Wallabies playmaker Berrick Barnes will play his first Test at fullback on Saturday night against Argentina as Kurtley Beale has been dropped from Australia’s starting team for the second time …

Springboks lock Eben Etzebeth has been banned for two weeks for head-butting Australian counterpart Nathan Sharpe, ruling him out of South Africa’s Rugby Championship game in New Zealand this weekend. …

South African halfback Sarel Pretorius has been released halfway through his two-year Super Rugby contract with the NSW Waratahs, continuing their recent lean run with imported players. Pretorius starred in …

Argentina feel their chances of an historic Rugby Championship triumph have been “massively” boosted by the Wallabies’ latest captain’s curse injury. The Pumas have no doubt skipper and halfback Will …

The Western Force have signed former rugby league player Chris Tuatara-Morrison for the next two Super Rugby seasons. New Zealand-born Tuatara-Morrison, a powerful inside back who weighs in at 100kg, …

Backline star James O’Connor has returned to the Wallabies squad but won’t play in Saturday’s Test against Argentina on the Gold Coast. Coming back from a hamstring injury, O’Connor joined …

All Blacks prop Tony Woodcock is leaving the Auckland Blues after 113 matches and 10 seasons to play for the Highlanders in next season’s Super Rugby competition. Woodcock, who played …

Warren Gatland has revealed Jonny Wilkinson could be handed a surprise call-up to the British and Irish Lions squad for next year’s tour to Australia despite having retired from international …

Sonny Bill Williams didn’t get off to the start he hoped for in his debut in Japanese rugby on Sunday. The star centre played the full 80 minutes but his …

Wallabies players believe superior fitness was the catalyst for their come-from-behind Rugby Championship win over South Africa on Saturday, as pressure mounts on new Springboks coach Heyneke Meyer. The former …

When Wallabies skipper Will Genia hobbled from Patersons Stadium in Perth on Saturday night with a blown out knee, David Pocock said to him, “mate, let’s not have a captain.” …

Dan Carter has been classified as injury-prone by the All Blacks and will be given special treatment to extend a glittering rugby career. Carter will miss next week’s Rugby Championship …

Wallabies coach Robbie Deans is hoping Saturday night’s breakthrough win over South Africa will give his playmakers the confidence to stop being kick-happy for the remainder of the Rugby Championship. …

If you’d followed Sitaleki Timani’s journey through three Super Rugby franchises you could never have predicted what a profound loss the giant lock will be for the Wallabies this week …

Aaron Cruden will get a shot at redemption after All Blacks five-eighth Dan Carter was ruled out of their next Rugby Championship Test against South Africa. Carter’s strained calf muscle …

Australia’s captain’s curse has struck again, with stand-in skipper Will Genia to be sidelined for up to six months after scans confirmed the star halfback had ruptured the anterior cruciate …

Australia’s captain’s curse has struck once again, with stand-in skipper Will Genia expected to be sidelined for six months after scans confirmed the star halfback had ruptured the anterior cruciate …

Any suggestion Argentina would be easy-beats in their Rugby Championship debut have been well and truly squashed. The All Blacks were left physically battered and in awe of a Pumas …