3:11 AM GMT ESPN staff Israel Folau and Rugby Australia [RA] have ended the biggest feud in Australian sport, after the two parties reach a confidential settlement following the former Wallabies star’s social media posts and his subsequent sacking. A Rugby Australia statement on Wednesday afternoon said both parties acknowledged the harm they had caused
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10:15 AM GMT Former All Blacks coach Steve Hansen on Monday confirmed his long-expected move to Japan, where he will take up a role as coaching consultant for Top League side Toyota Verblitz. The 60-year-old stepped down from his position as New Zealand head coach following his side’s third-place finish at the Rugby World Cup.
10:03 PM GMT All Blacks and Hurricanes flanker Ardie Savea has confirmed he will miss a big chunk of the 2020 Super Rugby season after he undergoes surgery for a knee injury he suffered at the World Cup in Japan. Savea, who was also named on the six-man shortlist for the World Rugby Player of
8:54 AM GMT Former Italy coach Conor O’Shea will join the Rugby Football Union (RFU) as director of performance rugby next year, it was announced on Friday, while director of professional rugby Nigel Melville said he will step down in December. O’Shea left his role with Italy after the team’s pool-stage exit from this year’s
8:54 AM GMT Former Italy coach Conor O’Shea will join the English Rugby Football Union (RFU) as director of performance rugby next year, it was announced on Friday, while director of professional rugby Nigel Melville said he will step down in December. O’Shea left his role with Italy after the team’s pool-stage exit from this
6:53 AM GMT Kurtley Beale is the frontrunner to fill the five-eighth hot seat as the NSW Waratahs prepare for life after Bernard Foley. With Foley, NSW’s most-capped No. 10, among several senior figures to head overseas following this year’s World Cup, the Waratahs will enter the 2020 Super Rugby season seriously short on experienced
1:41 PM GMT England trio Owen Farrell, Maro Itoje and Billy Vunipola will play for Saracens for the first time since the Rugby World Cup after being named in the side to face Bath in the Gallagher Premiership as they seek to repair the damage from their 35-point deduction for breaching the league’s salary cap.
8:23 AM GMT England and Bath back Anthony Watson will be out of action for at least four weeks after sustaining a knee injury in his side’s Champions Cup defeat to Harlequins on Saturday. Watson underwent an MRI scan on Monday, which revealed the 25-year-old will not require surgery, but he is not expected to
2:06 AM GMT AAP with ESPN staff Rugby Australia’s year from hell has been capped off with sacked Wallabies star Israel Folau entering a new multi-million-dollar legal claim against the sporting body just days after it was revealed rugby’s broadcast deal is in limbo. In new court documents, Folau says he is set to lose
7:46 AM GMT Australian Scott Wisemantel, who was England’s attack coach at the Rugby World Cup, has decided to move on after his contract expired and looks set to join Dave Rennie’s staff at the Wallabies. England coach Eddie Jones, who brought Wisemantel into his setup for last year’s tour of South Africa before extending