May 4, 2000: New South Wales may have self-destructed their Super 12 semi-final chances last week, but the underachieving Waratahs are looking to damage Canterbury Crusaders' hopes of making it a hattrick of titles this season
May 4, 2000: Andrew Lewis has been handed the captaincy of the Welsh Development side that will tour Canada next month
May 4, 2000: Queensland prop Glenn Panoho today insisted rugby fans should "throw the form guide out the window" when they assess Saturday night's crunch Super 12 clash between the Reds and the ACT Brumbies
May 4, 2000: Llanelli were handed a massive boost ahead of their Heineken Cup semi final against Northampton on Sunday with news that Tongan Silasu Finau will be available
May 4, 2000: Scotland's under-21 team are to play in the Southern Hemisphere Alliance under-21 tournament for the first time this summer
May 4, 2000: Former Scotland prop Paul Burnell has admitted he is tempted by a recall from national coach Ian McGeechan for the summer tour of New Zealand and Fiji
May 4, 2000: A new generation of aspiring Manu Samoan rugby players will be given their chance to demonstrate their skills to selectors when Manu samoa holds a trial in Auckland on May 10
May 4, 2000: One of England's many social rugby teams got a little more than they bargained for on a recent end-of-season trek to Romania
May 4, 2000: Former French fly half Thierry Lacroix will play for Perpignan next season, after accepting a job to run a medical complex in the area
May 4, 2000: Kieron Dawson looks certain to sit out Ireland's trip to the America's next month after injuring his hip against Saracens last weekend
May 4, 2000: Mike Ruddock is close to confirming his Leinster squad for next season but a question mark still hangs over two players
May 4, 2000: Declan Kidney has made one change to his Munster side for the European Cup semi-final against Toulouse in Bordeaux on Saturday
May 4, 2000: New South Wales captain Jason Little wants his infuriatingly inconsistent Waratahs to play "a lot smarter" in Friday's Christchurch clash against a high-flying Crusaders side missing star pivot Andrew Mehrtens
May 4, 2000: Caledonia got the better of an Edinburgh side containing eight of Heriot's Premiership-winning line-up as the revived Inter District championship finally got going _ seven days late after last week's monsoon
May 4, 2000: Border Reivers recovered from a nightmare start to open their Inter-District Championship drive with a 38-10 win over Glasgow at Braidholm
May 4, 2000: Queensland are set to approach Tom Bowman following his axing from the Waratahs line-up for the Super 12 match against the Crusaders in Christchurch tomorrow night
May 4, 2000: Auckland Blues coach, Gordon Hunter, has selected the team for the game against the Cats on Friday evening at Ellis Park, Johannesburg
May 3, 2000: Springbok scrumhalf and skipper Joost van der Westhuizen was Wednesday declared fit to return to the rugby field after undergoing surgery to his right knee in November
May 3, 2000: The Welsh Rugby Union and Scottish Rugby Union have avoided fines over the sport's so-called `grannygate' saga escaping with a reprimand
May 3, 2000: An injury to Cats skipper Rassie Erasmus has forced coach Laurie Mains to make one change to that side that takes on the Blues at Ellis Park of Friday
