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Scott Barrett’s red card in the first Bledisloe Cup test of 2019 has provoked outrage and controversy across the rugby world. The decision by referee Jerome Garces to send off the All Blacks’ second row for a shoulder charge on…
The financial troubles of Yorkshire Carnegie are now well-known. The Championship side announced in April 2019 that it was to go part-time in order to save costs after its principal investor pulled out, but it was revealed in June that…
I have published an updated version of this article, available here: World Rugby's High Tackle Framework - An Update for 2020. In May of this year, World Rugby published its new Decision-Making Framework for High Tackles. It is intended as…
The past week might just have been the worst week of rugby news in history. Not ‘the worst’ because it has been dull – far from it – ‘the worst’ in the sense that almost all the news has been…
It has been reported that Cillian Willis’ negligence claim against Sale Sharks’ doctors is to be heard in closed court in Manchester from today. Willis, the former Sale scrum-half, was forced to retire in 2013 after a series of concussions…
This article was originally published on crashballrugby.com. Crashball Rugby (@_crashballrugby) brings you the latest insight and analysis around England Rugby and the Aviva Premiership. This is the first in a series of Rugby And The Law features. The New Year is upon us and, as we enter one of the most exciting World Cup years in memory, it’s time for Rugby, too, to make some New Year’s resolutions. There are plenty of areas…
A disturbing incident has emerged from the France v Fiji match on Saturday 24 November which saw Fiji claim an historic victory concerning the French No.8 Louis Picamoles. In the video below, Picamoles appears to suffer two concussive blows in…
World Rugby has created a new law, for implementation with immediate effect. A World Rugby ‘proclamation’ states: “Acting in accordance with the Bye-Laws and on behalf of the Council, the World Rugby Executive Committee have agreed to create a new…
The rugby world (or at least the twittersphere) erupted into furore on Sunday after Will Spencer’s red card against Wasps. The Leicester lock was sent off in the in the 40th minute after the referee deemed his shoulder to have…
With the Rugby Championship underway in the Southern Hemisphere, and the English Premiership now restarted in the north, the club vs. country battle is fiercer than ever. Leicester’s Matt Toomua and Tatafu Polota-Nau, Saracens’ Juan Figallo, and Bath’s Francois Louw…
