All posts tagged "six nations"

Twenty-second loss in row for Italy in the Six Nations What could have been last Six Nations...

Ireland had to sweat to beat Italy in third Six Nations’ Round Against all odds, Italy and...

Another wooden spoon on the horizon for Italy Discipline and a lack of possession costed Italy dearly...

After wins from the U20 and Women’s teams, Italy was comprehensively beaten at Murrayfield The final score...

Conor O’Shea and Sergio Parisse are determined to score the first win since 28 February 2015, when Italy beat...

England’s Grand Slam decider was always going to be a dog fight in Dublin on St Patrick’s...

In the penultimate week of the Six Nations, we have the English smashing records (and the Scottish)...

Italy’s Improvisation England played Italy on Sunday at Twickenham and if you’d only seen the score you’d...

This Eddie Jones coached England team keep finding a way to win. This time it was the...

Let’s take a look at the statistics for the kicking by each Super Rugby team after Round...

James Joyce once said that a man’s errors are his portals of discovery. That’s what the Wallabies are finding lately as they attempt to overcome a lack of depth and experience in their test squad. They’re not alone on this journey as their Irish opponents this weekend are in a similar situation...

This is what the Welsh think – a poll from the South Wales Echo: Do you think Wales can defeat the Wallabies on Saturday? Yes, they’ve got the ability 85.0% No, it’s too big an ask 7.4% It’s too close to call 7.7% The Welsh can sniff it again. The vulnerability of this seemingly disparate...

Queenslander Tom Court, the country boy from Gatton, has been selected in the Irish test squad to take on the...

Q. Mate, what have the British and Irish Lions been doing in South Africa lately? A. Ummm, playing five games of rugby (six as of tonight), maintaining match fitness, busting their gut trying to get selected for the test side  and generally working up combinations? Q. Great. What have the Springboks been...

Guess what – Craig Gower’s back in town to play against the Wallabies! And oh yeah – there are some other Italian blokes with him as well… While that’s been Aussie media spin on the Italian selection (how are we going to get bums on seats when there aren’t any ex-mungos in...

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...

If ever there was someone born to play for Queensland, it would probably be Andrew Shaw. While...

With the Super 14 heading toward a grandstand finish, I thought I would look beyond to see what awaits the Wallabies in the first four matches of their winter campaign. On the face of it there does not seem to be much that will trouble the Wallabies. They play the Baa-Baa’s for...

A review of the first round of six nations matches in 2009 including England vs Italy and Ireland vs France

In the Super 14 next year the nationality of refs will no longer matter when it comes to allocating them to matches. Instead, it’ll come down to ‘merit’. Apparently they used 19 refs last year, this time they’ll concentrate it down to the 9 ‘merit’ refs (below), and fill gaps based on...