Author: Mst

Welcome back to another Tuesday. they’re rolling around pretty quickly now, aren’t they? Well what a weekend that was. Some big wins, a loss and the Waratahs didn’t lose! This week we look at some of the positives from the weekend, take a very brief trip to Europe to check out the Six Nations, talk superstars and expectation and give the refs another chance to explain. Or not. Is this the (new) beginning? This week saw some very good performances from half of our teams. The Reds absolutely thumped the Sunwolves, while the Brumbies surprised pretty much everyone and beat…

Welcome back to another edition of the Tuesday Top 5. After a weekend that left some of us frustrated, soggy, depressed or jubilant (if you are a Rebels fan) we thought would take a quick jump over to Tokyo, talk refereeing, then more refereeing, give the Super W some love and check out what someone else has decided are the top 5 tries from the weekend. Rugby in Japan On Saturday we saw the Sunwolves take on the Chiefs in Tokyo. The stadium was packed, according to the commentators 17,000 tickets had been sold as of that morning out of…

Welcome back to another Tuesday top 5. This week we look at some promising young talent, reflect on some particularly dumb decision and strange tactics, look at who is rising to the top so far and check in on the Six nations. Rising star With a fair bit of talk about who will take on the number 10 spot for each of the teams, there is one young player who is looking to cement his spot. Noah Lolesio, at 20 years old, was thrown in the deep end against the Reds and performed well. Nothing flashy, obvious areas to improve,…

We all feeling better after your rugby fix? There has been plenty of rugby to go around over the weekend – Super Rugby, Six nations, Sydney 7’s … more rugby than you can poke a stick at! So here’s our take on the weekend. We round up the weekend’s action from Super Rugby, predict how unpredictable this competition is going to be, talk Six Nations and check out some highlights. The enemy form guide How did you go with your form guide? Were you on the money or way off what you thought? With round one in the books there…

Testing, testing………: Howzat? Oops, sorry……right’o. We are back!  That’s right its Rugby time. After finding our way out from under the blanket of smoke we have been hiding in for most of the break, the Green and Gold Rugby machine is roaring back to life.  Welcome to 2020 and what we all hope is a new era for Aussie rugby.  So, let’s get to it. The Civil war is over! The post Rugby World Cup knives were out for Castle and RA in general but it all seems to have simmered down. In what appears to be a good sign of…

Well here we are, at the end. The World Cup is done and won, there is no more rugby on the tele and we have to find something more to do with our lives for the next 87 Days until Super Rugby kicks off again. This week we will look at how (not) to fix Australian Rugby, some of our personal highlights from the World Cup and take a last look at some of the great twitter work from the past couple of months. What to do with Australian Rugby? Yesterday there was an opinion piece on Fox Sports about…

Welcome to the penultimate Tuesday Top 5 for the year. This week we look at the good, bad and ugly from the weekend, drag through the coals of the semi finals, ponder what happened to the All Blacks, meet a Springbok physio and find out some fun World Cup facts. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Good – The first semi final was a ripper. While it was relatively low scoring, the game was fast paced and intense. Even though we all know New Zealand are capable of coming back and scoring from anywhere, they didn’t really look like…

Welcome to the slightly emotional top 5. It has been through a bit of an emotional rollercoaster these past few days, I think my anger is fading and I am now in a more serene space, enjoying the fairies in my head that are telling me everything is going to be ok, Australian Rugby can only go up from here. But there is still a little dwelling to do, so here goes. This week we look at a number of possible reasons where it all went wrong, focus in on the real reason it all went so wrong, then lift the…

Welcome to the Top 5. I feel a bit drained after the roller coaster of a week, between weather, cancelled matches and watching an absolute cracker of a match on Sunday night, it’s all been a bit much and I need a few days off. This week we look at how teams finished up and where to next, look at how the Wallabies fared during the pool stage of the Cup, check in with the NRC, look at the good, bad and ugly from the weekend and indulge ourselves a bit with some good rugby. POOL TIME IS OVER The pools stage…

Welcome to a Top 5, full of the build up to the final matches in both the World Cup and NRC before the finals. Talk about tense!! This week we look at what could happen to impact the teams that go through to the quarter finals, look at the week ahead n the NRC and try and dissect who will and won’t make it, get all emotional with a little sentimental story, talk reffing and rap with the TMO’s. The Final Week Of the pool stage that is. And what a week it will be! It is possible that seven…

