Posts Tagged "Dan Carter"

I penned and posted this before Saturday’s Bledisloe Cup match at Eden Park. I’m glad I did.

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The argument has raged on in recent months whether Wallabies entertainer Quade Cooper is challenging All Blacks supremo Dan Carter as the world’s best No.10.

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That scandalous headline got your attention, didn’t it? Just like it got mine driving home at 5kmph in Auckland’s peak-hour traffic last night.

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All Blacks selectors have predictably tweaked their playing personnel for New Zealand’s opening Tri-Nations rugby Test of the year, against South Africa on Saturday in Wellington.

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The following is the greatest rugby union side of all-time, in my opinion. I have taken into consideration a number of key factors in choosing this side.

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They might be the fiercest of rugby rivals, but New Zealand coach Graham Henry jumped to the defence of his Australian counterpart Robbie Deans after he was criticised in the wake of the Wallabies’ stunning loss to Samoa.

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The homeless Canterbury Crusaders continued a relentless charge towards Super Rugby glory with a 29-10 semi-final triumph over Western Stormers at a wet Newlands on Saturday.

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Graham Henry commented last week on Aaron Cruden’s place kicking as one of the reasons he was selected in the All Black squad.

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When the Crusaders forced a penalty with five minutes to go to take the lead from the Reds 16-14 I wrote in my notebook that the margin kept the Reds in a game. They needed only a penalty or a drop goal to win.

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James Horwill has never had 48,301 people sing happy birthday to him before, but they did last night at Suncorp. The record Super crowd gave the Reds skipper a rousing rendition for his 26th, doubling as a raucous celebration for the Reds’ 17-16 win over the Crusaders.

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Recent discussion here at The Roar has prompted me to write an article about the great All Blacks coach Graham Henry. After all, I once questioned how great a coach Henry really was.

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It won’t be the world class Richie McCaw, nor Dan Carter, who loom as the spearhead to an All Black victory in the Rugby World Cup final at Eden Park, on October 21. It will be Sonny Bill Williams.

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The winning culture. Very few teams in world sport have it and those that don’t are trying to build it. Manchester United, the Chicago Bulls of the 1990’s, the Queensland rugby league team of the past five years. They all bred winning cultures.

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It was a question posed early on by many: who will fill the No. 10 jersey should Daniel Carter be unavailable during the rugby World Cup? While there are a bunch of contenders, the answer to the question is still as unclear as it was six months ago.

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All Black pivot Dan Carter is widely regarded as the finest five-eighth playing rugby today. But the New Zealand template pre-Carter for athleticism, fluid place-kicking and ability to exploit a gap was created, not by Grant Fox, Andrew Mehrtens or the mercurial Carlos Spencer, but by a little-known rugby player called Nicky Allen.

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The iRB have been very pro-active in their attempts to expand our game to new areas throughout the world and this has mostly been done through the iRB World Sevens Series.

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The Crusaders extended their lead at the top of the New Zealand conference with a shutout 27-0 Super Rugby win over the Bulls in Timaru on Saturday night.

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Dan Carter and Sonny Bill Williams inspired the Crusaders to a 44-28 win over the Sharks in an historic Super Rugby fixture at Twickenham on Sunday.

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An avalanche of points to the Crusaders in the second half has awarded them a 52-10 bonus point victory over the Brumbies at Trafalgar Park in Nelson.

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Some time back, Graham Henry stated that he would not cotton wool any of his major players before or during the rugby World Cup. But that strategy seems to be in doubt, especially the “during” part.

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