Jun 6, 2000: London Irish will play their home matches at Reading's Madejski Stadium next season
Jun 6, 2000: Wallabies coach Rod Macqueen has declared the national championship was badly timed after Australia's front row depth reached crisis point
Jun 6, 2000: Canada coach Dave Clark has ruled out a repeat of the disciplinary problems that blighted their last encounter with South Africa
Jun 6, 2000: Scotland coach Ian McGeechan will send the majority of his frontline troops straight into action on Friday in the opening match of their New Zealand tour against Northland Vikings in Whangarei
Jun 6, 2000: Political unrest to blame for United States' refusal to travel for July 1 fixture in Suva
Jun 6, 2000: Alex Sanderson will lead England's bid for glory in the SANZAR Under-21 tournament later this month
Jun 6, 2000: Hurricanes No 8 Filo Tiatia was today called into the All Blacks rugby squad to cover for an injured Ron Cribb
Jun 6, 2000: Regardless of whether Gregor Townsend is alongside them next season, fellow French exiles Tom Smith and Steve Brotherstone both plan to extend their own Brive encounters into a second year
Jun 6, 2000: Rob Howley tonight put an end to speculation about his rugby future by signing a new contract with Cardiff
Jun 5, 2000: Agreement was reached on Monday with 10 members of the Springbok rugby squad who had not been contracted to the South African Rugby Football Union for last year's World Cup, a SARFU official said
Jun 5, 2000: All Black number eight Isitolo Maka looks set to join French Champions Stade Toulouse from the Waikato Chiefs after the club announced on Monday that talks about personal terms were well advanced
Jun 5, 2000: Both the rain and the Hayward Griffins threatened to spoil the Gentlemen of Aspen's march to their fourth straight USA National Club Championship
Jun 5, 2000: Wallaby prop Patricio Noriega signed for French giants Stade Francais from Super 12 finalists ACT Brumbies today making it most unlikely that he will play for the 1999 world champions again
Jun 5, 2000: The following players have been selected for the England Students' World Cup Squad
Jun 5, 2000: ACT coach Eddie Jones has urged national selectors not to forget the fullback credentials of Joe Roff as he called for his players to dominate the first Test squad
Jun 5, 2000: Leicester coach Dean Richards handed Neil Back into the care of the England medical team tonight refusing to say whether the influential flanker will be fit for the tour of South Africa
Jun 5, 2000: Leicester coach Dean Richards has called for the annual challenge match between the Barbarians and the Premiership champions to be rescheduled as a curtain-raiser
Jun 5, 2000: Wallaby centre Tim Horan has been ruled out of his farewell appearance for Queensland at Ballymore on Tuesday night
Jun 5, 2000: Injuries to All Blacks captain Todd Blackadder and centre Alama Ieremia are not expected to keep them out of the opening rugby Test against Tonga on June 16
Jun 4, 2000: Newport's Wales under 21 captain Alex Popham will lead the Welsh Development side in the second match of their Canadian tour against an Ontario President's XV on Tuesday evening
