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The Waratahs weekly sessions at the dojo.

‘You can’t hide’: Inside the viral bash-up sessions toughening up the Tahs

Every Friday morning of the last two months of 2024, the Waratahs gathered at a Botany dojo before smashing each other silly.

  • Iain Payten

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Joe Schmidt and Phil Waugh

The two vital decisions that could make or break Australian rugby this Christmas

It’s the time of the year when most workplaces shut down for the festive period. But Rugby Australia is sweating on a pair of massive calls as the year winds to a close.

  • Iain Payten
Eddie Jones at Japan training in London in November, 2024.

Eddie Jones’ Japan will face the Wallabies next year. Will he still be in charge?

Japanese Rugby officials unveiled the Australian as their new coach last December, just weeks after he quit the Wallabies. A year on, the JRFU appear to be re-considering their decision.

  • Iain Payten
Aussie sevens womens team players who are committing to XVs rugby in 2025 to try and make the Rugby World Cup. Teagan Levi, Maddison Levi and Charlotte Caslick at Rugby Australia HQ in Moore Park, Thursday 12th of December 2024. Photo: Dion Georgopoulos / The Sydney Morning Herald

Can Charlotte Caslick and co help Australia win a Rugby World Cup? We’re about to find out

A group of Australia’s sevens superstars, including Charlotte Caslick and Maddison Levi, will switch to 15s next year to try to help the Wallaroos win a world crown.

  • Iain Payten
Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii takes on England at Twickenham.

Win Bledisloe every two years: Rugby Australia sets out bold five-year goals

A new strategy paper through to 2029 released by RA includes some lofty ambitions.

  • Iain Payten
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Have the Wallabies got their mojo back? Why fans are pulling out the Johnny Howard tracksuit

After a disastrous 2023, rugby supporters – and even casual fans – are dusting off their Australian kit after a morale-boosting month tour of Europe. But the rebuild is a much longer-term project.

  • Iain Payten
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Maddison Levi against Fiji at the World Sevens Series.

‘She doesn’t even need her hands’: Levi magic shows why every code wants her

Maddison Levi again showed why she’s one of Australia’s most sought-after athletes with a last-gasp try to seal victory against New Zealand.

  • Billie Eder
The Wallabies celebrate victory in Cardiff

The 15 things we learnt about the Wallabies in 2024

They started the year in a deep hole and ended it on a comparative high. So what parts of the Wallabies’ game are flying, and what still needs work?

  • Iain Payten
Max Jorgensen

Respect regained, now polish is needed for Wallabies

The Wallabies and All Blacks played the British and Irish Lions unions a combined nine times this year and lost only twice. The Anzacs can still play footy.

  • Paul Cully
Australia’s Rob Valetini, left, runs with the ball against Ireland

‘People putting us down’: Valetini’s mission to change the Wallabies story

Rob Valetini finished his 2024 with a strong performance in Dublin, but the breakaway believes there is far more to come from the Wallabies.

  • Jonathan Drennan

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