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A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size Sydney captain Callum Mills will miss next week’s AFL preliminary final at the SCG because of a hamstring injury. Mills tweaked his hamstring at training on Tuesday, the club’s first major session since defeating GWS in an epic qualifying final. Scans on Wednesday confirmed a minor strain for the academy graduate, who had battled through a bout of gastro to tackle the Giants last Saturday. Win a Ziggy BBQ for Grand Final day, thanks to Barbeques Galore! Enter Here. The club confirmed the star ... Read more

A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size Good grief. The Wallabies find themselves back at square one, squandering a 17-point lead in the 30th minute to lose 67-27 against Los Pumas in Santa Fe, conceding the most number of points EVER in a test match. It was a brutal comedown for Joe Schmidt’s men and the results were well reflected in the votes cast by The Roar‘s audience this week, with SIXTEEN fail marks handed out. Only seven players managed an average score of 5 or higher, all of them in ... Read more

The demise of the Melbourne Rebels and the reduction of Australian Super Rugby Pacific teams to four has seen a considerable shakeup in the player stocks for the surviving clubs. In this evolving article The Roar will track player signing and departure news as it happens before the Super Rugby squads are confirmed in early 2025. (Note the 2024 squads listed below were those with which the clubs began last season, not the squads they had at the finish. New squads will be announced early in 2025) There has been significant movement among the Australian franchises with the carve up ... Read more

Pain following surgery left Tyson Gamble wanting to cut his hand off but the Newcastle five-eighth insists he is now fully fit and ready to act as the Knights’ super-sub in the NRL finals. Gamble made a miraculous return to the field on Sunday only 18 days after surgery to repair a broken hand, starting from the bench during a 14-6 defeat of the Dolphins that confirmed Newcastle’s finals berth. Gamble had broken the third metacarpal in his right hand making a tackle on Ronaldo Mulitalo during the Knights’ golden-point loss to Cronulla last month, and had a metal plate ... Read more

A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size Aston Martin have won the race for the prized signature of legendary designer Adrian Newey, with the 65-year-old confirmed to join the Lawrence Stroll-bankrolled outfit after a near two-decade stint with reigning world champions Red Bull Racing. The announcement came from the new state-of-the-art AMR Technology Campus, with Newey being revealed as Managing Technical Partner of Aston Martin as well as a shareholder, starting his new appointment on March 1 2025. Win a Ziggy BBQ for Grand Final day, thanks to Barbeques Galore! Enter ... Read more

A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size The NRL finals are finally here with eight clubs still in the hunt for the trophy – here is how each team is shaping up. Finals Week 1  teams All times AEST Qualifying Final: 2 Panthers vs 3 Roosters at BlueBet Stadium: 7.50pm, Friday September 13 Panthers: 1. Dylan Edwards 2. Sunia Turuva 3. Izack Tago 4. Paul Alamoti 5. Brian To’o 6. Jarome Luai 7. Nathan Cleary 8. Moses Leota 9. Mitch Kenny 10. James Fisher-Harris 11. Scott Sorensen 12. Liam Martin 13. Isaah Yeo 14. ... Read more

It’s the end of an era for the IndyCar Series. Next weekend, with the 2024 season wrapping up, NBC will broadcast the series for the final time before IndyCar jumps to Fox next year. But before we leave the peacock network’s nest, the National Championship trail will make one last stop in Nashville for the Music City Grand Prix, where Álex Palou, Will Power, and Scott McLaughlin will have a three-way showdown for all the marbles. Before this Tennessee triangle dance gets underway, let’s go over what each of these three contenders will need to do to take home the ... Read more

A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size Canterbury have refused to say whether Josh Addo-Carr will play again this finals series, after he stood himself down from their elimination clash with Manly. The fallout from Addo-Carr’s alleged positive roadside test to cocaine continued on Tuesday, when the winger removed himself from training and Sunday’s team list. The 29-year-old has told Bulldogs officials he is adamant he did not take cocaine in the lead up to last week’s test, and is at a loss to explain the positive test result. The drama ... Read more

Western Bulldogs midfielder Jack Macrae has reportedly told the club he will be seeking a trade. AFL.com journalist Callum Twomey tweeted that the premiership midfielder has three years remaining on his deal but will be looking to play elsewhere in 2025. The 30-year-old played 19 matches for the club this season with an average of 18.4 disposals and 63 tackles per game. The former All-Australian and 2016 premiership winner also played four as a sub, and spent parts of the season at VFL level. So far he hasn’t nominated a club. It comes just days after another star midfielder Bailey ... Read more

A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size The NRL finals are finally here with eight clubs still in the hunt for the trophy  – here is how each team is shaping up. Finals Week 1  teams All times AEST Qualifying Final: 2 Panthers vs 3 Roosters at BlueBet Stadium: 7.50pm, Friday September 13 Panthers: Star halfback Nathan Cleary is still yet to be cleared to return from his shoulder injury.  “He has got a few hoops to jump through, but we’re hopeful,” said coach Ivan Cleary after Saturday night’s win over Gold Coast. ... Read more