What a difference a week makes. Just six days earlier, the Rebels returned from Sydney licking their wounds after a 51-27 reality check at the hands of the Waratahs. But this performance to register their fourth win in five matches, a record margin of 46-14 over a largely benign Sharks, proved that the renaissance taking place in Melbourne is not going to be derailed by one bad day at the office.
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The Australian Men’s Sevens side has been dealt a blow ahead of the Commonwealth Games with the news that skipper Lewis Holland has been ruled out with a hamstring injury. Holland will be out of action for two months after damaging his leg in the most recent World Series event in Vancouver, where the Aussies finished sixth.
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There’s one heck of a storm brewing around the rugby corridors of Europe this week. Spain, needing a win over lower-ranked Belgium to reach their first Rugby World Cup in 20 years, duly lost the match in Brussels 18-10. This meant that Romania qualified automatically in their place, and that Spain must now defeat Portugal, and then Samoa, in order to reach Japan 2019.
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