England Rugby

They now come across like a cover band of the 2019 team, everyone else moved on

Number eight will miss World Cup opener after his red card against Ireland last weekend

World Rugby’s appeal was upheld and the outhalf will miss games against Argentina and Japan

Both players are facing bans that would rule them out of the start of the Rugby World Cup

Hooker awaiting scans on a foot injury as Farrell concedes the victorious performance against England was mixed

Ireland rewarded for playing with greater ambition and width than joyless England

Hansen, Lowe and Keenan caused the visitors a host of problems with their industry, clever movement and astute game management

From Mack Hansen’s brilliance and the aerial battle, to Ireland’s problems in the lineout

England finish ‘godforsaken summer series’ with ‘worst of the three performances’

England in successive weeks have had two experienced players given red cards for the same offence

Ireland head coach concerned by injury to his hooker during World Cup warm up victory

John O’Sullivan hands out the marks with Mack Hansen a deserved man of the match

Ireland will rue much of the inaccuracies which undermined this display

Ireland make it four wins in a row against England, look back on the action as it happened ...

Without a club for now, the former Bath and Leicester Tigers stalwart is unambiguous about his ambition to go one better than 2019 and win the World Cup

You wonder how any panel could adjudicate on any appeal to this vexed verdict such has been the noise around it

Ireland head coach angry at what he called the human cost to families in the uproar over red card

Good lawyering appears to have gotten the England captain off a lengthy match suspension

George Ford will wear the number 10 jersey at the Aviva Stadium

Andy Farrell's Ireland team prepare for Rugby World Cup with clash against England in Dublin

Eleven starters named from team that beat England in the Six Nations

Disciplinary panel cleared England captain to play despite shoulder-led tackle against Wales

Cian Prendergast to start at 8, while Bundee Aki and Garry Ringrose will revive their midfield partnership in World Cup warm-up

Player welfare lobby group Progressive Rugby believe the sport’s global governing body must intervene

England back was sent off at Twickenham on Saturday when his yellow card was upgraded to red

Scrumhalf Van Poortvliet to undergo ankle surgery after picking up injury in win over Wales

At one point England were down to 12 men as indiscipline almost cost them their fourth successive defeat

England coach can ill-afford to lose a second World Cup warm-up to Wales

Number eight will play his first game since April as he returns from a knee injury

Warren Gatland has made wholesale changes to the side that defeated England in Cardiff last weekend

Steve Borthwick leaves out eight players who featured in Saturday’s defeat to Wales

Steve Borthwick can console himself that Saturday’s 20-9 defeat need not be terminal

Second-half tries from Gareth Davies and George North staved off a fifth successive home loss

Steve Borthwick’s side take on Wales in a World Cup warm-up in Cardiff on Saturday

Ellis Genge captains side for second time while Borthwick hands debut to Tom Pearson

‘The medical team are positive about my prospects and I understand exactly what needs to be done’

Wasps stalwart won 28 caps in a Test career lasting from 1984 to 1991

It clears the way for Zach Mercer featuring in England’s eventual squad

The London Irish amateur club still compete at level 6

The deadline to prove they have the finances needed to operate next season expires