WARNING: THE FOLLOWING STORY MAY CONTAIN ELEMENTS OF INHERENT BIAS. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK. IF BIAS DOES CONCERN YOU FOLLOW THE SAFETY PROCEDURES AS FOLLOWS: (1) FILL LARGE BUCKET WITH WATER; (2) INSERT HEAD INTO BUCKET OF WATER; (3) WAIT. CONCERN OVER BIAS WILL SOON SUBSIDE. IF NOT, SEE A MEDICAL...

I finally got around to watching a replay last night.  This was a very, very disappointing loss...

  As many readers will have now realised, Green and Gold Rugby has started working together on...

One week further along the season and things are getting way more interesting at the top of the ladder. The Waratahs had a hard fought loss to the Crusaders, snagging a bonus point along the way. As a result the Tahs have slipped from first to third, whilst the Cru jump up...

Following the news that Wycliff Palu has buggered his knee for the rest of the season, Noddy wrote a great post about the options in trying to plug the massive hole that big Cliffy will be leaving, not just for the Tahs, but the Wallabies. His post got me thinking about the...

Great timing Mr Palu. The day after he re-signs with the ARU he gets injured and is out for the year. If he’d held off his discussions until after this game, the bye week, his negotiating ability, and thus bargaining power, with some of those overseas clubs might not have been as...

Here’s the press conference at the end of the Crusaders game, kindly supplied by Harfish who informs me that “Phil’s reaction to the final question was priceless, he looked extremely pissed off but knew he couldn’t say anything” Powered by Podbean.com

Final Score: Evil Saders: 20 – Mighty Tahs 13

Well that was some good footy! Now I’ll give you that Force v Stormers game didn’t set the world on fire, and the weather (and the visitors) impacted the quality of the Tahs v Cheetahs match, but the rest of the round was pretty damn good. And all the Aussies won! [ed:...

A number of unexpected results have compressed the Super 14 points table but probably reduced the potential semi-finallists to eight teams. The Australian media has focussed on the fact that the Waratahs are nominally top of the table, but they are there on sufferance as a consequence of not yet having had...

  Waratahs 40  Cheetahs 17 Don’t spoil a good story.  Don’t tell Tah Man or the long...

Final score: Waratahs 40 (Tries: Horne, Robinson, Baxter, Beale, Holmes Cons: Halangahu 2, Barnes Pens: Halangahu 3) Cheaters 17 (Try: Nel, Uys  Cons: Olivier 2  Pen: Olivier)

There was a lot to like about the Australian sides this weekend. The Reds won in South Africa for the first time since 2006 whilst recording their third straight win for the first time since 2004. The Waratahs defeated the Blues in a high quality game with the exciting Rob Horne and...

The Super 14 has now passed the halfway point with six weeks remaining before the finals series. The points table presents a somewhat confusing picture, with some teams having played seven games and the others, having had a bye, only six. The situation becomes somewhat clearer if team totals are adjusted by...

Waratahs 39  Blues 32 Tahs fans won’t be whingeing after their team beat the Blues at the SFS last night.  They booed their team off the park 3 weeks ago when they beat the Sharks in a squeaker.  In that game they reverted to ping pong rugby in the 2nd half.  But...

Last week we launched the first look at the comings and goings of each of our Super...

Oh come on. Do I have to? REALLY? Sharpie wasn’t the only one swearing in frustration after that round. The Waratahs can count themselves lucky that they were playing the bottom ranked team, otherwise they could have joined the ranks of the Force and Brumbies in a winless round. As it was...

I wrote an article almost a couple of weeks ago now foreshadowing a signing bonanza as the ARU’s signing deadline for the Melbourne Rebels passed.  Well that deadline, 15 March, came and went and we heard nothing. Could it be that the Rebels actually OBEYED the ARU and hadn’t actually spoken to...

Week five saw two of Australia’s teams, the Reds and the Waratahs, put in their best performance of the season to date. On the flip side it saw another team, the Force, put in perhaps their worst performance for a number of years. The Brumbies? Well they won.  They haven’t clicked just...

Here’s what caught our eye last weekend