BREAKING: Rugby Australia announce $9.2m deficit, board member fails to be re-elected but coup falls over

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Six months after the Wallabies’ worst World Cup result, Rugby Australia has announced a $9.2 million deficit from the 2023 season. The Roar can also reveal RA board director Karen Penrose has been unsuccessful in her attempt for re-election. Other directors Matthew Hanning and Jane Wilson were re-elected for a further three-year period, while former […]

Five and a kick: Hasler’s pain game, RTS is a choke point and why Souths should give Demetriou a month

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Anzac Round is done and another NRL touchpoint is ticked off amid the onward march of the 2024 season. It helps to see things like that: you get your run to Easter, then Anzac, then Magic Round, then oblivion, as all the lovely sample size you build up over time goes up in smoke to […]

AFL News: ‘Only option he’s got’ – Cornes weighs in on Saint’s dangerous tackle, big-money Blue ‘not hard enough’

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Kane Cornes has rubbished suggestions Port Adelaide defender Aliir Aliir was partly responsible for the dangerous tackle from St Kilda’s Jack Higgins that left him concussed, and saw the Saint hit with a three-match suspension. Debate has erupted following the incident on Friday night, with Aliir unable to take any further part in the match […]

Breaking: Premiership-winning Rooster announces shock retirement at season’s end

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The Sydney Roosters have been dealt another major blow with club legend Luke Keary announcing that he will retire from the NRL at the end of the year. According to reports in the Sydney Morning Herald, the playmaker is set to inform teammates of his decision on Monday with a press conference to follow. Keary […]

‘Big achievement’: Jason Gillespie secures major appointment as Pakistan Test coach

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Australian fast bowling great Jason Gillespie has been named head coach of Pakistan’s Test team, as the nation overhauls its coaching department ahead of this year’s T20 World Cup. For the first time, Pakistan have appointed separate coaches to head up their Test and white-ball programs, with Gillespie to take charge of the Test team […]