Author: Hoss

Greetings shaggers and welcome to another Friday’s Rugby News as we gather in the shadows of both the SRP finals and the Lions imminent arrival.Let’s kickstart Friday debating Super Coach status with ‘Cheik mate!’. Preview this weekend’s Super Rugby semi-finals clashes in ‘There can be only one’. Investigate growing whispers at ‘Captain Australia?’. See how smart we all are in ‘G&GR’s Own’. Your chance to win free stuff in ‘The Lions Down Under’. We create a safe place again for ‘More Fantasy’. And then bid farewell to another working week with ‘Friday’s Goss with Hoss’, now inviting the Labor Party…

Greetings one and greetings all and welcome to another bursting Friday’s Rugby News. We start today with the return and insights from rugby royalty in ‘The King & I’. Pack your best beret and head off on a French sojourn at ‘Pocket change & profiteroles’. Dig around in Yowie’s wallet for ‘What dead rubber?’. Then attempt to chase shadows and lasso whispers with ‘Sign it & they will come’. We then support a worthy cause in ‘The Golden Tonsils’. Scratch your head and stare in wonder with ‘Dumb & Dumber’. Before putting the cherry on top of your rugby sundae…

A personal invitation.Greetings & welcome, to all northern hemisphere rugby fans, from Australia’s biggest little rugby fan site, Green & Gold Rugby (G&GR).Rumour has it that one of your teams, the Lemurs or Leopards or some-such, are about to tour our wide brown lands, to face our golden rugby warriors so G&GR cordially invites you to join our pages and partake in the fun and festivities of the tour. Now of course, there’ll be banter, some sledging, officiating disputes, some sledging, outrageous opinions and over the top celebrations (mostly by our fans as we win the series 2-1. Our boys…

Greetings earthlings and welcome to another Friday’s Rugby News, brimming with stuff that historians will later reckon is largely inaccurate.Today we investigate another World Rugby thought bubble in ‘Clubs dash for cash’. Preview the last regular season round of SRP with ‘Like lambs to the slaughter’. Head to South Australia on purpose for ‘Steelers Wheel’. Look into breaking news out of NZ in ‘Even their kids cheat’, before wrapping up another rugby week with ‘Friday’s Goss with Hoss’, now almost three days alcohol free.Clubs dash for cash.Another week, another new competition idea gets trotted out, this time the Club Rugby…

Greetings from Lake Hunter Valley in what has been one of the wettest weeks in the history of record keeping. Today we throw ourselves into a huge weekend of rugby reckoning. So wipe the mud from your boots and off we go. We kick start with ‘Romper Stomper: opinion’. Acknowledge the little engine who could in ‘Thank you, Moana’. Farewell a big chunk of flesh with ‘Bye Bye Belly’. Preview the test between Wallaroos and America’s 51st state at ‘We hate America, too’. Join me for another Friday interview exclusive* in ‘Between JOC & a hard place’. Before piling the…

Greetings earthlings and welcome to another instalment of Friday’s Rugby News, your rugby happy place. Cast aside the yolk of despair and come with me on a rugby adventure.We kick off today looking for a place to shelter with ‘Unfriendly Fire’. Preview the round before the penultimate one of SRP in ‘Let’s get physical’. We look to foster bilateral relations with ‘Seppos can: Fukofuka’. Before slamming the door shut on another rugby week with a booming ‘Friday’s Goss with Hoss’, so big, so audacious, so bulging, I probably should be given my own exclusive jet.Unfriendly Fire.When it comes to making…

Greetings one and welcome all to yet another Friday’s Rugby News, the 50 Shades of Grey for rugby lovers. There is so much happening across our great game that today’s episode is so jam packed it comes with a fatigue warning. That said, off we go.We start with the announcement of the Lions squad with ‘Thank Christ that’s over!’ before previewing the biggest rugby match on the planet this weekend in ‘Those were the days’. We take a squiz at the rest of this week’s SRP at ‘For the rest of you’. Quash your inner demons in ‘The Voice’. Drop…

The British & Irish Lions squad will be named tonight at 11.00pm AEST and you can catch the announcement live on the Lions Youtube Channel from 10.30 AEST.Lions selections will be live, not even the players yet know if they’ve made the cut. They’ll find out the same time as us fans. That in itself makes for an exciting, if brutal, way to announce the squad.Over 2000 people will be in attendance at London’s O2 Arena with tickets selling at $135 AUD a pop to watch Lions Chairman and Welsh legend Ieuan Evans announce the squad of 37.Friday’s Rugby News…

Greetings one, greetings all and welcome to Friday’s Rugby News: The Election Edition. I’d like to start off today by acknowledging the traditional owners of the lands I write from, the Macquarie Bank Commercial Lending & Overdraft Division. I pay my respects to department managers and lending officers, past and present, and hope my application for an increase to my overdraft is successful.Today we jump down the rugby rabbit hole and start with a ‘Welcome Kiss’. Dive deep into this weekend’s results with ‘Preferences’ . Look into our golden girls first test in ‘And off we go’. Discuss a personal…

In news that will delight some (and leave others less than enamoured) some rugby sites and columnists report that Rugby Australia has confirmed the appointment of the new Wallabies Head Coach. And I can confirm on these pages that Michael Cheika is not that person. Instead RA has reportedly gone with the little known, won nothing coach of the Queensland People’s Republic of Queensland side, Les Kiss.The news comes after RA taking a ‘Pulver 48-72 hour’ period (3 months) to reach a decision. In an unexpected twist though, Kiss will remain at the Reds until the completion of SRP 2026,…

