Former Wallabies coach Eddie Jones says rugby union is “not financially sustainable” in its current form and needs to innovate to survive at domestic level across the world. Jones, who returns to international coaching with Japan when they host England on Saturday week, has delivered a sobering assessment of the health of the game in […]

Dual international Mat Rogers says Carter Gordon’s defection to rugby league is the latest chapter in “20 years of inept administration” and tips the young playmaker will be a hit in the NRL. Gordon decided this week to join the Gold Coast Titans on a two-year deal. The decision has split rugby fans with some […]

Adelaide coach Matthew Nicks is confident his under-performing outfit will rise to the occasion against AFL ladder leaders Sydney. Consecutive losses to fellow bottom-half sides Hawthorn and Richmond have left the Crows’ finals hopes in tatters before next week’s mid-season bye. But Nicks insists there is still plenty to play for against the Swans at […]

India have qualified for the Super Eight stage of the T20 World Cup with a seven-wicket win over the United States, a fifty by Suryakumar Yadav and Arshdeep Singh’s four-wicket haul helping them clinch their third win in a row. Put in to bat the Americans struggled against well-targeted short-pitched bowling on the now notoriously […]

On May 30th a process was started to change the way rugby in NZ is governed, one with significant implications for NZ rugby’s relationship with Australian rugby, particularly in Super Rugby. What began as a process to have the board of NZ Rugby [NZR] reform from a provincially dominated organisation into a body independent of […]