Author: Brisneyland Local

Man, I love the November International Test Window. There is so much rugby that you just can’t watch it all live. Thank god I’m jumping on a plane and flying to America early Monday. I’ve downloaded so many games onto my iPad from Stan that the whole trip is just going to be a total rugby festival of the boot. So let’s have a little bo-peep at the games that have finished prior to writing Monday’s news. * Note this news is published at 0100 on Monday morning, so it won’t include the Wales v Wallabies game. So strap in,…

Well, bugger me with a fish fork, G&GRs, who saw that one coming? Not me. The first victory over England since 2015, and, to do it at Twickenham in extra time. Wow! But that wasn’t the only game that was great to watch. There were masses of rugby this weekend. For the record, this is published early Monday morning so the Scotland v South Africa and Italy v Georgia games won’t be covered. I am sure RAWF will pick that up on Tuesday. So let’s review these games and pick apart our thoughts on them. Especially lots for the Australian…

Well, Happy Monday my G&GR boys and girls. Don’t you just love it? International test rugby is back in full swing and my cup floweth over. And a cracking couple of game to get us started this weekend. So let’s have a bit of ‘looky-loo’ at those games and dissect our thoughts on those ones. Pretend we are working, get comfortable, grab a big cup of the elixir of life ☕, and let’s get it on. New Zealand 24 defeated England 22 Wow and what a cracking start to the Northern Tour matches. For a full review, check out our…

Well, Happy Monday my G&GR homies. Bits and pieces of rugby on over the weekend, and some other rugby news here and there. Let’s take a look at a few of the games and other goings on. So log on, sit down at your desk, get comfortable, grab a big cup of you know what ☕, and let’s get it on. New Zealand 61 defeated Japan 19 As covered here at rugby.com.au, the Nearlies have given Dr. Evil’s Japan a bit of a touch-up in a 64-19 defeat in Yokohama on Saturday. The Kiwis scored 10 tries in what ended…

Well, Happy Monday my G&GR hombres. Limited rugby, plenty of things going on in the world of rugby union. So let’s take a look at the Wallaroos game and other goings on. So log on, sit down at your desk, get comfortable, grab a big cup of you know what ☕, and let’s get it on. Wallaroos get the job done As covered at the Shouty site here, the Wallaroos have nailed the games in the women’s WXV2 tournament in Cape Town with talisman (taliswoman?) Ash Marsters snagging a meat pie that sealed the winner-takes-all triumph over Scotland. Marsters became…

Yep, surprise surprise! It isn’t the local yokel from the Hunter, it is instead his erudite and erstwhile Queensland third cousin, Brisneyland Local. Hoss is away getting his chakras and feng shui lined up at a Byron Bay yoga and wellness retreat run by the famous guru, Bussell Rand. Hoss texted me an update: “I can still fit into my Lorna Janes, although the spandex is stretched pretty thin now. One of the yoga women said I look like the fat dad in The Incredibles. My activewear isn’t even red f*ckhead! But yeah it’s mainly women here as you might…

Well, Happy Monday my G&GR compadres. Another huge weekend of rugby, Rugby Championship, the Wallaroos playing. Everywhere you look, rugby, rugby, rugby. Just the way it should be. So let’s take a gander at the games, and crown the champions. So log on, sit down at your desk, get comfortable, grab a big cup of you know what ☕, and let’s get it on. The Rugby Championship – Champions And so it is the South African Springboks who have been crowned the 2024 Rugby Championship champions. A big well done to them, and it was well deserved. The 2023 World…

Well, Happy Monday my G&GR Homies. What a huge weekend of rugby. So much to talk about. The Rugby Championship, the Pacific Nations Cup. Wall-to-wall high quality rugby. Let’s take a look at the games, and then the Rugby Championship ladder. So log onto your ‘puter, get comfortable, grab a big cup of you know what ☕, and let’s get it on. New Zealand 31 defeated Australia 28 If you haven’t already done so, make sure you read Hoss’s post-match review/live feed of the game here. And vote on the Wallaby players. Another game of two distinctly and diametrically opposed…

Well, that was so not worth getting up for. I even got up before the Wallabies game to watch the Saffas v Kiwis, that’s a few hours of sleep I’ll never get back, Bloody disappointed. At least this weekend I can’t whinge about the refereeing as it was quite good. So let’s look at the two games, and then the Rugby Championship ladder. So log onto your puter, get comfortable, grab a big cup of you know what ☕, and let’s get it on. South Africa 18 defeated New Zealand 12 If you haven’t already read KARL’s excellent game review,…

And a good morning to you G&GRs. Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there for yesterday. And boy what a Father’s Day it was with Test rugby back on the agenda, two cracking games of rugby to watch. So let’s look at the two games, say farewell to one of the legends of the game, and then have a bit of an ‘Old Man Shouting at Clouds’ moment. So pretend you’re working hard, grab a big cup of you know what ☕, and let’s get it on. South Africa 31 defeated New Zealand 27 If you haven’t already…

