All posts tagged "john eales"

With the Rugby World Cup fast approaching and the excitement building daily, we wanted to help fill...

It has been a massive week for Australian Rugby and what better place to take some time out...

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

Where were we in 94: Even though the IRB rankings didn’t really come into effect until somewhere...

On Friday I went to the Wallabies Captains Run and watched Matt Giteau and Quade Cooper working...

. John Eales turned 40 on Sunday so on behalf of all of us at G&GR, Happy...

Western Force 24 Crusaders 16 You’re never going to keep me down. The Western Force did a bit of ‘tubthumping’ themselves last night and produced a sensational second half embracing commitment and quality to defeat the best provincial rugby team in the world. And they did it without their star player Rabbit...

Despite a decade in which we probably didn’t win as many trophies as we would have liked,...

Well, the people have spoken. The votes are in and we have our official Green & Gold...

I reckon there’s a fair bet that this next try, number two on the list, would have probably been most people’s choice for the try of the decade. Correct? Then why the hell have I not appointed it as such!!! All the elements are there. Beautiful set piece playe, last minute try...

Coming up with a list of the top tries of the decade was a tough one. What makes one try stand out from another? Is it individual brilliance we are gauging it on, or is it whole of team involvement? Rehearsed tries from a set piece or instinctive brilliance? Does a try...

We now take the step into the unknown, somewhat. The tight forwards.  Now for many of you...

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

From the period 2000-2009, eighteen different men have worn either the Wallaby Number Eleven or Fourteen jerseys...

Aussie D asked the question, at the Green & Gold Rugby forum, as to who should be...

It’s Bledisloe Week, so it’s only natural that our next great Wallaby try to be analysed is...

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

This is is the kind of stuff the ARU sends out to all of their media contacts...

This will be the first in what we hope is a series of posts highlighting some of...

Off to the Captain’s run, not much of an event but John Eales was there so I guess it meant something. Started at 11.00 am and the lights at Canberra Stadium had to be turned on, so shit was the weather. Warm-up took longer than usual as it was so fucking cold,...