Happy days for schoolboy rugby young gun
Savelio Tamale hasn’t played a lot of rep footy until recently but that’s about to change for this rising star heading north this weekend for an important junior rugby clash.
Savelio Tamale hasn’t played a lot of rep footy until recently but that’s about to change for this rising star heading north this weekend for an important junior rugby clash.
A diamond in the rough, a son of a football star and a pair of “big engines” are among the teens to watch in the new Gen Blues squad taking on the Reds this weekend.
From Gen Blues to the Barbarians, Sydney Juniors and NSW country players have barged their way into an assortment of rugby rep teams. Players who made the cut.
Chiefs winger runs riot as the Waratahs pay the price for an ordinary start and poor finish in ‘Super Round’.
They starred for their Shute Shield clubs last season. Now things have got real for these Waratahs young guns – including two sons of NRL stars – in their trial against the Reds.
The pressure is one of the biggest rugby franchises in Australia this season but new Waratahs captain Jake Gordon has a message for the doubters.
Former Melbourne Storm flyer Suliasi Vunivalu is set to be unleashed by the Reds on the Waratahs in a trial on Friday.
Michael Hooper has enjoyed a long period as captain of the Wallabies, but the team’s results under him have not been so joyous.
The mum of a long-serving Waratahs player has absolutely unloaded on the club in an incredible Facebook post. Check it out in Rugby Confidential.
Elimination finals spots have been booked but so have multiple appointments with doctors and specialists. One team is looking in particularly bad shape and another has a lost a star player.
The Waratahs have missed the Super Rugby finals after the game’s biggest chokers – the Melbourne Rebels – finally found a way to get the win a spot in the playoffs.
The new Australian Super Rugby competition has thrived amid the COVID-19 crisis because of how close the teams are to each other, but the cut throat format only makes it more gut-wrenching for the sides that miss the finals.
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