The Taranaki Rugby Football Union (TRFU) has announced that winger Jacob Ratumaitavuki-Kneepkens has sustained a neck fracture and will miss the remainder of the NPC season. The Bulls wrestled the ...

He rapidly moved up the ranks in Taranaki, making the Taranaki Rugby Referees Association’s Top Five in 2008. He stayed there for the rest of his career and was ranked number one five times. That was ...

Additionally, he’s held roles with the Brumbies and the Taranaki Rugby Football Union, with IRFU performance director, David ...

The Rugby Football Union has launched a radical plan to save school rugby, which introduces three forms of the game including “reduced contact”, after an independent report predicted it will ...

A brutal Rugby Championship saw them win just one of six games against New Zealand, South Africa and Argentina. Next, they will embark on a tour of the UK and Ireland.

Traditional rugby boots are very similar to football boots, but the thing that makes them different is a high cut designed to give extra support to the ankle. However, more and more players prefer to ...

On 26 January 1871, representatives from clubs across the country met to form the Rugby Football Union, the sport's governing body, to draw up a common code of laws. Soon after the RFU was formed, the ...

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David Barnes, head of discipline at the Rugby Football Union, said: "We've noticed in recent years, since coming out of Covid, that levels of abuse were at a level where we needed to take action.

Rugby union brings together a combination of skill ... invented the game when he picked up a football and ran towards the opposition goal with it.

Unforgivable to concede 42 points at home - George Australia beat England with last-gasp try Dupont marks XVs return with France win over Japan Rugby Union Weekly. Wallabies stun England in ...