Vern Cotter rugby player
Vern Cotter rugby player

Vern Cotter

1st Jan 1970 1.93m/97kg Head Coach

The Cross-Border Rugby Begins

1 month ago by Ultimate Rugby

The Cross-Border Rugby competition between leading clubs from Japan Rugby League One and DHL Super Rugby Pacific kicks-off on Saturday when the five-time Japanese champions Tokyo Suntory Sungoliath battle...

Former All Blacks scrum coach joins Auckland outfit

4 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

The Blues have landed recent All Blacks scrum guru Greg Feek ahead of the 2024 Super Rugby Pacific season. Feek was the mind behind a New Zealand scrum...

Blues inject youth into experienced core for 2024

4 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

Blues Head Coach Vern Cotter can’t wait to take a “look under the hood” of his 2024 squad, naming an experienced core with a smattering of young talent in his list of 38 players for the...

Simon Raiwalui to step down as Fiji coach at the end of the year

5 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

Fiji head coach Simon Raiwalui has confirmed that he will not look to extend his contract with the Fiji Rugby Union beyond the end of this year. The former Fiji lock made the announcement on X on Tuesday...

Talking points ahead of Scotland’s must-win World Cup clash with Romania

5 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

Scotland play their third match of the World Cup against Pool B minnows Romania in Lille on Saturday night. Here, the PA news agency assesses some of the key talking points ahead of a must-win fixture...

Fiji lead high Pacific island hopes at Rugby World Cup

6 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

Fiji head into the upcoming Rugby World Cup in France buoyed by their first-ever win over England and hoping to end a 16-year wait for a Pacific island nation to reach the knockout stage. The Flying Fijians...

Vern Cotter named Blues head coach for the next two years

8 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

Vern Cotter has been named head coach of the Blues on a two-year contract for the DHL Super Rugby Pacific competition. He will have former All Black, Hurricanes and Wellington player Jason O'Halloran...

Simon Raiwalui named Fiji head coach

1 year ago by Ultimate Rugby

Fiji Rugby Union has announced Simon Raiwalui as the Head Coach of the Flying Fijians on their Road to the Rugby World Cup in France at the end of the year.   He replaces Vern Cotter, who stepped...

Vern Cotter steps down as Fiji head coach

1 year ago by Ultimate Rugby

New Zealand-born Vern Cotter has stepped down as Fiji national coach little more than eight months out from the Rugby World Cup in France.   Cotter assumed charge of Fiji three years ago after an...

The Scots square off against Fiji for the ninth time

1 year ago by Ultimate Rugby

For the ninth time in their histories, the Scots and Fiji will lock horns, this time at Murrayfield.   Fiji will have braced themselves for a backlash from Scotland after the latter came agonisingly...