All posts tagged "kurtley beale"

The much vaunted 25th anniversary of the Grand Slam tour gets under way with a ‘meaningless’ fourth...

Rocky Elsom has been named Wallaby captain for the upcoming Northern Hemisphere tour beginning later this month. He has taken over from Stirling Mortlock who was also named in the side. Berrick Barnes is the Vice- Captain. This will no doubt increase speculation that Mortlock’s Wallaby career may be coming to a...

Robbie Deans, and his selectors, have named a number of new faces in the 43 man Wallaby training squad in preparation for the Grand Slam tour later this year.  Perhaps the most notable rookie is scrumhalf Richard Kingi of the Queensland Reds who only last week signed an Academy contract with the...

  Jou bliksem, the Aussie skaapfokkers are kak! That’s the general view of the archetypal van der...

Obviously, after last week’s test, both Robbie Deans and Nick Mallet came to a gentlemen’s agreement that both would field their second XV’s for this week’s tests. The Italians have made plenty of changes to their team which makes them even harder to comment on, such is the unknown nature of the...

UPDATE: You can see some pretty strange highlights of the game here As expected Australia has completely done a number on Canada winning by a huge margin with everyone scoring plenty of meat-pies. Richard Kingi and Kurtley crossed for 4 each in a game where the Aussies lead by 31-0 at halftime...

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...

The incumbent(s): Benn Robinson (NSW): Fat Cat has established himself well and truly in the Wallaby team. He would be, I would think, one of the first two or three players picked. In fact, there aren’t many better loosehead props world-wide than Benn Robinson. I’ll go a step further and say he...

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……..

The incumbent(s): Matt Giteau (WA): As I said above many, me included, thought he was shunted into the Wallaby 10 jersey last year as a kind of ‘last man standing’. “There’s no one else available so let’s take our best 12 and move him in a smidge”. But now! Now he is...

Full Time BRUMBIES 21 WARATAHS 11 Click read more for live plays.

Friday March 13, Canberra Stadium. Match start: 07:40pm Referee: Mark Lawrence (RSA) Brumbies: Nic Henderson, Stephen Moore, Guy Shepherdson, Ben Hand, Mark Chisholm, Peter Kimlin, George Smith, Stephen Hoiles, Josh Holmes, Christian Lealiifano, Francis Fainifo, Tyrone Smith, Stirling Mortlock, Adam Ashley-Cooper, Mark Gerrard. Reserves: Huia Edmonds, Ben Alexander, Sitaleki Timani, Julian Salvi,...

Australian Super 14 team of the week round 2 2009

Preview of NSW Waratahs vs Hurricanes in round 1 of Super 14 2009

Moses is at the Waratahs vs Fiji trial in Newcastle texting me live updates. Here’s the transcript...