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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…

Morning G&GRs, Reds and Wallabies Fan bringing you a review of the second test match between Argentina and Australia. After the torrential rain of last week, the teams got to run out on a dry track in Santa Fe.  The big question for the week was whether the Wallabies could back up the gritty win last week, and whether they could play expansively on a dry field.The stadium is also locally known as the Elephants Graveyard, though they might add Wallabies to that now.A few changes to the starting side for the Wallabies with Lukhan, Noah and Tom Wright out…

03 September 2024 #009Good morning G&GRs and welcome to Tuesday. And it’s a much happier Tuesday if you’re a Wallabies fan, the Wallabies got it done against Argentina on Sunday morning. You can catch up with Bris’s review of the game here and I’ll summarise the player ratings for the Wallabies as voted by the readers of that review.There was a great weekend of club rugby with grand finals across the grades in Brisbane and the Shute Shield final in Sydney, on which I’ll provide some commentary and then pass the torch to you in the comments section.Wallabies Player Ratings…

27 August 2024 #008Good morning G&GRs and welcome to Tuesday. The Wallabies didn’t play on the weekend, they’re in Argentina getting ready to take on the Pumas. There was a bit of news about the Wallabies coming out of RA on Monday, which I’ll provide links to, and my thoughts on.There was a big weekend of club rugby in Brisbane with preliminary finals played across all of the grades to see who could book their spot in the grand final, so read on for a summary of that.Then it will be a small smattering of news from the Southern hemisphere…

20 August 2024 #007Another week in the Rugby Championship while the first weekend of finals has been played in Brisbane club rugby. To get things started, I’ll post results from Brisbane club rugby and the results of the player ratings for the Wallabies against South Africa.Brisbane Club RugbyIt was the first week of the semi-finals in Brisbane over the weekend. The conditions were next to perfect for rugby, with blue skies and some bite to the midday sun.The results across the board from the major semi-finals are below. There were 10 Reds players in action on the weekend including Harry…

G’day G&GRs, Reds and Wallabies fan here bringing you a review of the second test between the Wallabies and the Springboks. The teams headed west to Perth, sometimes referred to as East Johannesburg or other South African sounding names. The Wallabies were looking for a stronger showing against the world champions and there were plenty of changes to both sides.The Springboks made 10 changes and while there was talk of a lack of respect by some commentators I personally think it is a sign of the incredible depth and belief in their wider squad. The Wallabies made 5 changes to…

13 August 2024 #006. The Rugby Championship has kicked off and Brisbane club rugby is in finals mode. Last week I asked the question whether we would see the Wallabies win the Mandela Plate, we now know the answer to that one. In today’s news I’ll cover a bit of Brisbane club rugby and then go through the Wallabies player ratings following the Springboks game, and round it out with some general news.Queensland Premier Rugby Queensland Premier Rugby posted a team of the week from Round 17 of the Hospital Cup, which was last week. A good initiative to recognise…

6 August 2024 #005, week 2 of the Paris Olympics, also the week before the Rugby Championship kicks off. Will we be seeing some of this in Perth?Another quiet weekend of 15s international rugby Good morning folks and welcome to Tuesday’s rugby news. To say it was a quiet week in international rugby is an understatement as I can’t find any international matches that were played over the last week. It’s OK to have no international rugby to watch as there’s always club rugby, or the Olympics, or maybe even trying to earn some domestic credit for when there’s too…

30 July 2024 #004. Week 1 of the Paris Olympics A pretty quiet weekend of 15s international rugby Good morning folks and welcome to Tuesday’s rugby news. No team of the week this week, I didn’t watch enough of the men’s 7s to do that and, to be honest, I don’t know enough about it to try and do it justice. Karl did a bit of coverage on the men’s 7s on Monday, I’ll only add a little to the discussion, then a bit of coverage of the Aussie women’s games, and a general round up of news around Australia…

23 July 2024 #003. Week 3 of the early test season.Another weekend with too many rugby games to watch! While the weekend had some one sided scores due to the tier one teams playing emerging nations, there were plenty of highlights and great play as covered by BLL here.Team of the Week Another big disclaimer (or admission): it’s much easier to pick when you see the full match and you know the players, and some players don’t necessarily make the highlight reels. The player selection below was also influenced by the match itself. Australia v Georgia was close and a…

16 July 2024 #001. Week 2 of the early test season. How was that for a weekend of test rugby! Another cracking weekend of rugby, with test matches galore across the globe. You can read Bris’s summary of it here. Bris wasn’t able to cover the Wallaroos game, so I’ll provide a quick summary of it to kick off the article. Then I’ll put together an international team of the week from the games involving the Rugby Championship teams and round it out with some news of the day.Wallaroos v Black Ferns The Wallaroos played their first game at Ballymore…

Hi everyone, Welcome to this week’s review of the Wallabies v Wales. The game was played in Melbourne in damp conditions; for mine, they should’ve played it in Brisbane where it was clear, sunny, and 20 degrees today.The commentary team said that Slipper is now the most capped prop in the history of rugby. Congrats Slips, you’re a legend. What Hoss saidSo for the record, here is Hoss’s fearless prediction from Friday; well, at least an abridged version of it. By the way, I corrected the original error by Nathan, that was perpetuated by Hoss.Fearless Prediction: Wallabies will be better for…