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Rugby union

Isi Naisarani and Tate McDermott both make Paul Cully’s starting XV for Saturday week’s Bledisloe Cup opener in Auckland.

Opinion

Wallabies

Pick and stick: My Wallabies team to face the All Blacks

There are close calls, particularly with younger players challenging the assumption that experience is a necessity on Test rugby’s most difficult stage.

by Paul Cully

Nic Berry awards a penalty to the Lions in the first Test.

British & Irish Lions

Rassie Erasmus offers to step down after hour-long tirade against Australian referee

by Daniel Schofield

Charlotte Caslick bursts past the China defence.

Tokyo Olympics

Flying colours: Aussie women’s sevens team make thumping Olympic return

by Vince Rugari

Australia’s Nick Malouf, center left, and teammate Josh Turner embrace as the team reacts to its defeat by Fiji in their men’s rugby sevens quarter-final match in Tokyo.

Tokyo Olympics

Australia crash out of rugby sevens in Tokyo

by Eryk Bagshaw

Updated

Wallabies

Rennie impressed with mature Cooper, Wallabies cleared for NZ entry

by Iain Payten

Insight & Analysis

Welcome back Amigo: Why I am overjoyed about Quade’s return

Wayne Smith

After a rollercoaster career of brilliant form, feuds and fall outs, Quade Cooper’s improbable return to the Wallabies is the story we needed in 2021.

Likely Bledisloe schedule a one-two punch for Rennie and Wallabies

Paul Cully

Back-to-back tests in New Zealand are set to make it all the more difficult for Rennie’s men to wrest back the trophy - but in the Covid-19 era, you take what you can get.

Why written decision on Koroibete damns French captain

Paul Cully

The written decisions on disciplinary hearings are always a treasure trove for information and this one makes it emphatically clear that Anthony Jelonch was acting.

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Bledisloe Cup

‘So happy for QC’: Rennie calls Cooper into Wallabies squad ahead of Bledisloe opener

In a shock move, forgotten Test playmaker Quade Cooper will travel to New Zealand for the Bledisloe Cup Tests after an SOS from Wallabies coach Dave Rennie.