Thorn puts onus on Rugby Australia to keep Reds forward
Lukhan Salakaia-Loto is set to leave the Reds at the end of the Super Rugby Pacific season despite Queensland coach Brad Thorn wanting him to stay.
Lukhan Salakaia-Loto is set to leave the Reds at the end of the Super Rugby Pacific season despite Queensland coach Brad Thorn wanting him to stay.
Still angry about losing a trial to the Waratahs, the Reds have a point to prove against the ‘old enemy’ on Friday night.
The forecast of another wet night has the Queensland Reds preparing accordingly for their Super Rugby Pacific clash with the NSW Waratahs.
The Reds have a point to prove in Friday’s Super Rugby Pacific clash against the Waratahs.
When NSW went into its COVID lockdown, Waratahs coach Rob Penney jetted home to New Zealand. Now, with the Super Rugby season resumption fast approaching, he’s trapped in ‘Cell 1818’.
The COVID lockdown and postponement of the Tokyo Games left Jake Whetton completely lost. But the star Kookaburra has had his spirits lifted in isolation with light at the end of the tunnel.
Kurtley Beale was first. Luke Jones was next and now a third Wallaby is defecting to mega-rich French rugby as Aussie players look for ways out amid the game’s financial crisis.
Despite Raelene Castle’s ugly exit from Australian rugby, new Wallabies coach Dave Rennie has revealed the selfless message she gave him following her departure.
The mooted trans-Tasman series could become the permanent norm following rugby’s greatest nation becoming resigned to the fact that Super Rugby in its existing form is dead.
Former Wallabies skipper Rod McCall believes Australia must cut ties with one of its closet allies to re-engage fans as the rebel Wallabies captains made first contact with the RA board.
The uncertainty surrounding the resumption of the Super Rugby competition is set to bring together the nation’s best talent for a 12-team Shute Shield competition. DETAILS ON START DATE
Australian rugby’s cash-crippled economy is being denied a multimillion-dollar lifeline from World Rugby – and the Wallabies’ greatest rivals are set to cash-in on the RA-RUPA civil war.
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