Why there’s no need for the NRL to go all John Ribot
Opinion
NRL 2024

Why there’s no need for the NRL to go all John Ribot

The Las Vegas venture already seems to be a broad success but what grates is the ludicrous hyperbole that goes with it.

  • byPeter FitzSimons

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Eddie everywhere:Jones’ role in Manly’s Las Vegas mission

Eddie everywhere:Jones’ role in Manly’s Las Vegas mission

Anthony Seibold worked with Eddie Jones when he was head coach of the England rugby team,and has applied the same preparation to the US trip.

  • byAdrian Proszenko
Hard to swallow:The moment in Wallabies doco where Eddie’s excuses demand a reply

Hard to swallow:The moment in Wallabies doco where Eddie’s excuses demand a reply

The documentary on Australia’s World Cup debacle is car-crash TV,but one scene should have veered from fly-on-the-wall to scripted film.

  • byPeter FitzSimons
Fast Eddie and ScoMo take responsibility but it’s not their fault
Opinion
Wallabies

Fast Eddie and ScoMo take responsibility but it’s not their fault

Throughout the new documentary following the Wallabies’ calamitous 2023 Eddie Jones says “I take responsibility” for a disaster before taking actions that show he really believes the opposite.

  • byMalcolm Knox
‘We’ve got no hardness about us’:Jones’ Wallabies verdict revealed in new doco
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.

  • byIain Payten
Age and Herald journalists honoured at Australian Sports Commission awards

Age and Herald journalists honoured at Australian Sports Commission awards

Read our stories on gay basketballer Isaac Humphries,Collingwood captain Darcy Moore and the Eddie Jones saga that were voted among last year’s best sports writing.

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‘It wasn’t pretty’:Why Eddie won’t watch new Wallabies documentary

‘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.

  • byIain Payten andTom Decent
Why Eddie Jones may have prevented NRL from poaching Wallabies’ next superstar

Why Eddie Jones may have prevented NRL from poaching Wallabies’ next superstar

Max Jorgensen was a shock bolter in the Wallabies’ World Cup squad,and didn’t play a game in France. But the experience may prove crucial in keeping the NSW star in rugby.

  • byIain Payten
Why Schmidt is open to walking away from Wallabies after Lions series

Why Schmidt is open to walking away from Wallabies after Lions series

The incoming national team coach says he is desperate to make Australia competitive again and is open to handing over the reins next year.

  • byTom Decent andJonathan Drennan
Schmidt set to replace Jones as Wallabies coach

Schmidt set to replace Jones as Wallabies coach

Joe Schmidt,the former Ireland coach and All Blacks assistant,is poised to become head coach of the Wallabies.

  • byTom Decent
Matildas,V’landys,Eddie and Barassi:The best and worst of the year in sport

Matildas,V’landys,Eddie and Barassi:The best and worst of the year in sport

From the Penrith three-peat to the rise of the Matildas and the LIV-PGA Tour greed battle,there’s been plenty to write about in 2023.

  • byPeter FitzSimons