Suliasi Vunivalu has received a one-match ban for his double trips in the Queensland Reds loss to Fijian Drua. The Wallabies winger was handed a yellow card four minutes into the match when he tripped Drua’s Kitione Salawa metres from the try-line. That cost the Reds a penalty try and in the second half he […]
Big-hitter Jake Fraser-McGurk will go to the Twenty20 World Cup as a reserve batsman for the Australia squad. Fraser-McGurk’s eye-catching IPL scoring has been recognised with a reserve slot while versatile Matt Short will be Australia’s other travelling emergency. Chair of selectors George Bailey says the duo will travel with the previously announced 15-man squad […]
Parramatta CEO Jim Sarantinos has denied that star recruit Zac Lomax has a clause that could allow him to backflip on his deal following Monday night’s spectacular sacking on long-term coach Brad Arthur. Arthur had a strong rapport with the Dragons centre and it was a dinner at his house that convinced him to jump […]
The brief was to examine why an Australian franchise either can or can’t win this season’s Super Rugby Pacific title. That’ll come as a shock to those readers who assume folk such as myself simply make our columns ideas up as we go along. No, it’s a collaboration fellas. Nothing gets written without say so. […]
Coaching tenures rarely end well in rugby league – or any sport for that matter – and it was no different for Brad Arthur at Parramatta when the Eels sacked their longest-serving coach just 24 hours after a 48-16 pummeling at the hands of a Melbourne team that was without Ryan Papenhuyzen and Jahrome Hughes […]
