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- Bermuda were upset away winners over Guyana on Saturday.
- A bill in Chile’s Camara de Diputadas y Diputados seeks to grant Pablo Lemoine Chilean Nationality. The motion is to award Lemoine for having coached Los Cóndores to successfully qualify for Rugby World Cups 2023 and 2027.
- A USA Eagle is Top 14 bound as Stade Français have signed the former Scotland winger Rufus McLean.
- Canada’s Rob Povey starts in England.
- The Telegraph reports that, in addition to France and Japan, a British & Irish Lions tour of the Americas is being considered.
- Meanwhile, Gavin Mears writes why he opposes changes to British & Lions tours.
- Controversy and geography combine again in the The Nations Championship. Japan’s home match against Ireland has been moved to Newcastle, Australia. This favors the higher ranked Ireland who also face Australia in Sydney and New Zealand in Auckland. Italy face the same three teams but cover vastly more miles and without directly connected airports: vs Japan in Tokyo, vs New Zealand in Wellington and vs Australia in Perth.
- L’Equipe note Domingo Miotti was a recruitment mistake that became indispensable at Montpellier.
- USA Women’s Eagles World Champions from Rugby World Cup 1991 celebrated their 35th Anniversary on Capitol Hill.
- The American Way Rugby Coaching Conference is set for August in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
- August will also see the 2026 Rugby Americas North u19’s taking place. Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Mexico and the USA are presently confirmed participants.
- USA representative teams now have a new sponsor.
- Dogos hooker Juan Ignacio Greising Revol is the leading Super Rugby Americas try scorer with ten tries. His latest was against Los Pampas on Friday.
- In terms of overall individual points, prior to Week 9, Pampas fly half Bautista Farise and Tarucas fly half Ignacio Cerrutti had scored 86 and 82 points respectively thus far this season.
- Argentina’s Gonzalo de Achaval has been appointed referee for two matches in the u20 Rugby Championship.
- Former Newcastle player Matías Moroni scored a try and had an assist try for Bristol Bears against Newcastle Red Bulls.
- Guido Petti’s rampaging try for the Harlequins was his first for the club and suggests he will add plenty more caps to his career total which stands at 98 test matches for Argentina.
- The seemingly Top 14 destined Vannes won big again. Puma Francisco Gorrissen and Cóndor Iñaki Ayaza were try scorers in Friday’s 61-24 win over Aurillac. Puma Bautista Pedemonte and Tero Jean Cotatmanac’h were replacements. Vannes are guaranteed top spot heading into the play-off’s.
- Pumas capitan Julían Montoya scored for Pau against Stade Français. The Parisians won at the death.
- A Pumas recall is increasingly likely for Domingo Miotti. El Tucumano was the hero for Montpellier who downed Bordeaux 23-21 on the road on Saturday. Miotti scored 13 points.
- Mark “Two Cents Rugby” argues against Jaguares returning to Super Rugby to replace the void being left by the collapse of Moana Pasifika. He also argues against any expansion to Super Rugby.
- Wales Rugby crisis has worsened with a tabled merger of Cardiff and the Ospreys having collapsed.
- The loss of a Welsh team has the Cheetahs ready for an unlikely return to the United Rugby Championship.
- Zebre Parma is saying goodbye to five Argentines at the end of the season: Gonzalo García, Guido Volpi, Martín Roger Farías, and Enrique Pieretto. García is rumored to be joining a French Top 14 club.
- Italy’s over URC team, Benetton announced Pumas Thomas Gallo, Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro and Nicolás Roger among their departures.
- Phil Waugh of Rugby Australia announced a record operating surplus of AU$70.6 million.
- A year after Dutchman Fabian Holland became an All Black, flanker Anton Segner from Frankfurt, Germany may also do so. Segner moved to New Zealand aged 15 on a rugby scholarship.
- Hurricanes head coach Clark Laidlaw is disappointed that Riley Higgins is leaving to play for Edinburgh. The former New Zealand u20 player has been signed to play in Scotland with an offer of playing for Scotland. It continues the decades long behavior of Scotland poaching New Zealand rugby players a la ‘Kilted-Kiwis.’
photo: Scottish Rugby
