All posts tagged "richie mccaw"

Sunday afternoon football returns to Sydney this weekend. And the fans are set to embrace it with...

Over the last three Tri Nations games I’ve looked at the breakdown to analyse the level of...

What’s going on at the breakdown? It’s been about a year now since Scarfman, our colleague here...

Fortune favours the brave! Who dares wins! We all know Richie McCaw pushes the boundaries of the...

… particularly when it involves Richie McCaw. Sunday’s game between the Reds and Crusaders didn’t disappoint with...

The All Black selectors have resisted the temptation of selecting their latest rugby ‘it man’, Sonny Bill-Williams...

There’s been lots of comment about whether the McCaw try on Saturday should have been disallowed because a) McCaw broke early from the scrum and now b) whether Woodcock’s arm hit the ground. When have you ever seen a game of rugby where the referees made no mistakes?  Refereeing mistakes are part...

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

After their loss to the All Blacks in Wellington, Springbok lock Victor Matfield said that “”It seems...

At the end of each game throughout the 2010 Super 14 season over at the forum, readers have submitted their 3-2-1’s for each Australian team. All of these votes will accumulated and an overall 3-2-1 assigned for each match to the three leading point getters for each Aussie team. This is a...

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...

  Barbarians 25 All Blacks 18 You get what you deserve when you treat a game like...

And so the year has drawn to a close.  The Spring Tour has been a disapointing expedition...

From the outhouse to the penthouse. In the space of five matches on their Northern Tour the All Blacks have stunningly recovered their reputation. In a match that could only be described as a showcase of free flowing power rugby, the Kiwis blew Les Bleus out of the Stade Velodrome in Marseille....

All Blacks 19 England 6 Just like the ‘win’ at Dunkirk in 1940, the Poms went down fighting in a ‘glorious defeat’ against an All Black team that has finally recovered its confidence. However, unlike Dunkirk it didn’t involve a ‘strategic’ withdrawal as they continued to attack the Kiwis right up until...

New Zealand 19 Wales 12 Wales will pose a significant threat to the Wallabies in three weeks time after bravely going down to the All Blacks at Millennium Stadium this morning. If you think losing seven consecutive matches to the All Blacks has become a psychological issue for the Wallabies, spare a...

The All Black team for their Northern Tour was announced today and it contained a solid core of the usual suspects; a few players who you could say are lucky to be retained, and of course a couple of bolters. The squad features 18 forwards and 15 backs and will again be...

The big question on everyone’s lips in the crunch Tri-Nation’s test in Hamilton on Saturday is whether South Africa will revert to type by employing their successful aerial game last seen in Capetown a couple of tests ago. This successful strategy which contributed mightily to them winning their three home tests is...

When a man turns 50, it is a time of reflection. It’s the sort of thing that gives an individual pause for thought. What is the higher meaning of life? How can the collective group that is mankind profit from one blokes endeavour? If there are no guarantees and nothing lasts forever...

It’s not often G&GR agrees with Richie McCaw – but when the Uber-cheat said the loser of this game was finished for the year’s Tri-nations, it was hard to disagree. Both sides have been below their best thus far and for the team that comes second on Saturday night there is no...