Rugby
Ashley-Cooper fears Lions in open spaces
Phil Lutton Dull, dreary and obsessed with the set piece ... northern hemisphere sides generally come to Australian shores with a reputation for keeping it deathly simple on the rugby field.
All Blacks angry at Higginbotham 'cheap shots'
Phil Lutton The All Blacks have labelled Scott Higginbotham's knee and headbutt on Richie McCaw as a 'cheap shot' in a fiery wash-up to last night's Bledisloe Cup battle in Brisbane.
Rugby
Beale hopes Cooper will return, just not at No.10
Phil Lutton KURTLEY BEALE knew the question was coming. He had held court in the middle of a Wallabies media conference for 15 minutes, chatting about challenges and Rosario and Nick Phipps, before the elephant...
Opinion
Nights of knee - long live the Quade-Richie stoush
Phil Lutton Almost every evening is a night of knee in New Zealand, specifically Quade Cooper's notorious patella, which possesses not just the superpower of enabling him to change direction in a hurry but spark...
Wallabies veteran comes of age
Phil Lutton Too old? Apparently not. Too slow? Ask the All Blacks. In his first start for the Wallabies since 2004, the Benjamin Button of the back row, Radike Samo, showed age had not wearied him, just made him...
A hell of a week for Captain 'Kev'
Phil Lutton James Horwill has had one hell of an initiation into life as the Wallabies captain.
Ioane to donate Bledisloe jersey to fire charity
Phil Lutton Queensland Reds and Wallaby star Digby Ioane will offer his Bledisloe Cup jersey from Saturday night to charity in a bid to raise funds for the families devastated by the Slacks Creek fires.
Ioane itching to unleash five weeks of frustration
Phil Lutton After feeling like he's just completed a second pre-season, Digby Ioane is hoping to unleash five weeks of frustration on the battling Auckland Blues as he makes his return to Super Rugby on Friday...
Genia wants 400,000 reasons to stay
Phil Lutton Will Genia's management has set the star halfback's price at lofty $400,000 per season as the Queensland Reds fight to retain the signature of their influential Wallaby playmaker.
Rugby
Izzy going to the World Cup?
Phil Lutton Once upon a time, the thought of a league player breezing into rugby union on an over-inflated contract was met with reprehension by purebloods of the 15-man game.
Cooper knocks back French riches
Phil Lutton The rush for the services of in-demand flyhalf Quade Cooper is officially a two-horse race, with the Wallaby star knocking back a colossal offer from a leading French club to commit his immediate...
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Super Cooper
Phil Lutton He's caught the attention of fans with his new comic book kicking style but Quade Cooper doesn't care so long as he keeps landing them.
Rugby
Manager laces up against his star client
Phil Lutton Reds bolter has Barnes in his sight - and on his books.
McKenzie pieces together Queensland Reds puzzle
Phil Lutton Hynes switches from wing to fullback for trial match against Crusaders.
Back to basics for Queensland Reds
Phil Lutton At the beginning of last year’s Super 14, the Queensland Reds spawned their season with a glitzy show of light and power in the industrial chic surrounds of a creative arts workspace.
Contract delay opened door for league raid
Phil Lutton Former Queensland coach Phil Mooney says the potentially costly delay in putting pen to paper with Quade Cooper has opened the gate for league's audacious poaching raid on the Wallaby star.
