Disgraced Australia winger Wendell Sailor has spoken publicly for the first time since starting his two-year ban from rugby for testing positive for cocaine.

THE Australian Rugby Union (ARU) has terminated Wallaby winger Wendell Sailor’s contract after he was found guilty of taking a prohibited substance and suspended for two years.

Wendell Sailor’s contract has been terminated by the Australian Rugby Union after he was found guilty by an independent judicial committee of taking a prohibited substance.

WALLABIES winger Wendell Sailor has requested that the B sample of his drug test be analysed by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority, in the hope that the findings will clear his name.

Australia winger Wendell Sailor has tested positive for a banned substance, his manager has confirmed.

WALLABY winger Wendell Sailor returned home to Sydney in disgrace from the NSW Waratahs’ rugby tour of South Africa yesterday, saying the nightclub incident that led to his early departure was a low point in his career.

AUSTRALIAN coach Eddie Jones is determined to brazen out the criticism and follow his own instincts as he bids to halt a depressing run of international defeats at Lansdowne Road tomorrow.

Australia head coach Eddie Jones has axed tight-head prop Al Baxter for Saturday’s clash with Ireland at Lansdowne Road and gambled on an inexperienced front row.

Ireland coach Eddie O’Sullivan has told his players to ignore Australia’s losing streak, declaring: “Write the Wallabies off at your peril.”

EDDIE JONES has been put on notice by his bosses at the Australian Rugby Union but the Wallabies coach yesterday laughed off suggestions he is under any more pressure than normal.

AUSTRALIA captain George Gregan is poised to become the most capped player in Test history after being named in the Wallabies team to face France in Marseille tomorrow.

WALLABIES captain George Gregan said South African coach Jake White’s claim that infiltration of rugby league culture is damaging Australian rugby was “hysterical.”

South Africa 22 Australia 16

GRAHAM HENRY has revealed that Tana Umaga may well sit out tests in the build up to the next World Cup.

South Africa 33 Australia 20

Australia 37 France 31

Four tries by dynamic winger Lote Tuqiri and a man-of-the-match performance by Matt Giteau steered Australia to their second big win of the international season – a 69-21 victory over Italy at Telstra Dome on Saturday.

England 39 Barbarians 52

Ireland’s Johnny O’Connor has been named in the Barbarians squad for this month’s two-match tour of Britain.

AUSTRALIA coach Eddie Jones wants his side to match England’s physicality at Twickenham on Saturday and vowed: “We will be brutal.”

Australia coach Eddie Jones wants his side to match England’s physicality at Twickenham on Saturday and vowed: “We will be brutal.”

Elton Flatley, who so nearly dashed England’s dreams in the World Cup final a year ago, has returned to the Australia side for their defence of the Cook Cup at Twickenham on Saturday.

Scotland 17 Australia 31

LOST in all the hype about the Irish win over South Africa on Saturday was an equally stirring against-the-odds rugby win across the pond.

Scotland 14 Australia 31

New Zealand retained the Bledisloe Cup with victory over Australia in wet and windy Wellington today.

Australia 51 England 15

Clive Woodward has backed the continued pursuit of rugby league’s greatest talents as the New South Wales Rugby Union close in on the signing of superstar Australian half-back Andrew Johns.

Morgan Turinui, a try-scorer in yesterday’s 34-13 victory over Scotland, has been dropped from the Australia squad to take on England in next Saturday’s World Cup final rematch.

For the second weekend running, Scotland coach Matt Williams felt the scoreline in defeat to Australia was not a fair reflection of the way his players had battled against the Wallabies.

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Australia 17-10 Scotland H/T

Scotland will have to brace themselves for the return of Stirling Mortlock and Phil Waugh to the Australia side after Eddie Jones today named his starting line-up for Saturday’s second Test in Sydney.

Australia 35 Scotland 15

Hugo Southwell completed a remarkable rise to prominence today when he was named as Scotland’s starting full-back to take on Australia, the World Cup finalists, in Melbourne on Sunday.

Scotland will face a new-look Australia side in Sunday’s first Test after Wallabies coach Eddie Jones awarded Clyde Rathbone and Radike Samo their international debuts.

Australia coach Eddie Jones has called up ACT Brumbies reserve scrum-half Matt Henjak into his squad for the Wallabies’ first Test against Scotland on June 13 to replace the injured Elton Flatley.

Queensland Reds 41 Scotland 5

Centre Stephen Cranston will miss Scotland’s tour match against Queensland in Brisbane today after sustaining an ankle injury in training.

Australia have included five new players in their squad for the forthcoming Tests against Scotland and England – and they are all from the Super 12-winning ACT Brumbies team.

Australian rugby league star Andrew Johns is reportedly considering a switch to rugby union, lured by the prospect of squaring up against Jonny Wilkinson at the 2007 World Cup.

ONE WORD will sum up Australia's approach to today's Rugby World Cup final discipline.

New Zealand 10 Australia 22

Australia 13 New Zealand 7