With two rounds to go in the Gallagher Premiership Bath, Wasps, Bristol and Sale are all still fighting hammer and nail to join Exeter Chiefs in the playoffs while Northampton Saints remain in freefall and Saracens continue to fight to the bitter end.

Love it or hate it, the RFU Championship two-legged Playoff Final has thrown up some classic games over the years. Back in 2015, Bristol Bears and Worcester Warriors squared off for a barnstorming second leg that had tries, cards and a conversion in the last minute to win a place in the Premiership.

The last round of Super Rugby AU set up a tantalising finals series, as the Rebels squeaked past the Force to knock out the Waratahs and set up a qualifying final date with the Reds, who in turn knocked over eventual grand final hosts the Brumbies.

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.

The Gallagher Premiership has seen four rounds already since the restart and the league is starting to take shape as Exeter Chiefs bulk their lead at the top while Bristol, Sale and Wasps get ready to scrap for second. At the other end, Northampton and Leicester show worrying signs and Saracens keep fighting despite assured relegation.

The penultimate round of Super Rugby AU left the competition fascinatingly poised as the Brumbies clinched a home final by downing the Western Force, in the first Super Rugby game to be officiated by a female referee, and the Waratahs put themselves in the mix for the last spot in the finals by seeing off their direct competitors, the Melbourne Rebels.

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 Premiership continued its return as the race for the playoff places hotted up, Semi Radarada announced himself to the Premiership and Sale find project restart tough.

Round 7 of Super Rugby AU was a week of acid tests, as the Waratahs looked to build on their thumping of the Reds against the Western Force and the Queenslanders took on the Melbourne Rebels as both sides looked to prove their title credentials.

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.

The Premiership is back and after five months away, we have cast our eye over all the player transfers, fixture rejigging and where each team currently finds themselves in the 2019/20 season.

If last week in Super Rugby AU saw the runners and riders separated, this was the week the pack got bunched back together as the Rebels and Waratahs put up massive first half displays to humble the unbeaten Brumbies and the Reds respectively.

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.

As rugby makes its comeback after the coronavirus pandemic, here is your complete guide to the remaining fixtures in the 2019/20 Gallagher Premiership season.

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.

It was a nail-biting Round 5 of Super Rugby AU, as a penalty after the siren saw the Brumbies past the Reds and the Western Force were denied a first win in Super Time by the Melbourne Rebels.

As Exeter Chiefs confirm they will not be changing the club’s branding despite protests from fans and the Native American community, The Flanker’s resident Exeter fan explains his position on the issue and the problems it could pose for the club.

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.