Rugby News

Keiron Cunningham felt St Helens should have been celebrating a 40-point victory rather than licking their wounds after struggling Huddersfield fought back to earn a 14-14 draw.

Warrington's head coach Tony Smith felt that Ben Westwood was dealt with correctly after escaping a red card in their first Super League win of the season.

Catalans Dragons ended a run of five games without a win with a 36-27 success over Leigh Centurions at the Sports Village.

DTH van der Merwe scored a try hat-trick as Scarlets coasted to a 51-5 bonus-point victory at Parc y Scarlets.

Mako Vunipola was withdrawn from Saracens' 40-19 rout of Harlequins at Wembley as a precautionary measure, according to director of rugby Mark McCall.

The Stormers put to bed painful memories of old by beating the Chiefs in a thrilling contest at Newlands in Cape Town.

Title-holders Saracens booked their play-off spot with a 40-19 victory at Wembley over local rivals Harlequins.

Catalan Dragons duo Jason Baitieri and Luke Burgess are facing long injury lay-offs following the 37-26 win over Leigh in the Super League on Friday.

Exeter secured their place in the Premiership play-offs the hard way as they were pushed to the limit by a determined Bristol outfit.

The Sharks grounded out an 18-13 victory over the Jaguares in an error-strewn Super Rugby match at Kings Park stadium in Durban.

England star Anthony Watson scored two late tries as Bath came from behind to beat Aviva Premiership play-off rivals Leicester at Twickenham.

Zebre climbed off the bottom of the Guinness PRO12 table by beating Newport Gwent Dragons 29-14 in Parma.

Four teams – Australia, Fiji, South Africa and the USA – remain unbeaten after day two of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series in Hong Kong.

Warren Gatland is waiting for news on Sam Warburton after the British and Irish Lions captaincy candidate was hurt playing for Cardiff on Friday.

Fly-half Marty Banks kicked 16 points to overshadow Sonny Bill Williams' return to Super Rugby on Saturday as the Highlanders claimed a 26-20 win over the Blues.

The seventh staging of rugby's World Cup Sevens will be held in San Francisco in July 2018.

Yu Tamura kicked a late penalty as Sunwolves of Japan beat the Pretoria-based Bulls 21-20 in round seven of Super Rugby.

Former England forward Brian Moore is recovering in hospital after suffering a heart attack.

Monster hooker Joe Taufete'e has been a massive hit at Sixways but it was not so long ago that the huge American with Samoan heritage was close to breaking point. Only the support of his wife, Noeleen, and love for a new...

Dean Hadley grabbed two tries to help Wakefield gain a fifth win in six games and continue their climb up the Betfred Super League table with a 30-4 success over Widnes on Friday night.