News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 month ago
Mortlock was due to fly out of Australia and join the squad in Dublin on Sunday for the last three Tests against Ireland, Scotland and Wales, but re-injured his calf muscle during a training run. It is a further blow to Robbie Deans' squad, which has...
News Source: BBC
| about 1 month ago
Wilkinson's return to Test duty for the first time in 18 months is a timely boost given a lengthy injury list. Fellow World Cup winners Lewis Moody and Steve Thompson are also back, while Shane Geraghty, Matt Banahan, David Wilson and Jordan Crane...
News Source: Independent
| about 1 month ago
Ireland should add the scalp of the Australians to their Six Nations Grand Slam crown, according to former Wallaby coach Eddie Jones. Jones, who is now coaching in Japan, watched the Wallabies slip to a seventh successive defeat at the hands of the...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 1 month ago
No Australian team has even attempted the grand slam since the Alan Jones-coached, Andrew Slack-captained, Mark Ella-inspired 1984 Wallabies achieved the unique feat. A quarter of a century on and Elsom's class of 2009 have a rare chance to emulate...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 1 month ago
Matches against the Wallabies have marked key staging posts in Wilkinson's injury-plagued career. On his full debut, back in 1998, he was a member of a novice England team thrashed 76-0 in Brisbane. But Wilkinson survived and two years later was the...
News Source: The independent
| about 1 month ago
No rugby player wins 100-plus caps for his country without knowing a thing or two about this rough old game, so George Smith's return to the Wallaby back row for tomorrow's sell-out meeting with England at Twickenham gives Martin Johnson and company...