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There's been much wailing and gnashing of teeth in South Africa this week. You normally touch John Smit at your peril, but when you upend him off the ball and during a stoppage in play... well, you'll be lucky to ever gain entry to the rainbow nation again! FULL STORY >>

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ELVs will pull up the grassroots

There is an air of aggression and expectancy building in Europe, and not just because of the pending climax of the Guinness Premiership, Top 14 and Heineken Cup.

Why change, just when we're loving it?

It's apt that the International Rugby Board (IRB) has chosen to stage its crucial Experimental Law Variations (ELVs) council meeting on May Day. The outcome will either have us dancing in the streets of Dublin or assuming the brace position as our beloved sport is sent hurtling into the ground.

Decision-making the elite way

With England's World Cup heroics fast becoming a distant memory, the knives are being sharpened once again, and our man Hildy Johnson reckons he knows exactly where the first cut needs to be made...

England to clinch Six Nations title

England will follow up on the silver medal they pocketed at the World Cup with some proper silverware, or so says our man Andrew Baldock...

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