Former Ireland Under-20s captain Reuben Crothers will retire from professional rugby at the end of the season. The ...

The role hasn't changed much over the years, a blind-side flanker still has to make sure that the opposition ... The All Blacks, for example, play a high-risk level of rugby these days, punching holes ...

Speaking to people from each stage of Rupeni Caucaunibuca’s rugby career, there is one line from Yannick Nyanga, the former ...

Since then, the Oregon native has won a National Championship in 2014 with Oregon Rugby and added a Club Sevens Dream Team nomination in 2016. Playing the flanker position, she's also become the ...

Northampton Saints flanker Henry Pollock has drawn a mixed response from supporters following his performance in Northampton ...

Underhill was sent off during Bath’s 49-24 win against Pau at the Stade du Hameau in the EPCR Challenge Cup last 16 knockout ...

As the British & Irish Lions tour creeps ever closer Wallabies flanker Carlo Tizzano has revealed a little known "beef" he has with a star English backrower he hopes to face at the upcoming tour.

Wales flanker Thomas Young will leave Cardiff for ... Young's contract but hope he will help improve their standing in Welsh rugby. They currently lie bottom of the United Rugby Championship ...

England’s glut of scavenging flankers is truly extraordinary ... During the Six Nations, Bath bagged the Premiership Rugby Cup by beating Exeter Chiefs at Sandy Park. They’re after the ...

Think of the open-side flanker as your 'rat-up-a-drainpipe' type player, if you will, or the 'groveller'. Because defensive lines are so tight in the modern game, the open-side's role is turning rucks ...