Australian women ease into Sydney Sevens quarter-finals

The Aussie women cruised into the quarter finals after day one of the Sydney Sevens, but challenges await.

'News to us': Super Rugby bosses pour cold water on Fiji team

Put a Super Rugby team in Fiji? News to us, say competition bosses.

The ties that bind – why Ben Ryan won't leave Fiji behind

Gone but not forgotten. Why Ben Ryan is still pushing Fiji's cause at a global level, many months after helping them win a historic first Olympic medal.

Australian big names in France exodus

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Are French clubs losing interest in top Australian players?

'Get us off the back fields': Coach calls for sevens change

The world's top women rugby players are used to playing on the 'back fields', but Australian coach Tim Walsh says that needs to change.

'Better balance' promised at next year's Sydney Sevens after women's gaffe

The Australian Rugby Union has promised to "strike a better balance" on match scheduling at next year's Sydney Sevens after an embarrassing bungle kicked the world champion Australian women off the main pitch to make way for the men's pool stages.

Aussie golden girls relegated to training field for Sydney Sevens

They've been trotted out as the face of the Sydney Sevens, but Australia's Olympic and world series champion women's sevens team will be shunted to a training field for the quarter-finals to make way for the men's pool games next weekend.

The meaningful change no one wants to make in world rugby

Imagine if former Wallabies No.8 Wycliff Palu bobbed up for Tonga in the 2019 World Cup and Sitaleki Timani joined him. Or the boost to a nation if former All Blacks Sitiveni Sivivatu and Joe Rokocoko played for Fiji in 2015. As one senior administrator put it: "That would be huge for those countries. Somewhere like Scotland would never allow it".

Australia, New Zealand poised for backflip on residency

The winds of change are sweeping through world rugby and Australia and New Zealand could be about to play crucial roles.