Reds intent on revenge
The Reds are relishing a meeting on home soil with Super Rugby AU leaders the ACT Brumbies, who broke Queensland hearts last month.
The Reds are relishing a meeting on home soil with Super Rugby AU leaders the ACT Brumbies, who broke Queensland hearts last month.
Wearing their indigenous round jerseys, the Reds will have a point to prove against the Brumbies this weekend.
The new Australian Super Rugby competition has thrived amid the COVID-19 crisis because of how close the teams are to each other, but the cut throat format only makes it more gut-wrenching for the sides that miss the finals.
A Brumby long forgotten for national duties has galloped back into the spotlight as Wallabies coach Dave Rennie attempts to cover a drastic shortage of locks in Australia.
ISSAK Fines always envisioned a move to the Brumbies would involve a step up in quality and intensity, but nothing could have prepared him for an off-season as dramatic as the past few months.
With bushfire smoke blanketing the nation’s capital and no time to lose thanks to the earlier than usual start to the Super Rugby season the Brumbies have been forced to flee the ACT.
Rugby Australia’s review into the disastrous 2019 season has more than 40 recommendations, but you won’t know what most are in what is meant to be the ‘blueprint for future Wallabies success’.
In a rare win for the 15-man game, Australian rugby has beaten Wayne Bennett and seven NRL clubs to sign dual-code schoolboy sensation to a long-term deal.
The next Ngani Laumape? An Australian rugby team is banking on it with a former Melbourne Storm star set to link with last year’s conference leaders on a two-year deal.
David Pocock’s continuing injury concerns, James O’Connor eyes a Super Rugby return and Tongan Thor’s big-money deal. All this and more in Rugby Confidential.
Christian Lealiifano’s hopes of ending his long Brumbies career with an elusive title will be put to the test against a beefed-up Jaguares side packed with Argentine internationals.
With the selection race wide open, rugby writers JIM TUCKER and JAMIE PANDARAMhave run the rule over the Wallabies contenders and given us their teams to take on the rugby world.
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