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South Africa coach Heyneke Meyer gives an insight into his special relationship with All Blacks boss Steve Hansen.
Joe Schmidt will look to learn from any mistakes he made in this failed campaign.
‘To beat the number one side in the world you have to be better than your best,’ says Bryan Habana.
Sunday’s scrum battle was incredibly even.
Ruan Pienaar must settle for a place on the bench yet again.
Australia were not at their best in the Rugby World quarter-finals but Argentina remain wary ahead of Sunday.
Matt Giteau racked up his 100th Test cap last weekend against Scotland.
Saturday’s World Cup semi-final in Twickenham sees youth pitted against experience in the midfield.
The Ireland internationals were both injured at the World Cup.
The 26-year-old lock has a strong relationship with Michael Cheika.
Rory Keane reports from the Pumas’ base in Bagshot.
‘We’re going to bash each other for 80 minutes.’
Our World Cup columnist looks back on a desperately disappointing day for Irish rugby.
Plus the Billy Walsh fallout continues.
There’s no place for Nigel Owens either (but probably for the opposite reasons).
Edinburgh, now with added Highlanders.
The Corkman explains why he hasn’t called Paul O’Connell since his injury and why he thinks the Toulon lock can still tour New Zealand.
Bryan Habana paid tribute to school teacher Zukisa Kela in a poignant statement.
The Wallabies coach has also hit out at pundits targeting the South African referee.
Our Champions League columnist Tommy Martin is fed up of the rugby and football comparisons.
The Ireland legend was not impressed by what he saw on Sunday afternoon.
Joe Schmidt’s side are back in the country following yesterday’s disappointing result.
Argentina’s brilliant attack tore Ireland to shreds in Cardiff.
The man who built Ireland’s (ordinarily) miserly defence is moving on after seven years and three Championship wins.
A statement from the organisation released this evening confirmed the mistake.
Keith Earls stopped to talk about the ‘bizarre’ opening period that ended up deciding yesterday’s World Cup quarter-final.
The Irish team were criticised following their comprehensive loss to Argentina.
Scotland are well represented after their heartbreaking exit.
Josh Strauss says he thought the game was won.
Paddy “Rala” O’Reilly retires after 21 years with the team.
‘It’s a tough day but that’s sport,’ said flanker Chris Henry.
The South African referee is in the firing line following his penalty call that went against Scotland.
It was an incredible game in Twickenham.
Scotland were seconds from a World Cup shock.
Ramiro Herrera came close to a second yellow card.
Argentina swatted Ireland aside to move into the last four.
All the messages were right before kick-off, but they didn’t translate into a first half performance.
Juan Imhoff and Joaquin Tuculet served up two fantastic tries.
“We still had full belief that we could come back”