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2nd September 2025 Good morning G&GRs and welcome to another Tuesday’s Rugby News. The women’s Rugby World Cup is ongoing in England, with the second round of pool games completed and the quarter finals almost locked in. The Rugby Championship is entering the second round of matches with the Wallabies preparing to play Los Pumas in Townsville and the All Blacks hosting the Springboks in Auckland.And there is no update from Bris about his Rick Astley tickets, so I hope the big man is staying safe out there. Rugby World Cup 2025 The 2025 World Cup has so far been…

1 September 2025Good Morning G&GRs and welcome to Monday’s news with RAWF. I’m filling in for Bris today who had a prior commitment. We tried to tell him that he could buy tickets to the Rick Astley concert online, but he insisted on doing it old school and lining up in person, saying that you never know your luck, Rick might actually be there selling the tickets.Now back to the rugbyThere was a lot of rugby on over the weekend, including the second round of pool matches at the Women’s World Cup, club rugby finals and the Pacific Nations Cup.Wallaroos…

26 August 2025 Good morning team, and welcome to another edition of Tuesday’s Rugby News, brought to you on a twos day as both the Wallaroos and the Wallabies played on the weekend, hence it feels like a twos day news. And yes, I recognise it’s a simple play on words, I borrowed it from a Winnie the Pooh story so I can’t take too much credit.As always, when there are international matches on there’s plenty of news going around from our women’s and men’s international camps, Hospital Cup news from Brisbane, some Wallaby player ratings, and some fantasy league…

19 August 2025Golden Wallabies Good morning G&GRs and welcome to Tuesday’s news. Based on the comments on Monday, we’re all basking in the glow of the Wallabies great victory over the Springboks at Ellis Park. At last count there were 88 comments on BLL’s match review on Sunday, and 173 comments on the Monday news.There were lots of comments about where the win ranks in terms of Wallabies victories away from home and long time contributor Skip send a link to this article where he rated his top 5 wins back in 2015.For mine, the two World Cup finals wins…

12 August 2025Good Morning G&GRs and welcome to Tuesday’s news. The Wallabies and Wallaroos didn’t play on the weekend, but there’s still some news coming out of both camps ahead of the Rugby Championship and the World Cup, respectively, the Reds have named a touring squad to play Tonga, and the Hospital Cup is getting closer to the pointy end of the season.Wallabies on safari I must admit that I like this idea of the Rugby Championship being played the way it is this year, with the Aussies being away in South Africa or two games rather than home and…

5 August 2025Good morning G&GRs and welcome to another Tuesday news, and what a difference a week makes. The Wallabies turned some good 40 minute performances into an 80 minute (or even 110 minute) effort to win the third test against the British & Irish Lions. If you’re looking to recap the third test, you can read Hoss’s excellent match report here, and if you missed Keith’s brilliant summary of the Lions tour from a soap dodgers perspective, you can catch it here. Now that the Lions tour has finished we can reflect on the performance of the Wallabies players…

29 July 2025Good Morning G&GRs and welcome to Tuesday’s news. It was a big weekend of rugby and Bris covered it in the Monday News which you can find here.There’s plenty of news coming out of the Wallabies camp about injuries to key players, and others being drafted into the squad ahead of the third test match. There’s been endless commentary about the way the match finished, which I’m not going to repeat or reprise here. And because it’s Tuesday, we’ll do player ratings and look forward to the squad and team that might be picked for the third test.Wallaroos…

22 July 2025Good morning G&GRs and welcome to another Tuesday’s news. It feels like a bit of a bonus episode today, starting with news from the weekend and emerging Lions stories, and we have a game this evening to look forward to. A quick turn around from the weekend to the game tonight. So let’s start with the First Nations & Pasifika v Lions team lists and then move on to some Lions related news and finish with player ratings for the Wallabies from the weekend.First Nations & Pasifika v LionsIn what will hopefully be a more competitive match than…

17 July 2025 Good Morning G&GRs and welcome to Thursday. Apologies in advance for the double outing this week, the rest of the crew are busy or have commitments, so here we go.In the week before a Lions test, the first Lions test in Australia for 12 years, there’s plenty of rugby news to be had, Lions team forecasts, player updates and Wallabies team forecasts to go through.We’ll update the page throughout the day as the teams get announced, or we’ll create a separate page but, either way, team announcements will be posted onPossible Lions Side Edit: Official Lions squadBRITISH…

15 July 2025Good morning G&GRs and happy Tuesday. Thanks for staying on the site long enough to get through Bris’s massive Monday missive, it really was quite something. If you haven’t read it yet you can have a look here.Monday’s news covered a lot of the men’s international games from the weekend, including some very one sided affairs between South Africa and Italy, Ireland and Portugal and the British & Irish Lions against the AUNZ side. Bris didn’t get to cover the Wallaroos game against the Black Ferns, which was played at the Cake Tin in Wellington before the All…

