Opinion
Rugby Championship
Wallabies are on the canvas and there’s no easy way back up. Here’s why
The resounding defeat to South Africa on Saturday exposed the scale of the gap between Australia and the world’s best. It’s hard to see it closing any time soon.
- by Paul Cully
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Opinion
Rugby Championship
Joe’s joeys versus big-time Boks: Ranking the two teams
Rugby isn’t played on paper, but the Springboks are heavy favourites to beat the Wallabies in Brisbane on Saturday with good reason.
- by Paul Cully
Opinion
Wallabies
Putting Super Rugby Pacific to the South Africa Test
Two Tests against the Springboks, with players who compete against European competition, will gauge the quality of trans-Tasman rugby.
- by Paul Cully
Opinion
Paris 2024
One code has a chance of making it in the USA – and it’s not league
The NRL’s best player has just over 400,000 followers on Instagram. For Ilona Maher, a USA women’s sevens star, that number is 2.5 million. It says much about the social and sporting landscape.
- by Paul Cully
Opinion
Wallabies
It was only Georgia, but Wallabies produced their best passage of play for two years
Wallabies fans predictably zoomed in on the negatives after Saturday’s wobbly Test win. But their impressive opening quarter will give the Springboks plenty to think about.
- by Paul Cully
No excuses: Why Georgia Test isn’t like previous Wallabies shocks
The ghosts of previous losses to Samoa, Scotland and Italy may haunt fans, but there is no comparison with the coming match.
- by Paul Cully
The Wallabies will play better than they did against Wales … and lose
It took three moments of individual brilliance to eke out a second straight win over Wales, but there are still areas where sharp improvement is needed.
- by Paul Cully
Why success for Wallabies this year is finishing top of ‘second division’
Painfully modest as it sounds, a realistic aim for Australia would be to finish sixth in the world rankings, ahead of Scotland, Argentina and the increasingly solid Fiji.
- by Paul Cully
Opinion
Wallabies
Returning Lolesio the conductor the Wallabies badly needed
There were a handful of promising signs for the Wallabies in their win over Wales.
- by Paul Cully
Analysis
Australian rugby
What we can expect from a Schmidt-coached Wallabies team
Following a shambolic period for Australian rugby, Joe Schmidt steps into the spotlight as Wallabies coach on Saturday against Wales. The Wallabies should be visibly different.
- by Paul Cully
Tight Five
Wallabies
NSW’s latest ‘one that got away’ shows why Simon Raiwalui is so badly needed
Waratahs’ new director of performance must take a hard line on retention to prevent players like Under-20s star Ronan Leahy being lost to the state.
- by Paul Cully