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Blink-and-you'll-miss-it: How seven week Super W season is hurting fringe players

After just seven weeks, the Super Rugby Women's season comes to a close on Sunday and with competition expansion nowhere in sight, it's impacting Australia's fringe players the most.

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Cadbury backs Wallaroos through to '29 RWC

Feeling the national governing body has finally listened to its female players, Wallaroos captain Piper Duck is ready to let the rugby do the talking.

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Super Rugby W's Super Moments Semifinals: Halse playing beyond her years

The Super Rugby Women's 2024 grand finalists are locked in with the Fijian Drua and Waratahs setting up a scintillating 2023 semifinal rematch. Read for three super moments in Super Rugby Women's semifinals.

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Drua overcome Force, Tahs await in Super W final

The NSW Waratahs want payback after securing a Super Rugby Women's grand final rematch with Fijian Drua following contrasting semifinal victories.

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Super Rugby W's Super Moments RD 5: Rebels finally taste victory

And just like that the Super Rugby Women's regular season is over with the Waratahs remaining unbeaten, the Force downing the Brumbies and the Rebels securing the first win in four years.

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Super Rugby W's Super Moments RD 3: Try of the year? Wet and wild in Fiji

Another round of Super Rugby Women has been run and won with the Waratahs remaining unbeaten, the Brumbies upsetting the Reds, and wet and wild conditions in Fiji. Read on for four super moments in Super Rugby Women's Round 3.

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Super Rugby W's Super Moments RD 2: Tahs deadly duo, Force roll to victory

It was another huge round of Super Rugby Women's action with the Western Force pulling off an incredible upset over last year's competition finalist, while the Tahs thumped the Drua in Fiji. Read on for four super moments in Super Rugby Women's Round 2.

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Waratahs belt defending Super Rugby Women champions

The NSW Waratahs have exacted some revenge with a comprehensive 62-21 Super Rugby Women's win over the defending champion Fijian Drua in Lautoka.

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Reds can't hold off Drua in Super Women's loss

The NSW Waratahs have taken the first step towards redemption with a season-opening 45-10 Super Rugby Women's victory over the ACT Brumbies.

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Everything you need to know ahead of Super Rugby Women's 2024

Launching with a new name and new trophy, Super Rugby Women's kicks off on Friday with the same six teams and the same five-game round robin season. Catch up on everything you need to know ahead of season kick-off.

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51dSam Bruce

Wallabies' RWC debacle was $2.6m over budget

Rugby Australia boss Phil Waugh has revealed the Wallabies program was $2.6m over budget for 2023, a year when Eddie Jones' side failed to advance beyond the Rugby World Cup pool stage and lost seven of nine Tests.

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Australia's women's sevens are Olympic favourites -- but high tackles threaten to kill their campaign

Four red cards in four tournaments, plus several more suspensions, the Australian women's sevens team have started to feel the heat of the intense scrutiny on head-on-head collisions, but coach Tim Walsh isn't panicking as the Olympics edge closer.

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Wallaroos coach Yapp wants to be a trailblazer

Jo Yapp hopes to be a trailblazer after signing on as the first female coach of the Wallaroos.

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New Rugby Australia HP director open to Cheika's return

Rugby Australia boss Phil Waugh and newly appointed high-performance director Peter Horne have left the door open for Michael Cheika's return to the Wallabies four years after he quit.

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Aussie sevens women triumph again, men lose final

Australia's rugby world champs have triumphed in the Cape Town Sevens after holding on bravely when down to just six players to edge a drama-filled final against France.

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Levi sisters power Aussies to Dubai 7s triumph

Maddison Levi and her sister Teagan have inspired Australia's rugby women to a blistering triumph in the season-opening Dubai Sevens, while dynamiting New Zealand's world-record 41-match unbeaten streak.

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Australia's elite female athletes should not have to exist in financial insecurity

Australia's elite netball players have been off contract since 30 September when the Super Netball Collective Player Agreement expired. It's left all 80 players in limbo. Unfortunately, it's not the first time it's happened to Australia's female athletes.

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Karpani rampant as Wallaroos stun France

The Wallaroos have pulled off their best win in memory, belting women's rugby heavyweights France 29-20 in a mighty WXV boilover.

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Wallaroos look to plug Marsters-sized hole as they prepare for unknown foe

The Wallaroos will be without star backrower Ash Marsters after the utility was ruled out with a niggle as they prepare to take on an unkown foe in France who they haven't played since their World Cup hammering in 2017.

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Red Roses bully Wallaroos in WXV 1 opener

The gulf at the top of women's rugby was on show again as Australia wilted to England's Red Roses 42-7 in their WXV 1 match in Wellington.

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'We deserve to be a tier one team': Wallaroos ready to prove themselves in WXV1

With just two wins from six matches so far this year, the Wallaroos enter the inaugural WXV1 title as the ultimate underdogs as they open the tournament against the No.1 team in the world England in New Zealand on Friday night.

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Expanded trans-Tasman Super W season dashed

Rugby Australia have unveiled next season's Super W fixtures with more double-headers added, while hopes of an expanded competition with New Zealand's Super Rugby Aupiki have been dashed.

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Wallaroos skipper Duck to miss first-ever WXVI

Michaela Leonard will lead the Wallaroos on a four-Test tour of New Zealand while regular captain Piper Duck recovers from ankle surgery.

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RA, Wallaroos to discuss 'inaccurate commentary'

Rugby Australia boss Phil Waugh has attempted to quell Wallaroos players' simmering frustrations by reinforcing RA's commitment to women's rugby, but refused to address social media allegations Wallabies' partners were prioritised over the Wallaroos.

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RA to recruit fulltime Wallaroos coach by '24

Days after many high-profile Wallaroos players shared a joint statement disparaging Rugby Australia's treatment of the women's program, the sporting body has announced a new Women's High Performance manager.