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It’s taken 13 rounds but Tony McGahan finally has his first choice back row on deck for tomorrow’s clash with the Waratahs. After extended injury layoffs, Sean McMahon and Lopeti Timani will pack down with Amanaki Mafi. On paper, that is arguably Australia’s most intimidating back row. McGahan hopes the trio will be just as…

Rugby’s top awards will be given out on Thursday night, in the Rugby Australia Awards. Who will take out the nation’s top gongs? The entire night will be LIVE STREAMED on RUGBY.com.au on Thursday October 26, from 6:30pm AEDT. JOHN EALES MEDAL It’s been a mixed 12 months for the Wallabies, which makes this year’s…

Izack Rodda and the Reds learnt a few things from their flogging at the hands of the Sunwolves. Training well doesn’t necessarily equate to playing well, the importance of treating every Super Rugby match as though it’s a final and the need to not dip heads should the match not pan out as planned early….

Reds lock Izack Rodda says Queensland needs to use its muscle against the Lions this weekend. The young Reds outfit slumped to a fourth-straight loss last weekend, going down to the Chiefs, but Rodda said he was confident they could snap that streak. This is their first block of consecutive home matches in seven weeks,…

Jack Debreczeni wasn’t expecting to be back in Melbourne this year, but he feels he’s a better version of the player and person he was when he left. Debreczeni played in the Japanese second division over summer, off-contract with the Rebels, and not anticipating a return to the Victorian capital for rugby, until coach Dave…

The Waratahs will leave Canberra with a critical 24-17 victory over the Brumbies but a major injury headache, after Israel Folau failed to finish the game. Folau went off with a hamstring injury just four minutes into the Canberra clash, in a major blow for the Waratahs, who have exploited Folau’s aerial skills in impressive…

Follow RT on French police have cleared more than 800 migrants from a makeshift camp that sprung up outside a gymnasium near the northern port of Dunkirk last spring. The move on Tuesday followed a court ruling that the camp had become a health and security hazard, AFP said. The mayor of Grande-Synthe opened the…

Follow RT on Riyadh has enlisted in a US-led coalition aimed at protecting merchant ships as they travel through the Strait of Hormuz. The waterway has become a hotspot amid rising tensions with Iran. A source inside Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defense confirmed on Wednesday that the kingdom had joined the International Maritime Security Construct,…

Follow RT on Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer made his debut appearance on ABC’s ‘Dancing With the Stars’ to mixed reactions, most of which centered around his appallingly garish choice of outfit, in radioactive green no less. Clearly battle-hardened to Twitter teasing and trolling from his tenure in the White House, Spicer pre-empted…

Follow RT on A sudden lethal pandemic could wipe out tens of millions of people, destroy the world’s economies, and leave humanity in chaos, according to a new report from an emergency preparedness body that isn’t alarmist in the slightest. Citing a reactionary “cycle of panic and neglect” in which health emergencies are dealt with…