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Rassie Erasmus will coach champions South Africa to the 2027 Rugby World Cup, with former Ireland hooker Jerry Flannery added to the technical team as defence coach and ex-New Zealand playmaker Tony Brown signed to sharpen the attack. Erasmus returns as head coach after four… Read More »Rugby News: Rassie eyes RWC history after unveiling new Boks coaching team, Force add another Kiwi, French Six Nations blow

The AFL insists it can improve the on-field product and make the game safer at the same time after rubber-stamping rules around smothers. The league has ticked off on a raft of changes for the upcoming season following a meeting of the AFL Commission on… Read More »Smothers in the firing line as AFL brings down new rules to stamp out high contact … and whistling?

In a huge endorsement for new Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt, World Cup-winning All Blacks hooker Dane Coles says New Zealand would not have made last year’s final if it wasn’t for the late arrival of his compatriot. “If he wasn’t there, I don’t reckon we… Read More »‘Something we needed’: Coles says ABs would not have made RWC final without Schmidt – and why Wallabies stand to benefit

It’s been a long time between drinks in the Premier League. Not for them, of course, as they have played a thousand games of football (each more climatic than the last), but for us, the Australian Premier League watching community. See there’s been the Socceroos,… Read More »What the EPL?!: Ange’s one-liners and the glorious return of the Socceroos to the Premier League