Du Toit’s elevation to the Springboks starting line-up has been helped by his form for Bath. The tighthead has been ...

The scrum remains one of rugby union’s great contradictions: eight enormous humans willingly folding themselves into a kind ...

World Rugby has defended its decision to overhaul scrum laws despite a backlash over the changes. Alan Gilpin, World Rugby’s chief executive, has responded to criticism of the decision to remove the ...

1 UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 2 Department of Public and ...

South Africa started and finished 2025 as the world's number one-ranked side, and their extraordinary depth and monstrous ...

Scrum-half has been something of a slow-moving position in Welsh rugby over the past decade. Where other areas of the team ...

Background Rugby Union scrums which collapse possess a higher injury risk than completed scrums. A mechanically stable scrum should limit the motions which generate uncontrolled and hazardous ...

Sid Going, who has died aged 80, was one of rugby union’s greatest scrum-halves as well as one of the most exciting players ever to turn out for New Zealand. In his prime between 1967 and 1977, when ...