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This has been coming for a long time. Since last year’s epic September run, Brisbane have become one of the most dominant comeback teams our game has seen – so brutal have their second halves been, from bulldozing GWS in the semi-final through to last week’s 10-goal Gather Round turnaround, thast they’ve barely needed to rock up before then. It has been stunning to watch… and also more fragile than it appears. I wrote last week, after the Lions made mincemeat of a 39-point deficit to steamroll the Western Bulldogs, that this run of giving opponents the jump couldn’t possibly ... Read more

Welcome to the Super Rugby Pacific Casualty Ward, the hub of all injury updates and news for the 2025 season. All sides have named their squads for this week on Wednesday, with several All Blacks making long-awaited returns to the field. Among the international names returning are Anton Lienert Brown for the Chiefs, Codie Taylor for the Crusaders and Billy Proctor for the Hurricanes. While one Wallaby star copped a season-ending injury at Suncorp Stadium, Darby Lancaster has been cleared for the Tahs, though he will miss the flight to Fiji. Not sure about how the fantasy league works? Read ... Read more

Some Melbourne fans still get confused over rugby and league.  It looked like the Storm had union’s allotment of 15 players on the field at AAMI Park with the Warriors lining up with league’s mandatory 13 during their 36-0 first-half blitz.  They took Jahrome Hughes off for the second half with a sore shoulder and their foot off the throttle but they still cruised to a 42-14 triumph, their 17th in succession during their purple reign over the Warriors. Warriors prop James Fisher-Harris suffered a pectoral injury early in the loss and could be out for an extended period. In ... Read more

A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size For a couple of years it looked like the NSW Waratahs had fallen back to the pack. That proved to be wildly off the mark. Despite losing Eva Karpani and Layne Morgan to Queensland before the season, and several others, including Piper Duck, in the days before the grand final, the NSW Waratahs withstood a second-half surge from their interstate rivals to seal a dominant 43-21 win at North Sydney Oval on Saturday afternoon. The 22-point win was the Waratahs’ second straight under coach ... Read more

The Super Rugby Women’s season comes to an end this weekend, and with it, the eyes on the women’s game will shift to the lengthy international season. The inaugural Super Rugby Champions Final will round off the domestic season for good next Thursday – where the winner of Super Rugby Women’s and Super Rugby Aupiki will do battle – but the amount of games the Wallaroos will experience is set to be more than ever in 2025. Things will get underway quickly following the Champions Final – Jo Yapp’s team will commence their season on May 3rd with a trip ... Read more

Shane Richardson has launched a fresh stadium gambit, vowing to take Wests Tigers games away from Campbelltown Sports Stadium unless $50 million worth of upgrades are agreed to by June 30.  Insisting his threat to abandon one of the joint venture’s traditional home bases was not “Trumpian”, Richardson said Campbelltown was not up to standard as an NRL venue. The Tigers chief executive successfully lobbied Inner West Council for upgrades to Leichhardt Oval last year and received a combined $40 million in guaranteed improvements. Richardson said the Tigers had shown a commitment the entire Macarthur region, but is open to ... Read more

A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size Former batting prodigy Will Pucovski has opened up on his retirement from cricket, admitting he is still suffering “scary” symptoms from repeated concussions. The Victorian last played Sheffield Shield in March 2024, when he was hit on the helmet by a delivery from Tasmania speedster Riley Meredith.  It was the 13th known concussion of his sporting career. Pucovski’s official announcement comes after a medical panel recommended he retire late last year, as Cricket Australia and Cricket Victoria finalised the details. He was absent from ... Read more

New coach Chris Whitaker has brought together his first squad as Under 20s head coach for the week-long camp in Coffs Harbour that culminates in a game against Japan U23s on April 11. The Japanese team will be coached by Australia’s not-so-favourite son, Eddie Jones, which is a fun little narrative to give the game a bit of profile. The real story behind the game though is a tune up before our boys head to South Africa to compete in the second edition of the U20s Rugby Championship, which itself is a tune-up for the World Rugby U20s Championship in ... Read more

Melbourne proved their surprise loss to the Dragons last week was nothing more than a hiccup on their march to the top after mauling Manly at Brookvale on Sunday. And the Bulldogs, not premiers Penrith, are shaping up as the team most likely to challenge the Storm’s dominance after they stretched their unbeaten start to five games with a 20-0 triumph over Newcastle at Accor Stadium. Dally M Medal winner Jahrome Hughes was instrumental in his early return from a fractured hand as the Storm produced a three-try five-minute blitz in each half to convert an 18-10 half-time lead into ... Read more

A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size Tim Tszyu has restored his reputation and reignited his international career with a brutal beatdown of American Joey Spencer in Newcastle. The referee stopped the fight two minutes and 18 seconds into the fourth round after Australia’s former WBO world champion battered Spencer with a stunning blitz to the head and body. For the best time in sport and racing, TAB has the best app in sport and racing. Download the TAB app. TAB, We’re On. What are you really gambling with? Set a ... Read more