Author: RAWF

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…

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…