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The ‘next Sudanese ruckman’??
I think it might be useful to think of these players as Australian, otherwise AFL types may start to believe they’re as big in Sudan as the NRL is in Lebanon!!!
Sudanese players ready to make the grade
Gee, weren’t the Hurricanes awful against the Reds!!!
And at the moment, the Crusaders are two points ahead of the Bulls in Pretoria with 6 mins left.
Not too much wrong with NZ rugby.
New Zealand rugby is in a state of decline
It has been a wonderful season for the Reds.
Now all that is left is to see a great performance against the Highlanders, and death-ride the Tahs.
Oh, a seasoned replacement for the departing Daniel Braid by 2011 would be good too.
Reds hammered as finals hopes sail into the sunset
There is quite a bit of you tube stuff on Caucau which highlights his pace, particularly for the Blues and Fiji in the 2003 RWC. You are right, however, in thinking that simply pace wasn’t what made him great.
But for me: I think he was very quick, and he was the best winger ever to have played rugby!
Who are the fastest rugby players ever?
Wests in Brisbane had a former Australian Olympic sprinter play for them a few seasons back. Damien Marsh?
Who are the fastest rugby players ever?
Rupeni Caucaunibuca.
How fast is he still, even after eating an awful lot of KFC?
Who are the fastest rugby players ever?
Oh dear, it’s that time of week again for me. I think I have to say ‘Come on the Reds!’
Apologies to those who wanted to read about Mr Waldron!
What price the Reds getting another Faaingaa in the near future?
Waldron resigns from Rebels
The unintended consequences: teams will be far more willing to infringe to prevent tries being scored if the value of tries is increased and/or penalties reduced.
Dublin Conference to get rugby going foward
Just two little points: the people in the crowd around me on Saturday night thought the referee was Craig Joubert; and don’t write off the Sharks for the semis just yet. Whilst they have to play the Bulls in Pretoria their three other games are at home and I wouldn’t be surprised if they take 19 points from the remaining four games.
And I think I will be about the millionth person to say the Reds were awesome in a terrific match against the Bulls!
A Reds alert for the other Super 14 finals contenders
Go the REDS!
Sorry I’m just excited by Saturday’s game at Suncorp.
ARU must manage league converts wisely
Jeebus! I think the English are good enough and well resourced enough to get by without Australasian fans needing to barrack for them.
Smashing them in two tests in Australia will be an absolute joy.
All Black, Wallaby fans should cheer for Poms
Making crude racial jokes towards Dave and Siva is hardly going to endear you to others on the forum.
How to stage a League versus Union match
This is written by someone in love with Stephen Jones. The wording is very similar as is the misguided philosophy behind it.
It’s funny isn’t it? Somehow he reckons that powerful scrummaging, unstoppable driving mauls and brutal forward play don’t occur in the Super 14. Another tired cliche that doesn’t fit with the rugby I have viewed so far this season.
And just why do we have to put up with such a kneejerk reaction against any innovation, anything new in the game that might encourage running rugby? Typical.
Welcome to the new dawn of English rugby
To me the first twenty minutes of the game reminded me of watching the minnows in action during the Rugby World Cup. All the ball was with the Bulls, they looked fantastic, yet I was cheering every tackle the Force made. Every knock-on brought the local crowd into the game.
It was a truly wonderful effort to be up at halftime.
And a agree with Vented Relief that it was a very enjoyable game to watch.
Obviously, in the future the Force do not want to be judged a success by simply staying close to their opponents and trying their hearts out. However, at this time, with their record so far this season and all the injuries they have suffered, well done Force!
Force fail to hold off Bulls' stampede.
Interesting you think that Cattledog.
I really can’t agree with your opinion that South African television commenatators are any less biased than Australian or New Zealand ones. Particularly when they are talking about important decisions that occur during the game.
It’s all very well for Greg Martin or Phil Kearns to be positive, or expectant, in relation to the Reds or the Tahs as they readily admit bias in those instances. It’s another for a commentator to give an opinion as an authoritative voice, without reference to his bias or that he supports a particular team.
