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There is no doubt about it, Scotland will be seriously hurting after the humbling they received at the hands of Warren Gatland’s Wales at the Principality Stadium on Saturday afternoon.  Scotland had gone into that game with considerable hype. An attractive brand of rugby which led them to hammer the Wallabies and come within inches of beating the All Blacks …

Sir Clive Woodward has expressed his concerns over international rugby.

Controversial New Zealand journalist Chris Rattue claims that Warren Gatland should have been crowned World Coach of the Year following Lions' drawn series.

Sir Clive Woodward picks his team for Samoa clash on Saturday.

Sir Clive Woodward picks his England XV for Australia clash next Saturday and it doesn't include skipper Dylan Hartley and fly-half George Ford.

Sir Clive Woodward is ‘quietly confident’ that the Lions will be ‘smiling’ following Saturday’s first test against the All Blacks at Eden Park. Woodward says that an All Blacks loss could signal that his perceived ‘sea change’ occurring in international rugby toward Northern Hemisphere dominance is complete. Woodward, who is flying to New Zealand to take up commentary duties, says …

Time is a healer, as they say, but it seems for those who toured with the British and Irish Lions back in 2005, the pain of the All Black whitewash they endured, is still as raw as ever. Twelve years on and the Lions have returned to the site of their most humiliating tour in living memory. It wasn’t just …

With the 2017 Lions tour of New Zealand the first time the iconic side has faced the All Blacks in 12 years, Pundit Arena caught up with four 2005 tourists from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland to get their thoughts on their experiences and what they hope for this summer. We spoke to Ireland’s Shane Byrne, Scotland’s Chris Cusiter, England’s Andy …

Former England head coach Sir Clive Woodward has waded into the debate following Italy’s novel application of the rules against England in their Six Nations encounter on Sunday. The World Cup winning coach has been writing in his Dail Mail column and has admitted to rethinking his position on Italy’s decision not to contest the ball after a tackle, thus …

Former England head coach Sir Clive Woodward knows a thing or two about winning. He, after all, led the Red Rose to World Cup glory over Australia in 2003. Following their Six Nations victory over Wales on Saturday, the former boss is backing Eddie Jones to repeat his own feat and lead England to their second title in 2019. Jones …

The 2003 Rugby World Cup winning England team will forever go down as one of the greatest sides in English Rugby history. In the four years preceding England’s historic World Cup win in Sydney, the Red Rose had won three Six Nations titles, two Triple Crowns, one Grandslam and had never lost a home game at Twickenham. An astonishing run of success that saw Sir …

The 2005 British And Irish Lions tour of New Zealand was one of the most forgettable series losses in the rich and colorful history of the British and Irish Lions. No test wins, outscored by a combined 107-40 over three tests, series-ending injuries to Brian O’Driscoll, Richard Hill and Tom Shanklin after the first game, and they were just the obvious problems. …

Ireland-England games are generally tense, feisty affairs at the best of times, but when a grand slam is on the line it generally adds another layer of intensity to what is often a fiery and fervent occasion. Sir Clive Woodward’s 2003 England team were a highly abrasive, confrontational group of players that had steamrolled their way through the first four rounds of the Six …

England Head Coach Eddie Jones has appointed former Saracens and England flanker Richard Hill to England’s backroom team as Hill joins the English coaching ranks as a team manager leaving his current role as pathway liaison manager for the RFU. Hill was capped 71 times for his country and was an instrumental part of the 2003 World Cup-winning side under Sir Clive …

World Cup winner and former British and Irish Lions coach, Sir Clive Woodward, has been announced as a keynote speaker at the impressive inaugural One Zero Conference in Dublin. Woodward joins a stellar class of top names for One Zero Conference, following the announcement of the controversial Lance Armstrong, Skins CEO Jaimie Fuller, and also Twitter Head of Sport, Alex …

Following the conclusion of the June test series, rugby fans the world over have been presented with the latest illustration as to where the authority in the game pertains. While the northern hemisphere nations made some distance in closing the extensional gap which existed between the north and south following the 2015 World Cup, in which all four semi-finalists hailed from the …

It’s Wednesday now and Eddie Jones has so far kept to his promise of not speaking to the media, over a fortnight after England’s victory against Ireland. One solitary interview with the RFU’s internal media aside, Jones has kept his own counsel and has stuck to his word. Yet though this be madness, there be method in’t. By not talking to …