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Australia A to play New Zealand Schools this afternoon
The New Zealand Schools Rugby team has arrived in Australia and will kick off their two-match tour this afternoon when they take on Australia A...
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Rudolph Straeuli joins the Sharks
Former Sharks and Springbok coach Rudolph Straeuli has joined the Sharks. Straeuli was sacked as Springbok coach after the 2003 World cup due to the...
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Brumbies finalise team for Super 14
The ACT Brumbies have finalised their team for the Super 14 by signing West Harbour Pirates' prop Salesi Ma'afu.
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Australian Provincial Competition set for Sep/Oct ’06
The Australian Rugby Union has announced that the inaugural Australian Provincial Competition (APC) will be played in a September/October window next year.
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Foster being coy on new ‘rushing defence’ for Super 14
Chiefs coach Ian Foster won't comment on the defensive strategy Warren Gatland and assistant Tony Hanks brought from England to the Waikato NPC team this...
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Reds can move to Suncorp
Queensland rugby officials are breathing easier after an obstacle threatening to derail a much-anticipated move to Suncorp Stadium has been removed.
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Natal Sharks target Tony Brown for Super 14
Former All Black flyhalf Tony Brown is apparently being targeted by the Natal Sharks of Durban, South Africa for the Super 14 competition next year.
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IRB course boosts Africa
The recent train-the-trainer course for coaching and refereeing educators, conducted by the International Rugby Board (IRB) and SA Rugby, should help make a major impact...
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Australia’s best young Rugby players enter Wallaby nursery
Four years after representing Victoria at the National Under 16 Championship at St Ignatius College in Sydney, Lloyd Johannson played a Wallaby Test against the...
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ARU & NSWRU Agree on way forward
The Australian Rugby Union and the New South Wales Rugby Union have reached agreement on a way forward to create an elite Rugby competition to...
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Young and Mortlock rested for Spring Tour
Qantas Wallabies prop Bill Young and centre Stirling Mortlock will both be rested for the 2005 Spring Tour to France and the UK with the...
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SA Rugby acts quickly to stop player injury rumours
Both SA Rugby and the Springbok management today dismissed newspaper reports that Vodacom Blue Bulls scrumhalf Fourie du Preez sustained an injury during the recent...
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Boks headed for World cup crisis
The planning for the Rugby World Cup in 2007 has started. However, if the Springbok management and the provincial unions do not find a way...
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Reds hit brick wall in Super stadium move
Australian Rugby Union officials have approached former rugby boss John O'Neill to ensure 2006's biggest Super 14 match is played in front of a record...
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Meyer returns as Bulls head coach
As a friend and colleague to Heyneke Meyer, Mike Bayly took over the coaching of the Currie Cup team at short notice in June 2005,...
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Flavell considering move from Japan to Crusaders
The Crusaders are one of three New Zealand franchises trying to recruit former All Black forward Troy Flavell for next year's Super 14.
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ARU Board approves Australasian Provincial Competition for
The Board of the Australian Rugby Union has approved the establishment of an Australasian Provincial Competition (APC) to begin next year.
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Western Province team named to play Bulls
The Investec WP team to play the Vodacom Blue Bulls at Loftus on Saturday 17 September was announced today
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Qantas Wallabies name 45-man Training Squad
The Qantas Wallabies have today named a 45-man Training Squad in preparation for the Spring Tour in November, with back-to-back Tests against France in Marseille,...
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No NPC for Australia yet
There will be no anouncement this week on the proposed Australian NPC tournament. Australian rugby's Super 14 franchises agree a new elite national competition should...
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“It was just not our day”: Dick Muir
Sharks coach Dick Muir says he did not know whether to laugh or cry duringthe comedy of errors that unfolded during his team's 47-19 loss...
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Laurie Fisher backs Gregan for 2006
Brumbies coach, Laurie Fisher, has thrown his support behind George Gregan the Wallabies captain and his desire to play in the 2007 World Cup and...
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Australia could launch NPC next year.
Australia's four Super 14 teams could be competing in a long-awaited national provincial competition next year that may also contain Japan.
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Australian Rugby to inaugurate Wallaby Hall of Fame
Australian Rugby will inaugurate the Wallaby Hall of Fame this year to highlight and acknowledge the contribution of the game's greats since the first Australian...
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Mike Stofile returns from Madagascar
Mr Mike Stofile, vice president of the South African Rugby Union, returned to South Africa this week after a week long visit to the island...
Laidlaw to leave Gloucester Rugby for Clermont
Gloucester club captain Greig Laidlaw will leave the English Premiership Rugby club at the end of the season to join French Top 14 club Clermont. Scotland captain Laidlaw joined...
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