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“Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore,” Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz declared to her dog and loyal companion. South…
The Springboks-Lions series is beginning to heat up rather fervently and has been ratcheted up even further by articles circulating out of South Africa…
Scott ‘Razor’ Robertson and his red-and-black machine will attempt to go for five championships in a row - Super Rugby and Aotearoa combined - at…
The Blues and Chiefs meet this Saturday in Super Rugby Aotearoa for a dead rubber in the overall standings of the competition. At the…
Another season, another competition, and another set of law changes for the newly formed Rainbow Cup involving teams from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and…
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“Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.” –…
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Sigmund Freud argues in his 1919 essay The Uncanny that “something is uncanny when it violates the safety of home as space. A rival…
“Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And…
In much the same fashion, Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus will have to ask some tough questions when putting his backline together for the Rugby…
Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution states that "all species arise and develop through natural selection by inheriting small variations that increase the individual’s ability…
The whispers around the All Blacks starting fly-half position for the defence of their World Cup title are beginning to grow more boisterous with…
In the book Friday Night Lights by Harry Gerard Bissinger, head coach Gary Gaines asks of his players, “Can you be perfect?”. He goes…
“My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.” In the Oscar-winning film Forrest Gump,…
“I firmly believe that any mans finest hour, the greatest fulfilment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked…
John Eales personifies all the values that make up Australian rugby scripture. He had all the attributes coaches could want in a player and,…
How wrong was I about this hahaha a healthy serving of huble pie thanks. Congrats to the Argentinians, fully deserved and an overall benefit for the game of rugby globally. Still stings like a bugger though when I think about it….
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the finest selection of them all?
I agree that your countries national team is all anyone really cares about. But for us in the Southern Hemisphere Super Rugby is the feeder system into which respective national teams are made up of. A lack of quality coming through Super Rugby is already being felt by South Africa and Australia.
Not-so-Super Rugby a Pyrrhic victory