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.

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,

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,

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

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.

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

Still livid at the contentious last-minute ruling that cost them victory in the second Test against the British & Irish Lions, the Wallabies are facing the threat of total humiliation if they don’t quickly move on from the incident that has divided the rugby world.