Rugby Rugby Features

The latest Rugby Features and Columns from the Rugby Rugby writers based around the globe.  Check out what they are saying about the latest issues of the game.

  • Monday, 9. January, 2012

    Rugby Union or Rugby League on TV?

    Rugby Union and Rugby League are both minor blips in the sporting conscience of the U.S. sports fan. But with rugby in general growing in the U.S. Rugby Rugby’s Geoff Mason gives his opinion on which has the greater potential to make the U.S. a rugby nation.

  • Monday, 9. January, 2012

    In a league of their own?

    The name Sonny Bill Williams elicits different responses. Some love him... some do not. Some rate him... again, others do not. Many rugby league superstars have made the switch to the 15-man code - but how many have done so successfully? Timmy Hancox delves a bit deeper.

  • Wednesday, 4. January, 2012

    Porn Gets You Up For Game

    It’s official! Porn gets you up for the upcoming rugby matches.

  • Tuesday, 3. January, 2012

    A rugby team with a difference

    Rugby union is quite a unique sport... Different to the well-known American sports - like baseball, basketball and American football - and very different to other ball sports like cricket, tennis or golf. With that in mind, we have done some code-swapping... with a difference.

  • Monday, 2. January, 2012

    Looking into our crystal ball

    While 2011 produced drama, controversy and excitement in huge lumps, the year 2012 will bring a new wave of joy, thrills and its own brand of unpredictability, suspense, fickleness and recreation.

  • Friday, 30. December, 2011

    Five Friday Funnies

    The Rugby Rugby team love a laugh or two and want to end off 2011 with a bit of a giggle so here is your chance to help us out with captions for five of our favourite pictures from the year.

  • Thursday, 29. December, 2011

    2011: A year in pictures - Part Two

    Another year has passed us by and just before we call in the New Year, the Rugby Rugby team has compiled a collection of the images that defined the year. In Part Two we look back at the second half of 2011.

  • Wednesday, 28. December, 2011

    2011: A year in pictures - Part One

    Another year has passed us by and just before we call in the New Year, the Rugby Rugby team has compiled a collection of the images that defined the year. In Part One we look back at the first half of 2011.

  • Wednesday, 28. December, 2011

    Five young players to watch in 2012

    Remember these names. You read it here first. Yup, it's every cliché in the book, folks... but not without good cause! As the 2011 rugby year winds down, we have picked five young players to watch next year.

  • Sunday, 25. December, 2011

    Inside Santa Claus's rugby stocking

    It's that time of the year and we've gone and done it again! Rugby Rugby's intrepid spies managed to intercept a few letters bound for good ol' Santa at the north pole. It's our Xmas presents list... with a difference.

  • Sunday, 25. December, 2011

    Christmas Day departures

    It's becoming easier to regulate times of arrivals but by and large departures are harder to time. It is sometimes said of an awkward person: 'He'll probably die during Christmas dinner.' There are international rugby players who may not have been quite as inconvenient but who died on Christmas Day, probably not deliberately!

  • Sunday, 25. December, 2011

    Rugby's famous Christmas babies

    To many it is a great blessing for a baby to share a birthday with the Christ Child. For many it is a burden - two presents merged into one. Which rugby players celebrate - or have celebrated - their birthdays on the 25th?

  • Sunday, 25. December, 2011

    Dear Santa: Rugby Rugby's Christmas wishlist

    With Christmas upon us, we thought it would be the perfect time to ask - loudly - for some Christmas gifts; most of which have the 2012 rugby season in mind.

  • Friday, 23. December, 2011

    Rugby in Afghanistan?

    Afghanistan kicked off its first official rugby tournament on Friday, with organisers hoping the game will one day be as popular as buzkashi, a kind of polo played with the carcass of a headless goat.

  • Thursday, 22. December, 2011

    To tweet or not to tweet...

    Ospreys Director of rugby Scott Johnson has criticised Welsh referee Nigel Owens for his use of Twitter, which has re-opened the debate of the role of the social media website in modern rugby.