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Springbok squad for the 2023 Rugby Championship

2 years ago by Ultimate Rugby

Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber named a Castle Lager Rugby Championship training squad of 40 players – which features a handful of overseas based players – for their next assignment, a three-week...

Fiji name 45-man wider squad

2 years ago by Ultimate Rugby

Fijians Head Coach Simon Raiwalui has today announced a wider squad of 45 players for the upcoming July test series against Tonga on 22nd July 2023, Samoa on 29thJuly 2023, Japan on 5th August 2023, and...

France name RWC training squad excluding the Top 14 Semi Final players

2 years ago by Ultimate Rugby

Fabien Galthie has named his RWC training squad with players from La Rochelle, Toulouse, Racing 92 and Bordeaux not included    AZAGOH Pierre-Henri (Stade Français Paris) BAMBA Demba...

Racing, Bordeaux advance in play-offs

2 years ago by Ultimate Rugby

Racing 92 and Union Bordeaux-Bègles, who will be competing in next season’s Heineken Champions Cup, both progressed to the TOP 14 semi-finals at the weekend.   The French top-flight’s...

Doris and Murphy named Ireland Players of the Year

2 years ago by Ultimate Rugby

At the Leinster Rugby Awards Ball yesterday evening, at the Clayton Burlington Hotel, Caelan Doris and Jenny Murphy, were the big winners as they took home the Ireland Men and Women’s Players of...

Leinster Awards: Caelan Doris, Jenny Murphy, Scott Penny & Aoife Dalton the big winners

2 years ago by Ultimate Rugby

Leinster Rugby Awards 2023Best Menswear Development School of the Year: St Mary’s CBS, PortlaoiseJUST EAT Tackle of the Year: Liam Turner (v DHL Stormers)Beauchamps School of the Year: Gonzaga CollegeNissan...

How Dobbo dabbled to make it to the Big Dance

2 years ago by Ultimate Rugby

John Dobson takes great pride in the fact that it has taken close to 60 players to get the DHL Stormers to a second successive BKT United Rugby Championship Grand Final.   He is even more delighted...

Monty Ioane joins Lyon

2 years ago by Ultimate Rugby

Melbourne Rebels winger, Monty Ioane has signed a two-year deal with French side Lyon. Ioane will join the likes of new recruits Alban Roussel, Colomiers' Pierre-Samuel Pacheco, scrum half Martin Page-Relo,...

Grégory Alldritt voted 2023 EPCR Player of the Year

2 years ago by Ultimate Rugby

The Stade Rochelais No 8 and captain, Grégory Alldritt, has capped off an outstanding EPCR season by being voted as the 2023 EPCR Player of the Year.   A leading light in the Stade...