All posts tagged "jim williams"

Where were we in 98: Looking back to June-ish 1998 and using the IRB Rankings formula, via...

We’re more than halfway through the Super 14 and wouldn’t you love to be a fly on the wall at Wallaby Selectors Robbie Deans, Jim Williams and David Nucifora’s weekly post-match conferences? Just at the moment, everyone’s talking ‘inside backs’ but there’s plenty of talent from 1 – 22 being showcased. After...

In military parlance, a force multiplier is an asset that increases your ability to succeed in the violence of the battlefield. Transposed to rugby it is the people, strategies, innovation and organisation that you can bring to your franchise to enhance success. And one of the major force multipliers in any season...

The Blind Side Flanker position has been an interesting one for Australia, not only over the last...

Finally! On to the REAL men.  The pigs. The pack. The piano movers. The forwards! Starting at...

What’s happening with the Wallabies lineout and what can they do to fix it? As I watched...

Maestro Deans has made sweeping changes to his team to face the Bokke this Saturday with the biggest changes being Will Genia and David Pocock getting their chance to start this week. After sniping at the heals of Burgo for a few weeks Genia takes over from the wayward incumbent while Bam...

Finally, we get to our next series of Great Wallaby Try Analysis posts. Appropriately, this week we...

FINAL SCORE 22-16 to the ABs For how it happened

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

All this week the talk has been about the Wallabies being ruthless and executing their plans against the Italians. There have been times in previous years, particularly in early season games, when the words ruthless and Wallabies could not have been used in the same sentence. Speaking before this week’s test, Matt...

Wallaby training was a real eye opener, Gits and Richard Graham are the toughest men in the set-up, shorts straight off the bus in minus 4 degrees, inspiring stuff. Saw some old bloke sitting under the awning of the Easts’ club house. “Poor bugger” I thought, “He’s been there all night”. It...

We follow Juan Cote as he lives the Growden dream (no, not that one) and reports from deep within the Wallaby and Italian camps in Canberra. Touched down in Canberra 20 mins ahead of schedule which  meant I could make the 9 am press conference at the Wallaby hotel. Called the media...

The Super 14 foreplay out of the way, it’s time for the start of a new Wallaby...

While dicking around on the web last night I came across this link to what a lot of people would say is the greatest Tri-Nations test match, if not one of the greatest ever. It was played on 15th July 2000 between the Wallabies and the All Blacks at stadium Australia in...

Here are some good length highlights of yesterday’s magnificent match between Australia and New Zealand at the...

In the last couple of days there have been the first glimpses of the new Deans regime direction and inevitably noses are already being put out of joint. The first idea – that the Aussie S14 coaches should all play a role in Wallaby selection – seems eminently sensible; who else will...