Well, Holy 💩 Wallabies fans, that was close. Some might say it was undeserved. But the Wallabies have managed to scrape through to a hard-fought victory in terrible conditions at Estadio Uno Estudiantes de La Plata in Buenos Aires to break their 8-game losing streak in The Rugby Championships. So let’s dive in and look at the game, its highlights and lowlights as we pick apart the Wallaby performance. Make sure you vote for the Wallabies players so that they can appear in RAWF’s Tuesday news. Let’s get into it! First Half The pre-match coverage clearly showed the conditions were…

Happy Monday to you G&GRs. A weekend with no test rugby means jobs around the house and Mrs. BL’s ‘things to do list’. And I must admit as many things got done this weekend and crossed off the list. The list didn’t appear to get any shorter, in fact, I think it got longer. But I digress. So let’s look at the rugby news around the place, and then have a bit of an ‘Old Man Shouting at Clouds’ moment. So sit down at your desk, log on to the work machine, grab a big cup of you know what…

Good morning to you G&GRs. Another painful round for us Wallabies fans, but a slice of heaven (did you see that little Dave Dobbyn pun there) for our Kiwi supporters with both games being played in sub-optimal conditions. So let’s look at the weekend’s games, a review of the TRC ladder (hint no surprises there) and then have a bit of an ‘Old Man Shouting at Clouds’ moment. So strap yourself in, grab a big cup of you know what ☕, and let’s get it on. The Rugby Championsip Round 2 New Zealand 42 defeated Argentina 10 If you did’tn…

The Nearlies got their ‘Mojo’ back in emphatic style, spanking the Argies in a 42-10 victory at Eden Park in pouring rain on Saturday evening. This was certainly a marked improvement over the previous weeks effrot. With the AB’s coming out from the start in full afterburner and really not easing off, dominating all aspects of the game, with the Argentinians appearing to show a post victory hangover from the week before. First Half As mentioned previously, the game started at a break neck pace and the Kiwi’s were in full afterburner from moment one, trying to set a marker…

Good morning to you G&GRs. What a painful weekend that was for teams either side of the ‘dutch’! Last week I said: “This is a chance for Argentina and Australia to prove to New Zealand and South Africa that they have what it takes!” And one side certainly did. The other, well that’s a different story. Let’s look at the weekend’s games and then have a bit of an ‘Old Man Shouting at Clouds!’ moment. So strap yourself in, grab a big cup of you know what ☕, and let’s get it on. The Rugby Championsip Round 1 South Africa…

Well holy 💩 Batman! I was sitting there at home watching that, and like the Mayor of Hiroshima Mrs BL sat there going “What the Fark was that?” The only response that I could come up with was that it looked like boys playing men. Or in simpler terms, that’s the magnitude of the task in front of Joe Schmidt and his coaching team. Firstly, congrats to the Bokke. They were good. In fact that’s an understatement, they were fantastic. They’re a team that, despite what many pundits say about them, are evolving. They’ve conquered the power game and have…

Happy Monday G&GRs. Apologies for last week; I travelled south to help a mate out, and low and behold the Hossman dragged me into an adventure I wasn’t quite prepared for. But despite KARL’s account of the story (BTW KARL thanks for filling in at short notice), I didn’t kick the walls in to get the big man out. It was a Newcastle prison, so the cells are more like kindegarten rooms (turns out Novocastrians aren’t that bright, they just have to undo the child proof lock). I got him out and returned him to the Ponderosa, the authorities won’t…

Happy Monday G&GRs, and welcome to the old mad mans wrap up of the weekend of rugby tests. And what was unique about this round? It was a result of the San Francisco Convention, where in a post World Cup year, in the mid year test season, Tier One teams must play a Tier two team. Hence why most of the matches we have seen to date are only two game series instead of three like they ususally are. I for one, have been really impressed with the Tier Two teams this year. With some of the game having the…

As the title suggests, the weekend’s tests had a lot of Clunk Eastwood about them. There was the good, the bad, and, in the Wallabies case, the ugly. The contrast was fundamentally evident having just watched the All Blacks and England. But hey, it’s international test rugby period, so I won’t complain too much. The women’s game wasn’t completed while writing this so will leave that until Tuesday’s news. Also, if I watched another match I reckon I would’ve ended up divorced. So, let’s pour into the games, do a mini-review, and then discuss the Wallabies and their performance. So…

To quote Jack Nicholson, “Here’s rugby!”. Gaggers, wasn’t that a weekend of rugby? Test rugby, the best kind. Nation upon nation. My eyes are sore from watching so many games. And Mrs. Brisney and the tin lids are a bit pissed off that they had to move into the other room so I could watch game after game of rugby. But alas, it’s my happy time. So, let’s pour into the games, do a mini-review, and then discuss the Wallabies and their performance. So strap yourself in, grab a big cup of you know what ☕, and let’s get ready…