Longish piece on how Bristol Bears bagged Louis Rees-Zammit 🏃 Insta announcement starts the race 💻 Pat Lam's hour-long Zoom 🧢 Salary cap strategy gives them room 🤝 Collective effort to seal the deal 🥵 Hard work ahead to "reshape" conditioning telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20…

related: Tom Jordan is *such* a smart signing from Bristol.

In here somewhere, which is really cool, is that Bristol are contracting a player from their academy draft day earlier this year.

Louis Rees-Zammit had a briefing document detailing content ideas for his unveiling to read on his flight between Florida and Heathrow. Underlines the joined up thinking at Bristol and how they value the story in all this (and have for a long time).

Last plug of this. Still time to read it before the Wallabies win at Ellis Park to crown the Lions as the greatest Lions ever.

You’ve never seen anything like this. Wallaby heaven. The Wallabies lead the back-to-back world champion Springboks 33-22 at Ellis Park. 33 straight points. Crazy.

THERE’S A TAKE ABOUT THE LIONS FROM THIS TEST, BUT WHAT IS IT?!

Australia’s victory over South Africa means that there will be a change at the top of the World Rugby men’s rankings. All eyes on tonight’s match to determine whether it’s New Zealand or Ireland.

Please consider our thoughts: youtu.be/Y3umMBQGab8 The Lekker Rugby Pod! MW Welman

A look at Australia’s comeback yesterday. Just phenomenal. 🕣 Encouraging hints in first half 😤 Disruptive but disciplined (4 pens) 🤼 Far better in ruck battle… 🤪…and when it broke up 💥 Conviction in bid to beat blitz telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20…

James O’Connor’s interview after this game was great. Spoke of his pride at getting another Test three years after his last but also stressed that the Wallabies had found space during the first half despite being behind – so they just had to stick to their guns. He was right.

Joint interview with Sarah Bern and Maud Muir on life as tight-head props for the Red Roses 🌹 thetimes.com/article/94ddad…

Here’s how it all played out from the commentary box on Sunday morning. Still in shock. nine.com.au/sport/rugby/ch…

There's plenty of Len Ikitau and plenty of Tom Hooper in this for any excited Exeter Chiefs fans. Two fantastic signings. They won't rock up for a while, obviously, but when they do... telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20…

🏆 Who are the favourites for the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025? Telegraph Sport delves into the countries and players set to light up the tournament Read the team-by-team guide ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20…

Genuine question on the WRU proposals: would it be possible for Welsh sides to shift the dial and sustain success with the 2+2 or even the 3/3+1 squad budgets?

Good point