The quarter-final fixtures for Rugby World Cup 2011 have been confirmed after the completion of the pool phase on Sunday. All match times are local to New Zealand. Saturday, 8…
Australia
Wallaby Wycliff Palu returns to Australia
Wallabies No 8 Wycliff Palu is returning to Australia. The 29 year-old limped out of his 38th Test match last weekend in Wellington after suffering the reoccurrence of a hamstring…
World Cup Quotes of the Day – Sun 25 September
“For me, personally I need to get to know (how it feels to have a girlfriend) because that’s obviously what makes them better gentlemen, but I am looking for one…
Australia 67 USA 5
Adam Ashley-Cooper (above) scored the fastest Rugby World Cup hat-trick ever as Australia scored 11 tries to sweep past USA 67-5 at Wellington Regional Stadium on Friday. Ashley-Cooper’s treble came…
Australia hand captaincy to Genia for do or die game
Will Genia is set to become the 78th Australian Test captain after being appointed as leader of the Wallabies team named today to face the United States at the Rugby…
Ireland 15 Australia 6 – World Cup’s biggest shock!
Ireland put the boot into Australia’s Rugby World Cup hopes with a 15-6 victory as a spate of penalties put the Wallabies to the sword in their Pool C game…
Wallaby Ioane out with fractured thumb
Scans today in Auckland have confirmed that Wallabies winger Digby Ioane has sustained a fracture to his right thumb. Ioane suffered the injury during yesterday’s 32-6 win over Italy in…
The Playmaker – Quade Cooper
Pop quiz. Identify the player Robbie Deans is describing: “He’s an outside-half who reacts. He has an enormous amount of talent and an instinct for the game, which we encourage…
Australia side unchanged against Italy in first Pool C match
The group that recently hooked Australia’s first Tri Nations title in a decade have been rewarded for that performance by being retained as a unit for Sunday’s Rugby World Cup…
Three stars named for Baa-Baas v Australia
Victor Matfield, Danny Cipriani and Jamie Roberts are among the first batch of star-studded names to accept invitations to play for the Barbarians against newly-crowned Tri-Nations’ champions Australia at Twickenham…