Category: Australia Rugby

The wife of rugby legend Scott Hastings is presumed dead after she went missing while wild swimming.

Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt hailed James Slipper as the “ultimate team man” after including the veteran prop for what will be a record-equalling 139th Test against Argentina on Sunday morning.

Australia fought back to earn a nail-biting 20-19 victory over Argentina on Saturday as the Wallabies snapped their eight-match losing streak in The Rugby Championship.

The Wallabies have another new captain with Harry Wilson to lead the side out against Argentina in La Plata on Sunday morning while Hamish Stewart will become the 15th debutant since coach Joe Schmidt took over.

Five years on from his sensational sacking by Rugby Australia, Israel Folau still has no regrets about the social media post that led to his Wallabies downfall.

South Africa once again overpowered Australia in the Rugby Championship on Saturday with a 30-12 victory in wet and slippery conditions at Optus Stadium.

Experienced halfback Nic White has been recalled to the Wallabies side for Saturday night’s Rugby Championship clash with South Africa, while Max Jorgensen and Seru Uru are poised to make their Test debuts off the bench.

World champions South Africa scored five tries to one as they crushed Australia 33-7 in the opening match of the Rugby Championship in Brisbane on Saturday.

Marika Koroibete is a surprise absentee from the Wallabies team for Saturday’s Rugby Championship Test against South Africa at Suncorp Stadium.

A new-look Wallabies side continued their rejuvenation under coach Joe Schmidt Saturday to overcome Georgia 40-29 in an entertaining one-off Test in Sydney.

The Wallabies will have a third captain in three games under new coach Joe Schmidt with Liam Wright failing to recover in time for Saturday’s clash with Georgia.

Progress can be hard to measure when you are coming from such a long way back but a second-up Wallabies win in the Joe Schmidt era is better than the alternative.

Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt says his new-look team learned “a bit about ourselves” in last week’s win over Wales as he named a largely unchanged line-up, albeit with a new captain, for Saturday’s second clash in Melbourne.

Joe Schmidt’s reign as Wallabies coach got off to a flying start in Sydney on Saturday with a hard-fought 25-16 defeat of Warren Gatland’s Wales, who slumped to their eighth straight loss.

Liam Wright will return to the Wallabies for the first time in five years as captain of the national team with up to seven players set to earn their debuts as new coach Joe Schmidt put a full stop on the disastrous Eddie Jones era.