This Month
Hamish McLennan and a rugby party in Paris
The Rugby Australia chief was among executives and sponsors at a “cocktail party” in Paris.
- Mark Di Stefano
Winning strategies for the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals
A deep dive into the performance stats reveals how the teams should approach these four matches between northern and southern hemisphere nations.
- Updated
- Simon Poidevin
Rugby Australia: Jones told us this week he’s staying
Jones met chief executive Phil Waugh in Paris on Tuesday to reiterate he remained committed to coaching the embattled Wallabies until their home World Cup in 2027.
- Zoe Samios
Eddie Jones expected to quit Wallabies and confirm his return to Japan
The controversial leader is set be named as the Asian team’s next head coach after Australia did not progress from the pool stages of the Rugby World Cup.
- Charles Richardson
Hamish McLennan and the zombie Wallabies get Arab interest
The Rugby Australia chairman has fielded “interest” from Middle East investors looking for a chunk of the sport.
- Mark Di Stefano
A weekend of rugby drama sets up titanic quarter-final clashes
A match with two winners confirmed the Wallabies as the Rugby World Cup’s biggest losers, and sets up a mouthwatering series of Rugby quarterfinals.
- Simon Poidevin
- Analysis
- Rugby World Cup
Crunch games as Wallabies’ World Cup hopes hang by a thread
Australia still have a slim chance of reaching the quarter-finals if Portugal beat the favoured Fiji in the last round of group games at the Rugby World Cup.
- Simon Poidevin
September
- Opinion
- Rugby World Cup
The future of Australian rugby is in Queensland’s hands
There is a solution to Australian rugby’s crisis that everyone can see, so why have years gone by without anyone doing it? It’s time for Ballymore to get on board.
- Simon Poidevin
This is ‘rock bottom’: Rugby boss Mclennan
Rugby Australia chairman Hamish McLennan says the code must embrace a more centralised structure after the Wallabies suffered a brutal 40-6 loss to Wales.
- Gus McCubbing and Peter Ker
Hamish McLennan and rugby’s schoolboy errors
The Wallabies slumped to a historic World Cup loss. It’s time for scrutiny of rugby’s administrators, chief among them chairman Hamish McLennan.
- Mark Di Stefano
- Analysis
- Australian rugby
At Rugby Australia, 15 years of dithering must end now
In 2010, a confidential report Australian rugby commissioned said it needed a “major reorientation” or would suffer “certain failure”. We are still waiting for action.
- Updated
- James Curran
Ruthless Welsh deliver disastrous day for Australian rugby
Australia’s record loss to Wales is a disaster for Australian Rugby and Eddie Jones could very well resign.
- Simon Poidevin
- Opinion
- Rugby World Cup
Farewell Eddie, it’s time for the Wallabies to move on from the misery
It is unconscionable that the Wallabies’ coach carries on. Forget all the flannel that he could yet turn Australia into world-beaters in 2027.
- Updated
- Oliver Brown
- Analysis
- Rugby World Cup
Do or die: Time for the Wallabies to step up against Wales
The world has got very ugly for the Wallabies since their loss to Fiji, and will get worse unless they bring the mongrel, determination and smarts needed to beat Wales.
- Simon Poidevin
Former Wallabies captain weighs in on Australian rugby’s darkest days
Team leader turned insurance chief executive Stephen Moore says tough decisions are required to make the sport competitive again in this country.
- Mark Ludlow
- Analysis
- Rugby World Cup
Poidevin’s take: Wallabies hang by a thread after Fijian heroics
Australia were dominated by an inspired Fiji, and with key forwards still unfit that is a big headache for Eddie Jones.
- Simon Poidevin
- Opinion
- Rugby World Cup
Fiji’s globetrotters pose threat to wounded Wallabies
Fiji are like the Harlem Globetrotters of rugby and their stats against Wales will be a worry for Eddie Jones’ injury hit team.
- Simon Poidevin
- Analysis
- Rugby World Cup
Donaldson bet pays off, England tactical masterclass
Former Wallaby captain and Rugby World Cup winner Simon Poidevin on what has been revealed in the opening matches of this edition of the tournament.
- Updated
- Simon Poidevin
- Analysis
- Rugby World Cup
For Eddie Jones, Wallaby salvation will come from ‘on-the-run’ rugby
Eddie Jones is trying to build a team that plays more intuitively, as teams did so successfully in the ’80s and ’90s.
- Updated
- Simon Poidevin
August
Coach Jones curses media negativity around Wallabies
Eddie Jones described a press conference at Sydney Airport, as the Wallabies left for France, as the worst he had experienced in his many years in world rugby.
- Melissa Woods
