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18 March 2025Good morning G&GRs and welcome to another Tuesday. It was a massive weekend of rugby and Bris did a heroic job covering it all yesterday. Quite marvellous really, and if you haven’t had a chance to catch up with it yet, you can check it out here.It turns out there was too much rugby for the big man to get through, so I’ll cover the Super Rugby W matches and put down my version of a team of the week.Super Rugby W Drua v Brumbies The Fijian Drua hosted the Brumbies at Churchill Park in Lautoka on Saturday…

Bought to you today by Reds & Wallabies Fan (RAWF)2 March 2025Good Morning GAGRs and welcome to Wednesday’s rugby news. Cheers to Yowie for covering the news yesterday. For those of our readers who were impacted by cyclone Alfred, I hope you are safe, and on the road to recovery from it. There’s a bit to cover today, including the Super W rugby from the weekend, and an Australian team of the week. There is also the big game to preview this week with the top of the table Waratahs head north to take on the Reds. If you haven’t…

4 March 2025Good morning G&GRs and welcome to Tuesday’s news. Hopefully you had a great weekend and enjoyed the Super Rugby that was on offer. If you want a recap of it, check out BLL’s excellent Monday news here.Today I’ll cover the Super Rugby Women’s games from the weekend, provide a roundup of news from around the grounds and round it out with the Aussie men’s team of the week.Super Rugby Women’s With a five team competition this year in SRW the Reds started with a bye/development game, we get to see the Waratahs host the Drua and the Force…

25 February 2025Good morning G&GRs, welcome to the Tuesday news. It’s good to have you back; if you’re new to the site, welcome, we hope you enjoy it.It was a massive weekend of rugby with Super Rugby, 6 Nations, and the Sevens tournament in Vancouver. If you want a recap of the the games, then check out the Monday News here.The focus of today is picking an Australian team of the week based on my watching the Australian games and some consultation with the other G&GR writers. We’ll also take a quick look at the Super Rugby Fantasy ladder.Team of…

24 February 2025Good morning G&GRs and welcome to Monday. It’s RAWF here, filling in for the big man today. It was a massive weekend of rugby, with round 2 of Super Rugby Pacific, round 3 of the men’s 6 nations, and the Sevens tournament in Vancouver. So, you know what to do, grab some coffee, and let’s get into it.Super Rugby Round 2 Chiefs v CrusadersThe weekend got off to an early start on Friday (well early if you’re in a place where people are worried about the curtains fading). This game was always going to be interesting, would the…

Good morning G&GRs and welcome to Tuesday, following a great first week in Super Rugby if you’re an Aussie fan, and long may it continue.The Waratahs, Brumbies and Force all had wins and the details of the games were well covered yesterday by BLL. If you’ve missed it, you can can find it here. The Waratahs and Force both won by a single point with a late try to each while the Brumbies got home by 4 points in Fiji. In previous years the Brumbies would likely have got home, but the Waratahs and Force had a habit of losing…

Good morning G&GRs and welcome to Tuesday. It’s still early in the week, so there’s hope and optimism that it will be productive and exciting one, and unless you work weekends there’s only been one work day to tarnish the memories of what I hope was a good weekend.Bris covered the results from the 6 Nations and the trial matches involving our Super Rugby teams, so I thought I’d put together an opinion piece (well all of my articles are) to pick up where Hoss, Nutta, and AllyOz were going on Friday: the issue of Former Wallaby Greats, as compared…

Good morning G&GRs and welcome to 2025, Tuesday style. Happy New Year to you all, hopefully you’re all well and working off the extra padding that comes with Christmas and New Year gatherings.A few key topics to cover today: Super Rugby Pacific squads, the possible new broadcast deal for RA, and speculation about the future of the Wallabies coaching.Super Rugby SquadsNow that the Australian cricket teams have slain the English 16-0 and qualified for the World Test championship next year it’s time to turn our attention to matters of most importance, the Australian rugby teams and how they may fare…

10 December 2024 Happy Tuesday G&GRs, and welcome to the last Tuesday news for 2024. I wanted to get this content into the post last week but ran out of time, so here we are.I’ve put together a summary of the Wallaby player ratings for the year based on the ratings for each game, and some weighted for the role in the game. The weightings I used were: Starting Side – weighting of 100% for the score for that game Reserve Front Row – weighting of 75% for the score for that game Reserve Half Back – weighting of 75%…

#22 Tuesday 3 December 2024 Good morning everyone and welcome to Tuesday’s Rugby news. The Wallabies are done for 2024, and while they didn’t come home with a grand slam, they have improved since the Rugby Championship, and are much better than the team at the World Cup in 2023.The Wallabies YearThe Wallabies played 13 tests this calendar year, winning 6 and losing 7. At face value that’s a 46% winning record, and while it’s a disappointing return compared to better times it’s certainly better than last year, and better than Dave Rennie achieved in his tenure. I think we…

Joe Explaining how the Wallabies were outplayed by a better team on the day.

