If you want to know why Australian Rugby is in a complete mess, all you have to do is watch the abomination of a media conference that those goons who run the game came up with on Monday. Blink, sneeze or brush away a blowfly and you would have completely missed it. Media conferences are

10:05 PM GMT Michael Cheika’s fate as Wallabies coach will be determined at a high-stakes Rugby Australia board meeting in Sydney on Monday. But any announcement, or changes to Cheika’s wider coaching panel, are unlikely to be announced until Wednesday at the earliest as the governing body digests the Wallabies’ worst season in 60 years.

9:19 AM GMT A Premiership club will be relegated this season after RFU chief executive Nigel Melville branded the idea of ring-fencing English rugby’s top flight as “wishful thinking”. Just four points separate the bottom seven clubs in the table with historically significant clubs such as Leicester, Bath and Northampton all involved in the fight

10:17 AM GMT Warren Gatland and Stuart Lancaster are among the names being considered to replace England head coach Eddie Jones in 2019, according to Rugby Football Union interim chief executive Nigel Melville. Jones will step down following the Rugby World Cup in Japan next year and the RFU will begin to draw up their

5:07 AM GMT The immediate fate of Wallabies coach Michael Cheika will be decided at Rugby Australia’s board meeting next Monday while former Test hooker Brendan Cannon says the long-term solution to the team’s woes is David Nucifora. Employed as Ireland’s high performance director, Nucifora has been instrumental to the Grand Slam winners’ climb up

11:52 PM GMT Craig Dowd Close Craig Dowd played 60 Tests for New Zealand between 1993 and 2000, including in two World Cups, and he was part of the All Blacks team that won their first series in South Africa in 1996. He played for the Blues and Auckland in New Zealand domestic rugby, and

11:16 PM GMT Rugby legend David Campese has made the bold claim that the Wallabies can rebound from their worst Test campaign in 60 years and win the 2019 World Cup. Never predictable and always willing to back himself, Campese’s latest declaration would seem a leap of faith too far after Australia’s horror run of

6:55 PM GMT Jamie BraidwoodESPN TWICKENHAM, LONDON — Just when they were beginning to look broken and disjointed, the Barbarians pulled together as team and fought back from 21 points down to beat Argentina 38-35. Elton Jantjies’ 79th-minute drop-goal may have stolen the game away from the Pumas in the dying seconds, but in truth

2:22 PM GMT Jamie BraidwoodESPN Juan Manuel Leguizamon has said it will be “weird” to line up opposite his international teammates when he plays against Argentina for the Barbarians this weekend. Leguizamon is the only Argentine representative in the 23-man Barbarians squad to face the Pumas, joining 13 South Africans and players from six other

10:18 AM GMT ESPN staff Former South Africa rugby player Naka Drotské is in a stable condition after being shot multiple times during a home invasion on Thursday night.
 Drotské and 1995 Rugby World Cup-winning teammate Os du Randt were visiting Drotské’s brother, Tinus, in Kameeldrift, when a group of armed robbers rushed in and