All posts tagged "ELVs"

Eddie Jones was right! These rules changes are mucking up the game. Let me digress. In Eddie’s regular diatribes against the ELVs he made the particularly interesting point that making the tackle contest too much of a contest would change the shape of rugby (my words, his thoughts). We did see that...

Full time: Australia 25 – Springboks 32

G&GR is proud to bring you the Aussie Stevie view of the player’s performance over the TriNations. Thanks to magic Stevie powers, we can do this in advance, actual viewing not required. A quick intro for those who have not yet had the privilege of reading the insights of Aussie Stevie’s dad,...

Final Scores Wallabies 31 – Italy 8 New Zealand 22 – France 27!!!

When SANZAR introduced a number of Experimental Law Variations for the 2008 season, supporters were led to...

It seems to me this year that the taste for all things domestic Northern Hemisphere rugby had...

Thursday What is it about props and their fucking pay packets? I just finish cleaning up the...

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Bugger me if there aren't some great loose forwards doing the rounds in Super 14 2009. A review of them and look at how the Wallabies back row is shaping up, as well as looking forward to the battle between George Smith and David Pocock for openside flanker

Yet again the South Africans are threatening to leave SANZAR. Do we care?

A shoot from the hip preview and prediction of the various 2009 Super 14 teams chances

A review of the first round of six nations matches in 2009 including England vs Italy and Ireland vs France

On Friday George Smith won another player’s gong, picking up the RUPA medal. Hard to argue against. He is after all the world’s best seven. Yet again Smith churned out a tour of top class performances. For me though, what was so impressive, was the way he still managed to impose himself,...

. Killer scoreline of the year; Southern Hemisphere 20 – Northern Hemisphere 1. This of course refers to the number of times the Tri-Nations kicked the arse of their European cousins over the past 12 months, aggregating into what can only be described as a total butt-rape. So now the question is...

There’s a theory doing the rounds that a big chunk of the SANZAR whitewash over the Northern...

England 14 – Australia 28 There is only one test match I’ve been to that felt better...

If you’re looking for a completely level headed assessment of the Wallabies chances at Twickenham on Saturday,...

Which nation is the international hate figure of world rugby? Is it South Africa with Bakkies Botha...

Last week Moses made some great points about how random the roll out of the ELVs seems to have been. It looks so bad that I can only think its a ruse employed by the usual dinosaurs to try and scupper them. Thanks to those still stuck in the 70’s, the mess...