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Revealed: The payments that landed Rocky Elsom a five-year jail term
French documents have for the first time detailed the case against the former Wallabies captain, who has branded it “weak”, and believes it reinforces his innocence.
- by Chris Barrett
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A Rocky ride: How a secretive Wallaby alienated a rugby-mad French town
Rocky Elsom and a group of Australians took over a French rugby club, aiming to restore the club to former glory days. It ended with bitterness and a prison sentence.
- by Jonathan Drennan and Iain Payten
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Australian rugby
Rocky Elsom breaks silence on five-year sentence, declares innocence
The former Wallabies captain was last week handed the jail term by a French court - at a hearing he did not attend.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Stranger than fiction: The Wallaby captain, an embezzled $1 million and a French arrest warrant
With an Irish schoolboy rugby gig and claims of coaches being paid without ever visiting southern France, Rocky Elsom’s international arrest makes for a bizarre sporting scandal.
- by Dan Walsh and Jonathan Drennan
RA turns to World Rugby for help after French refuse to pay match fee
More than a year after playing Les Bleus at a packed Stade de France, Rugby Australia is still pursuing the money it is owed.
- by Jonathan Drennan
‘It’s complicated’: Skelton caught between club and country ahead of Argentina trip
Though currently in the middle of pre-season training with La Rochelle, Rugby Australia has not given up hope of having Will Skelton involved with the Wallabies’ Rugby Championship campaign.
- by Jonathan Drennan
The world’s two fastest men had no idea who’d won the 100m. Janet from Sydney did
Kishane Thompson had his head over the line, but Noah Lyles had the torso. An engineer from a long line of photo finish experts split the difference.
- by Michael Gleeson
‘We were celebrating’: Controversial TMO call denies Scotland win over France in Six Nations
Scottish fans were fuming when they crossed the line to beat France in the final play, only to be denied by the match officials.
- by Wires
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The Fitz Files
Why Manu won’t be the last league player signed by French rugby
Told yers! The expected signing of Roosters star Joey Manu to a French rugby club will be the first of many.
- by Peter FitzSimons
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Wallabies
Rugby Australia chasing over $1m from French union after contracting blunder
Former RA chairman Hamish McLennan agreed a match fee of $1.7m with Bernard Laporte for the World Cup warm-up match in Paris. But the FFR has paid just a fraction of that sum.
- by Tom Decent
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Rugby World Cup
Why devilishly good quarter-finals prove there is no God
There were no late miracles for France, Ireland or Fiji, yet somehow England are through to the final four. It’s enough to test the faith of even the most devout rugby fan.
- by Peter FitzSimons
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