Mum of ‘shafted’ Tah posts scathing attack on club
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.
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.
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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Emerging five-eighth Mack Mason has been given to the green light to turn it on against the Highlanders as the Waratahs fight to keep their slim chances of making the playoffs alive.
Cashed-up overseas clubs have run a vacuum over Australian rugby, sucking out the country’s best talent in the prime of their careers – but who’s really to blame for the exodus?
The players hate it. So do the coaches. And the fans? Yep, they hate it too. And it’s the reason the Wallabies have become the laughing stock of Australian sport.
Waratahs coach Daryl Gibson doesn’t want to use the Israel Folau saga as an excuse for his side’s underwhelming season, but he has conceded the fullback’s talent could have altered a string of tight losses.
With Australia struggling ahead of the World Cup, now is not the time to be playing favourites — and that means only one Waratah can be confident of holding his place ahead of the showpiece event in Japan, writes JULIAN LINDEN.
As their season coughed and spluttered to an embarrassing finish, the Waratahs finally admitted to the toll of the Israel Folau saga which crippled their hopes this year.
Needing to win their final two matches of the season to be a chance of making the Super Rugby playoffs, the Waratahs have fallen at the penultimate hurdle against the Brumbies.
Israel Folau’s looming court action against Rugby Australia won’t send the game broke but could still result in key programs being cut. SEE FOLAU’S COURT DOCUMENTS
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