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A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size SAINT ETIENNE – The Wallabies have just one fit playmaker still on French soil after Carter Gordon flew home to Australia on Wednesday because of a knee-injury. While lock Nick Frost is also set …

Sure, the Wallabies could mathematically still make the quarter finals but it’s highly unlikely, so Australian rugby fans must look for greener pastures elsewhere. 2024 must start and bring with it Super Rugby Pacific success because for the first time, for a long time, Super Rugby sides stand a better …

The media department for the Wallabies put their best spin on the ‘Zombie Wallabies’ 34-14 bonus point victory over Portugal in their final pool match at the 2023 Rugby World Cup: “[It] means the Wallabies now need Portugal to beat Fiji by 8 points or more in their final pool …

A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size When you weigh up all the advantages that are on India’s side, they should rule the cricketing globe. The newly crowned world’s most populous nation holds all the cards when it comes to cricket’s …

A trip to Annecy, an alpine town in south-eastern France, this week offered no respite. “We escaped to Annecy to get away from it all and when we got there, we met some Wallabies supporters wearing Wallaby Hawaiian shirts and caps,” he said. “They were pretending to take pictures of …

Unsurprisingly, after gaining the bonus point win over Portugal they needed to keep the slimmest of Rugby World Cup hopes alive, the Australian players and coaches and support staff are taking a three-day mini break. The original plan after the draw was confirmed would have involved the Australians doing the …

Rugby Australia will conduct a review into their World Cup flop, but chief executive Phil Waugh says the governing body is “committed” to under-siege Wallabies coach Eddie Jones and believes the national team’s shortcomings are a result of years of systemic issues plaguing the sport. “I think [we’ve been] pretty …

A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size A week after being linked to a bombshell $1.6 million deal to join the Western Force, Rugby Australia has pulled out of negotiations to try and lure Angus Crichton across from the NRL. The …

A 34-14 win over Portugal on Sunday was Jones’ second victory from nine matches this year. The Wallabies coach has sidestepped questions about his future, saying he will leave his fate in the hands of RA following a year that saw Australia lose every Test they played against a tier-one …

A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size A win’s a win’s a win.

Like having to endure Chinese water torture, the Wallabies 2023 World Cup is still not strictly over. Even though, despite their 34-14 win against Portugal, everyone knows it is. The World Cup will go on without Australia, with an overriding sense that ‘less Eddie’ is a good thing. Almost everyone …

Two decades ago Eddie Jones missed out on signing Andrew Johns because of a late change of heart from the then-Australian Rugby Union. Jones has the chance to right that wrong by luring across Nathan Cleary – the best rugby league playmaker since Johns, who was inducted into rugby league …

The Wallabies have (maybe) ended their Rugby World Cup campaign on something of a high, beating Portugal 34-14 in Saint-Étienne. It was a win that keeps the Wallabies’ faint hopes of securing a spot in the quarterfinals alive though, with Eddie Jones’s side now needing Portugal to do them a huge …

The Wallabies are still alive at the Rugby World Cup after securing a 34-14 bonus point victory over Portugal in their final pool game in Saint-Étienne. After Portugal took a shock lead through Pedro Bettencourt, the Wallabies were able to capitalise on his yellow card to score quick tries through Richie…

A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size SAINT ETIENNE – The Wallabies’ stay of execution has been extended another week after getting past Portugal 34-14 in their final World Cup pool match. It shapes as being one of their longest. Despite …

Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size Why this torrential outpouring of gloom and doom regarding the Wallabies (“Precipice of Doom”, September 30)? Australia’s two-time rugby union world champions may just be naturally bottoming through the peak-trough cycle that all sports teams endure. I take hope from soccer’s deposed …