IT takes 16 beefy rugby players, patience and a whole lot of power – but the scrum is what makes rugby union truly unique. Because the ball is largely hidden once it enters the scrum, armchair viewers ...

The scrum is not popular. It takes up too much time to set up, sometimes more than once. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including ...

Ronan Nelson was tackling a player during a club rugby game in Carmel Valley when another player fell on him. The impact broke Ronan’s neck. He was left paralyzed from the neck down. The Cathedral ...

Rob Hoadley, the Englishman who is the head coach of the San Diego Legion of Major League Rugby, has been around the game for most of his 39 years. He played rugby professionally with a couple of ...

IT IS, in essence, a little thing, a technical tweak to the law surrounding scrums, but the new practise supporters will see across Scottish rugby from kick off this afternoon could bring the most ...

England tighthead prop says 'you need time to set up the balance in a scrum' but believes onus is on players to speed up the process Ben joined the Telegraph as a rugby reporter in 2017 and was ...

1 UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 2 Department of Public and ...

The France scrum-half Antoine Dupont has been voted the Rugby Union Writers’ Club’s Personality of the Year for 2021. Dupont succeeds the Exeter director of rugby, Rob Baxter, as holder of the Pat ...