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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…

8 October 2024 #014Good morning G&GRs, and welcome to Tuesday’s Rugby News. If we were in Germany, specifically Munich, we’d be recovering from the final weekend of Oktoberfest, and based on the photos that some friends have posted on socials it looks like a great time was had.There was plenty of international women’s rugby played over the weekend, including the Wallaroos getting up over South Arica in a tense finish in Cape Town. A little bit of coverage on the women’s international rugby, then it is over to a summary of the Wallabies player ratings from the tests played so…

1 October 2024 #013Good morning G&GRs, and welcome to Tuesday’s news. If we were in Germany, specifically Munich, we’d be recovering from the second weekend of Oktoberfest. Unfortunately, we aren’t, so instead we are licking our wounds after another Wallabies loss to the All Blacks. However, we do have the player ratings from the Wallabies game to go through.It’s not all bad though, the Wallaroos have been a work in progress this year under coach Jo Yapp (do we have a nickname for her yet?), and they put in a good shift against Wales to get the job done.There’s plenty…

24 September 2024 #012Good morning G&GRs, and welcome to Tuesday’s news. We had the penultimate round of the Rugby Championship on the weekend, which also happened to be the first game of the Bledisloe series for this year. And the player ratings as voted by the G&GR faithful are listed below.The Wallaroos played against Wales in their last hit-out before heading to Cape Town to play in the WXV2 series. There’s still some action going on domestically with the 2024 Australian Rugby Shield about to kick off on the Sunshine Coast.Wallabies Player Ratings First of all, congrats to James Slipper…

17 September 2024 #011Good morning again G&GRs, and welcome to Tuesday. The Wallabies had the weekend off after their last start in Argentina, but the Wallaroos and the Australia A women played against Ireland and Samoa respectively, so a bit of news and commentary on those games.There’s still some action going on domestically with Super Rugby signings across the teams to cover, and the Super Rugby format for 2025 was announced on Friday.And as Hoss pointed out on Friday, the Pacific Nations Cup semi-finals were played on the weekend.Butz covered the Wallaroos loss to the Irish in the Monday news,…

10 September 2024 #010Good morning G&GRs and welcome to Tuesday. It was a tough weekend for Australian and New Zealand rugby fans, you can read about in the Wallabies match review here, the All Blacks match review here, and a round up from Bris in the Monday news here. There was plenty of discussion in the comments section on Monday, lots about the Wallabies test, but also about the structure of Australian rugby, the good and bad aspects of Super Rugby, the merits of a domestic competition, should we be using overseas players, whether our players are as good as…