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"I remember getting eating guidelines for Christmas Day!"

CHRISTMAS, the most wonderful time of the year? Not if you’re a professional rugby player it’s not.

Rugby firsts

FIRST RUGBY match you went to? I would have gone to RODNEY PARADE to watch a Newport game when I was about six years old, so around 1992 or 1993.

THE JOHN FISHER STATE SCHOOL RUGBY FESTIVAL

The inaugural John Fisher Rugby Festival hopes to Send state-school rugby players into the stratosphere.

The Making Of Robbie Henshaw

How this small-town boy went On to become a big-time player

RG SNYMAN

The giant Springbok is enjoying the best of both worlds since joining Leinster

BENHARD JANSE VAN RENSBURG

Bristol's South African centre has one eye on an England call-up in 2026

RUGBY RANT

Jessica Hayden, author of The Red Roses, says the women’s game can handle criticism

WHAT IT'S LIKE TO ...GO ON TOUR WITH EMERGING IRELAND

Munster's Ben O'Connor tells RW about the eye-opening trip to South Africa

"Welsh rugby treats players like pieces of meat, not assets"

THEY’VE BUILT the women’s game around the men’s game in Wales but it has to be its own thing.

"I don't believe in dinosaurs – the boys think it's nuts!"

The Exeter Chiefs hooker talks Tarmac, time travel and Tyson Fury

AUSTRALIA BLITZED THE HOME NATIONS

Forty years ago, the touring Wallabies made light work of British and Irish opposition

ENGLAND'S ENFORCER

Leicester and England second-row GEORGE MARTIN is quickly bulldozing his way to the very top of the game

"I stress-test my coaches' ideas but ultimately you have to let the bakers bake"

Northampton Saints' director of rugby explains how to be an effective coach

REMEMBER WHEN...WE HAD A HOTLINE ON RUGBY GOING PRO

RW readers could ring in to have their say on the amateur-pro debate

RUGBY RANT

Editor Joe Robinson on why rugby needs to take kit launches more seriously

WHAT IT'S LIKE TO...BE A SEVENS REFEREE SELECTOR

Irish official David Keane lifts the lid on his role behind the scenes

“You can still be fully professional and enjoy yourself"

The Wales great who also represented the Lions and Scarlets with distinction

CLEVEDON RFC

Giving grass-roots rugby the love that it deserves...

Downtime with... Jacob Umaga - "Best player in my family? I have to say Uncle Tana"

The Benetton fly-half on Italy, basketball and talented kinsmen

SHANE MCDONALD

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

100* Not Out

RW charts a century of Samoa's flagship national team, including its dramatic rebirth in the late 1980s

Chunk

More than a decade since his retirement, we caught up with Allan Jacobsen, the larger-than-life former Scotland prop

DAN BIGGAR

In a far-reaching interview, the fêted fly-half discusses his turbulent career, retirement plans and his fears for Welsh rugby

RETURN OF THE MACK

After nine months on the sidelines, Mack Hansen wants to get back to the very top..

TOP 12 OLD-SCHOOL PLAYERS

We pay tribute to a dozen players from the pro era that embody the amateur spirit

Captain Fantastic

England captain JAMIE GEORGE has only been in the role since January. But after a whirlwind few months, he sat down exclusively with Rugby World to chat past, present and future

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!

As the domestic season comes to a close, we take a look across the English pyramid to see which community clubs have tasted success

Japan's landmark

The Brave Blossoms are preparing for an historic first home Test against England. Rich Freeman explains why it means so much

WHAT IT'S LIKE TO ...BRING RUGBY TO INDIA'S STREETS

RW finds out why Kolkata kids are picking up the oval ball in Quins shirts

Anthony Brooke

Mixed ability sport might not exist but for this multiple award-winner