Australia Wins Cape Town; World Rugby Faces Ball Trial Backlash | WRR 227

Welcome to WRR 227 for December 1-7. This week, we saw Australia dominate rivals New Zealand to claim the HSBC SVNS Cape Town title, while World Rugby continued to face heat over the controversial Size 4.5 ball trial. In XVs news, USA Rugby named Olympic silver medalist Jack Hanratty as the new Women’s Eagles Head Coach, and World Rugby recommended a new lower tackle height for the community game. Domestically, Gloucester Hartpury and Valsugana maintained their perfect league leads in PWR and the Italian Serie A Elite respectively, while UL Bohemian delivered a massive 102-7 win in the Energia AIL.

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