Rugby World - December 2023

In this issue

WORLD CHAMPIONS
Your definitive review as Springboks win again.

DOWNTIME WITH... MARK ATKINSON: "I can't have four squares of chocolate, I'm having four bars!"

The Gloucester centre on his sweet tooth, a Savage prank and embarrassing stitches

3 mins

"As a player you need to see light at the end of the tunnel"

FOR TEST players it's pretty much every four years that you get a proper pre-season. You've finished the season early, you get four weeks off and then you go into a World Cup camp from mid-June. Whereas normally, if a Test player is on a summer tour, you have a short summer break and then you're into it.

2 mins

Is it right to expand the Rugby World Cup to 24 teams?

A 24-TEAM World Cup is a great idea so long as you love your turkey shoots, your humiliations of smaller nations who are under-resourced, underplayed and underappreciated by the global game from one World Cup cycle to the next.

2 mins

WHAT GOES ON TOUR...

ENGLAND WERE playing Ireland away for the Grand Slam in 2001 and my job was to arrange the travel and other logistics for the team, writes David ‘Elton’ Beaumont.

1 min

WHAT IT'S LIKE TO JOIN A PREMIERSHIP ACADEMY

We travel to the RPA's Academy Induction Day to meet the stars of tomorrow

4 mins

RUGBY RANT

Fans at the World Cup in Nice were left frightened, says John Moore from Newport

2 mins

Gavin Coombes

Quiet off the park, demonstrative on it. This is Munster's latest monster

2 mins

RECORD-BUSTING CONEHEADS!

Two English fans set an attendance world record at France 2023. Alan Pearey reports

2 mins

"For Africa to reach its potential, we must take concrete actions"

DURING THE World Cup in France, the global spotlight naturally gravitated towards Tier One nations. Yet the future of rugby isn't confined to these nations. World Rugby recently highlighted that emerging nations are the key drivers of growth, identifying Ghana, Nigeria and Zambia as three of six emerging nations experiencing strong growth in 2023.

2 mins

HOW THE RUGBY WORLD CUP WAS WON

The bloody-minded Springboks pulled off three one-point wins in a row to retain the Webb Ellis Cup. RW assesses a feat that bordered on the miraculous

4 mins

TYSON BEUKEBOOM

The hard-hitting Canada lock has a new challenge with Ealing Trailfinders

4 mins

"The Australian World Cup should start with a bang, not a whimper"

With France 2023 done and dusted, we cast our eyes four years hence to the next men's Rugby World Cup- and Stephen Jones is demanding changes

6 mins

DAN McKELLAR

The Australian coach wants to create a new history for Leicester Tigers

3 mins

SAM WHITELOCK

The All Blacks legend is moving to France after a record-breaking World Cup

3 mins

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