If rugby is the game they play in heaven,Australian Brett Robinson - the first chairman of World Rugby from the southern hemisphere - might be forgiven for having a God complex. Mercifully,he doesn’t.
More than a dozen Wallabies are off contract and yet to determine their futures. Two legends suggest a home World Cup win in 2027 would be a fitting legacy.
Twenty-four years after Jonny Wilkinson kicked that drop goal to win the Rugby World Cup,another decider will be played at the Olympic venue.
I want rugby to succeed,and you want rugby to succeed. But achieving the aims of the governing body’s strategy report will be easier said than done.
Referee Wayne Barnes’ resting heart rate is 50 beats per minute. Moments before he officiated last year’s Wallabies-Wales match,it was racing at 180.
Rugby officials have been warned the Victorian government expects an elite rugby union team to play in the state,with the future of the Melbourne Rebels to be decided on Friday as ministers weigh up a bid to stage the 2027 Rugby World Cup final.
A Brisbane man has been fined $1000 and given a 12-month good behaviour bond for abusing a Rugby World Cup match official and his family.
The sought-after teenager has pressed pause on a potential NRL switch and extended his deal with the Waratahs and Rugby Australia.
The 2011 Rugby World Cup final was by no means a classic. But comparing it to last year’s showpiece event proves that rule changes have turned rugby into a waiting game.
Rugby Australia boss Phil Waugh has come clean on rampant overspending on the Wallabies program last year after recommendations from an independent review were handed down.