Less than seven weeks remain until the start of Super Rugby but the Australian Rugby Union have not been able to lock down a major sponsor.

Manu Tuilagi will miss the rest of the rugby season with a knee injury, ruling the injury-plagued centre out of the England's Six Nations title defence.

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If we are lucky we might yet see the best of Piutau in a black jersey. If we are realists we have to accept that day might never come.

When Japan beat South Africa in Brighton at the 2015 Rugby World Cup the tremor from the shock result was felt over 8,000 miles away in Beijing.

Mick Cleary looks ahead to the world of rugby on 2017.

Robert Valentini hits like a Mack truck but is still learning to drive a car as he chases his Super Rugby dream.

All the great wins, the tough losses, the off-field drama and some shattering news of the Brumbies' 2016 campaign.

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There is not a stakeholder in the English game who does not crave to see the All Blacks at Twickenham.

England rugby coach Eddie Jones paid tribute on Thursday to the way his all-conquering players developed in 2016 when they swept all before them to win 13 successive matches.

All Blacks prop Charlie Faumuina will quit New Zealand rugby to join French club Toulouse from the start of the next European season.

As SANZAAR continues to delay a decision on the future of Super Rugby, step up Eddie Jones. England's coach has delivered a typically blunt assessment of Australian rugby, suggesting two teams should be cut.

Rising prop Charlie Hancock scored 99.1 on his Year 12 ATAR results, but will now turn his attention to the Brumbies under-20s.

It will be a Rugby World Cup or bust for Eddie Jones.

Interim ACT Brumbies boss Phil Thomson will end a 24-year career in rugby inn the coming weeks after helping the Canberra club find calm waters.

The ACT Brumbies are moving fast to find a long-term successor to Stephen Larkham and could appoint his coaching replacement as early as the first weeks of the Super Rugby season next year.

Stephen Larkham is 42 years old and plays in a fourth-grade competition in Canberra, but the Brumbies are backing him to make a comeback.

The ACT Brumbies are working with New Zealand playmaker Wharenui Hawera in the hope he will sign a contract and help ease their flyhalf woes next year.

The ACT Brumbies are set to turn to club great Stephen Larkham to bolster their squad for a pre-season tournament.

Phil Thomson, the man who stabilised the Brumbies this year, is preparing to end his time in rugby.