Former leading referee Wayne Barnes has weighed into the controversy surrounding the Lions’ late match-winner at the MCG on Saturday, saying the onfield call regarding Jac Morgan’s cleanout of Carlo Tizzano was the right one.

The Western Force have continued their push to sign Australian-eligible talent after recruiting Perth-born and raised scrum-half Nathan Hastie on a two-year deal.

Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt spoke about the “wicked backlash that sport can have” after his team was denied victory in the second test against the British and Irish Lions by a last-gasp try.

World Rugby's crackdown on head contact, while admirable, was always going to create an incident like the one for which an all-time great Test match between the Wallabies and British and Irish Lions will now forever be remembered.

Australia coach Joe Schmidt said match officials had failed to uphold player safety and hit out at a late clear-out decision that ensured the British & Irish Lions clinched a series-sealing victory on Saturday.

Any British and Irish Lions and Australia players in need of inspiration in the final moments before kick off in Saturday’s second Test need only glance up at the wall in front of them. While the dressing rooms of one of the world’s great sporting colosseums will be bedecked in the iconography of both sides as they make the Melbourne Cricket Ground their temporary home,

The British & Irish Lions and Wallabies have named their squads for the second Test at the MCG. See full lineups, key talking points, and match details for this pivotal clash.

The Wallabies have called former All Black Aidan Ross into the squad for the final British & Irish Lions Test in Sydney.

Footage of the marsupials hopping around urban areas, at times scared by passing motorists, went viral on social media.

For 16 minutes, Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt and captain Harry Wilson faced the media, struggling to process what had just happened.

Matt Dawson, 1997, 2001 & 2005 Lions tourist, on BBC Radio 5 Live: "It's a rugby IQ thing, watch that [Hugo Keenan] try back and how many Wallabies players cluster around that ruck? "You could throw a towel over six of them,