A “clean team” fly-in-fly-out plan is being hatched to save WA sport after the government border backflip left clubs scrambling to save their seasons.
Nick Taylor and Craig O’Donoghue
Western Force have locked in two pre-season trials with Fijian Drua and Queensland Reds ahead of the Super Rugby Pacific season.
Nick Taylor
Owen Farrell faces a race to prove his readiness to lead Eddie Jones' England side before the opening Six Nations match against Scotland.
Duncan Bech
Western Force have snared former WA schoolboy star Campbell Parata from New Zealand heavyweight Crusaders for the new Super Rugby Pacific season.
French head coach Fabien Galthie has picked halfback Antoine Dupont in his Six Nations squad despite the Toulouse star having a knee injury.
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England's Australian coach Eddie Jones has picked six uncapped players as he seeks to improve on last year's poor Six Nations Championship.
Dan Biggar will captain a depleted Wales side during the Six Nations Championship in the absence of the injured Alun Wyn-Jones.
The NSW-based Drua hope to host the Highlanders in Fiji on April 30 as they battle COVID-19 restrictions ahead of a Super Rugby Pacific debut.
Murray Wenzel
Western Force will wear unique Indigenous-designed home and away jumpers for the 2022 Super Rugby Pacific season.
Fiji have withdrawn from the World Rugby Sevens series in Malaga after some players and management tested posiive to COVID-19.
After months of build-up, promoters confirmed on Thursday that Barry Hall and Sonny Bill Williams would come to blows in the ring.
Jasper Bruce
If ever a burglar broke into the wrong place at the wrong time, it was recently at former Samoan rugby international Lio Falaniko’s suburban Perth house.
Steve Butler
Towering Western Force second-rower Ryan McCauley says throwing himself into the deep end with English heavyweight club Exeter Chiefs has improved his game.
They older they get the better they were - thousands of golden oldie rugby players will turn back the clock when the 2023 World Rugby Festival hits Perth.
The Japanese rugby club that sacked Blake Ferguson following his drug-related arrest is in damage control ahead of the new season.
Former NRL premiership winner Blake Ferguson has lost his contract with Japanese rugby club NEC Green Rockets after a drug-related arrest.
The NEC Green Rockets took just 10 words to make a stunning and swift call on former NRL star Blake Ferguson's future following his arrest.
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Ex-NRL star Blake Ferguson has been arrested on suspicion of possessing illegal drugs after an altercation in a Tokyo restaurant.
The Japan Rugby Football Union would prefer to play in the Rugby Championship rather than the Six Nations if it came down to choice.
A humiliating loss and a host of Wallabies selection snubs are fuelling the Queensland Reds' quest to become a Super Rugby Pacific powerhouse.
Western Force will kick-off their inaugural Super Rugby Pacific competition with blockbuster Australian derbies amid ongoing border restrictions.
Travel restraints have forced the new Super Rugby Pacific tournament to begin as separate Australian and New Zealand conferences in February.
Murray Wenzel and Ben McKay
Fijian flyer Manasa Mataele is ready to turn up the heat at the Western Force with power and pace in new-look Super Rugby backline.
The Spanish Rugby Federation has confirmed New Zealand born lock Kawa Leauma has died after reportedly falling from a building in the Netherlands.
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