Leinster 🔵 are having their worst season of the #URC era 📉 both defensively and offensively (per game data shown) 🔻 first time averaging < 4 tries per game 🔻 first time averaging < 30 pts per game 🔻 first time averaging < 6 turnovers won per game Data from URC website 🧑‍💻

Great article from Igancio Chans on Alan Gilpin and World Rugby's plans for the region. Use translation tools liberally 😁 www.elobservador.com.uy/rugby/alan-g...

Gloucester-Hartpury down 9... 40 minutes to go, is today the day?

Nizaam Ramos

England captain Stratford announces pregnancy www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-...

@bastisme.eurosky.social interesting article on the Americas 6 Nations returning... www.ruck.co.uk/americas-six...

A classy spiral kick exit from Jack Crowley last weekend. Shapes to kick to his right, spots space deep on left, spirals there, and Kinghorn can't recover across. Crowley had a cracking game at out-half for Ireland.

Attacking stats M6N 2026 (Darker green is more ✅)

After twenty-two years, Portugal are crowned Kings of Europe again! We dig into possibly the second-biggest day in Portugese Rugby history, as they defeat Georgia for the first time in *two decades* to win the Rugby Europe Championship Final for 2026... youtu.be/-M4ksFljtng?...

Sorry for the article coming late but it needed a fixing by my great mentor Jon Newscombe PORTUGAL ARE YOUR NEW MEN'S RUGBY EUROPE CHSMPIONSHIP CHAMPIONS Brutal final to conclude an astonishing season Now we head on to the Women's Rugby Europe Championship!!!! www.rugbypass.com/news/portuga...

they have dooojneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiitttttttttttttttttttttttttttt PORTUGAL ARE CHAMPIONS ONCE AGAIN!!!

THEY'VE DONE IT PORTUGAL ARE KINGS OF EUROPE

94 points, 4 tries for one winger alone, a 14 point swing of an intercept, the lead chopping and changing non-stop, some of the most insane handling you’ll see and the last kick of the game to win it from over 40m… Anyone telling you to change this game is a bloody idiot. This is dream rugby. MORE!

Uh oh. This is going to put the Georgian national side back a decade. www.world.rugby/media-zone/a...

The latest edition of Plot the Ball is here! This week, I enjoyed learning more about how good the Netherlands are at field hockey — particularly on the women’s side. Subscribe if you want to keep up to date with what’s happening across international sport: www.plottheball.com/p/the-week-i...

Italian commentator

Over 750k tickets sold for the next Rugby World Cup... This is over 25% with over a year before a ball is kicked!

WOW! Dave Rennie is the new All Blacks Head Coach!

Mdr 🏉

Bottom ranked Saffa team on the table... Top ranked Saffa team in the Shield... the URC is great

Confirmed: Jack Conan ruled out for Ireland due to illness. Cian Prendergast comes onto the bench.

Jack Crowley set to start at number 10 for Ireland against England: the42.ie/6960882t

How we doing rugbysky?

Reform's polling is ~the lowest its been since last year's local elections

Proper sicko rugby in Romania vs Belgium tonight We've got snow, mud, and some serious collisions! www.rugbyeurope.eu/competitions...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #PWR Round 11 A 43m penalty to complete an incredible comeback! Impressive start by the Bears, leading 0–26 at minute 30 after completely overwhelming & nullifying Saracens. But the dream was too good to last. Sarries can't never be count out and managed to get back on their feet to turn it around

Someone out to upset the Gloucester-Hartpury/Saracens duopoly?

@rosbifsrugby.bsky.social do you know when Soyaux Angouleme XV tickets go on sale for 26th Feb game vs Dax? We've got a trip planned for Angouleme on the Thursday, Brive on the Friday (with tickets), and then milling around Bordeaux for Saturday/Sunday to take in the sights.

Italy captain Michele Lamaro wanted to say something as the Italian press conference wrapped: "I want to emphasise that the referee, Hollie Davidson has been outstanding. It's, obviously, the first time ever for a woman referee in @sixnations-rugby.bsky.social, and I want to congratulate her"

"Tedious posts about the Irish starting 10 sir "

Apropos of nothing I've been looking at how many views matches are getting on the PWR YouTube site. Overall, I make it over half a million views this season so far. That's 35 matches that made it onto YouTube (frustratingly, five matches have not yet been posted, including some of the most recent.)

🆕 - Our Six Nations Stats Hub is now live, featuring statistics for every team and player in the Championship this year. Analysis. 👇 theanalyst.com/six-nations-...

A mountain of Six Nations may have hidden Switzerland's achievements, but the neutral boys might have just quietly produced the most impressive result of 2026 so far- We dig into what, how and why... youtu.be/PKOy_41w0pE

Honestly what a fun season for the Patriots, no regrets, and we lost to the best team in the league. Wouldn't change a thing!

One of the greatest pleasures of my life is reporting what happens in the Men's and Women's Rugby Europe world... 📄 Thank you to Rugby Europe and RugbyPass for it Congrats to Germany and Mark Khulmann for what they did tonight... massive, massive result www.rugbypass.com/news/germany...

Rugbysky... turn on Germany vs Romania right now! www.rugbyeurope.eu/competitions...

BREAKING: Morgan McSweeney quits as Keir Starmer's chief of staff amid fall-out from the Mandelson scandal

Rugby Europe Belgium vs price has been a cracker! Os Lobos look very much back to their style of 3 years ago, hopefully all the nations grow over Rugby Europe and the nations cup

Ben Earl thumbs up gif... I need it

@alicesoapbox.bsky.social it could be worthwhile leaving a final substack post redirecting people to the new website: alices-soapbox.ghost.io

Now the 2027 Men's Rugby World Cup fixtures are out for the Pool Stage, we can look at who has the highest capacity in Stadiums, with the hosts Australia unsurprisingly first: Overall a good job assigning games by World Rugby to match team demand.

Nice way for Hong Kong to make their World Cup debut #RWC2027

Elite 1 Feminine stream! Apparently their first one of the season, but looking to do more in the future... www.youtube.com/watch?v=saqq...

>The domestic picture is not always rosy, despite match attendances increasing by 20 per cent last season. Interesting tidbit from Fi Thomas on the PWR delta from last year to this... Presumably would've hoped for a bigger bump

The WRU has announced that their anthem will be performed a cappella for all home games - good, it should be the same for all, save those without words.

It's worth noting that the list of greats who did not make the HoF on the first ballot is large, with everyone from Alan Page to Mike Ditka having to wait a bit. @kitwrenaway.bsky.social compiled a list of the NFL100 members who had to wait over on the DVOA Discord.

@mrcaseb.com @rbsdm.com any clue what's up with rbsdm.com?

Since 1960 there have been 66 AFL Championships or AFC Championship Games Of every QB to start those games, no QB has had fewer pass attempts than Jarrett Stidham who will start on Sunday: It is the fewest since 2004 Ben Roethlisberger. Inexperienced 😬

50,000 tickets sold for the Red Roses v Ireland Round 1 game of the Women’s 6 Nations so far! It will be *at least* the 3rd highest for a women’s game ever with 3 months to go before kickoff!