be crucial to improve their fortunes.

Neil Squires

Rugby’s forever man Mike Brown: 'I'm a driven individual'

Mike Brown may be considered past his sell-by date but he remains a Premiership force at 38.
Fixtures & Results
FIXTURES & RESULTS
FIXTURES & RESULTS
Super Rugby Pacific

Hurricanes

Fri May 3
3:05am

Waratahs

Super Rugby Pacific

Rebels

Fri May 3
5:35am

Blues

Super Rugby Pacific

Moana Pasifika

Fri May 3
10:05pm

Highlanders

Top 14

La Rochelle

27 - 17

Toulon

Gallagher Premiership

Gloucester

17 - 38

Exeter Chiefs

Gallagher Premiership

Newcastle

14 - 35

Sale

All Black Ardie Savea’s mixed emotions after being crowned world’s best

Retiring Ben Youngs names the proudest moment of his England career
Videos
VIDEOS
VIDEOS
All Videos
Features
FEATURES
FEATURES
LATEST FEATURES

Rugby’s forever man Mike Brown: 'I'm a driven individual'

Waisea Nayacalevu: 'Fiji can win the Rugby World Cup'

Disciplinary verdicts as puzzling as ever – even when consistent to a fault
Tournaments
TOURNAMENTS
TOURNAMENTS

Six Nations

Sevens

International

Super Rugby Pacific

Rugby World Cup

The Rugby Championship

Investec Champions Cup

TOP 14

Gallagher Premiership

All Tournaments
POPULAR TEAMS

England

All Blacks

Springboks

Wallabies

Wales

Scotland

Ireland

France

Argentina

Japan

Italy

Samoa

Fiji

Georgia

Tonga

Uruguay

USA

England Red Roses

New Zealand Black Ferns

All Teams
TOP PLAYERS

Antoine Dupont

Beauden Barrett

Owen Farrell

Louis Rees Zammit

Dan Carter

Eben Etzebeth

Faf De Klerk

Jonah Lomu

Sonny Bill Williams

All Players
Get Involved
GET INVOLVED
GET INVOLVED
Women's Rugby
WOMEN'S RUGBY
WOMEN'S RUGBY
- Home
- News
- WXV
- Womens Rugby World Cup
England Premier 15s

Saracens Women

Sat May 25
7:00am

Gloucester-Hartpury Women RFC

England Premier 15s

Exeter Chiefs Women

Sun May 19
10:00am

Saracens Women

England Premier 15s

Loughborough Lightning

Sun May 12
10:00am

Gloucester-Hartpury Women RFC

Womens Six Nations

France Women's

38 - 17

Ireland Women's

Womens Six Nations

Wales Women's

18 - 20

Scotland Women's

Womens Six Nations

Italy Women's

0 - 48

England Women's

England score six against France for sixth consecutive Six Nations title

McKenzie Hawkins: 'I hope that we come off as electric'
Six Nations
SIX NATIONS 2024
SIX NATIONS 2024
- Home
- News
- Fixtures & Results
- Teams
- Standings
- History
- FAQs
- Stats
- Greatest XV
Six Nations

France

33 - 31

England

Six Nations

Ireland

17 - 13

Scotland

Six Nations

Wales

21 - 24

Italy

New Scotland co-captain Finn Russell on his stormy past with Townsend

How new Wales captain Dafydd Jenkins reacted to Warren Gatland call

Select Edition

Northern Northern

Southern Southern

Global Global

NZ NZ

Braam van Straaten

Position

Inside Centre

Age

52

Height

183 cm

Weight

102 kg

News
Teams

News

Pro14 'Sorry, I'm getting a little bit emotional' - the grim reality of liquidating a professional rugby club

View all Braam van Straaten news

Ex-Springboks fly-half Braam van Straaten is fighting the fallout from the liquidation of Southern Kings which put 52 people out of work.

by Liam Heagney

View all Braam van Straaten news

FEATURED

Ex-Springbok quotes Ronald Reagan as crisis fund-raiser launched for unpaid Kings

Southern Kings were plunged into voluntary liquidation last weekend and a campaign has been launch to help their out-of-pocket PRO14 players and staff.

LATEST

Pro14

'It is unlikely we'd be able to find a high calibre coach at short notice and one who'd step in at this point'

Super Rugby

Sharks' Boks back to face wounded Reds

Super Rugby

The 'astute rugby brain' which Sharks hope will give their attack more bite

View all Braam van Straaten news