This may be a laboured point from last season, and yes it involves Test rugby not Super rugby, however, the video footage of Burger eye-gouging during the Lions test meant that the SAF commentators were in an ideal position to say, yes, that’s despictable, eye-gouging has no place in the game, he should be sent off.
There was no other justifiable position to take after viewing the footage. Yet, this didn’t happen during the call.
In Australia, for instance, Greg Martin, but admittedly not Kearns, said straight away that the Sharks should have been awarded a penalty try against the Tahs for Beale’s hand interrupting Terblanche’s pass. (And you could argue Beale’s hand was going up to catch the ball, but not that Burger was doing anything other then eye-gouging).
I’ll take the lighthearted bias that the Aussie commentators show, and their at times forced humour, rather than the underlying but unspoken bias from so many others.
PS can Greg Clarke stop saying ‘out the backdoor’. Roy and HG may be flattered by imitation but it’s starting to grate.
Reds notch Super 14 hat-trick
Hey Pablo, you’ve got me thinking about the standard of commentating we recieve for the Super 14:
The multinational nature of competitions such as the EPL or Champions League seems to have done away with the petty local rivalries and biases we take as part of the television coverage of rugby. (Although my viewing of soccer coverage is limited to SBS fare.)
Considering how well rugby supporters embrace each other, particulary in relation to those of European football, why do rugby commentators remain parochially entrenced?
Apart from one of my favourities, Ruggamatrix, I think the standard of rugby coverage worldwide is considerably below where it should be for a sport that its adherents like to think is multinational, hopefully intelligent rather than base, and fair-minded.
Reds notch Super 14 hat-trick
I guess the absolute veterans are led by one of the (ex?)Toulon players: Grigol Labadze? A second rower, backrower. He seems to have been around for ages. Apparently 36 years old.
And the Youtube footage of the most recent Russian game showed all the tries coming from forward play, even if one of the frontrowers recieved a beautiful pass from the flyhalf and then ran 45m to score.
Georgian rugby on the rise thanks to Turtle and RWC
To CraigB,
Stirling does look off the pace. Not helped by wearing a speed inhibiting scrumcap, or piece of headgear, as we say in Oz.
Thank goodness Digby Iwahhhnie has lost his red headpiece.
Makes me wonder whether players past their best, like Phil Vickery and possibly Stirling Mortlock, should be targets for the Melbourne Rebels, regardless of their ‘leadership’ credentials.
Brumbies clinch thriller against Chiefs
So glad Mr I. Dagg is in my Foxsports Fantasy team this week.
Highlanders tame Lions after shaky start
Elsom is still THE Australian blindside breakaway.
To Madsul, I reckon he’s pretty happy at the Brumbies. What a great organisation and teammates to play alongside with. Not that their coach comes close to our Link.
Besides, I don’t think the Reds would be doing any better than they currently are even with the inclusion of the lost Rocky, and departed Barnes.
In fact, Queensland would not be as good as they have been so far with either Barnes at 10, and Cooper having a lesser playmaking role at 12, or Barnes at 12, and the Reds missing out on what has so far been the great running lines, and acceleration, from the previously unheralded Faingaa twin.
Now, could we just get the third Faingaa from the Brumbies, and politely ask their parents to get busy, what a team.
What to do about a problem like Rocky?
And let’s all remember that when in the Republic, Rod Davies will from now on be known as Will Chambers.
Coupled with the South African underestimation of the Reds, and Higginbotham becoming the somewhat darker Leroy Houston during the call, it makes you wonder whether commentators (and viewers) realise this is a 14 team competition, as opposed to a tournament involving only their domestic teams occasionally playing foreign sides.
Reds notch Super 14 hat-trick
Come on the Reds, two more wins from their South African trip would have the Suncorp crowd rolling through the gates for the Bulls.
Reds notch Super 14 hat-trick
I wouldn’t worry too much about petty comments from Mr Demetriou.
A win or draw against Germany and watch for the irrepairable derailment of the ‘soccer haters’ train.
All aboard the ’soccer haters’ bandwagon!