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TEDDINGTON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 08: Joseph-Aukuso Sua’ali’i of Australia looks on as the team huddle together during a training session at The Lensbury on November 08, 2024 in Teddington, England. (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images)

Talk about a revolution? Wallabies weren’t even aware of LIV-style rugby breakaway league

Wallabies players and coaches were playing catch-up on news they could be targeted to join a lucrative new global franchise competition.

  • Iain Payten

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Former Wallaby flanker Brett Robinson, who is running to become the next chair of World Rugby.

The fiercest rugby battle this week will take place in a five-star Dublin hotel

Former Wallabies flanker Brett Robinson is vying to become the new chair of World Rugby at a vote on Friday, and the campaign has already seen the fracturing of age-old alliances.

  • Iain Payten
Rocky Elsom, pictured in 2011, is wanted by French authorities.

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.

  • Chris Barrett
Leader of men ... Rocky Elsom relaxes before hitting the gym at Brookvale this wee and, inset, rallying his troops during the dispiriting loss to the All Blacks at Wellington last year.

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.

  • Jonathan Drennan and Iain Payten
Rocky Elsom, pictured in 2011, is wanted by French authorities.

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.

  • Peter FitzSimons
The Rocky Elsom saga.

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.

  • Dan Walsh and Jonathan Drennan
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Mark Nawaqanitawase.

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.

  • Jonathan Drennan
It is hoped France-based Wallabies second row Will Skelton will play a role in the Rugby Championship.

‘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.

  • Jonathan Drennan
The photo that helped Janet Nixon decide the men’s 100m champion.

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.

  • Michael Gleeson
Nic Berry signals held up for the last play of the game.

‘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.

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