The Top 14 rolls on this weekend with six of week 13’s rescheduled matches taking place. The matches were required to be postponed due to a lack of available dates required for European Champions Cup (ECC) matches. Virtually all opening round matches of the ECC that involved French clubs were postponed …
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Barbados Awarded Hosts of International 7s Tourney
After two years of working on drawing the tournament to Barbados, the Barbados Rugby Football Union has been awarded the rights to host the Barbados International Rugby Sevens. The tournament, set to take place on December 10-11, 2016. The tournament has toggled back and forth between Trinidad and Tobago each …
Read More »Americas Players in Premiership – Week 17
One could be forgiven for not knowing that there is to be a round of Aviva Premiership taking place in England this weekend. With attention firmly directed at Super Saturday and, specifically at Le Crunch the domestic competition will see week 17 taking place and a number of Americas players are to be involved. …
Read More »Uruguay Qualifying Tournament – Week 2
The opening round of the Uruguayan qualifying tournament was played last weekend. A number of encouraging matches were played and the Week 1 results saw Los Cuervos and Montevideo Cricket Club (MVCC) out of the blocks with impressive wins.In the match of the round Old Boys defeated Pucuru Stade Gaulois …
Read More »Peterson starts for Glasgow against Leinster
US Eagles second row Greg Peterson will start for Glasgow Warriors as they host Leinster at Scotstoun Stadium in a rescheduled Guinness Pro 12 match on Friday. Originally a round 9 fixture set for December 5, the game was postponed due to severe weather conditions and an unplayable surface. Peterson …
Read More »2016 ARC Dream Team
We’ve debated and arm wrestled and thrown names in a hat, but finally decided on our top XV from the Americas Rugby Championship. Because of the nature of the inaugural tournament we had to lay down a couple stipulations – players had to have started a minimum of two matches to …
Read More »Los Jaguares Change Six for Chiefs
Los Jaguares Head Coach Raúl Pérez has made six changes to his team to face the Chiefs in Buenos Aires on Saturday. The fixture is to mark the historic home debut of Argentina’s first ever professional team. With Ramiro Herrera forced out through injury, Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro has been elevated …
Read More »Dolan, Scully to start against Munster on Friday
Two USA Eagles players are to start for the Cardiff Blues against Munster on Friday. Cam Dolan will start in the second-row while Blaine Scully will run-on as the starting left winger. The fixture is to be a rescheduled Guinness Pro 12 match, with the round 12 match having been …
Read More »Leonardí to make Sunwolves Super Rugby debut
Former Puma Tomás Leonardí is set to make his Sunwolves Super Rugby debut against there Melbourne Rebels in this weekend’s round four fixture. The Sunwolves will play host to the Australian franchise in Tokyo as they seek their first win. In round three the Japanese side lost by a single …
Read More »Cubelli starts again for Brumbies
Tomás Cubelli is to start again for the Brumbies. The Buenos Aires scrum half has been named to start in the number 9 shirt for Saturday’s away Super Rugby fixture against the Stormers in Cape Town, South Africa. In being selected to start Cubelli retains his monopoly on the Brumbies …
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