All posts tagged "rocky elsom"

  • Northern Provincial Rugby
    Preview: Waratahs v. Crusaders – The Return of the Black Seven

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

  • ACT Brumbies
    Review: Reds v. Brumbies – A Hoodoo Broken

    The Reds have defeated the Brumbies 20-13 in a tight, hard-fought game. Important for the Reds, there...

  • RWC 2011 Australia v. Ireland – Preview

    Let me start with an apology. The guys at GaGR have been so excited about RWC that...

  • RWC 2011 Australia v. Italy – Preview

    And so it begins. On Sunday Australia comes up against a side that have trouble them a...

  • Wallabies
    Video: What Do We Expect From Rocky?

    After the Heineken Cup Final in 2009 Brian O’Driscoll said Rocky Elsom was the best player he’d...

  • ACT Brumbies
    Analysis: Rocky’s blindside replacement by the stats

    After sixteen rounds of this Super Rugby season, the Wallaby Captain and Blindside Flanker has played a total of 84 minutes – less than 7% of it. With Rocky Elsom unlikely to play any rugby before the Tri-Nations, it must surely be an understatement to say that the Wallabies blindside flanker position...

  • ACT Brumbies
    Dwyer’s View: Aussie teams off pace, but squad firming

    All five Aussie franchises played in the Super Rugby tournament on the weekend and just one of...

  • All Blacks
    G&GR Wallaby Player of the Year: Spring Tour

    The Wallabies began the Spring Tour on somewhat of a high. A win over the Boks in Bloemfontein gave renewed hope, but still… those All Blacks. They were so damn good. Five tough test matches beginning with a fourth Bledisloe, followed by challenges against the Welsh, the Poms, the Italians and finally...

  • All Blacks
    G&GR Wallaby Player of the Year: Tri-Nations

    Wallaby fans weren’t exactly jumping out of their seats in excitement as the 2010 Tri-Nations series rolled...

  • France
    Wallaby Player Ratings v. France (Paris)

    For the second year in a row the Wallabies have ended their season with an absolute ball-tearer....

  • England
    Wallaby Player Ratings v England (Twickers)

    I wish I was rating the Pommies. I’d find it a hell of a lot easier. A couple of 9s on the wing, another at scrumhalf and a few in the pack. Throw in some 8’s in the midfield and at the back, as well as on the side of the scrum...

  • ACT Brumbies
    Hong Kong Phooey – bugger all changes to Wallabies

    Robbie Deans has steered clear of any dramatic changes to his Wallaby side to take on the All Blacks in yet another Bledisloe dead rubber this weekend. There are two solitary changes to the team that were run down by the All Blacks in their last encounter.  Drew Mitchell, who missed the Sydney test...

  • Rugby
    The Rise and Rise of Kurtley Beale

    A jigsaw could be described as a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of interlocking pieces. That...

  • Rugby
    TN8 Statistics: Wallabies v Springboks

    What a game! Absolute dominance by the Wallabies in the majority of the first half and then...

  • Rugby
    Statistics: Wallabies v Springboks – Brisbane

    Whilst the Wallabies played by far their best game of 2010 against the Springboks on Saturday, there...

  • South Africa
    VIDEO: Pocock & Elsom analysis

    Some video analysis of the belter of a game both David Pocock and Rocky Elsom had against...

  • All Blacks
    Wallaby and All Black Test Teams Named

    The big talking point in the Wallaby team named to play the All Blacks this weekend is the move by Matt Giteau back to five eighth. Robbie Deans decided to use him as the playmaker instead of leaving him at inside centre. Giteau replaces the suspended Quade Cooper – whose suspension is...

  • Rugby
    Video & Analysis: Wallabies Defence 2010

    Over the last few weeks in the build up to the Wallabies first Tri Nations game we’ve looked at various aspects of the Wallabies performances so far in 2010.  Today it’s time to look at defence. Over the first four games of the season the Wallabies have attempted 534 tackles and missed...

  • ACT Brumbies
    Wallabies named. Deans pleads insanity

    They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.  If that’s the case then Robbie should be looking over his shoulder for the men in white coats.  In the end, the Aussie selectors have been left with little choice but...

  • Rugby
    Wallabies v Fiji: Statistics

     You know the score, you’ve seen the game and you’ve probably formed a view on what the Wallabies did well and what they can improve on.  What do the statistics show? Do they support your views on what happened in the game? Throughout the Wallabies 2010 campaign we’ll bring you previews, live calls,...