19 November 2024 #20Good Morning G&GRs and welcome to another Tuesday following a Wallaby victory, a very good victory. As always there’ll be things that the coaching staff have taken away from the game that the players need to work on. We’ll get onto Wallaby player ratings from the Monday morning test, but before that there is some Australian rugby centric news to get through.England A v Australia XV The Australia XV team were on the wrong end of a 38-17 score line in their game against England A played on Sunday (local time) at Twickenham Stoop. There were plenty…

Wednesday 13 November 2024 #20Hey there G&GRs, and welcome to Wednesday’s Rugby News. It’s a second attempt for today’s news as the first try had lots of old comments attached to it. Apologies to Keith and Eloise for losing their comments.I’m backing up again this week, as both Yowie and KARL are away. Hopefully there isn’t some G&GR writers convention/party that I missed an invite to. Come to think of it, its very quiet on the craparazzi chat as well.Anyway thanks for the feedback on the player ratings from Tuesday’s news. The general consensus was that I was a little…

Wallabies win at Twickenham

The pre-gameI was a bit curious about the history between England and Australia, so I did a bit of research and some of it surprised me.Australia have played against England 55 times since the first encounter on 9 January 1909. The Wallabies won that first match 19-3. Overall the ledger stands at 28 to England, 26 to the Wallabies, with 1 draw. Our win rate of 47% is worse than any other northern hemisphere team, and it was above 50% until the recent run of losses against England. By comparison, and relevant to the next three weeks, we win 59%…

Tuesday 5 November 2024 #018Good morning team, and welcome to Tuesday’s news. It’s a test match week as the Aussies prepare to kick off their northern tour against England at Twickenham on Saturday. There’ll be a lot of interest in the squad for this game, and I’ll put in my 2 cents worth about the make up of the team. Australia XV are also playing on the weekend, they face the Bristol Bears in what should be good experience for them.There’s plenty, and I mean shedloads of international rugby this weekend including: Ireland hosting New Zealand, Italy hosting Argentina, France…

Tuesday 29 October 2024 #017Good morning team, and welcome to Tuesday’s news. It’s a quiet time in Australian rugby, the Wallabies are in camp preparing for their northern tour and the Australia XV is getting ready for their shorter tour. There’s always something to talk about though including the location of next year’s Wallabies home test matches, some observations by Simon Cron about our forwards. And the Rugby Australia Awards 2024 finalists, which were announced today.2025 Wallabies test matches Rugby Australia announced the locations for the Rugby Championship test matches next year, and it’s great news for rugby fans in…

Wednesday 23 October 2024 #016Good morning G&GRs, and welcome to Wednesday’s Rugby News. I’m backing up for a second effort this week, and keen to get stuck in. Pretty much all Australian coverage today with some updates about the Wallaroos and the Wallabies and Australia XV after the squad announcement yesterday. To be fair to Hoss and the readers who commented, Hoss did post the squad announcement yesterday, but it is the major Wallabies article of the so we are running it again today. WallaroosWe know that the Wallaroos really turned the corner in terms of putting quality performances on…

21 October 2024Good morning everyone, and welcome to Monday and Monday’s Rugby News. Reds and Wallabies Fan here filling in for BLL who has a rare Monday off. It’s Monday morning, so grab yourself a coffee, or if you’ve had one, grab another, and let’s get into the week .Two main pieces of news today: Peter Horne and RA demonstrating they have a plan for the game, and Hamish McLennan urging RA to go back to his plan.Rugby Australia has a planThere’s a good article over at The Roar in which Peter Horne explains the rationale behind the Wallabies and…

16 October 2024 #015Good morning G&GRs, and welcome to Tuesday’s Rugby News. As BL reported on Monday, there was some great quality women’s international Rugby played over the weekend, and yes the Wallaroos managed a very good win over the Scottish Women. There has also been the next generation of interstate rivalries being played out over recent weekends with the Super Rugby age group squads battling it out in the U16s and U19s.International Women’s RugbyWallaroos get it done against Scotland As covered by BrisneyLand on Monday, the Wallaroos got the job done against Scotland and have taken home the trophy…