Colin Charvis is set for one more tilt at arch-rival Lawrence Dallaglio when the two back row legends go head-to-head in the Help For Heroes Challenge match at Twickenham Stadium on 20 September.

All the Guinness Premiership and Magners League teams completed the last of their pre-season friendlies this weekend, with the serious work beginning next week."

"He is everything I expected him to be and I'm excited to work with him. He's the kind of guy you don't want to let down." England and Wasps star James Haskell talks to Scrum.com

If his side continues to dominate as it did on Saturday, people will perhaps come to view his eccentricities with indulgence. But until then, South Africa coach Peter de Villiers continues to dig his own pit, merely by talking."

Edinburgh coach, and former England coach Andy Robinson, and England's World Cup-winning coach Sir Clive Woodward, have both hit back at Rob Andrew after the latter's criticism of the post-2003 era when first Woodward and then Robinson struggled to maintain England's success."

Canterbury kept up their form in the Air New Zealand Cup with an impressive 44-15 win over soon-to-be-extinct neighbours Tasman at AMI Stadium on Sunday."

For a team threatening to become the laughing stock of the Air NZ Cup rugby competition Waikato finally turned the joke on others with a thumping win over Auckland yesterday.

Springbok coach Peter de Villiers was a happy man on Saturday after his Springbok team thumped Australia 53-8 in their Tri-Nations match at Coca-Cola Park."

Biarritz, Bayonne and Clermont were the big winner in Round two of the Top 14 on a day characterised by blistering heat in France. Stade Fran?ais scraped home against Mont-de-Marsan to remain top of the table."

Australia captain Stirling Mortlock admitted that his side was completely outgunned by South Africa during Saturday's shock 53-8 result in Johannesburg. "