The World Rugby Executive Committee has approved the immediate establishment of a working group to review Regulation 8. It is what determines player eligibility for international duty. Current eligibility criteria as determined by World Rugby Regulation 8 state that a player can play at test level for a country by: Country of …
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The governing body of Italian rugby, the Federazione Italiana Rugby (FIR) is pushing ahead with its World Cup candidacy. In what is a second attempt at securing Rugby World Cup hosting rights, Italy has listed twelve stadiums spread around the country. The Central European country hopes to become the first ever European …
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French Rugby Head Coach Guy Noves has named his team for France’s first of two away tests in Tucumán this month. Los Pumas will host France on Sunday evening at the Estadio Monumental José Fierro. Noves replaced Philippe Saint Andre as French Head Coach following his country’s worst Rugby World …
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Montpellier fly half François Trinh-Duc is free to travel with France to Argentina this month, the French press has confirmed. The 29-year old is a welcome addition to Guy Noves’ roster which will be announced on Monday June 06. With the tour taking place alongside the play-offs stage of the …
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Wednesday’s announcement from World Rugby was extremely warmly received. But did the election of Bill Beaumont and Agustín Pichot to Chairman and Vice-Chairman signal in a fresh approach or is it to be more of the same from World Rugby? In order to consider this very question I have put together the …
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With the Top 14 Final not being played until June 24 an important question needs to be answered – who will France take to Argentina in June? Los Pumas are to reignite their classic contest against Les Bleus, or are they? The simple answer is that Head Coach Guy Noves …
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Spain is to join Uruguay in the Nations Cup later this year. This is the case despite Russia having earned the right to compete at the World Rugby organized tournament by finishing third in the European Nations Cup, relegating Portugal in the process. Russia ultimately finished with 27 competition points to technically seal the …
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France’s next international assignment will be a two test tour of Argentina in June. Scheduled for June 18 and 25 the dates are to coincide with the Top 14’s play-off’s. Players from four Semi Finalists will not be considered for the tour, leaving an under pressure Guy Noves to find …
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After the excitement of the Americas Rugby Championship this week’s selection seems downright boring. Los Jaguares were on a bye, as was the whole of the Guinness Pro 12, and most of the top Americas exports were either not playing well or not at all. In some cases we’ve simply …
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Inspirational Italian captain Sergio Parisse is to play on until Japan 2019. The 32 year old has been playing international rugby since 2002 and has appeared in four Rugby World Cups to date. Should he play in the 2019 event in Japan he will join a select group of Samoa’s …
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