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Hello Cobbers, For a few weeks now I’ve been updating my concoction of caboodled connotation and curlicue, tack welded together…
Hiya Cobbers In this round of Rugby Positions Revisited I am focusing on numbers 11 & 14 – the Wingers…
Hey Cobbers, So here we are, continuing the ambling continuum of a Prop pondering the Pixies and meandering among the…
This little Prop just could not sleep, because his thoughts were way too deep. His mind had gone out for…
Hail Well Met Cobbers, Again we continue the anti-climactic meandering by the never-was-so-can’t-be-a-has-been in attempting to explain the personalities that…
Hey Cobbers, And so the revisionist journey of rugby positions, and the folk who stereotypically inhabit them, continues… This time…
Hey Cobbers, For those with lives and thereby not paying attention to recent posts, and are now wondering WTF this…
Hello Cobbers, Last post, we rediscovered the resident pontificators of the whole show; Props. Now we split the difference and…
Welcome to Monday’s Rugby News, GAGR’s! Well, I don’t know about you all, but I needed a few shandies to…
Hey Cobbers I thought to do a short piece on taking penalty kicks versus chasing tries from lineout drives. Why?…
I have had the fortune this season of being able to capture data on most schools, club and elite-level games…
Anyone who’s played in a final, in any sport, will tell you that’s what it’s all about. They will also…
On occasion heavily criticised, on occasion praised, the quality of attacking play during Super Rugby AU has been both interesting…
Defence has been a big focus in Super Rugby AU and compared to the more open fare displayed elsewhere it’s…
To understand why the All Blacks are so dominant, and why for example the Wallabies have been struggling, we can…
As expected, the flow and quality of Super Rugby AU picked up remarkably in week 3 as was the case…
You win by scoring more points than the opposition. Defence wins matches and any other number of tropes. There are…
Last week I introduced the idea of ‘efficiency’, where we assign a value to a team’s ability to move up-field,…
It’s good to be back, and this time we are in a position to apply some proper analytics to our…
There is something about the set play and Australian Rugby, it’s in the DNA. Personally I’m a big big fan…