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Tony is honoured to be next man in as The Roar editor, having made his debut at the Queensland Times, Ipswich, in 1989 with a column entitled 'That's What I reckon Sport!' Has since worked as a reporter and editor with organisations including Fox Sports, Fairfax, News Corp, AAP, The AP and ACP magazines, covering four Olympics, three FIFA World Cups and WC's in cricket and rugby. Favourite team: Arsenal. Favourite question: 'Did you even watch the game?'
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Wallabies captain Michael Hooper has brushed off his coach’s suggestion that more fans would consider him a “great” if he’d been fortunate enough to play in a more successful team, saying he’s “loved” being the main man in the current crop.
Wallabies coach Dave Rennie says James O’Connor is the sharpest he’s seen him and has convinced him he’s an option as a utility – and not just No. 10 – when he makes a likely return against Argentina.
He threw his mouthguard to the ground in disgust, gave Springbok giant Vincent Koch the eyeball and came up with a huge play to force Quade Cooper’s dramatic penalty winner last Sunday. And Nic White will get his reward for a brilliant, niggly display with the No.9 jersey when Dave Rennie names his team Thursday […]
South Africa have made three changes to the match day squad, and two to the starting team, beaten by Australia last weekend for their second battle in The Rugby Championship on Saturday.
Wallabies star Quade Cooper’s bid for Australian citizenship appears to be a fait accompli after his Rugby Championship heorics brought his plight into sharp focus, while it emerged his close friend and former Australia teammate Will Genia was in the same situation.
Quade Cooper’s remarkable match-winning comeback to international rugby was lauded in the media of Australia’s Rugby Championship rivals, but questions were raised over the world champion Springboks’ failure to close out Sunday’s game.
While Australian rugby fans were screaming at their TVs, wishing for nothing more than it to be Saturday night with all the pubs open til dawn, and their South African counterparts were, as Andrew Mehrtens suggested choking ‘on their breakfast steaks’, Quade Cooper had this to stay about that insane climax.
Could Quade Cooper make it through to the 2023 World Cup? “Of course he could,” said Wallabies coach Dave Rennie after seeing the 33-year-old playmaker enjoy a Hollywood ending to his long awaited return on the Gold Coast.
Of course he did! Ever since Quade Cooper’s name was read out in the Wallabies team list for the first time in four years on Friday, the rugby Gods must have been plotting the craziness of Sunday night.
After 34 minutes of frustration and lack of cohesion, the All Blacks smashed free of Argentina’s shackles and never looked back, crushing the South Americans 39-0 in their Rugby Championship clash on the Gold Coast on Sunday.
Wallabies captain Michael Hooper seems as excited as everyone else to see what impact returning playmaker Quade Cooper can have on the team in Sunday’s Rugby Championship clash with South Africa.
Quade Cooper, once the enfant terrible of Australian rugby who battled with Robbie Deans and Michael Cheika, says he’s spent his four years in the international wilderness trying to become a better man.
Quade Cooper’s performance in an hour long trial match between fringe Wallabies and Western Force last Saturday has convinced Dave Rennie to bring him back to Test rugby for the first time since 2017.
Wallabies coach Dave Rennie has ended Quade Cooper’s four and a bit year exile from Test match rugby by naming the mercurial playmaker at No.10 for Sunday’s Rugby Championship clash with the Springboks.
Dave Rennie brought Quade Cooper back into the fold ahead of the Bledisloe Cup, and you could forgive him if he’s wondering if he might have caused himself a headache he didn’t need.
World Cup-winning No.8 Duane Vermeulen and star halfback Faf de Klerk will return from injury to face Australia in The Rugby Championship on Sunday but superstar winger Cheslin Kolbe misses out.
The All Blacks ruthlessly exposed the gulf in class with Australia, Akira Ioane leadng the way with a near perfect performance and despite a red card that the Kiwis intend to fight if needed: they’re the top line notes from New Zealand’s media coverage of their impressive Bledisloe Cup clean sweep.
Wallabies coach Dave Rennie cut a frustrated and, at times angry, figure in the coach’s box as his team was well beaten for the third time in the series against the All Blacks in Perth, but the Kiwi insisted he’s “loving” the experience no matter how hard it looks on him.
Just before kickoff of Bledisloe 3, Wallabies coach Dave Rennie called for accuracy and a ‘foot on the throat mentality’ from his team. What he got was another error-strewn collapse, another two intercept tries conceded and yet another humbling 38-21 Bledisloe Cup defeat.
All Blacks fullback Jordie Barrett was sent off for kicking Wallabies’ Marika Koroibete flush in the face as he claimed a high kick during the first half of Bledisloe 3 in Perth.
Quade: ‘I’ve been through some high highs and low lows. Being able to control my ego, see when it’s happening …. understand the learnings and move onto the next week.’
CONFIRMED: Quade Cooper returns for Wallabies at No.10, Rodda starts, two debutants
Quade: ‘The thing with sport is it allows people to have an opinion. They’re entitled to them. But I’m enjoying the opprtunity and growth. ‘
CONFIRMED: Quade Cooper returns for Wallabies at No.10, Rodda starts, two debutants
Quade: ‘There are a lot of things that have tested me, the mistakes I’ve made but also the opportunities I’ve had. Before I came in I was happy, on my holiday. ‘
CONFIRMED: Quade Cooper returns for Wallabies at No.10, Rodda starts, two debutants
Quade: ‘I didn’t know how to be myself, or what that was.”
