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Welcome to the final Tuesday Top 5 of the regular season. And what a season it has been. highs, lows, unmitigated failures …. we had it all. This week we look at the good, bad and ugly from the weekend, grade the teams, give our take on the season that was/could have been for our three non-finals bound teams, talk about the future of the game and throw some videos at you. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Good – From the Top 5 Report Card, Tuesday March 26 – “Yep. An F. I can’t actually recall if I…

Family crisis now dealt with! Hi all and welcome to the late, late edition of the top 5.  But it’s still Tuesday, so it still counts! This week we go through all the usual things, good, bad and ugly, hand out our dodgy grades, wonder how our Wallabies favourites are  going, ramble about a whole lot of stuff and pick our favourite moments from the weekend in rugby. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Good – The Aussie Under 20’s storming home to beat Ireland and take the lead in their Pool was a highlight of the weekend. Bad –…

Howdy folks and welcome to the Top 5 for this lovely Tuesday morning. This week sees much of the same as usual, with a few more numbers thrown in! The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Good – I’m going to leave Aussie rugby for a moment and step over to the dark side. My good this week is the match between the Crusaders and Chiefs, which was played in Suva. Not only was it an absolutely amazing game, but how good was the crowd?! They love their rugby in Fiji and I love seeing how into things they get.…

Welcome back to Tuesday. This week we look at the good, bad and ugly from the weekend, give up on giving grades, look at who is playing who and where for the run home, check in with our Wallabies and look at some pretty awesome tries from the weekend. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Good – The Brumbies showing that they can adapt when things aren’t working. We have often lamented the lack of plan B or even C from some of the Aussie teams, but on Friday night the Brumbies showed that they had a Plan B…

Gee Tuesday rolls around quickly, doesn’t it? This week in the Top 5 we look at the good, bad and ugly from the world of Super Rugby (trying to steer clear of the obvious bad and ugly that everyone is talking about at the moment), give the teams some arbitrary grades based on my opinion of their performances, look at what’s going on with our Wallaby players, duck over to Europe and show you our picks of some of the best/most interesting/od plays of the week. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Good – The derby between NSW and…

Tuesday again, so here we are with the Top 5. After an up and down weekend for our teams we give you our good, bad and ugly, team grades, talk conferences, refereeing and Europe. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Good – This was a moment from the Brumbies v Sunwolves game that made me laugh. The more times I watched a replay, the funnier it got. Seeing two of the tallest men on the field chase the kick into the in-goal, both diving for the ball …. I imagine the player who put the kick through wasn’t too…

Welcome to yet another Tuesday and another Top 5. This week we look at the good, bad and ugly from the weekend, grade the teams, check out the Wallaby happenings then just get a bit random with some weird stuff that came to our attention. We finish it up with some of our picks of the action from the weekend. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Good – The brumbies forwards and the Waratahs backs. Put them together and we might have a good team! Bad – None of the Aussie teams are really putting in what I would…

Well that was a bit of an odd round. Just two Aussie teams in action, and one of those was a breakfast game! this week in the Top 5 we have given you things to mull over, consider, make suggestions on and just straight up argue over. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Good – How bloody close is this season?! It’s weirdly unpredictable (I enjoy reading all the frustrated tweets about how poor tipping was again this week), teams are beating teams they have no real right to beat, and, like I said, it is close. Apart from…

Welcome to the post-Easter edition of the Top 5. Thankfully the focus was back on the rugby this weekend, with some cracking games. This we take a bit of a look at where the Wallabies could be heading, question some decisions that have been made and give you some of the usual stuff too. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Good – Wins in South Africa are not easy to come by. I even read one comment saying that the Rebels losses over there can almost be written off, as it’s more than likely most Aussie teams will have the…

Rugby. Rugby, rugby, rugby. That is what we are here to talk about, and that is ALL we will talk about. Enough of all the extra-curricular rubbish. Just rugby. You’re welcome. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Good – It was good to see two of our centres  having an impact this week. TK has been fairly quiet this season, but on Saturday night he was damaging. Kerevi also put in some good runs, he was the best of a poor side, and his running through the defence for his second try was a highlight. Bad – News came…

