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Rugby union
Rebels coach ‘sick’ with worry for colleagues after job losses rock club
Coach Kevin Foote says the Rebels are focusing on the season ahead but the bleak long-term picture for the club is becoming clear.
- by Iain Payten
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Super Rugby
Rebels’ survival hopes fading as CEO and staff lose jobs, coaches given four-month contracts
- by Iain Payten and Carla Jaeger
Insight & Analysis
Why Manu won’t be the last league player signed by French rugby
Told yers! The expected signing of Roosters star Joey Manu to a French rugby club will be the first of many.
Peter FitzSimons
Columnist and author
Project Hooper: Inside the plans (and problems) of turning a Wallaby into an Olympian
Careful planning to rebuild Michael Hooper as a sevens player in time for the Paris Games in July has already been re-drafted due to the competitive fire burning inside the former Wallabies skipper.
Iain Payten
Senior Sports Reporter
Feeding a coaching addiction: The game that reveals the secret of Joe Schmidt’s success
Joe Schmidt won’t save Australia, he will teach good running lines and discipline and the clarity of that mission is a blessing amid so much other uncertainty.
Paul Cully
Rugby columnist
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Bledisloe in the sun: RA eyes afternoon slot for Wallabies-All Blacks in Sydney
The famous trans-Tasman Test hasn’t been played during the day in Sydney since 1995, but Phil Waugh wants to bring back the afternoon kick-off. This is why.
- by Iain Payten
Why the Waratahs are happy to be written off after two heavy trial losses
NSW were thumped by the Reds in a trial at Roma on Saturday night, a week after being thumped by the Rebels. Nerves will be jangling in Tah-town with the season opener just a fortnight away.
- by Iain Payten
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Wallabies
‘I’m going to chat to Eddie’: Schmidt’s first steps in plan to bury Wallabies’ World Cup
- by Jonathan Drennan
Extras
‘It was bizarre’: The inside story of Eddie Jones’ chaotic second coming
- by Iain Payten and Tom Decent
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Eddie Jones
Here’s why Eddie Jones’ claims about Japan job are misleading
- by Tom Decent and Iain Payten