7:51 AM BST Brumbies lock Rory Arnold says they can extend their winning streak to nine games and end a 15-year Super Rugby title drought over the next fortnight. The Brumbies are playing for a spot in their first final since 2014 when they take on the Jaguares in Buenos Aires on Saturday morning (AEST).
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2:58 AM BST ESPN staff Israel Folau’s crowdfunding page has been shut down by website operator GoFundMe. Folau’s page had attracted in excess of $[Aus]650,000 since it was launched late on Thursday night [AEST] But it had also attracted huge backlash on social media, with people adamant Folau’s page was in breach of GoFundMe’s guidelines
Jun 24, 2019 Sam Bruce Close ESPN Associate Editor Sam was brought up on long drives and the dusty fields of north-west New South Wales, where he developed his love of rugby from an early age. He joined ESPNscrum after a five-year stint heading up Fox Sports Australia’s digital rugby coverage. Andy Withers Close ESPN
2:00 PM BST South Africa will have no sides in the semi-finals of Super Rugby for only the second time in 16 years, but it could be just the start of the country’s declining fortunes in the competition as teams are ripped apart by player departures. There have been mitigating circumstances to the failures in
8:31 AM BST ESPN staff Michael Cheika has bolstered his Wallabies coaching staff ahead of the Rugby World Cup, adding former Waratahs fly-half Shaun Berne the team effective immediately. Berne was unveiled on Friday evening on a huge day of news in Australian rugby; Israel Folau’s crowdfunding page and Daryl Gibson’s shock departure from the
6:32 AM BST The Waratahs’ season from hell was supposed to have come to an end in Dunedin last Friday, only for a horror 2019 to claim one more victim in coach Daryl Gibson. Gibson on Friday afternoon announced he would be stepping down from the post he has held since 2016, just four months
2:42 AM BST Israel Folau has set up a “Legal Action Fund” with a crowdfunding website to help cover legal bills in his fight against his dismissal by Rugby Australia. Folau and Rugby Australia were last week ordered into mediation by the Fair Work Commission of Australia after the former Wallabies star disputed the termination
1:49 AM BST The Israel Folau saga has claimed another victim, with Daryl Gibson quitting as NSW Waratahs coach after one of the most tumultuous seasons in the franchise’s history. Gibson, who joined the Waratahs as an assistant to Michael Cheika in 2013 before taking over as head coach in 2015, had one year remaining
12:04 PM BST The southern hemisphere rugby powers on Thursday expressed their disappointment at the loss of the “golden opportunity” offered by the Nations Championship, the potentially transformative Test competition which World Rugby abandoned on Wednesday. The proposal to bring the Six Nations and four Rugby Championship sides together along with two other nations for
5:54 PM BST Sam Bruce Close ESPN Associate Editor Sam was brought up on long drives and the dusty fields of north-west New South Wales, where he developed his love of rugby from an early age. He joined ESPNscrum after a five-year stint heading up Fox Sports Australia’s digital rugby coverage. Andy Withers Close ESPN