‘I see poor leadership’: Have Darren Coleman’s NSW Rugby bosses set him up to fail?

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NSW Rugby has forced their coach Darren Coleman into a corner to the detriment of the team by putting him on notice over his Super Rugby future. That’s the assessment of former Wallaby Matt To’omu who said he has “a bee in my bonnet” about how Coleman has been treated and accused the coach’s bosses […]

‘Previous chairman can not be a scapegoat’: First salvo fired in bid to spill the Rugby Australia board

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The lobbying for a board spill at Rugby Australia’s Annual General Meeting next month has kicked off, with a group including a former RA director, at least two former Wallabies and a constitutional expert contacting the Super Rugby teams and state unions who will decide the RA board’s fate. A group calling itself the Supporters […]

‘The Essendon Edge’: The Bombers are trying to fake it until they make it

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They’re a funny old mob, Essendon. They just don’t do things very well. We know they don’t win many games of football. They haven’t done that well for over 20 years now. But they don’t lose very well either – they don’t often finish in the bottom four, and almost never in the bottom two […]

NRL can reduce concussion headache by expanding the number of interchange players – with a retro twist

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With all the confusion over interchanges, HIAs, what counts as a substitution and what doesn’t, rugby league should consider following the path of another sport that it apparently shares some distant DNA.  Scrap the 18th man standby player who sits gloomily on the four-player interchange bench waiting for an unlikely run and expand the game-day […]

The AFL should lead the way in proposing better-value, cheaper stadiums – without having to rely so much on the taxpayer

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The cost of living crisis and general economic anxiety are creating an environment in which government spending is coming under increased scrutiny by the public, with sport coming in for particular attention. The cost of stadiums has come in for criticism and proposed venues in Brisbane and Tasmania have created a major political issue in […]