It is not just the points, but the way the New Zealand teams play the game, the coaches drive the agenda of play.

The performance of the U.S. Eagles in the 2007 Rugby World Cup is a reward to all involved with the team and justifies all the money and effort spent of improving the standard of the National team.

If there is a way the International Rugby Board can spend some of its $200 million from the Rugby World Cup on brightening up the game for spectators it must be found. If not, the game is doomed as a spectacle.

The pool matches are over and the Rugby World Cup gets down to the real stuff, which includes two surprise teams in the final eight. Which teams made it and which is the surprise team? Read on to find out.

The New Zealand All Blacks are favourites to win RWC 2007, but can they do it against fierce opposition from the home side and the two other powers in Southern Hemisphere rugby -- South Africa and Australia.

The soul searching has reached plague proportion in Australian rugby circles as the analysis of the first half of the Super Rugby competition is played out. Read on for more on this story.

The Wallabies flounder ahead of 2007 World Cup.

In the UK, people spend the 5th of November waving sparklers, watching fireworks and setting fire to effigies and chucking them on bonfires. This 5th however, things will be quite different. Why? Read on to find out.

Scottish Rugby has had a turbulent decade since the game went professional. However with arguably the most innovative coach out of any of the home nations, along with a committed and motivated management team at the helm of finances, as well as having more promising players than at any other time in the last 15 years, Scotland seems ready to cause some upsets on the world stage.

In a surprise move, the All Blacks coaches recalled ex-Captain Reuben Thorne when the New Zealand All Blacks squad was named Tuesday.