Jaque Fourie try best of them all
 A scintillating try scored by Springbok centre Jaque Fourie against the British & Irish Lions has been named the International Rugby Players Association Try of the Year 2009.

Laws: Try, try, try again
You can go weeks in the Super 14 with something like two thousand things referees have had to look for and have no controversy. Then comes a weekend when controversies flourish. It happened this weekend.

Law discussion: Watson on Big 4
André Watson, South Africa's refereeing boss, has taken stock of how the new approach to law apllications affected the Super 14 game!

Paris giants running out of capital
Paris Saint Germain and Stade Français, the French capital's flagship sports sides, face an uncertain run-in to their season's end after failing to live up to their bankrolled billing.

Some Six Nations statistics, Round 3
We give some statistics from the three closely contested  matches this weekend and then some totals in which you can see which team is most penalised, which kicks most, which scores the most tries and d so on.

Italians added to Magners League
Celtic Rugby has announced that from next season the Magners League will include two teams from Italy.

Laws: softening the tackle application?
The people who asked for a fuller application of the tackle law and the requirements  of the tackler to comply were the Super 14 coaches. Now there has been some questioning of the application, at least by a coach in New Zealand.