The lobbying for a board spill at Rugby Australia’s Annual General Meeting next month has kicked off, with a group including a former RA director, at least two former Wallabies and a constitutional expert contacting the Super Rugby teams and state unions who will decide… Read More »‘Previous chairman can not be a scapegoat’: First salvo fired in bid to spill the Rugby Australia board
NSW Rugby has forced their coach Darren Coleman into a corner to the detriment of the team by putting him on notice over his Super Rugby future. That’s the assessment of former Wallaby Matt To’omu who said he has “a bee in my bonnet” about… Read More »‘I see poor leadership’: Have Darren Coleman’s NSW Rugby bosses set him up to fail?
For me at least, rugby union seems to have an unparalleled ability to induce mixed feelings. This has been brought home to me especially powerfully by the recent revelation of a raft of rule changes that World Rugby has floated as suggestions to improve the… Read More »WR’s mooted law changes are great – but show there’s a hell of a lot wrong with rugby in 2024, and that sucks
They’re a funny old mob, Essendon. They just don’t do things very well. We know they don’t win many games of football. They haven’t done that well for over 20 years now. But they don’t lose very well either – they don’t often finish in… Read More »‘The Essendon Edge’: The Bombers are trying to fake it until they make it
With all the confusion over interchanges, HIAs, what counts as a substitution and what doesn’t, rugby league should consider following the path of another sport that it apparently shares some distant DNA. Scrap the 18th man standby player who sits gloomily on the four-player interchange… Read More »NRL can reduce concussion headache by expanding the number of interchange players – with a retro twist