Tom Decent is a journalist with Fairfax Media.
Michael Cheika tried every trick in the book to keep Rob Horne in Australian rugby and is surprised he has decided to leave at the "peak of his career", but hinted his Wallabies career might not be over just yet.
Wallabies coach Michael Cheika is open to the idea of a rugby State of Origin match being used as a genuine selection battle for Australian players but says it needs to be unique rather than a carbon copy of rugby league's successful version.
A number of Australia's high-profile gold medal sevens stars – including co-captains Sharni Williams and Shannon Parry – have expressed a desire to play in the Women's Rugby World Cup in August.
Wallabies coach Michael Cheika says he doesn't expect an apology from New Zealand Rugby for what he believes was a "ridiculous" inference that someone from Australia planted a listening device in an All Blacks team hotel.
Police have charged a security consultant employed by the All Blacks in relation to a listening device found in the team's hotel in the lead up to the first Bledisloe Cup match of last year.
Departing NSW Waratah Rob Horne says he retains slim ambitions of representing the Wallabies in the future after making the "extremely difficult decision" to rule himself out of playing at the 2019 World Cup by signing with UK Premiership side Northampton.
Men's and women's games could be played across all three days at next year's Sydney Sevens given the option is being left open for the tournament to be moved ahead of the Wellington Sevens.
Australian women's sevens co-captain Sharni Williams says the Pearls' fourth placing in Sydney was the "kick in the bum" they needed as they look to get their World Series campaign back on track next month in Las Vegas.
Australian men's sevens coach Andy Friend says ill-discipline prevented his side from scaling the same heights as last year's Sydney Sevens event after they finished fourth on Sunday.
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