Posts Tagged "England"

I’m at a loss to understand why the recently named Australian Ashes squad has been written off as the worst ever.

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Ashes squads in the past have often been labelled as the worst ever by the English press, but this year the selectors have gone closer than ever to making the boys from Fleet Street experience something they haven’t experienced before – being 100% correct!

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The 16-man squad for the forthcoming Ashes in England has been announced today and no doubt everyone has a point of view.

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In a recent Spectator, the English sports writer James Nicholls argues that this should be the Australian XI to play the first Test at Trent Bridge in July: Rogers, Marsh, Khawaja, Clarke, Warner, Watson, Wade, Johnson, Pattinson, Siddle, Lyon.

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Once the Australian cricketers return home and the last of the bruised fruit has been flung inside the arrivals lounge, let us make a pact as a nation to never speak of the horror of the last five weeks ever again.

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This week, Roarer Tony Mellow made a list of his best 20 rugby league players in Australia since 1980.

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England came through a huge scare to keep their grand slam hopes alive with an unconvincing 18-11 victory over Italy in the Six Nations Championship at Twickenham on Sunday.

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With the caveat that we have 100 days still to go, it is an interesting exercise to see what the England and Wales Six Nations wins might tell us about the upcoming Lions tour.

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With the caveat that we have 100 days still to go, it is an interesting exercise to see what the England and Wales Six Nations wins might tell us about the upcoming Lions tour.

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England recovered from a sluggish start to hold off a rejuvenated France in the Six Nations on Saturday, winning 23-13 at Twickenham to stay on course for the Grand Slam.

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The 2013 Ashes is only 6 months away. Recent history, Test rankings and players’ experience suggests that England should be outright favourites to retain the famous urn.

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In the current era of sport, we expect China to dominate gymnastics, Jamaica to win on the track, America to out-swim the competition and India to spin its way to comprehensive victories in Test matches on home soil.

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With news reports freely available on the web, and the IRB rankings updated on a weekly basis, there are few Test results around the world which escape our attention. It’s easy to forget that this wasn’t always so.

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Was England’s win over the All Blacks several weeks ago the turning of the tide, or a mere slip up by the world’s best?

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England ended world champion New Zealand’s 20-match unbeaten run with a stunning 38-21 victory at Twickenham on Saturday.

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South Africa completed an unbeaten tour of Europe with a 16-15 victory over England at Twickenham on Saturday that did more damage to the hosts’ hopes of a top-four seeding at next month’s World Cup draw.

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One week has made a massive difference to the Wallaby scrum. There are two key points to note. Firstly, England did not scrummage as well as France managed the week before.

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Perhaps the most pleasing aspect of the Wallabies’ 20-14 win over the flying purple people-eaters at Twickenham was that there were signs that the Wallabies might just be getting at least some of the messages coming from disgruntled supporters at home and abroad.

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England launched their European autumn series with a commanding 54-12 win over Fiji at Twickenham on Saturday.

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If I can make a sort of rugby political statement, this weekend is a reminder to followers of the game here in Australia who are inclined to bag its prospects that it is vibrant and growing immensely throughout the world.

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