Rugby News: Why Mosese's been made to wait for Scotland debut, Chiefs lose All Black for SRP final
Scotland coach Gregor Townsend has picked ten uncapped players for a tour of the Americas - but former Waratah Mosese Tuipulotu has missed the…
John O’Neill is back as chief executive of the ARU until after the 2011 Rugby World Cup. He should never have been forced out. But rugby politics, which are every bit as personal and vicious as the real thing, were the catalyst that got rid of him.
The former chairman of the ARU, Bob Tuckey, now a member of the committee that runs the World Cup for IRB has some explaining to do to the Australian rugby committee on why O’Neill was let go in the first place. O’Neill left the ARU with the Wallabies one of the top sides in rugby with hits splendid 2003 World Cup campaign: the war chest was fill with $43 million gained by running the best-ever World Cup: the game was exploding at the grassroots levels.
He comes back with everything in a mess. But as the finest sports administrator in Australia, and one of the best surely in the world, O’Neill is the man – perhaps the only man – who can put the ship right. Look out for a fast start which will involve the heads being cut off of some of the senior figures in Australian rugby who have grabbed power in the last three years and used it only for their own engrandisement.
The Roar interviewed O’Neill in February about the problems with Australian rugby and the way forward. Read the interview.
Scotland coach Gregor Townsend has picked ten uncapped players for a tour of the Americas - but former Waratah Mosese Tuipulotu has missed the…
The top two Australian teams compete in the best-of-three series for the title of Australian Super Rugby Champion, while the rest of the SRP finals continue as normal.
Despite being proud of the Hurricanes season, the team was outplayed by the Chiefs, going down 30-19.
The number eight ran around 70 metres, kept possession of the ball and on the next play Daniel Rona crossed to extend the lead…
After copping two sin bins of their own, the visitors thought the Hurricanes scrumhalf deserved punishment for the questionable hit that left the number…
Luke Jacobson was sin-binned for 10 minutes despite the commentators believing it was penalty-sufficient.