The Waratahs are hopeful two disciplined victories over the dynamic Fijian Drua will have them prepared for unstructured attacking threat of the Chiefs.
The Queensland Reds have won their third match in a row after beating the Melbourne Rebels at AAMI Park in Melbourne on Friday night.
If you think that World Rugby is going to change course on concussion because some Super Rugby players in Australia need to get lower,you are dreaming.
The Waratahs secured consecutive victories for the first time in almost two years,but the Rebels came close to pulling off an upset in a scrappy clash.
As a former South African sevens captain,Melbourne Rebels coach Kevin Foote got a call in 2008 to be Matt Damon’s body double - and rugby tutor - for the film Invictus. But one sizeable problem emerged.
Plagued by hamstring injuries since code-hopping in 2020,Suliasi Vunivalu has only played seven games for Queensland. And now a big name in the NRL wants him back.
The 118-Test veteran will be welcomed back warmly at the NSW Waratahs,but a new crowd favourite has emerged in his place.
The second half of the Waratahs’ victory against the Force at Leichhardt Oval was too scrappy to celebrate but the combination of Ben Donaldson and Will Harrison was a big success.
Rugby Australia is clawing back some ground on offshore raiders with three major re-signings in the space of a week.
Australian Super Rugby games will be the first major competition matches to use smart ball tracking technology,created in part by a former NASA scientist who designed rockets to fly to Mars.
The Western Force will become only the second Australian Super W side to pay their players,in a move that will ramp up pressure on rivals to follow suit.