The polls have closed and the G&GR nation has voted. Below is the Wallaby squad, many thanks to those who voted:Props (6): Angus Bell 109 votes, James Slipper 96, Allan Alalaatoa, Tom Robertson & Zane Nonggorr 71. Alex Hodgman 69Hookers (3): Matt Faessler 101 votes, Billy Pollard 64, Brandon Paenga-Amosa 59Second Row (4): Jeremy Williams & Nick Frost 97 votes each, Darcy Swain 78, Lukhan Salakaia-Loto 72Loose Forwards (8): Bob Valetini 112 votes, Fraser McReight 110, Harry Wilson 107, Carlo Tizzano 105, Nick Champion de Crespigny 80, Seru Uru 78, Langi Gleeson 73 & Luke Reimer 34Halfbacks (3): Tate McDermott…

Greetings one, greetings all and welcome to an ANZAC day edition of Friday’s Rugby News. I hope your dawn services were well attended and that your rum & milk were enjoyable.Today we start off with a ripping tale from the Central West of NSW with ‘You bloody legend!’ Then you get to play Wallaby selector in ‘Talking Pigs’ and the then ‘Talking Fairies’. Dive into this week’s Super Rugby with ‘The rise of the Hobbits?’ Pay thanks on this special day in ‘Lest we forget’. And bid farewell to another week with ‘Friday’s Goss’ with Hoss’, after watching the doco…

Welcome to Friday’s Rugby News on this holiest of days on the rugby calendar, Friday. And it’s not just a boring ol’ Good Friday, today is a great Friday for rugby fans. So crack open one of the kids’ chocolates, settle in and off we go.Today we look at coaching rumours with ‘Kiss Off?’ Polish our year 8 French skills in ‘Au Revoir?’. Preview this weekend’s round of SRW via ‘More Superer’. Then seek clarification with ‘Please Explain’. Take a walk along RA’s financial tightrope in ‘First loss: Best loss’. Review the Blues v Tahs women’s final in ‘Careful what…

Wow, what a week. Mini global financial crisis, elections, selections and policy corrections, no wonder the world loves* Friday’s Rugby News (*based on a survey of 9 voices).Greetings and salutations to all, thanks for joining me on another Friday rugby adventure. Pour yourself a tipple, settle back and strap yourself in. Today we start off being careful not to chew your nails with ‘Digit extraction time’. Jump into this week’s round of SRP via ‘Gravity stinks’. Preview the final of SRW in ‘Wonder Women’. Put your colon to the test with ‘New rugby frontier?’. Before closing out a thumping rugby…

Wasn’t I just here? Greetings one, greetings all and welcome to another Friday’s Rugby News. I hope you’re enjoying a spectacular jentacular and ready to join me as we tour the rugby cosmos.We kick off this Friday looking at global rugby issues with ‘The Cup with no Beer.’ Then drop in stateside to check on the progress of a Red favourite in ‘Tariff this, Trump!’. Preview round #8 of SRP for ‘Less, with much more expected from Thor’. Check out SRW chances for ‘The Finals Countdown’. And wrap up another rugby week with ‘Friday’s Goss with Hoss’, now limiting my…

Greetings earthlings. No KARL or Yowser today, who are instead taking their vows atop Mount Alota-Ewesoften, overlooking the windswept valleys and rolling dales of NZ’s South Island Werdefarkarwicuz region. With a string quartet, tote bags of lanolin products for their guests and entertainment from local mime group, Silence of the Lambs, the two will participate in a private commitment ceremony in front of gathered loved ones and under the watchful eye of an licensed animal husbandry official. All at G&GR wish them a lifetime of love and happiness as they start their journey together. As a result you’re stuck with…

Good evening, good morning g’day and greetings rugby lovers. Welcome to an absolute bursting Friday’s Rugby News. And today truly has a global tinge with rugby stories from all three rugby hemispheres.Enough dilly-dallying, let’s start by jumping across the ditch for ‘Those bloody rotten Kiwis’. Discuss all things SRP round #7 with ‘The rise of the Australians’. Jump up north for all the latest news in ‘Lions, tamer?’ Preview the last regular season round of SRW with ‘Is that it?’ Then put the cherry on top of your rugby week with ‘Friday’s Goss’ with Hoss’, a genuine alternative for your…

Greetings one, greetings all. Can it really be Friday’s Rugby News time again? You betcha muddy footy boots it is. Another bursting Friday, so off we go.First today we pick the scab off last week’s NSW surrender in ‘Soft and SofTah’. Preview round #6 of SRP with ‘Bottleneck’. Cast an eye Lionwards for ‘What’s in a name?’. Preview round #4 of SRW in ‘The last round, before the last round’. Then put a full stop in your rugby week with ‘Friday’s Goss with Hoss’, promising to a hold a referendum to deport all politicians who make idiotic referendum suggestions if…

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Reader Warning There is so much rugby news today you may suffer inflammation of the retina and slight swelling of the medulla oblongata caused by rugby stimulus overload.Good evening, good morning, g’day and welcome to a bursting Friday’s Rugby News. Get hydrated, get comfy and let’s get going. Today we start with an objective preview of the Reds v Tahs game in ‘Mumma’s boys?’. Check out the rest of the round’s matches that really don’t matter in ‘The games that really don’t matter.’ Preview Round #3 of SRW with ‘Now we’re talking!’. Draw a line in the sand for rugby…