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Wallabies
The two big challenges the Wallabies must overcome in Dublin
World Rugby’s breakdown mess and a Johnny Sexton clone stand between Australia and victory in the final Test of their spring tour against Ireland.
- by Paul Cully
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The luck of Suaalii: Broken wrist ruled out and could face Ireland
The Wallabies have been provided with some much-needed good news ahead of their final Spring tour match against Ireland.
- by Jonathan Drennan
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Breakaway rugby competition would flop - even with Saudi billions
Don’t confuse a concept like cricket’s Indian Premier League with what looks a series of exhibition games in non-rugby locales.
- by Paul Cully
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.
- by Iain Payten
‘These guys are big players’: World’s top rugby talent targeted for breakaway league
A US-based fund has been approaching players about deals reportedly worth $1.3 million to join a rebel competition.
- by Charles Richardson, Charlie Morgan and Daniel Schofield
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Australian rugby
‘Great privilege’: Former Wallaby wins race to become world rugby’s most powerful man
By the narrowest of margins, ex-Brumbies captain Brett Robinson has been voted in as the new chair of World Rugby; the first person from the Southern Hemisphere to hold the role.
- by Iain Payten
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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.
- by Iain Payten
‘We want to scrum’: Wallabies reject South African injury rort ploy
South Africa reportedly raised formal questions about the Wallabies injuries that led to uncontested scrums in Perth last month.
- by Iain Payten
Why Australian rugby’s issues went global … and how an Aussie plans to fix it
Former Wallaby Brett Robinson is vying to become the most powerful man in World Rugby later this year.
- by Iain Payten
The unheralded ex-Wallaby who could soon become most powerful man in global rugby
Former Brumbies captain Brett Robinson is considering a run for the chairmanship of World Rugby later this year after colleagues urged him to stand.
- by Iain Payten
Why success for Wallabies this year is finishing top of ‘second division’
Painfully modest as it sounds, a realistic aim for Australia would be to finish sixth in the world rankings, ahead of Scotland, Argentina and the increasingly solid Fiji.
- by Paul Cully