Happy days for schoolboy rugby young gun
Savelio Tamale hasn’t played a lot of rep footy until recently but that’s about to change for this rising star heading north this weekend for an important junior rugby clash.
Savelio Tamale hasn’t played a lot of rep footy until recently but that’s about to change for this rising star heading north this weekend for an important junior rugby clash.
A diamond in the rough, a son of a football star and a pair of “big engines” are among the teens to watch in the new Gen Blues squad taking on the Reds this weekend.
From Gen Blues to the Barbarians, Sydney Juniors and NSW country players have barged their way into an assortment of rugby rep teams. Players who made the cut.
Chiefs winger runs riot as the Waratahs pay the price for an ordinary start and poor finish in ‘Super Round’.
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.
Down to their last Wallabies selection chance, the Waratahs need to take the lead from a player who should be one of the first names in Dave Rennie’s team plans, says Tim Horan.
The last person to leave Australian rugby needs to turn out the lights following the latest Wallaby veteran to pack up his bags and head overseas. SEE THE GROWING LIST HERE
Young giant Trevor Hosea will become the fourth Victorian player to get a run-on for the Rebels this season bringing with him the “Burn Boys” mentality to fight for the underdog.
The hottest talent in the NRL has reportedly backflipped on the richest deal ever offered to a teenage NRL player to sign with Rugby Australia.
After making one-third of their staff redundant in June, Rugby Australia has reportedly offered a 16-year-old “freak” a motza to switch codes.
No-one should be kidding themselves that Australia’s five-team domestic competition is at the same standard as New Zealand’s, but that’s hardly the point, as rugby fans witnessed on the weekend.
Long-suffering Wallabies fans will be salivating at the chance to see young guns Will Harrison and Noah Lolesio square off in a taste of what they’re considerable potential might bring to the future of Australian rugby.
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