The English kick-started their season with last Saturday’s last-gasp round two Allianz Stadium win over France.
Wales slumped to a new world ranking low of 12th, with Georgia climbing above them.
The English were flattered by their five-point, 22-27 margin of defeat to Ireland in Dublin and the response from the head coach has been to alter two backs and one forward.
The Saracens number eight has been in irrepressible domestic form, but does he suit Steve Borthwick's game plan?
Many within the rugby fraternity will already know Tom Martin as a back-rower who cracked the Waikato NPC team in their 2021 premiership-winning season, having earlier gained selection for New Zealand Secondary Schools.
Johnson’s Leicester were beaten 39-14 by arch-rivals Wasps in the Premiership final.
Wales boss Warren Gatland has sprung a major selection surprise by omitting established centres George North and Nick Tompkins from his line-up for Sunday’s Guinness Six Nations clash with France.
Waikato Rugby is pleased to announce their initial 38-man Bunnings Warehouse National Provincial Championship (NPC) squad for the upcoming 2022 season.
When Gordonton’s Aaron Hopa died in a tragic diving accident off Whangamata on December 8, 1998, so too did an incredible Kiwi life shaped by rugby, whanau and aroha. Ben Stanley tells the story of the Greatest All Black you never knew.
Alex McLeod returns to reflect on who improved and who regressed over the past fortnight of Mitre 10 Cup rugby.