Sam Burgess: ‘Egos and selfish players’ behind England’s 2015 World Cup exit
Sam Burgess has claimed ‘individual egos and selfish players’ contributed to England’s painful 2015 World Cup
Sam Burgess: ‘The bottom line is that my heart didn’t lie in union’
The England captain talks to Donald McRae about his greatest moment in rugby league and the way some of his union team-mates hid behind the media glare on him at the 2015 World Cup
Rugby World Cup year yields record profits and revenues for RFU
Rugby World Cup year has yielded record profits and revenues for the RFU, which also posted a retained profit of £3.9m compared with the previous year’s loss of £6.7m
Rugby World Cup legacy provides boost for future as 30,000 take up game
The 2015 tournament was a disaster for the hosts England, but the RFU’s farsighted legacy programme has boosted rugby’s health at home and abroad
Stuart Lancaster: I got Sam Burgess selection wrong in hindsight
Stuart Lancaster said he would not have fast-tracked Sam Burgess into England’s World Cup squad if he had known the player would return to rugby league
Chris Robshaw: ‘In sport you go through different times; it’s how you get back up’
Despite losing the England captaincy, Robshaw was part of the 2016 Six Nations triumph but he ‘will always have that scar of the World Cup exit no matter the success we have in the future’
Mike Brown: ‘I didn’t want to sit around and watch the World Cup final’
The Harlequins full-back tells Donald McRae he sees some of his own traits in Eddie Jones and believes the head coach can lift England to a new level
England face exciting future under Eddie Jones and his coaching team
Eddie Jones has made strong decisions in appointing his backroom staff and if Alex King joins them with Dylan Hartley as captain his foundations will be complete
2015 goes down as a stunning sporting year full of surprises and superlatives
Tyson Fury, Leicester City and Japan’s rugby union side all produced astonishing successes while even England’s cricket team discovered how to entertain
Tonga’s Aleki Lutui takes different path to spend twilight at outpost Ampthill
The 37-year-old hooker, after spells with Worcester, Gloucester and Edinburgh, is one of four Tonga internationals plying his trade with the not so glamorous Bedfordshire club in England’s third tier
Dan Carter: ‘The future will always be bright in New Zealand rugby’
The All Blacks great is unsure of his own plans once the time comes to hang up his boots but he is confident the game in his home country is in safe hands
England World Cup review is RFU eyes only as spotlight hits Ian Ritchie
The Rugby Football Union review of the World Cup will remain confidential but its the chief executive, Ian Ritchie, has been forced on to the defensive
Stuart Lancaster leaves England post: press conference – as it happened
Ian Ritchie and Bill Beaumont confirmed that Stuart Lancaster has left the RFU, but said that his assistants will stay on until a new head coach is appointed, with money no object in pursuit of the right candidate