Rugby World Cup
World Cup final referee had heart surgery midway through tournament
Referee Wayne Barnes’ resting heart rate is 50 beats per minute. Moments before he officiated last year’s Wallabies-Wales match, it was racing at 180.
- by Wayne Barnes
Latest
Sports minister raised World Cup final in phone call to rugby boss
Rugby officials have been warned the Victorian government expects an elite rugby union team to play in the state, with the future of the Melbourne Rebels to be decided on Friday as ministers weigh up a bid to stage the 2027 Rugby World Cup final.
- by Carla Jaeger, Kieran Rooney and Sarah Danckert
Brisbane troll fined for ‘vile’ online ref abuse during Rugby World Cup
A Brisbane man has been fined $1000 and given a 12-month good behaviour bond for abusing a Rugby World Cup match official and his family.
- by Iain Payten
‘My heart is in rugby’: Jorgensen turns down Roosters to chase Wallabies dream
The sought-after teenager has pressed pause on a potential NRL switch and extended his deal with the Waratahs and Rugby Australia.
- by Iain Payten
Opinion
World Rugby
Seventeen dead minutes: Why World Rugby had to act after Cup final
The 2011 Rugby World Cup final was by no means a classic. But comparing it to last year’s showpiece event proves that rule changes have turned rugby into a waiting game.
- by Paul Cully
‘That’s not acceptable’: Multimillion-dollar Wallabies budget blow-out revealed
Rugby Australia boss Phil Waugh has come clean on rampant overspending on the Wallabies program last year after recommendations from an independent review were handed down.
- by Tom Decent
Wallabies’ World Cup review set for release – but without budget blow-out figure
Recommendations from an external review into the Wallabies’ disastrous Rugby World Cup campaign are finally due to be published, but one juicy part will be missing.
- by Iain Payten
Analysis
Wallabies
‘We’ve got no hardness about us’: Jones’ Wallabies verdict revealed in new doco
A new Wallabies documentary catches the moment an exasperated Eddie Jones bemoans his side’s lack of toughness after their record defeat to Wales at the Rugby World Cup.
- by Iain Payten
Eddie bemoans Wallabies lack of hardness
Eddie Jones talks to James Slipper at the Rugby World Cup, in a scene from Stan's new Wallabies documentary. Credit: Stan Sport
‘It wasn’t pretty’: Why Eddie won’t watch new Wallabies documentary
Australia’s nightmare year under embattled coach Eddie Jones will be laid bare in a revealing three-part Stan documentary.
- by Iain Payten and Tom Decent
Dylan got his dream World Cup call-up. Then Eddie Jones changed his mind
A gleeful Dylan Pietsch rang his parents after being called into the Wallabies’ World Cup squad in September. Not long afterwards, the Waratahs winger was told not to bother.
- by Tom Decent
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