Gen Blues stars and standouts in battle with Queensland Reds U18s
Their plane was late and games were delayed but the Gen Blue were all business in their matches against the Queensland Reds Academy on a wet and wild weekend. Stars and standouts.
Their plane was late and games were delayed but the Gen Blue were all business in their matches against the Queensland Reds Academy on a wet and wild weekend. Stars and standouts.
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.
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.
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”.
Rugby Australia will have their greatest rival to thank if the latest radical proposal to get the struggling 15-man code back up and running comes to fruition – but the left-field plan may not be enough to save Raelene Castle.
The wolves are at the door – with the Waratahs to be stood down after again failing to strike a pay cut deal – but Rugby Australia could be kept afloat by a multi-million dollar helping hand.
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