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Concussion test to protect players and clubs from themselves
28 May 2013Please excuse my cross-pollination of topics between the mastheads for which I write, Roarers, but I touched on something yesterday for ESPNscrum that I really think warrants deeper discussion. It all relates to the curious and simultaneously worrying occurrence in the Blues-Brumbies game on Saturday evening, where in the 75th minute, Brumbies outside centre Tevita [...]
Wallaby six-pack: who gets the June call-up?
21 May 2013Many keyboards have been pounded over the last few days, as the reaction to Robbie Deans’ initial 25-man Wallaby squad continues to grow both in volume and in the level of criticism. Overall, aside from the lack of Quade Cooper and a second scrumhalf, there’s actually not that much conjecture over most of the 25 [...]
Hot damn! Scrums to be a contest again, and soon
14 May 2013It’s not often I get to write follow-up articles these days, and much less that the follow-up contains some great news that we will all agree is long overdue. You’ll recall my article back in March bemoaning the lack of contest in the scrum these days, on account of an absolute majority of scrumhalves feeding [...]
Combinations worth more than the sum of their parts
7 May 2013Everyone seems to be having their say on the likely make-up of the Wallabies side to face the British and Irish Lions, and even though I usually steer away from these hypothetical topics, the point has been reached where it’s worth offering the two cents. You would’ve heard and read me saying in recent weeks [...]
Report card revision: movement in the rankings
30 Apr 2013After the completion of Super Rugby Round 6 I put out my early-season report card, using three simple subjective ratings: teams that disappointed me to that point, the teams going as I expected them to, and those I considered to be over-achieving. With only nine rounds of the competition remaining, and with the June internationals [...]
Five things we learnt from the Australian conference this weekend
23 Apr 2013What a weekend to be an Australian rugby fan! Despite the Force going down in Wellington to the Hurricanes, there were good signs aplenty from all four teams in action. Here’s what we learnt. Or what I learnt, at least: There’s something building over in the west They may not be quite getting the results, [...]
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