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NORTHAMPTON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 31:  James Ramm of Northampton Saints breaks with the ball during the PREM Rugby Cup match between Northampton Saints and Leicester Tigers at cinch Stadium at Franklin’s Gardens on January 31, 2026 in Northampton, England. (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)

He’s dominating English rugby. Now this Aussie star is coming home to win a World Cup spot

He’s been earning rave reviews in the English Premiership, but a former Waratahs flyer is headed home to try to crack the Wallabies squad in time for the Rugby World Cup.

  • Iain Payten

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Jack Hamilton and the Oxford men’s rugby team.

An Australian is captain of the world’s smartest rugby team

Only the brightest and the best get to study at Oxford University. No exceptions are made for their best athletes.

  • Robert Dillon
Heinz Lemoto playing in his first u21 game for Toulouse.

More than 30 rising stars have been poached by French academies. This is how Australian rugby is fighting back

They are the ‘lost boys’ of Australian rugby: two teams worth of talented youngsters who have been poached by French clubs, and many are the giant forwards so sorely need by the Wallabies.

  • Iain Payten
France-based Wallabies star Will Skelton is back with the team in Dublin.

‘Bring it on’: Wallabies welcome first-ever pool battle with All Blacks at home World Cup

The draw for the pools of the 2027 Rugby World Cup has been completed. Find out who got the easiest run, and who has the toughest.

  • Iain Payten
The league/rugby hybrid game between Barker College and St Gregory’s.

It started as a cross-code schoolboy exhibition. Now Hybrid Rugby could save the English Super League

There are at least three million reasons for a historic cross-code extravaganza between league and rugby union clubs to go ahead.

  • Adrian Proszenko
Daniel Jarvo Jarvis, known as Jarvo, on day four of the 2024 Cheltenham Festival at Cheltenham Racecourse. Picture date: Friday March 15, 2024. (Photo by Mike Egerton/PA Images via Getty Images) Serial prankster Daniel Jarvis at the Cheltenham racing festival in 2024.

Hilarious, tedious or dangerous? Who is the serial pitch invader Jarvo?

The man in a Kangaroos playing kit who stood next to Cameron Munster has been doing the same trick for years, exposing venue security all over the world.

  • Iain Payten
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A fizzer of a day for the Wallabies.

Fifteen Test matches in a year is too much. The Wallabies are paying the price

England had all the answers at Twickenham – especially after they unleashed their second-half replacements.

  • Paul Cully
Tane Edmed placing the ball.

Wallabies player ratings: How the men in gold performed against England

Very few Wallabies players impressed at Twickenham - the aerial game was shaky, discipline poor, and attack sloppy.

  • Iain Payten
Henry Pollock of England breaks to score his team’s second try

Ruthless England deny Wallabies perfect Twickenham return

The Wallabies were unable to replicate last year’s brilliant win at Twickenham, losing 25-7 in a dominating display by a ruthless England at Twickenham.

  • Jonathan Drennan
Steve Borthwick

Why England have stacked their bench – and given the Wallabies an opportunity

Steve Borthwick’s side has a strange look – almost lightweight up front – and has no doubt been picked with a view to combating England’s recent record of slow November starts.

  • Paul Cully