The final nail in the coffin for ambitious tour plans
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.
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.
The Waratahs have heard the threats from Queensland before and even with 10 rookies in the current squad, the blunt message for the Reds is if they want to go the biff: “Bring. It. On.”
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.
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The NSW Waratahs are close to luring Parramatta forward Tepai Moeroa into a cross code switch with the former Australian Schoolboys back poised to move back to the 15-man game.
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.
A collapse of World Rugby’s proposed global league has left Rugby Australia scrambling, but CEO Raelene Castle says sticking to the SANZAAR model is the way forward.
NSW is looking to a Wallabies try-scoring ace to boost their limp attack, a surprise name emerges in the national training camp and a big Brumbies boost – it’s all in Rugby Confidential.
NSW have signed the teenage son of former Waratahs forward Cameron Douglas after fighting off interest from a heavyweight Super Rugby rival.
A season that started full of optimism ahead of a World Cup year soon turned into a nightmare and it wasn’t just the Israel Folau fiasco that was to blame.
The season was already gone for the Waratahs but they appeared to down tools against the Highlanders and ended up on the end of a shellacking.
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