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Super Rugby Star Arrested After Assault On Teammate

Today at 03:54 pm - Scrap. Melbourne Rebels star Amanaki Mafi was arrested over the weekend and will face charges of assault after an incident with teammate Lopeti Timani in New Zealand, Rugby Australia has confirmed. The altercation occurred following the Rebels’s 43-37 loss to the Highlanders in their Super Rugby fixture in Dunedin on Saturday. "Rugby Australia and the Melbourne Rebels are aware of an incident in...

World Rugby To Meet And Discuss Changes In Two Key Problem Areas

Today at 03:42 pm - Back to the drawing board. World Rugby are set to meet up next week to discuss two problem areas in the game that have caused huge controversy in recent months. Rugby’s governing body are set to sit down and the discuss the role of the TMO as well as the ruling on intentional and accidental fair play for contests in the air going forward. In recent months we have seen the TMO’s influence on th...

USA overcoming the challenges of time zones and limited funding under head coach Gary Gold 

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Cheetahs sign Dries Swanepoel

Today at 03:14 pm - The Cheetahs have announced that Bulls centre Dries Swanepoel will be joining the Bloemfontein-based outfit on a two-year contract. Similar to Grey College school mates and Cheetah stalwarts, Francois Venter and William Small-Smith, Swanepoel joined the Blue Bulls where he played for their U19 team in 2012. He received a call-up to the SA U20 side for the 2013 IRB Junior World Championship and sco...

Caleb Timu and Ed Quirk handed two-week bans

Today at 02:22 pm - Queensland Reds flanker Caleb Timu and Sunwolves' Ed Quirk have been handed two-week suspension following the recently concluded Super Rugby game between the two teams at Suncorp Stadium....