The under 20’s begin their campaign in this year’s IRB under 20 World Cup tomorrow night playing Canada in Fukuoka, Japan. The Australian team is choca-block full of players with regular Super 14 experience and it is with high hopes they would go into this year’s tournament, mind you, we all thought...

So it is possible to have your cake and eat it too? With Wallaby Phil Waugh lining...

Fresh from helping Leinster to its Heiny Cup victory on the weekend, ARU media has announced that...

Being a fervent supporter of the Reds, I’ve become used to disappointment over the last few years, but nothing could quite prepare for the disappointment I felt this morning to read that Madness McMeniman is heading overseas next year and that Diggers may well join him. Ok, Madness leaving is sad but...

Here’s what Foxsports The Rugby Club reckons was try of the season. Did they get it right?

While it is hard to argue with the majority of the Wallaby selections announced today, there are a few players that could feel a bit unlucky. The selection of Matt Hodgson in front of Ben Mowen and Mitchell Chapman was a bit of a surprise as was the inclusion of Quade Cooper...

I keep reading in the press how the Wallaby 9 position is still a problem with no...

The loss of Vickerman, with his phenomenal work-rate, was a real concern for the Tahs going into...

Well, that’s it for another year, with no Aussie teams progressing to the finals, we can start the post mortems. Below are some stats so you can see how each of teams performed relative to each other and perhaps why they performed so well, or in the case of the Reds, why...

With not one friggen Aussie side in the semi’s, the 2009 Super 14 is now dead to...

Many months ago, before the interstate game between the Reds and the Tahs, Lote Tuqiri was at pains to point out the merits of the Tahs ‘win ugly’ style. In response to a barb from the Reds’ Quade Cooper about the lack of enterprise in the Tahs play, Lote returned serve with...

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Full Time: Lions 33 – Waratahs 35  

While the Tahs backline might spluttered this year, there’s no denying that the pack has been on fire. Again on Saturday, in the pissing rain, they manned up and put in some superhuman performances to win the game. In the clips below, I’ve dug out a few examples of crucial (or as...

At the beginning of the year those of us without a complex about the Tahs were all a-quiver about what their backline might do. Since that point it’s an understatement to say that fans and detractors alike have been underwhelmed. Key names in the firing line have included Beale, Tahu and Burgess,...

One to go. Rank Team Points Score diff Last game 1 Bulls 42 (+66) Shorks (A) 2 Chiefs 41 (+99) Brumbies (H) 3 Hurricanes 39 (+92) Reds (A) 4 Crusaders 37 (+31) Blues (A) 5 Brumbies 37 (+9) Chiefs (A) 6 Sharks 36 (+44) Bulls (H) 7 Waratahs 36 (+24) Lions (A)...

Final Score Shawks 12 – Mighty Tahs 16

What a crunch match – whoever loses this one is pretty much fucked for the semis, so expect a do or die belting. The wheels have looked distincly wobbly on the Sharks season of late and the destabilisation has continued this week with a number of injuries and suspensions. Everyones fantasy 9...

We let our stat gimp loose on the teams and he couldn’t stop himself delving into the individual players as well. So here they all are. For the most part they reinforce what you might already suspect, but there are a few surprises……..