Breakdown
The Rolling Maul II
When the perfect rolling maul is on the move it is almost impossible to stop. It is like discovering the secret of pe...
Insight & analysis
Articles
Deep dives on the modern game from The Rugby Site's contributors and coaches.
Attack
How the All Blacks are becoming a typical Dave Rennie team on exit counters
Current New Zealand supremo Dave Rennie has brought the same principles to the running of the All Blacks that he espoused in the Waikato ...
Set Piece
Is the new maul law working out as intended?
A minor, apparently trivial change can trigger an unforeseen set of consequences within the same system, and a major chain reaction furth...
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News & Opinions
Rugby soon to end it's Olympic exile
Rugby union will not feature in the Olympic Games, but the sport will end its long exile in 2016 after a long battle ...
Set Piece
Bringing a top lineout drive back down to earth
Martin Johnson’s great Leicester lineout was a mighty hard thing to stop, but American Football provided a few clues
Set Piece
Victor Matfield: Lineout
COMING SOON…Victor Matfield shares with you the technical and tactical lineout skills he has developed over his playi...
News & Opinions
Financial dark cloud looms over Welsh rugby.
On the day that Gavin Henson signed for London Welsh, his fifth club in less than two years, the financial dark cloud...
News & Opinions
Is rugby becoming another soccer?
In the amateur era, rugby was known as a tough game where justice was frequently administered by the players on the f...
News & Opinions
The price of Anglo-Saxon stoicism
The tours showed, yet again, that there the game in New Zealand and Australia is fundamentally different to that in E...
Set Piece
The Rolling Maul Part I
Brendon Ratcliffe loves the rolling maul. If forwards are piano shifters, then the rolling maul is the Steinway of ru...
News & Opinions
All Blacks v Ireland
Without Dan Carter and five other changes to the starting lineup, have the All Blacks given Ireland a sniff of a hist...
News & Opinions
Australia v Wales
JG thinks that the afternoon test match in Sydney presents Wales with an opportunity to beat Australia in what will b...
News & Opinions
South Africa v England
Heyneke Meyer has outsmarted Stuart Lancaster in the first two tests between the Springboks and England.
News & Opinions
Take them out wide England
Playing for the shirt in England Sport has become conventional wisdom after England’s problems in NZ.
