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.
The chances of Australia’s traditional end-of-season northern hemisphere tour going ahead this year is looking remote as coronavirus cases wreak havoc with English club rugby.
It’s small steps, but in the new world of coronavirus sport, rugby will take any win. Australia’s domestic Super Rugby competition will proceed as planned this weekend. Now for the international schedule.
While a threat to strike ahead of the revamped Super Rugby AU competition has eased, Rugby Australia’s latest pay cut demands are set to have even greater consequences.
Samu Kerevi’s final match for the Reds has finished with a hefty loss to the Brumbies but the captain says he is impressed with the growth of the team.
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.
Reds assistant Peter Ryan has delivered a cheeky personal attack at Brumbies coach Dan McKellar, while warning the Australian conference leaders to expect another forward ambush.
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.
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.
Three years after he was diagnosed with leukaemia, Christian Lealiifano’s comeback has been the inspiring story rugby needs after a season dominated by the damaging Israel Folau saga.
Israel Folau had been expertly sidestepping a crucial question while under intense cross examination from Rugby Australia’s top lawyer – that was until the former Wallaby made a monumental error.
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