Grew up watching Catchpole and Hawthorne, then later the Ella brothers, on Channel Two on Saturday afternoon. Expert commentary by Cyril Towers. No better rugby education ever to be had.
In the season preview I wrote: They will be third in the conference and miss the finals....
On Saturday night the Waratahs play another game no one but the rusted on die-hard gives them...
Everyone’s expecting a slaughter. Waratahs fans would be happy with an honourable loss, just don’t let it...
Are the Waratahs a real threat to overseas teams this year? Are the Lions too inconsistent away...
On a windy day in Tokyo, the Sunwolves were looking for their first win and the Waratahs...
Well, for the second week in a row I’m just gob-smacked. In the forums and on the...
This game was against a team on the bottom of the table with 0 points after three...
In the lead-up to the game there was just one thing on everyone’s mind: Would the Waratah scrum hold up enough to allow the Waratahs running game to dominate? The Match FIRST HALF: Both teams lined up in a very windy stadium with the wind behind the Waratahs in the first half....
Conditions were great for rugby and we saw a really exciting game, albeit with lots of mistakes....
At the start of the season its very hard to say much about the teams because we...
For the obsessive fan the end of January brings a subtle change of thought and mood. Trials...
COACH AND PLAYER RATINGS HEAD COACH: There’s an old management saying, known as the Peter Principle, that...
It is with a heavy heart that I begin to put pen to paper (dinosaur, I know)...
The game was played away from Wellington, in Napier where the ground has a 22,000 capacity. The...
In my preview on Thursday, I suggested that this game was between one team high on confidence...
This week in South Africa there will be two teams playing at the opposite ends of the...
The comp starts for both teams with a must-win game. The Force desperate to stay in Super...
Well, what a difference a week makes. This week there were some surprisingly average games and one absolute shocker. No one’s going to criticise the number of nines given; there won’t be any. Rewatching, the scrum dominance by Australia was clearer than at first look; the refereeing of the lineout was poor...
This, surprisingly, was a hard game to rate. Nobody had a shocker, lots of players went really...
Individual report cards: Well done good and faithful servants: So many squad members will not be suiting up next year. Most acquitted themselves with distinction. 10. Kurtley Beale: Up until he wrecked his knee against the Bulls he had been our best player and had he stayed healthy the season might have...
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