Watch every second of the 2026 Six Nations n live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nAussies Abroad breaks down the weekend that was.<\/p>\n
Japan<\/p>\n
Two tries by former Australia backrower Sean McMahon have helped Tokyo Sungoliath to a meritorious win in Japan Rugby League One.<\/p>\n
Sungoliath demolished Yokohama Eagles 54-22 on Sunday despite going down to 14 men when former Rebels second rower Sam Jeffries was red carded four minutes after halftime.<\/p>\n
Yokohama, who had trailed 20-12 at the time, scored 10 points in the next six minutes to edge ahead before the 27 Test-capped Wallaby scored two of the game’s final six tries to shore up the win.<\/p>\n
Israel Folau followed last week’s hat-trick with two tries, but underrated Queenslander Isaac Lucas had the last laugh as BlackRams Tokyo claimed an important 41-19 win over Urayasu D-Rocks.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old Lucas, whose elder brother Ben played for the Wallabies, is eligible for Japan on residential grounds, and continues to catch the eye, scoring a try just after halftime yesterday that started his side’s scoring spree.<\/p>\n
Former Australia and Queensland backrower Liam Gill also touched down before the game ended as the BlackRams piled on 29 points to five in the second half.<\/p>\n
Europe<\/p>\n
In the Top 14, Jack Maddocks and Reece Hewat both contributed as Pau went down 40-24 to Perpignan in a surprise defeat.<\/p>\n
Maddocks started and had a line break assist as they fell behind in the first half and never recovered.<\/p>\n
Hewat came on in the 51st, and whilst he was damaging with two tackle busts, he couldn’t inspire the comeback as they remain in second.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in the Premership Cup, young flanker Charlie Ulcoq continues his progression as he crossed in Northampton’s 49-21 win over Newcastle Red Bulls.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old scored in the 25th minute in his third start in the club competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Japanese action continues to roll on, with several big-name ex-Wallabies still having an impact. Along with this,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,97542,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-497739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-aussies-abroad","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}