New Zealand

The Southern Hemisphere’s top domestic competitions are starting to wrap up as New Zealand’s Mitre 10 Cup enters its 9th and final week of regular season play, while Australia’s National Rugby Championship has reached the semi-finals stage. Americas players will feature in both over the next few days. Jake Ilnicki …

Martín Landajo will start at scrumhalf in place of Tomás Cubelli in one of three changes to the Pumas team to face New Zealand at Estadio José Amalfitani in Buenos Aires on Saturday. Guido Petti has recovered from injury to take his place in the second row, with Javier Ortega …

Australia and South Africa have each named their sides to compete against each other at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria on Saturday. The Springboks will be keen to use their home field advantage to avenge a 23-17 loss in Brisbane on September 10, and to stave off the challenge of Argentina …

TJ Perenara will start for New Zealand against Argentina in Saturday’s Rugby Championship match in Buenos Aires. The Hurricanes halfback replaces Aaron Smith in the run-on side, one of four changes made by coach Steve Hansen from the team that comfortably defeated the Springboks at AMI Stadium on September 17. …

Following the popularity of Americas Rugby News’ Foreign-Born Players at Rugby World Cup 2015, the hot topic of debate regarding player eligibility is to be looked at again. In this piece Americas Rugby News takes an in-depth look into the foreign-born players in each Rugby Championship roster. Included will be where they were born and how …

The world’s number one team, New Zealand will be without three leading players for their next match. The All Blacks will play away to Argentina in Buenos Aires in just under two weeks time on October 01. Flankers Same Cane and Jerome Kaino are both out injured as is fly …

World Rugby must act to change player eligibility rules immediately. It cannot allow for test match rugby to be tarnished any further. The sport is under attack at the highest level as unions are using the laws to their advantage to identity talent and nationalize players to, within three years, have …

Argentina Head Coach Daniel Hourcade has made three changes for Saturday morning’s test match against New Zealand. Matías Moroni, Guido Petti and Javier Ortega Desio are all to earn their first starts of the 2016 Rugby Championship. Back from the Olympics Games, Moroni has been recalled. .He will play out of …

New Zealand Head Coach Steve Hansen has made one change to his starting lineup for Saturday’s match against Argentina. The All Blacks will take-on Los Pumas in Hamilton with Ryan Crotty returning to start at inside center. Crotty replaced Anton Lienert-Brown who made his test debut against Australia in round …

The unusual scheduling of the Mitre 10 Cup means that two teams, Northland and Otago, will have two matches in Week 3. Josh Larsen made his first start for Northland on Wednesday in Dunedin, where Otago got the better of the Taniwha by a score of 33-28. Larsen could get …