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The Latest Breaking News from New Zealand Rugby

Today's rugby news as All Blacks in chaos, staff gagged, Moffett calls for resignation and Wales' moment arrives

Here are some of the stories making the rugby headlines on Friday July 29

Wales Online

'Next All Blacks coach' Scott Robertson puts teams around the world on red alert with bold World Cup ambition

The Crusaders boss also name-checked the Welsh coach he would love to work with

Wales Online

All Blacks find themselves in a media scrum

What happens when the balance between feeding public interest in the All Blacks and protecting the team's image blows up on you?

Newsroom.co.nz

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Today's rugby news as global shake-up planned to end international controversy and URC targeted by new team

The latest rugby headlines and news bulletins from Wales and beyond

Wales Online

‘Worst All Blacks ever’: New Zealand turns on rugby team after Ireland loss

With the World Cup next year, pressure on coach Ian Foster is sure to mount after run extends to four losses in the last five games

The Guardian - AU

Today's rugby news as mistake in 'shameful' incident admitted and Wales star reveals 12-year Dan Lydiate promise

A full round-up of the latest rugby news from Wales and beyond

Wales Online

Jeremy Loughman should not have been allowed to return to action after HIA - New Zealand Rugby

A review into the incident found the correct protocols were not followed due to a communication error

Irish Mirror

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Carl Hayman: ‘I was a commodity in rugby. Now I’m paying the price’

Carl Hayman and Kiko Matthews’ lives have been completely changed by his dementia diagnosis and the family are searching for answers amid rugby’s deepening brain injury crisis

The Guardian - UK

Fling open rugby's clubroom doors to trans players

As sports release their rules around transgender athletes, veteran rugby player Alice Soper wants New Zealand Rugby to commit to including trans players at grassroots.

Newsroom.co.nz

Rugby’s dementia stand-off: ‘They ignore it. It’s just deny until you die’

Former All Black Geoff Old and his wife, Irene, are struggling to get the condition taken seriously by the game’s authorities

The Guardian - UK

The week in Detail: Rugby, nurses, and HIV on the decline

The Detail brings you the issues that matter every weekday. Here’s what we covered this week.

Newsroom.co.nz

Today's rugby news as Louis Rees-Zammit wins top award and Scotland plan raid for fly-half

The latest rugby news from Wales and around the world

Wales Online

Done deal: Why has NZ Rugby teamed up with Silver Lake?

What does New Zealand Rugby's deal with Silver Lake actually mean for the game? The Detail finds out.

Newsroom.co.nz

New Zealand Rugby to sign commercial deal with Silver Lake

New Zealand Rugby has been given approval to sign a ground-breaking deal with private equity firm Silver Lake which will bring a cash windfall but which some observers fear may threaten the “special bond” between New Zealanders and the All Blacks national team

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Brent Impey: Drop the personal agendas and play to the whistle

After 10 years as a director and then chair of New Zealand Rugby, Brent Impey has stepped down. His reflections on his time at the helm are typically forthright. He talks to Newsroom.

Daily Mirror

New Zealand women's head coach quits after damning allegations made against him

Glenn Moore resigned amid allegations of favouritism, culturally insensitive comments and body shaming from coaches in the team

The Guardian - AU

Black Ferns report favouritism, body-shaming and cultural insensitivity in scathing review

Review involved interviews with 50 current and former players, managers and coaches of New Zealand women’s rugby team

The Conversation

The Black Ferns review shows – again – why real change in women’s high performance sport is urgently overdue

New Zealand Rugby’s just released report into the culture of the Black Ferns national women’s team is damning, but sadly all too familiar.

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