Author: Matt Rowley

Cheer yourself up a bit with these video highlights of David Pocock at the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

Here you go Quade Cooper fans, some highlights of his debut for Toulon vs Montpellier where his side won 52-8. See if you can recognise a few names in the teams below… For Toulon: Tries: Manoa, Turner 2, Tuisova 3, S Armitage, Tillous-Borde Cons: Pélissié 3, D Armitage 2, Taylor For Montpellier: Tries: Malzieu Pen: Lucas Yellow Cards: Roux, Mowen Toulon: 15 Delon Armitage, 14 Josua Tuisova, 13 Mathieu Bastareaud, 12 Maxime Mermoz, 11 Lachlan Turner, 10 Quade Cooper, 9 Jonathan Pélissié, 8 Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe, 7 Steffon Armitage, 6 Juan Smith, 5 Romain Taofifenua, 4 Samu Manoa, 3 Matthew Stevens, 2 Guilhem Guirado, 1 Xavier…

Sure, New Zealand is no pushover, but here are five cold hard, undeniable reasons the Wallabies will win the 2015 Rugby World Cup final.

In this last podcast before the Rugby World Cup Final 2015, we take a fine tooth comb through the two sides to see who’s got the edge before talking where the battle will be won and lost, and whether the Wallabies can do it. Dare we believe? Podcast sponsored by Dropbox.com/business

We run the cheat-o-scope over the scrums with the starting Wallaby front row versus Argentina for some scrum analysis to see what really happened.

Just in case you were half dead, this Wallabies Rugby World Cup 2015 pump up highlights video by @JoshBristow123 oughtta get you pinging!

In 2015, and during this Rugby World Cup particularly, we’ve become used to the Wallaby scrum being an attacking weapon and points generator. Against the Scots on Monday morning it was the opposite – generating three penalties from which Scotland took 9 points; vital in what became a 1 point ball game. So how did it happen? Let’s go through those scrums up to and around the penalties that impacted this match so much. As you’ll see, Scotland mixed power with guile to gain a crucial advantage in the match. Scrum 1 First scrum of the match. It’s the Wallabies feed in…

In this week’s GAGR special Rugby World Cup podcast sponsored by Dropbox, we dive into the detail on the cliff hanger Quarter Final between the Wallabies and Scotland. What does this mean for our hopes to bring back Bill? We then look around the other Quarters to see who to fear the most. And Hugh reminds us of a certain prediction….

The first 2015 Rugby World Cup semi-final has been chosen from two matches that couldn’t have been more different. Here’s the vibe. Wales can’t complain “Bugger it boyo, lost again by that much.” I love the Welsh – the people, the spirit, the rugby fanaticism, the fact they’re not English….but  surely it’s not possible for them to feel hard done by in this Rugby World Cup. Warren Gatland has created a team that is basically a penalty meat grinder; solid defence and massive runners combined with world class goal kickers. The very idea is to boil every game down to averages…

In this Rugby world cup podcast we get together to review the week’s rugby news leading up to the Wallabies quarter final with Scotland, including injury news, the citing debacle and of course, James O’Connor. Sponsored by dropbox.com/business

On this week’s Green and Gold Rugby World Cup Podcast, we discuss the weekend’s heroic effort by the Wallabies to overcome Wales. We then talk through that important Ireland v France match, the fall out and the Quarter finals ahead (except for Australia v Scotland which we’ll save for later this week)

It’s being lauded as the gutsiest and most impressive defensive effort of this World Cup and perhaps any other – the Wallabies holding out Wales on their line with only 13 men  for seven minutes. It was all a bit of a blur on Sunday morning, so with the benefit of the freeze frame, in this article we’ll investigate what transpired over those precious minutes. You’ll see two forces at play in this analysis: a Wallabies team that executes skills under pressure and fatigue almost flawlessly and a Welsh team making poor decisions and simple errors when they matter most. On such things…

The Vibe This was a Wallabies performance worthy of a world cup final and with it the men in gold have given themselves the best chance of getting to one. Wales had done their homework on Australia and used rush defence together with flooded breakdowns to disrupt the Wallabies pattern of play. Aerial bombardment got the men in red the territory they needed and if it hadn’t been for another monumental scrummaging effort from both Australian front rows they might have been able to make that pay. Penalty swapping kept the score to 9-6 Australia’s way at half time, but with…

The Wallabies have announced the the team to play Wales in their final group match of the 2015 Rugby World Cup. The two forced changes are Drew Mitchell in for Rob Horne (shoulder) and crazed warrior Sean McMahon in for Michael Hooper (suspension), thereby forming the Pokemon with David Pocock in the back row. The other change Dean Mumm starting in the second row with Rob Simmons moving to the bench. Rugby World Cup Match 35: Wallabies team to play Wales at Twickenham, London Saturday October 10 4:45pm local time (Sunday 2:45am AEDT) 1. Scott Sio (13 Tests) 2. Stephen…

In our RWC Podcast we give you the scoop on the Wallabies team to play Wales in the Rugby World Cup this weekend which includes the Pokemon – what that means and how we reckon it’ll pan out.

You don’t need me to tell you that the scrum was a major part of the Wallabies win on the weekend. In the lead up to the match I talked about it, the pommy press talked about Bob Dwyer and myself talking about it, and it had a massive impact on the outcome of the match with the Wallabies winning 5 crucial penalties. Below I’ll take you blow by blow through the Wallabies winning that battle. The upshot of it is that England died by the sword they lived by. Marler’s  boring in as part of a scrum tactic scrum coach…

After last weekend’s legendary crushing of England at Twickenham, in this week’s first Rugby world cup podcast Matt, Reg, Hugh and Jamie revel in the afterglow to talk about just what went so right for the Wallabies and so wrong for the Poms. Tune in later this week for more chat about the upcoming Welsh match

Check out these England Rugby World Cup memes, the gifts that keep on giving.

Gather round ye good rugby folk and feast on this scrum analysis from the land of the White Orc. It tells an age old tale of brains over brawn, of experience over youth, of Pommy and Welsh front rows cheating their pasty arses off. In the highly pressured world cup match between England and Wales on the weekend, the difference between agony and ecstasy came down to one penalty goal.  In the first half, three scrum penalties resulted in 9 precious points – six for England and three for Wales. French referee Jerome Garces and his refereeing team’s  interpretation of them therefore…

Don’t say we never do anything for you Quade Cooper fanboys.