CONFIRMED: Quade Cooper returns for Wallabies at No.10, Rodda starts, two debutants
Quade talks about his ‘changes and growing as a person, getting my life in a place where being a Wallaby doesn’t definie me as a man. Before it was all I knew. Everything I did was with the mask or identity of Quade Cooper the Wallaby. I didn’t know anything else.”
CONFIRMED: Quade Cooper returns for Wallabies at No.10, Rodda starts, two debutants
Quade: It’s exciting, I’m very grateful but it means something different to what it used to in terms of whom I am as a man and a player.
CONFIRMED: Quade Cooper returns for Wallabies at No.10, Rodda starts, two debutants
Allan Alaalatoa will be playing his last game of TRC, as he will return home after the game for the birth of a child. Been a few of those in the camp lately
CONFIRMED: Quade Cooper returns for Wallabies at No.10, Rodda starts, two debutants
DR says Quade has ‘grown up’, ‘matured’ and ‘is desperate’ to take the chance. Decision was made 100 percent on form.
CONFIRMED: Quade Cooper returns for Wallabies at No.10, Rodda starts, two debutants
DR on Tom Banks: We’re seeing something you’re not seeing. Tom very good under high ball, smart kicking game. Missed a few opportunities last week but we really rate him.
CONFIRMED: Quade Cooper returns for Wallabies at No.10, Rodda starts, two debutants
Darcy Swain is a foot injury, should be back next week
CONFIRMED: Quade Cooper returns for Wallabies at No.10, Rodda starts, two debutants
Clicks are good for all of us. mmmm lovely, lovely clicks. 😂
CONFIRMED: Quade Cooper returns for Wallabies at No.10, Rodda starts, two debutants
I got told it was definitely happening last night, and it seems SMH, Fox and AAP got the same intel and we were all up with it at 6am, so seems strategic. Put it this way, it would be a dummy bigger than any I’ve ever seen if it doesn’t happen.
CONFIRMED: Quade Cooper returns for Wallabies at No.10, Rodda starts, two debutants
This is brilliant!
CONFIRMED: Quade Cooper returns for Wallabies at No.10, Rodda starts, two debutants
I’m not smart enough to have opinions 😂
'He's a freak': Quade questions won't go away, while legend calls for 'Thor' to start
The Wallabies have been doing theirs 2 days prior to game day. so with it being on Sunday they’ll announce tomorrow. They have been doing Thursday for Saturday games.
'He's a freak': Quade questions won't go away, while legend calls for 'Thor' to start
Let. It. Go. 😂
The remarkable school days that helped shape quiet and profound Siya Kolisi into an icon
Awesome comment, thanks for sharing that.
'Pure instinct': Cheslin Kolbe's incredible rise from firefights in the street to most expensive transfer in rugby
Interesting point SolidG. Here is that incident
'Not guilty': Why Jordie Barrett was cleared for Koroibete face kick
Thank you sir. I don’t mind criticism but I feel if I came in took away all the stories and writers you like about The Roar and just REPLACED them with content (some of) you don’t like, that criticism would be more warranted. But if I add to those writers with things like press conference coverage – like ‘every word Dave Rennie said about…’ – Matt Cleary game day previews, Will Genia columns (back later this week hopefully), and NZ Views etc, I think our audience will get bigger and we will get more resources to do more content. But you have every right to only consume what you want. That’s what I do as a reader. But as an editor I have to have a wider perspective. Anyway this is way too much about me for my liking. Can ya all get back to debating what’s important, the rugby?
NZ View: Wallabies' 'first half was a joke', 'own worst enemies', while Foster decision 'puzzling'
Each to their own, and as you’ve seen there are quite a few readers here who like to see what’s being said by 10 different writers without having to do that work themselves. Careful with ‘plagarism’ though. Everything is attributed, every sentenced aligned to who said it or where it came from, all links for further reading present and correct. No one passing this off someone else’s work as their own. But I urge you to give these pieces a swerve if they’re not for you. No one is forcing you, etc etc …
NZ View: Wallabies' 'first half was a joke', 'own worst enemies', while Foster decision 'puzzling'
But am I willing to give you one? 😛
NZ View: Wallabies' 'first half was a joke', 'own worst enemies', while Foster decision 'puzzling'
Ah Fin Review it seems?. I think I may have over-estimated my ability to help 😂
NZ View: Wallabies' 'first half was a joke', 'own worst enemies', while Foster decision 'puzzling'
Gee thanks scoop… Just fyi I spent a few hours sitting in on Wallabies press conferences in the past week, asked my share of questions in them as well, wrote plenty of original material from those as well as in other sports, but sure … Hey, and feel free to drop me a line tony@theroar.com.au and let me know what you doing for a living, maybe I could give you a bit of advice about how to do your job in exchange.
NZ View: Wallabies' 'first half was a joke', 'own worst enemies', while Foster decision 'puzzling'
Look, you’re quite welcome to move on without reading this. As I’ve mentioned before, different readers enjoy and consume different types of content, and the goal on The Roar is to provide content for everyone. Rather than an attempt to inflame our readers – where’s the point in that? – it’s an avenue to show how the match and the Wallabies are being reviewed in NZ. We will be doing the same with the Springboks matches coming up, so I think if you see a story that starts NZ View, or SA View, you may want to just move on without reading. Cheers Tony
NZ View: Wallabies' 'first half was a joke', 'own worst enemies', while Foster decision 'puzzling'
Quade: ‘I left the country, I’m playing in Japan… I’ve got to a place where I was able to be happy day to day and not defnied by being a football player. I was content with where I was at, to have this opportuntity I’m very grateful.”
CONFIRMED: Quade Cooper returns for Wallabies at No.10, Rodda starts, two debutants