Australian rugby’s lifeblood for the past quarter of a century has decided to pull the plug on its association with the game, leaving the code and the governing body on its knees. THE INCREDIBLE DETAILS INSIDE.
Life after Samu Kerevi looks a whole lot brighter for the Queensland Reds now Wallaby James O’Connor has made an eye-catching return against his former club.
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’.
Melbourne fans better get used to the sight of versatile back Reece Hodge after the Wallabies star inked the longest extension in the club’s history.
Quade Cooper shook off the rust of his long exile from top-level rugby as Melbourne Rebels defeated Queensland Reds in a Ballarat trial match.
While he may be older and wiser for his two years playing French rugby, Luke Jones says he needs to get back up to speed with Super Rugby in order to achieve his goal of making the Wallabies’ World Cup team.
Quade Cooper’s Rebels debut was put on hold by an injury that forced him out of the 52-38 trial loss to the Brumbies in Canberra.
Quade Cooper will make his Rebels debut against the Brumbies in Saturday’s Super Rugby trial in Canberra as coach Dave Wessels continues to finetune his plans for the season proper.
New Brumbies recruits James Slipper, Toni Pulu and Irae Simone have been named to start in their club debuts against the Rebels in Saturday’s Super Rugby trial at Viking Park in Canberra.
Queensland Reds young gun Izaia Perese has decided to defect to the NRL and join the Broncos, leading a Wallabies winger to make a move from Melbourne to Brisbane.
What to most onlookers appeared a season of discontent might just have been the making of an enigmatic rugby five-eighth named Quade Cooper.
He joined Hawthorn as a 14-year-old schoolboy from New Zealand in 2009. But Kurt Heatherley’s AFL dream didn’t exactly work out. Now he has turned his attention to a new sport and is looking to get back on the big stage.
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