Le Petit General Dimitri Yachvili was a rugby playmaker like no other in a stellar career for France and Biarritz. A passing master whose box and goal kicking were unrivalled, he was rugby’s quarterback that had the oval ball on a string. Here is an ode to the legendary scrum-half.

Wales’ Six Nations Grand Slam dream was ended in dramatic fashion as an overtime try from Brice Dulin secured a breathtaking 32-30 win for France. Read The Flanker’s player ratings after a fantastic 80 minutes in Paris.

Good goalkickers in rugby are worth their weight in gold and can be the difference between winning and losing matches. Here are the top 13 points scorers in Premiership Rugby history.

Six Nations 2021 continues as Wales narrowly beat 14-man Scotland and England got back to winning ways by thrashing a stubborn Italy at Twickenham. Title favourites France held on for a crucial win in Dublin as Ireland push them all the way. Read our Six Talking Points from the weekend’s action.

For all you rugby anoraks out there, below is a quiz to get the juices flowing. We want you to name the top try scorer, points scorer and appearance maker for the Six Nations teams along with the Springboks, All Blacks and Wallabies.

Rugby World Cup's allow players to make a name for themselves on the biggest stage of all. Takudzwa Ngwenya did just that in 2007 when he destroyed Bryan Habana on the way to a brilliant try. The Flanker pays tribute to the flying American winger.

To win the Rugby World Cup once puts in you an elite club, so what about those who win it twice? For our quiz we want you to name the 21 players to lift the William Webb Ellis trophy more than once.

South Africa is not participating in this year’s Rugby Championship but remain “committed” to the competition amid talks of joining the Six Nations.

The Currie Cup starts next weekend so take our rugby quiz on their legendary captains.

Italy, since their admission to the Six Nations in 2000, have long been everyone’s second team. However, with results not improving and Georgia looming in the background, do they still deserve a place in the tournament?

The European Rugby Champions Cup final has to be considered the biggest club game of rugby in the world. We rank our Top 5 favourite matches since the tournament came into being in 1995 as the game went professional, with Leicester Tigers, Wasps and Leinster all featuring.

Only a select few can join this club. But can you name the XV’s to beat the All Blacks in New Zealand since rugby turned professional in 1995?

With Kieran Read agreeing to play for Counties Manakau in the domestic Mitre 10 Cup in New Zealand this season, we wound back the clock on the double World Cup winner and former World Player of the Year’s career. Check out who Read made his debut alongside against Scotland at Murrayfield in 2008.

The end of season grades are in for Super Rugby Aotearoa and teachers’ pets the Crusaders unsurprisingly top the class. The Blues are much improved, Highlanders and Hurricanes perform above average but the Chiefs must do better.

Congratulations to Crusaders as they lifted the Super Rugby Aotearoa title after winning a modern classic against the plucky Highlanders. Meanwhile, the Hurricanes pushed them all the way by beating the hapless Chiefs as we analyse the weekend’s action.

Sir Clive Woodward, remarkably for a World Cup winner, has not coached in professional rugby since the 2005 British and Irish Lions tour.

Instead, he turned his back on the oval game to become Technical Director at Southampton FC above King of the Jungle Harry Redknapp.

We remember a disastrous spell when Sir Clive tried to break into football.

After defeat last time out, the Crusaders got their Super Rugby Aotearoa title march back on track with a controversial victory over the Chiefs while the dogged Blues secured an impressive win against the Highlanders. Read our Five Talking Points from the weekend’s action.

With Yorkshire Carnegie’s recent relegation from the RFU Championship, we look back to the 2004/05 season when Leeds Tykes, as they were then known, lifted the Powergen Cup at Twickenham and pulled off one of the greatest escapes in Premiership history.

Yes, we know this is a tough quiz, but can you name all the players to have started for England in the opening game of a Six Nations Rugby Championship in 10 minutes?

The hurt for the Chiefs still goes on as they went down to another demoralising loss to the Blues, while the Crusaders proved they are human after losing a humdinger to the Hurricanes. Read our Five Talking Points from the latest round of Super Rugby Aotearoa.

With New Zealand Rugby bringing back the North Island vs South Island game that went extinct back in 1996, we tried to pick our potential teams for the Gallagher Premiership version of a North vs South clash.