LONDON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Rugby's clampdown on high tackles is changing the approach to the breakdown, swinging the advantage to ball-stealers and, say players and coaches, making the "jackal" an ...

Rugby's clampdown on high tackles is changing the approach to the breakdown, swinging the advantage to ball-stealers and, say players and coaches, making the "jackal" an even more essential weapon for ...

Banning the jackal – the means by which players compete for the ball at a breakdown – has been proposed as a radical law tweak to make modern rugby union safer. Dr Barry O’Driscoll has devoted most of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. WELLINGTON: Springboks forwards coach Gary Gold has labelled Wallabies breakaway David Pocock a ''jackal'' and called him the most ...

The Autumn Nations Series got underway over the weekend, albeit with just two Test matches in Tokyo and Edinburgh. World Rugby's official Test window opens this weekend, which means there will be a ...

Ahead of a vital autumn for Scotland as they continue to build towards the Rugby World Cup next year, Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend caught up with Telegraph Sport columnist and his former coach ...

Every now and then, calls for the jackal to be banished from rugby seem to get a little louder. They returned recently after a couple of nasty long-term injuries occurred, with more than a few pundits ...

Forget the tweaking, Lions boss Dick Muir will have to perform something of a miracle this week if his side are to avoid a clobbering by the Stormers in seven days' time. In a week from today, the ...

While Munster and Connacht played out a tight-fought and historical interprovincial match in MacHale Park, Cian Prendergast sustained a head knock that reminds us rugby union still has an unacceptably ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Two years before Wallabies lock Darcy Swain damaged All Black midfielder Quinn Tupaea’s knee so badly he might miss a Rugby World Cup, ...

THE day of the jackal could be over, with new rules to be introduced at the tackle area during this Six Nations. THE day of the jackal could be over, with new rules to be introduced at the tackle area ...

Sam was brought up on long drives and the dusty fields of north-west New South Wales, where he developed his love of rugby from an early age. He joined ESPN after a five-year stint heading up Fox ...