Israel Folau needs your help! PODCAST: Israel Folau Update And Why Rugby Australia Can Not Win To fund ongoing legal action against Rugby Australia for wrongful dismissal Israel Folau has set up a Go Fund Me fundraising page and is asking for donations from people to help fund the fight! The account page reads… Introduction…
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The 2019 Rugby World Cup will be held in Tokyo Japan. The tournament will be held from 20 September to 2 November. This will be the first time that it will be held in Asia. Jamaica, Russia, Italy and South Africa had expressed interest in bidding, Japan won the bidding war. The World Cup is…
Rugby video games have been few and far in-between. This is strange since rugby is a team sport and team sports are easier and more interesting to put in a game. However, unlike football and basketball, rugby has a more complicated passing and scoring system than these two sports and maybe therein lays the reason…
The fifth edition of the European Rugby Challenge has already started. It all began in on October 12, 2018. This year there are six European nations plus one Russian club which are going to participate. They include:- England, France, Ireland, Italy, Romania, Russia and Wales. The European Rugby Challenge is the second tier of competition…
When Tokyo plays host to the athletes and teams from all over the world, there will be a fan base crazy for rugby sevens. With just two years to go, preparations are on their all-time high. Each team wishes to get the title and create a history as you can at kasyno platnosc blik. Tokyo…
The Irish rugby team is creating history with its performance in the recent past. It has succeeded its hand on the Grand Slam even winning matches in London and Paris- the first time since 1979! The team has come a long way since then and the recent results prove the determination and grith the team…
News Ltd is reporting that a listening device has been found in the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby Union team hotel. The device was reportedly found under a chair, it was reported to the hotel and then the police. The Australian Rugby Union was always informed and predictably they denied any involvement in placing the…
Jarryd Hayne had “retired” from the NFL to pursue a dream of playing in the nOlympics for the Fijian national Rugby Union 7’s team. The news comes as a bit of a shock considering that Hayne was reportedly working hard to continue his role with the San Francisco 49ers. This move must now open the…
Fairfax Media is reporting that 70 doctors and health experts are calling for a ban on tackling in school “Rugby” games. The Association for Physical Education noted that tackling is where most injuries occur. “The majority of all injuries occur during contact or collision, such as the tackle and the scrum,” they said in their…
Winning a major sporting tournament gives any country’s national pride a shot of adrenalin, but it can also be a significant boost for its economy. Countries winning the football World Cup can expect to their stock index to outperform global indices by as much as 3.5 per cent in the following month, according to Goldman…
Sam Burgess has officially made the decision to leave Rugby Union and return to the South Sydney Rabbitohs. Many will suggest that Burgess’ stint in Rugby Union was a failure. Considering how much money he made in his short stint there, and the fact he walked into the English Rugby Union test team, I find…
When you think of the many different sports we are lucky enough to watch, like Golf, Football, Tennis, Swimming and Cycling who do you instantly think of? Rory McIlroy, Lionel Messi, Andy Murray, Michael Phelps, Chris Froome. These are all famous people playing the sport they love, and for Rugby in both codes one man…
It is a fact that the Australian Rugby League or the NRL is the most watched and anticipated event in Australia each week. The Rugby World Cup fan base mostly consists of Australians, South Africans, New Zealanders, and English crowd. But the Aussies really hold a strong and vibrating passion inside their blood for this…
This year’s Rugby World Cup will be the biggest one in history, as another 100,000 more tickets will be going on sale next week. After the venue configurations were completed for the 13 grounds the overall ticket capacity has gone up from 2.3 million to 2.45 million. Over 2.15 million tickets have been sold so…
With news coming out of yet another unfortunately disruption of Kurtley Beale’s promising but troubled career, reports now indicate that Kurtley Beale may be headed to Rugby League in 2015. It looks as though it may be the best move for both the ARU and Kurtley himself as despite his obvious talents and ability, Beale…
Two Rugby Union writers for the Sydney Morning Herald took a couple of shots at Rugby League today in the aftermath of the NSW Waratahs Super Rugby final victory over the Crusaders last weekend. I didn’t watch the game but apparently it was won by a penalty kick in the dying minutes. Of course, Rugby…
For well over a decade the National Rugby League ran on a strict budget. It was a competition that was under funded due to a terrible broadcasting deal that was put together while the game was negotiating from a position of weakness. In 2014 things are very different. The National Rugby League is a competition…
Fairfax media is reporting that Israel Folau and his manager met with NRL Head Of Football Todd Greenberg at a cafe at Sydney Football Stadium. The meeting may mean nothing, and all parties seem to be passing it off as a chance meeting in which all sides were just friendly with one another…but that isn’t…
News Limited is reporting that Ben Te’o will switch codes at the end of the 2014 NRL season and play Rugby Union, possibly in an effort to turn out for England at the next Rugby Union World Cup. This move has been quietly on the card for a while and even as late as yesterday…
Picture this… The broadcasting rights for the “Super Rugby” competition are currently being negotiated. The money generated by broadcasters for this competition in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand are pooled and shared between the three national bodies that control Rugby Union in those nations. Right now there is an issue in that Rugby Union…
Israel Folau has urged the Queensland Reds Rugby Union team to chase former Rugby League player Karmichael Hunt. Hunt is off contract with the AFL at the end of the year and most expect him to end up back in the National Rugby League. The Brisbane Broncos, Gold Coast Titans and Melbourne Storm have all…
Lote Tuqiri has told Fairfax media that it is vital for the ARU to hold on to Israel Folau/ This comes as Folau put on yet another dominant display in coming back from injury, and just days after media speculation that Folau was looking to return to the National Rugby League. Tuqiri makes a very…
The news that Sam Burgess has told Rabbitohs management that he will be heading to England to play Rugby Union next season has taken off across all the media websites and social media. The general feeling amongst Souths fans is that he has stabbed the club in the back, and our very own League Freak…
News that the Great Britain Rugby League team will take on the Australian Rugby Union team in a hybrid code match at Wembley Stadium next year has caused a debate among supporters of both codes. I have yet to see anyone that thinks this is great idea. The overwhelming feeling is that it shows the…
Former England Rugby Union coach Clive Woodward has caused a bit of a backlash in a long winded article about the English Rugby Union team. In his his Mail Online article Woodward came off like a bloke that has had too many people blowing smoke up his arse. The type of self important bullshit that…
The Sydney Daily Telegraph is reporting that NRL clubs are lining up to take a tilt at signing Australian Rugby Union player James O’Connor. O’Conner has become something of an outcast in Australian Rugby Union ranks in recent times with the ARU cutting its central funding to him due to off field issues and “Super…
In 1999 Rugby League in Australia wasn’t in a very good position. It was still recovering from the Super League War, it was cutting back on spending, it was looking to kick teams out of the competition…basically it was in damage control. At the same time Rugby Union in Australia was starting to come to…
The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that Israel Folau will re-sign with the ARU for a further two season. The deal is apparently just waiting for a few loose ends to be tied up by the ARU and the deal with be announced shortly. Folau was linked heavily to the Bulldogs over the last few…
With pretty much all of Rugby Union’s interest in Australia currently surrounding former Rugby League player Israel Folau, it is pretty clear that the ARU is desperate to re-sign the former Queensland State Of Origin winger and keep him from returning back to the greatest game of all. When asked about what the Australian Rugby…