Samoa

Fiji made it four consecutive HSBC Sevens Series tournament wins as they defeated all comers at the London Sevens. The Olympic champions were in imperious form from the start, breezing through the pool stages and finding no true challenge until meeting South Africa in the Cup Final. Despite the relatively …

The penultimate round of the 2017-18 HSBC Sevens Series takes place over two days in London beginning on Saturday. Three teams from the Americas will take part including two currently neck-and-neck for 5th place on the overall series rankings. Madison Hughes returns from injury to captain the Eagles who have …

Samoa will field a team heavily fortified by top European professionals for their upcoming Pacific Nations Cup and World Cup Qualifying fixtures. Delays caused by the Rugby Europe investigations have seen their schedule heavily altered but are now confirmed. Among the notables named by head coach Dickie Tafua are giant …

World Rugby have handed out severe punishments to Romania, Spain, and Belgium as a result of the player ineligibility scandal that has rocked the Rugby Europe World Cup qualification process. All three have been handed 5-point penalties for each qualifying game in which an ineligible player was used during the …

A Georgian source has proclaimed that Romania, Spain and Belgium will all be disqualified from RWC qualifiers. This would result in Russia replacing Romania as Europe 1, and thereby playing in the RWC 2019 opener against Japan. Due to what is at stake decisions have been delayed on numerous occasions …

Samoa is suffering collateral damage from the Rugby Europe Debacle. The Pacific Island nation was scheduled to compete in a RWC qualifying series in June against Europe 2. Yet now into the month of May the series is set to be postponed as Rugby Europe and World Rugby are yet …

The Rugby World Cup 2019 Repechage tournament will be hosted at the neutral venue of France. Multiple sources have confirmed the location, meanwhile Rugby Global revealed that the French Rugby Federation (FFR) has explicitly confirmed the event on recent job application postings. In previous years the Repechage, a last-chance opportunity …

The final decision on the controversial eligibility row surrounding the Rugby Europe World Cup Qualifiers is now set to be made at a meeting scheduled for Thursday, May 10. This has now been confirmed by Deputy Chairman of the Russian Rugby Federation Kirill Yashenkov in a video posted on their …

Fiji have jumped to the top of the 2017-18 HSBC Sevens Series standings after claiming victory in Singapore, their third consecutive tournament win and fourth in the last five stops. A late try pushed them past New Zealand in the Quarter Finals with only a conversion separating them from South …

It was not a good Day One for the three Americas teams at the Singapore Sevens. All have failed to reach the Cup Quarter Finals with only two wins spread between them, one of them Canada’s win over Argentina. After a promising start to the 2017-18 HSBC Sevens Series recent …