Browsing: Italy
You didn’t see Al ‘Le Fuse’ Baxter’s name listed as ‘unavailable due to injury’ on the ARU press release announcing…
If you look at where we are now are we better positioned than before last year’s Spring Tour? What’s changed…
Two Yellow Cards, and two players cited, within the space of a week leads us to ask the question. Are…
The Wallabies’ end of year tour fixture list has been announced, with a further two midweek matches – one in…
The Western Force have named their team for Friday’s match-up with the Brumbies and as flagged earlier in the week,…
Luke McAlister, Aaron Mauger, Chris Latham, Carlos Spencer, Lote Tuqiri, Victor Matfield, Mark Gasnier, Rocky Elsom and Dan Carter. What…
There are not many occasions where I’d agree with Stephen Jones, The Times doyen of rugby writers, but this is…
I am a bit of a believer in the Recency Factor when it comes to many things, but particularly when…
Barbarians 25 All Blacks 18 You get what you deserve when you treat a game like this as a…
From the outhouse to the penthouse. In the space of five matches on their Northern Tour the All Blacks have…
Lost in the noise of Lote getting punted from the ARU, was the news this morning that Brisbane Bronco’s wonder…
New Zealand 27 – Italy 6 The All Blacks struggled to overcome a committed Italian side tonight scoring three tries…
1. Pek Cowan – 6 Made his debut and earned praise from Deans for his performance. Did OK at the…
Final Score: Wallabies 34 – Italy 12
Obviously, after last week’s test, both Robbie Deans and Nick Mallet came to a gentlemen’s agreement that both would field…
Without going over the top in his praise of the Wallaby performance, Robbie Deans seemed fairly comfortable with how the…
Below is some of the comments from each coach from last nights after match press conference. Robbie Deans “It was…
Driving around Canberra you realise there are some magnificent buildings in our Nation’s Capital, the War Memorial, both Parliament Houses’,…
All this week the talk has been about the Wallabies being ruthless and executing their plans against the Italians. There…
With the Super 14 heading toward a grandstand finish, I thought I would look beyond to see what awaits the…