The forthcoming Aviva Premiership season will be the latest testing ground for the global scrum trial with any permanent change to the engagement sequence set to be confirmed next year. From the start ...

Auckland - All Blacks prop Ben Franks says frontrowers won't get credit for the part they're likely to play in deciding the outcome of Sunday's Rugby World Cup final. He's joking, but only to a small ...

Springbok scrum coach Daan Human has hinted the world champions will be looking to implement a few new things at scrum time when they take on the Wallabies in the opening match of the Rugby ...

He seems to get a hard time, the simple farmer from Wexford. Even when describing him as one of the best tight-heads in the world at his pre-match captain's run press conference last Friday, Rory Best ...

While they are a bit thin on experience in their own scrum, the Springboks are taking the setpiece threat of Italy this weekend very seriously. Scrum coach Daan Human warned that the Italian scrum was ...

UP FRONT: Springboks' coach Heyneke Meyer is expecting a torrid time at scrumtime from the Pumas in their opening Rugby Championship match. Photo: Photosport South Africa coach Heyneke Meyer expects ...

“Stay in the abyss!” screams Tom Harrison, as two of his England forward packs, having thundered into each other moments earlier, wrestle and heave for scrummaging supremacy. When Harrison finally, ...