Browsing: Northern Provincial Rugby
The Heineken Cup is a great competition. It has great atmosphere, courtesy no doubt of the ‘international’ nature of the…
The very culture of how we support our teams, be it the Wallabies or a Super 15 side, is sadly…
Here we go again. The much vaunted Australian scrummaging recovery has proven to be illusory. Our competency in the scrums…
The Heineken Cup in recess for a few weeks and the autumn internationals are looming, so it was back to…
Club rugby is invariably tribal and nowhere is this more marked than in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The baying…
Over the last few months we have seen the cream of the world’s international teams fight it out for the…
Before acting as Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies, Munsterman Richard Harris, the Irish thespian, starred in many films including…
James Joyce once said that a man’s errors are his portals of discovery. That’s what the Wallabies are finding lately…
In the past 20 years England have played the Wallabies seven times in Australia and won only twice, both in…
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…
Alexei Sayle sings: “I keep tropical fish, in my underpants. Ullo Jonny! Gotta new motor? Ullo Jonny! Gotta new motor”.…
Update – Wallaby team named v Gloucester: 15. Kurtley Beale 14. Lachie Turner 13. Ryan Cross 12. Tyrone Smith 11. Drew Mitchell 10. Quade…
Lost in the noise of Lote getting punted from the ARU, was the news this morning that Brisbane Bronco’s wonder…
Contrary to reports this morning that gun flanker, Rocky Elsom, would not be available to the middle of the Tri-nations…
When Brock James left the Western Force to head to France to play for Clermont in the Top 14, it…
Superb effort from the Quinn forwards to retain possession for 29 phases. Nuck Ivans looks dangerous every time he shapes to drop-goal, my only criticism is how long it takes them to spread it wide with a 5-2 overlap, and when they eventually do go to the backline they only go two passes and run it up allowing the defence line to scatter.