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Preview: final weekend of the Aviva Premiership
5 May 2012This week sees the final round of the Aviva Premiership before the playoffs begin. There is still a lot to play for: English players are playing to impress national team coach Stuart Lancaster, other players are bidding farewell to their clubs before they depart overseas, and most significantly players will be playing to push their [...]
Five most underrated England rugby players
28 Apr 2012Inspired by Frank O’Keefe’s fine article about underrated Wallaby players, I started to consider English players who were similarly viewed. Problematically, being one of the younger posters on The Roar, my first real love of rugby came about during the 1997 Lions tour. To that extent my piece might have more of a modern feel [...]
England's World Cup training squad: the second row
28 Jul 2011Continuing my brief examination of the England World Cup training squad prior to the final squad selection, with a look at the second row. It is fair to say that injuries aside Courtney Lawes and Tom Palmer are the starting 4 and 5 locks. Both are probably better rugby players than they are locks which, [...]
England's World Cup training squad: A front row dissection
27 Jul 2011Over the next few weeks I thought I would offer a brief examination of the England World Cup training squad prior to the final squad selection, starting with the front row. The one area where English rugby is seriously light in quality is at hooker. Dylan Hartley is the current Test incumbent, but is arguably [...]
Leinster v Northampton: Heineken Cup forwards
20 May 2011This coming Saturday, Leinster and Northampton Saints are poised to meet in the 16th Heineken Cup final at the Millenium Stadium, Cardiff. On the road to the final, Northampton have won away at Castres, Cardiff Blues and Edinburgh and then beaten Ulster and Perpignan in England in the knockout stages. They are currently unbeaten all [...]
Will it be all blue for France this Autumn?
13 Nov 2010A few weeks ago, I was informed by somebody that Marc Lievremont had expressed an intention to mimic the brand of rugby played by the All Blacks. It was therefore with great excitement that I awaited the unleashing of Lievremont’s first side for the Autumn series versus Fiji. Unsurprisingly, I was most unsurprised with the [...]
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