Well what an odd weekend of rugby that was. A few 0’s on the board at half time, a few teams had a near complete form reversal from one half to the next and we had the fun of the Hong Kong 7’s. After all of that I fear that this week’s Top 5 will be a bit dull …. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Good – It was great to see the Fijian Sevens team get the win in Hong Kong this weekend, giving them a record breaking 5th consecutive title at the tournament. They went into…

Welcome to yet another Tuesday Top 5. It rolls around pretty quickly, doesn’t it? Lots of stuff as usual, good, bad and ugly stuff, grades, Wallaby stuff, a bit of a look at the backs from the weekend and our picks of the best stuff. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Good – At least we have one team carrying the torch for Australia. The Rebels are sitting on 18 points with 4 wins and 2 losses. That puts them at third overall on the table (ignoring conferences), which is the best an Aussie team has been in a…

Well it’s Tuesday, which means it’s Top 5 time. you know the drill. so let’s get right to it this week. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Good – How unpredictable is this season?! So the Reds beat the Brumbies, the Brumbies beat the Waratahs, the Waratahs beat the Crusaders, the Crusaders beat the Chiefs, the Chiefs beat the Bulls, the Bulls beat the Sharks, the Sharks beat the Rebels, the Rebels beat the Brumbies, the Brumbies beat the Chiefs …. Can anyone make any reliable predictions about what is going to happen? I hear it’s screwing with some…

Welcome to this week’s Top 5. We go through all the usual stuff this week, plus have a bit of a natter about refereeing. There’s some pretty good videos for you to check out too. Enjoy! The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Good – How awesome was that come back by the Reds? I thought they were completely out of it, almost every player looked terrible, then Bam! They started doing the basics right and it worked. It was hilarious following the game on twitter, talk about people having to retract tweets! Bad – Another year another injury for…

Hello, hello and welcome back. This week in the Top 5 we go through the good, bad and ugly, grade our teams, check out how well rested our Wallaby players will be come World Cup time, talk ratings and give you some of our top picks of the weekend. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Good – Not Super Rugby related, but it’s really good to see the Six Nations going down to the wire this year. Going into the last round, any one of England, Wales or Ireland could win the trophy. Wales are currently on top, having…

Hello again. Gee a week goes quickly, doesn’t it? Tuesday has rolled around again already, which means it’s Top 5 time! And what a week it has been! We had the good, bad and ugly of Super and Super W, three out of 4 Aussie teams played so we have given our opinion on how they went, we check in on our Wallabies and dive into the hotbed of discussion that is the World League. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Good – The Rebels win on the weekend makes them one of the two team who are so…

Welcome back to another edition of the Tuesday Top 5. This week we hit you with the staples of the Top 5. The Good, Bad and Ugly, Report Card, stats and our oddly popular feature on the Wallabies RDO’s. Then we look fearfully at the Wallabies selection panel and wonder what could possibly go wrong! The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Good – Two out of three Aussie teams put in a very good performance this week. Both against New Zealand teams. Bad – The Waratahs scraping home against an understrength Sunwolves who were missing all their internationals. They…

Aaaaand we’re back again this week! What a weekend hey. How good is it having Super Rugby back? And with the return of Super Rugby comes the return of some TT5 staples, the Good, Bad and Ugly and the Report Card, where we give out grades that we think the teams deserve. Feel free to disagree, I know you probably will  :-) We also have some stats from the opening round to pore over and then we talk Wallabies. Who played, who rested and who got injured and who do we think should be in consideration. The Good, The Bad…

Hey hey, the GAGR management forgot to deactivate our access so we are back for another year! So, just as quick as AAC breaking team protocols, let’s dive straight in to it. There good news for some supporters, we look at who got blessed by the fixtures fairy and who got a rough deal, and some other stuff that’s really the rehearsal for the big dance; The Rugby World Cup 2015! Err……. Back to the future It’s really an indication of the tough times at Casa De’ RA when you have to trot out your season 2015 RWC script and…

Hi all. Are we back from the brink yet after the weekend? Well never fear, the Top 5 is here! In our final Top 5 for the year (yes, we will miss you all too) we pick out some of the good, bad, and ugly things from the weekend, face our fears (well Cheika’s fears at least), jump in our time machine and go back to the future, start thinking about next year and take a final look at the other teams in Pool D. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Good – Fiji’s incredible effort to get the…