The 2024/2025 season of the French Pro D2 is about to start, and the number of international players keeps growing with the likes of Courtney Lawes, George North, Chris Farrell, and Curwin Bosch having joined it.
A guide to the Australian teams in the 2024 Super Rugby Pacific season with predictions for every team.
Nobody can predict how any Australian sides will play from one week to the next.
The NSW Waratahs' hopes of an Auckland upset have received a boost with a Wallabies quartet cleared of injury ahead of their Super Rugby Pacific quarter-final against the Blues.
Gallagher Premiership heavyweights Leicester Tigers have confirmed the departure of nine players at the end of the season.
The NSW Waratahs will field an under-strength line-up for their daunting trip to Auckland to face the Blues.
Nephi Leatigaga has exited Leicester with immediate effect to take up an injury cover contract at the NSW Waratahs for Angus Bell, who suffered a season-ending toe injury during the team's recent Super Rugby Pacific clash with the Brumbies.
Handre Pollard, one of the most highly anticipated Premiership signings of the 2022-23 season will make his starting debut for Leicester on Friday night when the Tigers take on Sale.