Author: Charlie Mackay
Hello, G&GRS, and happy Monday to you all! My apologies for the delay in production today. I chose to wait for the overnight results and for the announcement of the Super Rugby Pacific Draw… Whose dumb fucking idea was it to have matches on Sunday nights Mexico Melbourne time anyway?!?!In today’s news, we have a wrap-up of Week Three of the Men’s and Women’s AIs, a preview of Week Four, the SR Pacific Draw and my thoughts on the current path of Women’s rugger in Australia.Autumn Internationals – Week ThreeMen’s AIsGAGRs 15 v Soap Dodgers 32 – Well, there has…
Happy Monday, G&GRs! Welcome to another round of Monday News. Well, there has been plenty of action this weekend, with the Men’s and Women’s Autumn Internationals having their first major weekend. I’m sure there will be a number of you staying up like I am in order to see the Wallabies game (RIP us… It’s gonna be a loooong Monday) as well as trying to catch up on all the action from the weekend. I know I’m struggling to make sure I’ve seen everything. To be honest, the Stan 20 minute mini-matches have been a bloody godsend! Apart from the…
Happy Monday, GAGRs! I trust that your weekends have been well spent. If you’re lucky enough to live in Mexico Melbourne, Happy Cup Day on Tuesday (or Nup to the Cup Day… though I expect you to be at work if you don’t like it) and, if you were smart, happy Monday off, too! Nothing like a public holiday with nice weather to get rid of the lock-down cobwebs! Today we’ll have a gander at the AI tests, my take on the Wallabies news from this week and a preview of the week to come in rugger. Wallabies Officials Left…
Welcome to Monday’s Rugby News, GAGRs! The Wallabies certainly looked a wee bit wobbly on Saturday evening in their match v Japan whilst the Darkness easily accounted for the Yanks. In other news, there have been some signings for the Super sides for 2022 and the race for the 2027 RWC heats up. Let’s dance, folks! Wallabies v Japan Firstly, let me get this out there. I was truly dumbstruck at both the ignorant and arrogant comments floating around social media channels in the aftermath of the Wallabies win. The complete unawareness by some of the rugby crowd (assuming mostly…
Welcome to the GAGR News for Monday, folks! Another quiet weekend; however, my own anticipation of the Autumn Internationals is building. With any luck, there will be plenty to celebrate starting next weekend. The best part? Premier Dan is (at present) letting us loose! Phwoarrr! Let’s dance! Wallabies v Japan A conundrum of sorts for Dave Rennie and his coaching staff: does he stick with the side that has been successful over the past four tests, or is there an opportunity for some talent to come in (injuries/withdrawals aside)? My feeling is that we will see an almost full-strength side…
Greeting, GAGRs, and happy Monday to you all! Not too much to discuss as there is a brief hiatus between TRC and the AIs. We’ve seen the Wallabies squad named for the AI tour, some European action and World Cup qualifiers and some thought on the upcoming AI fixtures from a referees’ perspective. Wallabies Squad The squad has been named and there aren’t really many surprises or bolters. If anything, the surprises came from who was left behind. As a firm believer in Dave Rennie, I will assume that there has been clear and direct feedback provided to those who…
Welcome to Monday’s Rugby News, friends! Wowee, what a way to finish The Rugby Championship! The DDFs v Nearlies put on a game for the ages and certainly left me struggling to sleep afterwards. Our lads in G&G defeated Los Pumas relatively convincingly; however, there were still systemic problems in terms of finishing the game as well as structurally when key players come off. This will be an unusually structured sort of article this week from me… Bear with me though. Let’s dance!WallabiesLet’s start with our starting team from this most recent match and go from there. I’ll pose my…
Welcome, GAGRs, to Monday’s Rugby News. Well, three in a row, eh? I do like the sound of that! Not to mention a certain country of Dutch Dirt Farmers getting beaten, too. How very exciting! Apart from a review of the weekend, lets have a think about a potential contracting style moving forward and considering options for Women’s rugby. Happy Monday*, everyone! *posted early on Sunday night… I stupidly said ‘yes’ to a back-to-back hospital shift. RIP me. Wallabies v Los Pumas Check out Sully’s post-mortem here.Well, friends, this was definitely an interesting game. For me, I felt the back…
Welcome to Monday’s Rugby News, GAGRs! Well, what a weekend that was… I’m still riding the high of the Wallabies win, especially so after being placed in mandatory isolation due to ‘The Fucking Rona’ (addendum… Negative!). Well, all the more time to re-watch the match! I have some extra thoughts after Sully’s post-game wrap on both games, where the four sides go to in the last two games and my perspective of the refereeing. I won’t get to it in the articles, but the Ranfurly Shield match for the Log ‘o’ Wood over the Ditch was a cracker, too. Perhaps…