Welcome to an afternoon addition of the Top 5. It’s school holidays, the World Cup is on and I have lost all sense of day or time!! I have an alarm the tells me when the rugby is on and that’s about it. This week we take a quick look at what is going on with the NRC, recap where everyone is up to at the World Cup, meet a Japanese legend, talk rules (yes, yes … I know, laws) and check out some of the stellar quotes from some “experts”. NRC – blown wide open! This has been an…

Here we are, knee deep in rugby and more topics than you can poke a stick at! How good!! In this week’s edition of the Top 5 we take a quick look at the NRC, watch in awe at what the Japanese have pulled out of the bag for this World Cup, including some creative arts for those so inclined, talk refereeing and protocols, discuss the implications for playing so many games in such a short period of time and browse through the Twitter feed to bring you the best of Social Media so far. AUSSIE RUGBY ROUND UP Call…

Hi all! Yep, we’re back after a bit of a break, we were resting ourselves up for the World Cup then realised we might need to get a bit of practise in before it all kicks off. This week we look at what we learned from the Wallabies win over Samoa, talk a bit of NRC, check out all the RWC squads, wonder what impact the weather could have and try and get our heads around what happens when matches end in a draw. NEXT TIME IS FOR REAL It was against Samoa. Irrespective of the result, we really weren’t…

Welcome back to a much less cheery Top 5. Last week I said that it was up to weekend MST to worry about the All Blacks bouncing back … well sad to say they were right. But we move on, there is more to rugby life than a Wallaby loss to the All Blacks, right? This week we talk about it a little, look at what played out and consider why, we discuss NZ v AUS on the media front, look ahead to the copious amounts of rugby being played and see who has handed in their World Cup squads.…

Hi all and welcome to Alternate Reality Top 5, where we are happy, winners and all is looking good with the Rugby World. Makes a nice change, doesn’t it? I won’t rain on the parade by getting all worried about the All Blacks bouncing back, that’s for weekend MST to worry about. Anyway, this week we talk Wallabies, only a little though, what is there left to say? We check in on the Pacific Nations Cup, wonder what on Earth is going on in the rugby world and share some of the ‘special’ things we found during the last two…

Welcome to another week of the Top 5. Well that was a bit better, wasn’t it? A win is a win and there were some positive signs. This week we share some of the things that we took away from the matches on the weekend, both the good and the not so good, from both matches of the Rugby Championship. We also take a sneak peak at what is going on with the Pacific nations Cup, which is also running at the moment. What did we make of that? Well let’s be upfront about it. We got the win, which…

Hands up who regrets getting (or staying in this case) up for the Wallabies match. Sleep deprived, disappointed, pissed off – just what the Wallabies want in their fans! So this week in the Top 5, we give you the top 5 things that we are talking about after that match. Well four things. And one about where we are going next. Another One Bites The Dust So, what did we make of that performance? We could have a look at the game stats but they really don’t represent much of the story in this one. The issue we had…

Welcome to the Tuesday Top 5 – Post Super Rugby season edition. Yep, it’s all done and dusted with, I hate to say it, but a fairly predictable ending. We all wanted the Jaguares to do it, but knew it was going to be tough. This week we look at the good, bad and ugly, check out some stats, see what the different nations are up to in the lead up to the World Cup, say some sad farewells and I’ll give you two of my many many favourite tries from the year. The Top 5 will be taking a…

Sigh … welcome to a bit of a morose top 5. With the Brums out, the last of our hope has gone and we’re all a little flat and down. but on the bright side, we get to cheer on the Jaguares as they take on the Crusaders this weekend. They are pretty much everyone’s second team anyway, right? This week we go through the good, bad and ugly, look at some stats from the year that was, think about how the year went, wonder what went wrong for the Brumbies and take a gander at some of the World…

Welcome to the semi finals edition of the Tuesday Top 5. This week we look at the good, bad and ugly from the weekend, check out the quarter final stats, look ahead to the semi finals, think about players and the impact they have and give you our picks of the best tries of the week. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Good – The Brumbies are still flying the flag for Aussie rugby with a win over the Sharks on Saturday night. Unfortunately, the Chiefs let us down by losing against the Jaguares so the Brumbies have hit…