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RATH: Return to rugby, and pre-game rituals
4 Feb 2013Post-game travel days vary little and usually involve lots of sore bodies, packing, long flights, aeroplane food, being annoyed by Nic White, flight delays, buses, punching Nic White, airport terminals and lost luggage before finally arriving home to the comfort of love ones and a familiar bed. As I write this I’m sitting on a [...]
RATH: Lancing Faith
21 Jan 2013Gripping, riveting, captivating. Take your pick of adjectives, the fact is, Lance Armstrong’s interview with Oprah Winfrey was that rare type of television that captures the world’s attention. As the interview unfolded it became increasingly clear that Armstrong, if not a full blown sociopath certainly possesses many of the characteristics usually associated with one. This [...]
RATHBONE: Pre-season training, interchanges, and the Rath returns
10 Jan 2013I thought I’d kick things off slightly self-indulgently and update you on how my comeback to rugby is tracking. Operation comeback got off to a rocky start when I experienced a hamstring tear a few weeks after resuming training with the team. This was followed up by ankle surgery late in October, which further slowed [...]
RATH: What we have here is a failure to communicate
21 Nov 2012Quade Cooper is a polarising figure in Australian sport. Today’s media reports indicating his possible exit from rugby have evoked responses ranging from the ‘good riddance to bad rubbish’ line, to anger and frustration that Australian rugby stands to lose one of its brightest stars. Given it seems we’re on the brink of losing Cooper [...]
Wallabies need to embrace professionalism to return to the top
8 Sep 2012The past two test matches against the All Blacks have highlighted the fact that there is considerable daylight between New Zealand and well, everybody else. So pronounced is the All Black dominance that we’ve observed a very strange and entirely unique phenomenon: acceptance of second place by Australians While we should all encourage an honest [...]
RATHBONE: Why I've returned to rugby
23 Aug 2012“One of the hardest decisions in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder”. I’m not sure who to attribute the above quote to, but it did strike a chord with me. Back in 2009, my decision to retire was actually fairly simple. I was in a lot of pain. My knee would [...]
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