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.
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.
The Western Force will join a new domestic Super Rugby competition proposed to kick off next month amid the global coronavirus pandemic.
As the coronavirus ruins sport across the globe, ex-Reds skipper Samu Kerevi has offered an insight into how his new life is playing out in the locked down Japan.
NEW Melbourne Rebels skipper Adam Coleman says his side’s new-look playing group is a united force heading into its bold new era and galvanising them was actually ‘easier than we imagined’.
SOME athletes give up booze or junk food to achieve their dream in professional sports. Waratahs recruit Will Miller gave up milking cows on his family dairy farm to chase his.
NICK Stiles will come face-to-face with the club that sacked him in the first round of the Super Rugby season after scoring a coaching gig with one of Queensland’s biggest rivals.
THE Waratahs will take a cautious approach ahead of the 2018 season with one their biggest stars being rested from the Brisbane Tens, while Wallaby Ned Hanigan has been cleared to play in the opening round of Super Rugby.
BRAD Thorn openly admits he’s a rookie in the coaching game but he’s a two-decade veteran when it comes to the recipes of successful footy teams.
WALLABIES winger Dane Haylett-Petty will return from injury to make his Rebels debut as the new look Melbourne club takes the field in a trial match against the Brumbies in Queanbeyan on Saturday.
IN his first media appearance for two months, Reds coach Brad Thorn covered his club’s new skipper, Quade Cooper’s exit, the Karmichael Hunt fallout and George Smith’s apology.
PREPARING for massive starts to their respective seasons, the Waratahs and leading Aussie referee Angus Gardiner joined forces to wrap their heads around 2018 law changes.
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