Rugby State of Union series could rival Origin
The Reds are in favour of rugby emulating league’s State of Origin series with its own State of Union.
The Reds are in favour of rugby emulating league’s State of Origin series with its own State of Union.
Wallabies forward Jack Dempsey resorted to a schoolboy punishment to break up a brawl during Saturday’s Super Rugby clash.
All Blacks great and Queensland Reds coach Brad Thorn has pleaded for authorities to make a trans-Tasman rugby competition happen next year.
Positional battles take centre stage as Wallabies coach Dave Rennie sorts through an intriguing weekend of Super Rugby AU action ahead of the upcoming international season.
Director of Rugby Scott Johnson says Australia did everything to keep Japan-bound Samu Kerevi, race Larkham’s replacement heats up and SBW’s All Blacks audition – it’s all in rugby’s best gossip column.
Emerging five-eighth Mack Mason has been given to the green light to turn it on against the Highlanders as the Waratahs fight to keep their slim chances of making the playoffs alive.
Cashed-up overseas clubs have run a vacuum over Australian rugby, sucking out the country’s best talent in the prime of their careers – but who’s really to blame for the exodus?
The players hate it. So do the coaches. And the fans? Yep, they hate it too. And it’s the reason the Wallabies have become the laughing stock of Australian sport.
Waratahs coach Daryl Gibson doesn’t want to use the Israel Folau saga as an excuse for his side’s underwhelming season, but he has conceded the fullback’s talent could have altered a string of tight losses.
With Australia struggling ahead of the World Cup, now is not the time to be playing favourites — and that means only one Waratah can be confident of holding his place ahead of the showpiece event in Japan, writes JULIAN LINDEN.
As their season coughed and spluttered to an embarrassing finish, the Waratahs finally admitted to the toll of the Israel Folau saga which crippled their hopes this year.
Needing to win their final two matches of the season to be a chance of making the Super Rugby playoffs, the Waratahs have fallen at the penultimate hurdle against the Brumbies.
Israel Folau’s looming court action against Rugby Australia won’t send the game broke but could still result in key programs being cut. SEE FOLAU’S COURT DOCUMENTS
After serving a two-match ban for failing to tell Waratahs officials he’d been busted for drink driving, Tolu Latu is back in the side.
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