Six Nations 2012 Round One Fixtures:

Saturday 4th February 12 at 2:30pm France v Italy at Stade de France
Saturday 4th February 12 at 5:00pm Scotland v England at Murrrayfield
Sunday 5th February 12 at 3:00pm Ireland v Wales at Aviva Stadium

France v Italy

France:

15 Maxime Medard, 14 Vincent Clerc, 13 Aurelien Rougerie, 12 Wesley Fofana, 11 Julien Malzieu, 10 François Trinh-Duc, 9 Dimitri Yachvili, 8 Louis Picamoles, 7 Julien Bonnaire, 6 Thierry Dusautoir (captain), 5 Lionel Nallet, 4 Pascal Pape, 3 Nicolas Mas, 2 William Servat, 1 Vincent Debaty.
Reserves: 16…

Fantasy Rugby 6 Nations 2012 is now live at TestRugby.com, which is one of the best fantasy rugby sites available. TestRugby have continued to upgrade their system and the new layout seems very intuitive. Once again Test Rugby is partnered with leading rugby website Planet Rugby, as they did during the World Cup.

The opening round has matches between France and Italy, Scotland and England, and Ireland and Wales. The first game is France v Italy at Stade de France on Saturday 4th February 12 at 2:30pm (local time). It is advisable to have your team ready…

Fantasy Rugby World Cup 2011 is now live at testrugby.com

Test Rugby (www.testrugby.com) in association with Planet Rugby have launched their fantasy rugby series for the world cup, under the name ‘World Series 2011′.

The key challenge with organising a fantasy rugby world cup is the awkward draw. The draw does not transfer tidily into rounds, which is essential for any fantasy rugby system. Some teams play twice in the same amount of time that another team might play once. Test Rugby have got around this by dividing pool play into four rounds, but have…

This is the draw for those playing Fantasy Rugby for the Rugby World Cup at testrugby.com. Remember if a team has (no score) next to it then that team will not accumulate fantasy rugby points during that game, This occurs when a team is playing twice in a round.

Fantasy Rugby Round 1

20:30, Fri 09 September: New Zealand v Tonga at Eden Park, Auckland
13:00, Sat 10 September: Scotland v Romania at Rugby Park, Invercargill
15:30, Sat 10 September: Fiji v Namibia (no score) at Rotorua International Stadium, Rotorua
18:00, Sat 10…

Australia and South Africa have announced their teams to contest the first test of the 2011 Tri-Nations at ANZ Stadium in Sydney on Saturday. The Wallaby team that dramatically lost to Samoa this weekend has been overhauled, including the dropping of Wallaby-stalwart Matt Giteau.

Meanwhile, South Africa, who have sensationally left 21 of their top players at home have named 4 new caps in their side for Saturday. Werner Kruger, Dean Greyling and Ashley Johnson are set to make their test debuts, with scrumhalf Charl McLeod coming off the bench.

As usual, the the Mandela Challenge Plate…