G’day G&GRs and welcome to Saturday. I hope that regardless of how your week went Saturday treated you better and that you got to feast on the buffet of rugby that’s been on offer today. We had too many options for your eyeballs with Fiji taking on Scotland, Japan hosted Wales, the All Blacks took on France and the Black Ferns lined up against the Wallaroos.All these were part of the degustation that was to culminate in the clash between the Australia New Zealand Invitational team and the all conquering (so far) British & Irish Lions. Due to the timing…

8 July 2025Good morning G&GRs and welcome to another edition of Tuesday’s news. Wow, there’s been a lot of rugby to devour in the last week: the U20 World Rugby Championship is going on in Italy, the French are touring New Zealand, the home nations are touring (even though they’re missing their best players who are on Lions duty), the Lions are in Australia and the women’s teams are gearing up for matches ahead of their World Cup. That’s all on top of the club rugby which is past halfway in the Hospital Cup and Shute Shield.That was all last…

1 July 2025Good morning G&GRs and welcome to another Tuesday. It’s the start of a new financial year but, more importantly, the Lions are here, and they’re here to play as the Force found on Saturday night. If you’re new to Green & Gold Rugby, welcome and we hope you enjoy it; if you’re returning, welcome back.If you need a fast paced recap of Saturday’s Force v Lions match, have a look at Sully’s excellent match review here, and if you missed Bris’s Monday news, check it out here.As always at this time of year there’s plenty of rugby news…

24 June 2025 Good morning G&GRs and welcome to another Tuesday. We’re into that interesting period in the rugby calendar when Super Rugby has finished and tests haven’t started. But it is exciting, the Lions have arrived in Perth, looking remarkably tanned from their camp in Portugal, and they’ll be keen to put a positive marker in the ground against the Force this Saturday night. If you need to catch up on last weekend’s rugby games, Bris has you covered in the Monday news which you can find here. If you’re looking for a deeper dive of the Lions opening…

Good morning GAGRs and welcome to another Tuesday, and another edition of Tuesday news. Bris covered the super rugby games on the weekend, if you haven’t had a chance to read it yet, you can find it here.We’ve had some IT problems causing the GAGR site to inaccessible throughout Monday and hopefully it is back in proper working order for you today.The Brumbies were the only Aussie super rugby team to take the field this week, so there won’t be a team of the week this week, rest assured if the Reds had been the only team that played, there…

10 June 1025Good morning team, and welcome to another Tuesday news on G&GR. If you missed the rugby on the weekend, there’s always Stan and replays or you can catch BlL’s excellent summary of the qualifying finals in the Tuesday news here.The cover image is one of the iconic images of the 2013 Lions tour, what will this year bring?What’s on this week It’s still early enough in the week to be hopeful about how much we can all achieve before an early finish on Friday afternoon to watch the rugby at 4:00pm, well 4:05pm anyway. It should be a…

Good morning G&GRs and welcome to another episode of Tuesday’s Rugby News. It feels a bit surreal that it’s June already, and with the the Super Rugby season headed to the finals we’re rushing towards test season; the British & Irish Lions series is almost upon us. But not yet, there’re still three weeks of Super Rugby Pacific 2025 left.Today, we’ll look at some contemporary news articles, and have a stab at a Wallabies team of the week.Reds Injury list The Reds still have a very long injury list, but there might be some good news for the team headed…

27 May 2025 Good morning readers, and welcome to another episode of Tuesday’s news. If you’re new to the site, welcome; if you’re are a regular, welcome back. There’s a bit to cover today, some news about the Wallaroos including a brief summary of the game against Canada, some general news and a Wallabies team of the week.Wallaroos Rugby Australia broke the news on Sunday that Wallaroos coach Jo Yapp will finish her time in charge of the Wallaroos after the World Cup in England in August and September this year. You can read Nathan Williamson’s article here.The Wallaroos have…

20 May 2025Good morning G&GRs and welcome to another Tuesday news. It was a big weekend of rugby, with cracking Super Rugby games and a good win by the Wallaroos against the USA. The Monday news may have been delayed by some technical issues, but it was certainly worth the wait, and if you haven’t read it yet you can find it here.Lions tour announcements Some big news in relation to the Lions tour with Les Kiss announced as the head coach for the combined Australia New Zealand invitational team (we can’t call them ANZACs) tour match at Adelaide Oval…

13 May 2025Good morning G&GRs and welcome to another episode of Tuesday’s news. We’ve just had a big weekend of rugby, if you need a recap then have a look at Bris’s excellent summary in Monday’s news here.There’s still a bit to cover today, news about a new broadcast commitment for Australian rugby, some interesting musings on international player availability, the Australian Under 20s go well in South Africa and we’ll have a look at a possible Wallabies team of the week.So let’s get into it. Stan steps up for the World Cups Nathan Williamson (former G&GR writer, and now…