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Argentina must start Santiago Chocobares. The 22-year-old brings a new dimension of play to the Argentine mid-field; he is the type of center that Argentina has not had recently or at all during the professional era. Pumas centers have come in a variety of forms. The most capped Pumas centers …

Peñarol are competing without any specialist Uruguayan fly halves. The Uruguayan team is enjoying a strong season in the 2021 Súper Liga Americana de Rugby (SLAR). After seven rounds Peñarol are in second position and have qualified for the Semi Finals. The team’s starting fly half in all matches has …

The RWC 2023 match schedule is favorable for some and unfavorable for others. The organizers have provided a more even spread of fixtures than in prior RWCs; however, there are teams with friendlier match schedules than others. In the case of the Americas there are four places to consider. They …

The Rugby World Cup hosting process is broken; new candidates are reluctant to bid. Try as World Rugby might to encourage new bids there is not a line of fresh candidates to host their flagship tournament. The evidence paints a telling image, one of RWCs returning to prior countries as …

The new that the Dallas Jackals have pulled out of the 2021 Major League Rugby season just two months ahead of its intended kickoff came without warning. Little explanation has been offered. While there is room to speculate on reasons beyond simply the pandemic, the most pressing issue at the …

Not only will 2021 represent new beginnings in Americas rugby, it will showcase it. The year will be  markedly different to 2020 as it will to earlier years. Six such instances are presented below.   Major League Rugby 2021 will be the fourth year of Major League Rugby. It will …

Match order is fundamental in sport. Some teams can be eliminated early based on how their matches are distributed. This issue has occurred repeatedly at RWCs. There are a number of reasons for this, none more so than organizers positioning key pool matches at certain points of the pool phase. …

The draw for RWC 2019 is just days away. The draw will take place on December 14 in Paris. World Rugby determined that 2020 rankings will not be considered. Instead, the official rankings from the start of 2020 have been implemented to seed the participants. The decision means that no …

Kanaloa Rugby will not be bringing Major League Rugby to Hawai’i in 2021. The league issued a formal statement on Friday afternoon confirming that the three-month negotiating period had expired without an agreement. MLR will proceed with 13 teams next season. While the league did not specify why no agreement …

In just a few hours New Zealand will revive an old tradition – the North vs South Island trial match. Similar ideas are not uncommon in rugby, one example being the ‘Probables vs Possibles’ contest held by Wales as recently as 2014. England, Ireland, and Australia have all held such …