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Injured France lock Willemse out of Rugby World Cup - reports
PARIS : Hosts France have been dealt another injury blow after lock Paul Willemse dropped out of their Rugby World Cup squad with a thigh injury on Friday a week before their tournament opener, local media quoted the French Rugby Federation as saying.
Ulster Rugby to play at GAA venue with historic pre-season game at Kingspan Breffni
Ulster Rugby will make history in October by playing at a GAA venue for the first time, when they take on Glasgow Warriors in their final pre-season game at Kingspan Breffni in Cavan.
South Africa coach Nienaber expects fine margins to decide World Cup
The Rugby World Cup in France is set to be the most open in history, according to South Africa coach Jacques Nienaber, who says his Springbok side are better placed now to win than when they lifted the trophy in Japan four years ago.
'They're not producing quality players' - Eddie Jones blames RFU for England's problems
Former coach Eddie Jones has pointed the finger at the Rugby Football Union for England's current crisis.
Winless Wallabies reliant on Eddie's tournament craft
SYDNEY : Eddie Jones's frequent assertions that Australia can win the Rugby World Cup in France might be wearing a bit thin with Wallabies fans given recent results, but they have little choice now but to trust the tournament craft of a veteran campaigner.
Georgia fighting for more meaningful matches - again
LONDON : Georgia head into the World Cup with the same aim as they have entered the previous five - to use the shop window opportunity to make their case for more regular, meaningful competition for the other 3-3/4 years of the four-year cycle.
Boring, confused, toothless England still have hope via soft draw
LONDON : Unless England coach Steve Borthwick, the most pragmatic man in rugby, has somehow spent the summer developing a set of top-secret plays and radical tactics that he will unveil in France, his team go into the World Cup in the most desperate state.