The Wallaroos will have to stop the world’s No. 1 team to keep their World Cup dream alive and have made a huge selection call in an effort to engineer a boilover.
Michael Hooper’s decision to take time away from rugby union has been widely praised by his teammates who think his call will help others.
Wallabies legend Michael Hooper returns to the fold after a break, signifying a big shift in the way sport deals with mental health issues, writes BRENDAN BRADFORD.
Revered as one of the bravest in the game, Wallabies star Michael Hooper has revealed how mental health was tearing him apart — but would lead to one of his most heroic acts.
Pale with red hair, Wallaroo Grace Kemp wondered what people thought when she joined ‘Lloydies’ – an Indigenous women’s team. The influential time changed her rugby and her life, writes TILLY WERNER.
After a diabolical 2021 Super Rugby season, Jack Dempsey made the move to Glasgow. After just one season, the gamble has already paid off.
Eddie Jones has struck up a mutual appreciation society with Mikel Arteta and is hopeful that some of the factors behind Arsenal’s early-season success will rub off on the England rugby team.
The Premiership club will make 167 redundancies and be relegated after they followed Worcester Warriors into administration.
Who will take England reins of power from Eddie Jones after the Rugby World Cup and what will they be walking into? STUART BARNES examines the key contenders.
For decades, defences have been terrorised by one member of the Tuilagi family or another. While Manu Tuilagi is central for England, the force of the next generation of Tuilagis is also being felt in France.
A self-professed engineering nerd, Bridie O‘Gorman quickly found her penchant for studying logistical probabilities could be applied to her rugby career, writes TILLY WERNER.
Wasps have been suspended indefinitely from the Gallagher Premiership and will become the second club this month to be punished with relegation for going into administration.
Adiana Talakai goes straight to training from a shift as a labourer. Around her, athletes who are also police officers and bar-workers do the same. But it’s worth it to play for the Wallaroos, writes TILLY WERNER.
Eddie Jones has taken lessons from the US Navy Seals’ mission to kill Osama bin Laden as he prepares England for the “most volatile rugby environment we have ever seen” in the build-up to the World Cup in France next year.
The All Blacks may no longer look invincible but there was enough in their thumping win over the Wallabies to remind their critics that this is a team capable of beating any side in the world on their day.
It’s not just suspect officiating calls but the long, drawn-out explanations and self-involved spiels that are making international officials a blight on the modern game.
The Wallabies’ 36-year Eden Park hoodoo has continued in mortifying fashion. So what is it about Eden Park that makes Australia self-combust?
Damning photos have revealed the “hypocrisy” of a Sydney politician caught in the act of visiting a stadium she vehemently opposed.
Rugby Australia has lodged a formal complaint over referee Mathieu Raynal’s late Bledisloe Cup call, but a former leading ref has given a conflicting spin on the whole episode.
Mathieu Raynal’s call to punish the home side for time-wasting — leading to an 81st-minute match-winning try for New Zealand — was one of abject stupidity, writes STUART BARNES.
Australia has been left heartbroken after New Zealand clinched a stunning victory after a controversial call by the referee, which sparked a furious backlash and raised tensions between the teams.
Carl Hayman remembers the small window of Wallabies superiority that inspired two decades of All Blacks dominance. He speaks to DYLAN CLEAVER.
As Bernard Foley begins his All Blacks revenge tour, the recalled veteran has been tasked with shutting down New Zealand’s revamped style.
The Australian women are again on top of the rugby world – sealing a ridiculous triple crown in the early hours of Monday morning.
Kurtley Beale never had the chance to meet the Queen — but this encounter with one of her grandsons went down as one of the fondest memories for the recalled Wallaby.
