All posts tagged "drew mitchell"

  • Podcast
    GAGR Podcast Episode 174: The one without any RWC legends

    We’re getting the band back together and we’re on a mission from Gagger.  The focus of this...

  • NSW Waratahs
    2011 Super Rugby NSW Waratahs Player of the Year

    The NSW Waratahs managed to make the finals of Super Rugby again, but with the form they showed in their first two and last two games of the regular season, 2011 will go down as another season of lost opportunity. Let’s not forget they gave the 2011 Super Rugby Champions an almighty...

  • ACT Brumbies
    Super Rugby Round Two Review

    Round Two of Super Rugby, 2011-style, saw two more local derbies for the Aussie teams. The first was an emotional last-minute win by the Rebels over the Brumbies, while the second was a clinical takedown of the Reds by the increasingly impressive Waratahs. So, on to the whos, whats and whys of...

  • Melbourne Rebels
    Welcome to first grade son. Tahs v Rebels Match Review.

    The Melbourne Rabble, sorry Rebels, have started their season in the worst way possible – a 43-0...

  • Melbourne Rebels
    Match Preview: Rebels v Waratahs. Finally!

    Super Rugby makes its much anticipated leap into the self-proclaimed ‘sporting capital of Australia’ this Friday night...

  • All Blacks
    G&GR Wallaby Player of the Year: Spring Tour

    The Wallabies began the Spring Tour on somewhat of a high. A win over the Boks in Bloemfontein gave renewed hope, but still… those All Blacks. They were so damn good. Five tough test matches beginning with a fourth Bledisloe, followed by challenges against the Welsh, the Poms, the Italians and finally...

  • England
    G&GR Wallaby Player of the Year: Domestic Test Series

    As we say adieu to the Wallaby season following our massive win over France, we can start...

  • France
    Wallaby Player Ratings v. France (Paris)

    For the second year in a row the Wallabies have ended their season with an absolute ball-tearer....

  • England
    Wallaby Player Ratings v England (Twickers)

    I wish I was rating the Pommies. I’d find it a hell of a lot easier. A couple of 9s on the wing, another at scrumhalf and a few in the pack. Throw in some 8’s in the midfield and at the back, as well as on the side of the scrum...

  • ACT Brumbies
    Hong Kong Phooey – bugger all changes to Wallabies

    Robbie Deans has steered clear of any dramatic changes to his Wallaby side to take on the All Blacks in yet another Bledisloe dead rubber this weekend. There are two solitary changes to the team that were run down by the All Blacks in their last encounter.  Drew Mitchell, who missed the Sydney test...

  • Rugby
    TN8 Statistics: Wallabies v Springboks

    What a game! Absolute dominance by the Wallabies in the majority of the first half and then...

  • Rugby
    The politics of rugby

    Over the last month I have watched both the Wallabies and our politicians with dismay. It seems...

  • Rugby
    Statistics: Wallabies v All Blacks Bledisloe 1

    Last night to prepare these statistics I watched the game for the first time since seeing it...

  • All Blacks
    Awful Aussies: Wallaby Player Ratings

    In 1972, the Wallabies toured New Zealand and lost the three test series by an aggregate of...

  • Rugby
    G&GR Best Aussie Club Try Winner – June

    The votes are in and Drew Mitchell’s try didn’t win! The winning try for June with 42%...

  • All Blacks
    Wallaby and All Black Test Teams Named

    The big talking point in the Wallaby team named to play the All Blacks this weekend is the move by Matt Giteau back to five eighth. Robbie Deans decided to use him as the playmaker instead of leaving him at inside centre. Giteau replaces the suspended Quade Cooper – whose suspension is...

  • ACT Brumbies
    Wallabies named. Deans pleads insanity

    They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.  If that’s the case then Robbie should be looking over his shoulder for the men in white coats.  In the end, the Aussie selectors have been left with little choice but...

  • Rugby
    Wallabies v Fiji: Statistics

     You know the score, you’ve seen the game and you’ve probably formed a view on what the Wallabies did well and what they can improve on.  What do the statistics show? Do they support your views on what happened in the game? Throughout the Wallabies 2010 campaign we’ll bring you previews, live calls,...

  • Rugby
    Wallabies Vs Fiji – Match Report

    The opening test of the season is always an exciting time. The unknown. The whole season is in front of us and we could win them all! The Tri-nations, the Bledisloe back where it belongs, flog the Poms, clean up the oirish, and it all starts with this Fijian entree. If this...

  • Rugby
    Wallaby v Fiji team named

    Robbie Deans has named his first test team of the season as the Wallabies prepare to take...