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The 2016 season finished like it started for the Wallabies. With a loss to England. On June 11 the Wallabies got off to a…
About 13 months ago, all four Rugby World Cup semi-final spots were taken up by Southern Hemisphere teams. Last weekend, Australia, South Africa and…
As the Wallabies prepare to face their toughest tour test yet, they appear to be finding a vital ingredient for winning: confidence. It seems…
Fine margins are often the difference between greatness and mediocrity, and the Wallabies emerged on the right side of that distinction on the weekend.…
The long rugby season rolls on! What should we be looking for out of the Spring tours? Like a well-constructed maul, the rugby calendar…
It's been some kind of week in Australian rugby. If you squint hard and put the windscreen wipers on full bore, you'll be able…
Some things changed and some stayed the same when the Wallabies won their third match of the season, overcoming the Pumas in England on…
The Wallabies let a precious chance to win a Test on South African soil slip away on the weekend. As usual, there are a…
We're always asking: 'What is the future of rugby?' Binary answers are elusive, and probably false. The boring is that rugby must build at…
A win does a lot for one's outlook in sport and on the weekend we'll see what's changed about how the Wallabies see themselves…
This week one of the smarter heads in rugby offered some brilliant insight into the needs of rugby in western Sydney - and he's…
This will be the toughest week in the coaching career of Michael Cheika. Australia still cares about the Bledisloe Cup, despite rarely having it…
After peering through a thicket of expectations, media coverage, medal tallies and more media coverage, it's refreshing to take a few minutes off thinking…
This week, Beauden Barrett showed the way for the future of men's rugby, while the Aussie women's sevens team, the Pearls, showed the way…
The two teams with engines that don't stop face each other in the Super Rugby final this week. That is the main lesson I…
Despite being two of the better teams all year, it never felt obvious that the best two teams last year would meet in the…
Now we know the eight teams in up this year's Super Rugby finals, the question is whether the four New Zealand teams will advance.…
Sigh. You wouldn't want to be in the ARU offices or around Michael Cheika this week would you? We all know the scores now,…
We're down to the business end of Super Rugby now. Here are three quick points about the state of the competition and Australia's finals…
At least we didn't lose to Iceland. Apart from that extremely greyed silver lining, there aren't many positives to go on this week. The…
Mr Robot was amazing last year. It was clearly the best show on TV, by some distance.
I kinda held it back to make a point, I’ll admit that. 😛 The 1-14 rankings are the teams, not exactly the TV shows.
Super Rugby 2016 power poll 1: The tiers of TV
Biggest loser would be very harsh Taylorman!
Maybe Dancing With The Stars? Old star, past its prime, trying to make a comeback?
Super Rugby 2016 power poll 1: The tiers of TV
As I said at the top Carlos, I spend way too much time in front of a TV for one reason or another. 😛
Super Rugby 2016 power poll 1: The tiers of TV
“This is an outrage.”
Absolutely it is!
Veep is the best comedy I’ve seen in a decade. Its amazing. So perfect our own PM walked into a Veep episode without realising it.
The Good Wife is in a “keep watching but not the best show ever” category. You don’t rate it as such?
Agree with you about Deadwood, fantastic show. Didn’t get on board with Boardwalk Empire quite as much.
Super Rugby 2016 power poll 1: The tiers of TV
Sorry I haven’t had more time to dive into the comments. Glad to see people are digging around in this a bit. Strange times in Brumby-land atm.
Brumbies torn apart while the rugby world watches
Lets hope Jones is who he says he is. Or at the very least, there are some other people on the board and around the team who can also be change agents.
Hard to begrudge a guy determined to clean up corporate and legal governance. We don’t want to continue operating as a semi-pro sport, where mates are looked after but the game isn’t.
Brumbies torn apart while the rugby world watches
I think we’ll always have something to talk about off the field. Hopefully we do get to a point where its a much more minor distraction.
Brumbies torn apart while the rugby world watches
This is fantastic Allanthus. Really well pulled together. Loved it. Important topic and we need to keep working on it.
Just how serious is rugby’s concussion problem?
On these changes TWAS, the clubs will be unhappy that not only has NRC made them an official fourth tier level (although they weren’t run well enough to be such or make enough money, they tried to be a true feeder comp) now the under 20s comp attached to the Australian Conference has bumped club rugby backwards, or at least sideways, again.
No, it should not be the Western Sydney Force
Agree with much of what you say here. Nice work.
No, it should not be the Western Sydney Force
The set up of Sydney make it very hard to support the Waratahs if you live more than 20km from Moore Park. That’s part of the problem.
No, it should not be the Western Sydney Force
Great reasons for not moving. I agree with nearly all of them.
No, it should not be the Western Sydney Force
Gotta give the Force fans credit, Chivas. They turn up and keep cheering.
Massive plus for keeping the team there.
No, it should not be the Western Sydney Force
That seems to be a good move so far. Hopefully he can get things moving there again. Big job. 🙂
No, it should not be the Western Sydney Force
That was part of the point I was making Onside. There would be a huge talent pool in western Sydney if there was a better structure to funnel it to. Atm schools are barely touched and local competitions struggle. Pathways are vague.
No, it should not be the Western Sydney Force
I’m not sure how you know what Harris wants exactly. You may be right.
On the population, atm it’s not hugely different:
Greater Western Sydney: 1.9mil
Perth: 1.8 million
But western Sydney will add about 100,000 people every year until 2031 or so. We’re talking close to 3 million by 2031. Thats a huge growth market.
No, it should not be the Western Sydney Force
It was close, 125k to 120k, I think. But a bad sign.
Is it too early to worry about the Australian conference?
One other reason to worry about the Tahs I’ll add, from a business perspective:
On Friday night the Tahs v Brumbies game appears to have been out-rated by the NAB Challenge…
Is it too early to worry about the Australian conference?
Oh crap. Sorry about the score fellas. Thanks for the pick up.
Would you agree with the overall point that while 32-15 wasnt a complete flogging it was hard to see the Waratahs winning for the most part?
Is it too early to worry about the Australian conference?
Good point about them all coming from Randwick. So how do we improve, and spread out, the coaching tree in Australia.
Does Cheika get a bit of credit for adopting some other coaches, like Larkham, and giving them good exposure?
Is it too early to worry about the Australian conference?
We’re entering the status quo again are we?
Is it too early to worry about the Australian conference?
I think the NZ conference is close. But I don’t think it’s poor. Every team has had flashes of very good rugby throughout their two matches so far.
Blues in round 1.
Crusaders last week.
Highlanders and Hurricanes against each other – that game was a higher standard than anything played by an Australian team so far. Not perfect, but quite good.
Chiefs in round one.
Is it too early to worry about the Australian conference?
I felt bad leaving Fargo a run below Mad Men etc, Allanthus. It’s a brilliant show. Probably not enough people saw it.
Super Rugby 2016 power poll 1: The tiers of TV