Welcome to Monday’s Rugby News, GAGR’s! Well, I don’t know about you all, but I needed a few shandies to help bring on the sleep. How bloody good is rugby?! Not to mention a double header in a friendly time zone and decent weather. The rugby gods were definitely smiling tonight. In other news, we have recaps from both games, the thought of a World 12s competition and a look at how Sale are changing their pre-season over in the English Premiership. As always, happy commenting! Wallabies v SpringboksI do genuinely love how sport can write so many fairy-tale scripts.…
Welcome to Monday’s Rugby News, GAGRs! After yet another Bledisloe loss, the relative triumph of the French series seems a distant memory. Today, we will have my post-mortem of the Wallabies match, the Hospital Cup results in Queensland, the disjoint of the Super Clubs and where their professional and up-and-coming players are during the season and the interpretations of law debate resurfaces. Happy commenting!Post-Mortem of the Wallabies v DarknessWhilst I bend the knee to Sully and his post-match wrap here, there were two key areas that we lost this match. The first and foremost for me was accuracy (or a…
Welcome to Monday’s rugby news, GAGRs! This weekend, on a gloriously ‘typical Melbourne day’ (i.e. pissing down with rain whilst the sun is shining), I thought we could start the discussion about the potential 23 for the match. World Rugby have announced the match officials for the remainder of the TRC, so I thought I’d break these down for you all, too. Finally, we’ll look at the Steelers progress at the Paralympics in Japan before rounding off on the true worth of a player after Cheslin Kolbe’s new deal with Toulon.Looking Forward, Looking BackLooking forward to the third Bledisloe this…
Green And Gold Rugby · The Dropped Kick-Off 27 – Frustratingly Predictable Greetings and welcome to GAGR’s Rugby News for Monday. Last week I had a gift horse story with the ‘Giteau Law’ changes being abruptly announced. This week, I seem to have gotten somewhat lucky again! The feuding between Rugby AU, Rugby NZ and the shitfuckery flying about is the story that seems to keep on giving…! Looking ahead, on behalf of us all, I wish the Aussie Paralympians the very best, particularly our wheelchair rugger side. Go get ‘em! [one_half last=”no”] Argentina v South Africa…
Green And Gold Rugby · The Dropped Kick-Off 26 – Blissful Ignorance Here I was thinking, “shit, not much has happened outside of two test matches this week…. WTF am I going to write about? As the Kiwis say, “Nek Minnut!!” I suddenly had a massive topic to put out there for us GAGRs. Thus, for Monday’s news, we have the elephant in the room topic with the relaxation/abolition of the infamous ‘Giteau Law’, the wrap from the weekend results, some extra narrative about last week’s topic on the number of substitutions and my ‘turning point’ from the Wallabies…
Green And Gold Rugby · The Dropped Kick-Off 25 – Knee’den Park Happy Monday GAGRs and welcome to the news for today! I trust that you all had a safe weekend wherever you may be in Australia and overseas. This week, we’ll recap the British and Irish Lions v Springboks decider, the Australia v New Zealand First Bledisloe, a discussion about law changes and my thoughts on letting the players, well, play! Happy commenting! [one_half last=”no”] British and Irish Lions v Springboks – The Decider! Nutta has provided the third installment of the series here although I shall…
Green And Gold Rugby · The Dropped Kick-Off 24 – Paying The Rent Welcome to Monday’s Rugby News for the 1st August. There has been plenty of rugby action over the past week, including the BIL Tour of South Africa, The Olympic Rugby 7s, Rassie Erasmus and his video and the preview of the first Bledisloe Test over the ditch. [one_half last=”no”] Australian Olympic Rugby 7s The Australian Men’s and Women’s Rugby 7s crashed out of medal contention in Tokyo this week. Both sides came up against stiff competition in the hunt for Olympic glory and…
Green And Gold Rugby · The Dropped Kick-Off 24 – Paying The Rent Happy Monday, GAGRs and welcome to Monday’s Rugby News! This weekend saw the unveiling of the Wallabies squad for The Bledisloe and Rugby Championship and pending location swaps for these matches, the first test between the Springboks and the British and Irish Lions and a ‘Good Luck’ message to our Olympic Rugby 7s stars! [one_half last=”no”] Wallabies Squad for BC and TRC Dave Rennie has named his 42-man squad for the upcoming matches against the Kiwis, Bokkes and Los Pumas. Until approximately 7pm on…
Green And Gold Rugby · Rugby Report Card 125 – The Former or the Latter? Welcome to Monday’s news, GAGRs! I hope you’re all doing well after Saturday’s phenomenal match in Bris-vegas. I, for one, struggled to sleep for a number of hours due to the excitement of the victory! We’ll have a recap of the Wallabies victory, the British and Irish Lions Tour, other international matches. Finally, a quick thought about a trend that has been steadily creeping in to the game in the last few years… As always, happy to hear your thoughts in the comments.…
Good morning, GAGRs and welcome to Monday Rugby News for July 12th. My name is Charlie Mackay and this is my debut news article for Green and Gold Rugby. Thank you to the crew for their faith in me as the most rookie of writers! I do apologize to the loyal readers about the potential (lack of) quality. I’m hopeless with HTML and a Sunday night shift is, apparently, not a great place to learn! I’ll be better next time :) [one_half last=”no”] SECOND TEST V FRANCE First up is the naming of the Wallabies side to play Les…