“Human element” of sport laid bare in COVID world
Watching funerals on zoom and packing up kids about to start school for a long sitting on the road. Playing rugby is easy, but being a rugby player at the moment is not.
Melbourne Rebels
Vunivalu to warm the bench
The form of Queensland’s backline means former Melbourne Storm winger Suliasi Vunivalu will have to be content with a spot among the reserves on Friday night.
Vunivalu no certainty to start
Suliasi Vunivalu is again available for Queensland selection, but he might find it hard to secure a starting berth.
New Wallabies era opens the door for Powell
He played an important role in the Brumbies winning the Super Rugby AU final, but Rebels-bound Joe Powell was still caught off guard in being named in an extended Wallabies squad.
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Castle’s stay of execution as code, superstars suffer
Australian rugby’s biggest stars will be the worst affected when the pay cut negotiations finally end, with embattled boss Raelene Castle saying “The players recognise their responsibility in securing the future”.
Wallaby legend calls on Castle to come clean on future
As talks between Rugby Australia and the players’ union once more failed to reach an agreement over their pay dispute, Tim Horan insists it’s time for details on how the code can be saved to be shared.
Revealed: Castle’s ruthless pay-cut demands
Every Super Rugby player could be clubless by the end of Easter after embattled CEO Raelene Castle revealed Rugby Australia’s brutal pay-cut terms.
Broke in three months: rugby’s dire predicament
As their standoff with Rugby Australia gets ugly, Australia’s stars have been hit with the devastating warning the game they love could fold before the end of winter unless they agree to pay cuts.
Australian rugby decimated in code’s darkest day
Rugby Australia staff have been left devastated by the governing body’s decision to stand down 75 per cent of its employees as the game remains on the brink of financial ruin amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Rugby can form sport’s most powerful union
As rugby nations around the world face insolvency amid the current pandemic, the game, against all odds, has an opportunity to secure its future for good, writes JAMIE PANDARAM.
False start as brave new rugby era stalls on grid
Rugby Australia’s bold bid to keep idle players active in a five-team domestic competition has been put on hold in the wake of the federal government’s new restrictions to try and slow the spread of coronavirus.
Why rugby needs an Origin clash now more than ever
Controversial, unworkable and low down the list of priorities due to the current health crisis … Origin Rugby is all of those things. But when a new normal emerges, it may be part of what’s needed to help save the code.
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