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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…

6 May 2025 Good Morning G&GRs and welcome to another Tuesday. If you haven’t had a chance to catch up on Bris’s excellent summary of the weekend’s Super Rugby games you can find it here. There was plenty of other rugby action on the weekend with the Wallaroos taking on Fiji in Suva, the Sevens headed to Los Angeles for the World Championships and the referees for the Lions test matches announced. It’s also getting into the season for club rugby, so if you get a chance, get down and support your local club on the weekend. Let’s get straight…

Good morning G&GRs and welcome to another issue of the Tuesday news. If you haven’t had a chance to catch up on all the weekend action, you can read BLL’s excellent summary here. As a Monday bonus drop, Hoss covered the results of a G&GR reader poll for the first unofficial Wallabies squad of the year, you can read about it here.As usual for a Tuesday, there’s a bit to cover: the Wallaroos have announced their 30 player squad to travel to Fiji this weekend, Australian Sevens players are up for awards and we’ll look at a potential Wallabies team…

Good Morning G&GRs and welcome to Tuesday. Hopefully you had a fantastic Easter weekend catching up with family and friends, and enjoyed some great April weather. If you spent Monday in a diabetic coma after eating eating too many of your kids/grandkids Easter eggs then make sure you catch up on Bris’s excellent summary of the weekend in Monday’s news here.The Reds had the bye over the Easter weekend, which they looked like they needed the week before the Brumbies, so I watched less rugby than usual. But as always, there’s plenty to cover including a brief discussion about golden…

15th April 2025Good morning G&GRs and welcome to another edition of the Tuesday news. It’s a shorter article today due to some family celebrations here in Qld; we’ll start with an opinion piece and then get into an Australian men’s team of the week. And yes, despite the Brumbies victory, always a Reds fan.From the bar – RAWF’s viewFirstly, I had an opportunity to spend the night with most of my immediate family tonight to Celebrate my Dad’s 83rd Birthday. We had four generations of family members enjoying a night out with good food and reasonably priced drinks at the…

8 April 2025Good morning G&GRs and welcome to another edition of the Tuesday news. At this time of year there’s plenty of rugby to talk including the Super Rugby W semi-finals, the Aussie performances at the Singapore Sevens, an Australian team of the week, and some general news. So let’s get into it. And if you’re wondering about the relevance of the feature image, I reckon Les Kiss might be saying something like “if you are this close to the posts Tate, as in you could throw it over, how about you take the three?”.Super Rugby W semi-final 1 -…

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25 March 2025Good morning G&GRs and welcome to another edition of Tuesday’s news. It was another great week of Super Rugby, which Bris covered in the news yesterday, if you haven’t read it you can find it here.We’ll have a look today at the Super W games from the weekend, and put together an Australian team of the week. Super Rugby WBrumbies v Reds The Reds travelled to Viking Park in Canberra to take on the Brumbies with both teams looking to improve on last week’s outings and shore up their finals hopes this year. The Reds made a few…

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…