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Last week I was in the backseat of a shuddering Matamoras taxi driven by a man named Jesus. My mission was to know and…
We have covered the monk, the golfer, the mastiff, the towers, the bouncer, the bankrobber, the bear, the jockey, the frontman and the enforcer.…
The twelve. The inside man. The second five-eighth. The back plucked from the pack. The third flank. The missing link between league and union.…
Bands can jam but they don’t hit the big time without a legitimate front man. He may not be the best musician. He may…
I was steering a maul. My posterior proud and jutting like the bow of a Viking longboat or a cart horse. My scrumhalf wanted…
Coaches throw out so many metaphors that some are intercepted. An eighthman I was, more than any other role in rugby, and the coach…
Pilfer (verb). To steal things of little value or in small quantities, especially from the place where you work. Thus saith Oxford. Synonyms: filch,…
The Paris resy was just the start. Six months prior that mere button was pushed. The card held it. Texts each day the week…
Rugby Australia has a handful of great cards: a fantasy World Cup draw, a Lions series in 2025, a flush budget, gleaming new stadia,…
Rugby is a game of massed pressure. Pressure applied and absorbed. See the winners of the biggest tournaments: who stood tall under the hot…
If rugby was played between kennel clubs and breeds were required, my team would be (1-15):Mastiff, Bulldog, St. Bernard, Great Dane, Irish Wolfhound, Rottweiler,…
“You look like that guy who won the Masters,” proclaimed the player on my tennis team with the worst eyesight. He has lost more…
For years I have tinkered with a movie script for the seminal rugby film. To be honest, I have spent more time than I…
We have clues now: hints and suggestions. A statement of style at a schoolboy event, and a 43-man camp squad, with remarks designed to…
When I proposed Australian rugby approximate Irish rugby in style and teaching over the next ten years, a wise reader asked: “Who is our…
Australian men’s rugby has a dream draw this year, a World Cup coming, a ‘new’ coach’s honeymoon, and a big question. Who do we…
There was a small dog on a green in Dublin on Sunday. The only one unleashed despite a sign: “All dogs must be on…
Six nations came to play. One stands on the brink of rugby immortality: battered, bruised, beaten not. Shipwrecked sailors used to wind up on…
Rugby negotiations involving Hamish McLennan, NZRU and the British & Irish Lions are entirely unpredictable, but there is a growing expectation that an ANZAC…
The denouement of the 2023 Six Nations rugby tournament is upon us. Six burning questions fuel the mind, from the bottom of the log…
He can move. And is shaped like a classic 8
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
Love this kind of post
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
There’s so much good to market!
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
Everything looks intentional in slo mo
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
I tend to agree w you on the final 2
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
I’ve tried so many times
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
Top post!
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
They’d be a helluva 8 seed
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
Could go the Argie/French route and have 6-7-8 sort of interchangeable
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
The legal squabble means it’s likely there’ll be a settlement.
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
True. But these 6 rounds could allow them to turn that around
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
I don’t know if he is a Test 10. I’d test him
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
Yes, watching NBA playoffs, I’m struck with how many breaks there are but how good! How frantic it is when it matters. Breaks are ok.
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
It’s been rough
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
Agreed; just needs to stay healthy
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
Correct.
Mostly W Cape schools at the top
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
Yes, I’d put him on a Northampton weight gain plan. He’s got explosive power and that’s what’s hard to find
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
Thanks for posting! I see some Nienaber-Felix elements in that Blues D. Good coaches copy other good coaches!
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
Hoppy? Full of barley?
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
Thanks for reading, GKL
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
Yes, he’s been, as he was in 2023, absolutely clinical in all he does.
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
Grey College. Paarl Gim had a chance to level it 29-29 at the death but the conversion took the wrong bounce off the far post. This is not the exclusive territory of schoolboys (I saw it several times in the 6 Nations) but when you cross the try line at the end of a match, down 5 or less, it’s almost as do-or-die to work your way in closer to the poles than it is to score the try.
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
Yes, this has been one of the huge points of this season and augers well for the Blues’ playoff run.
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
Thanks, jeznez. That’s good to know. Perhaps he will have just the right amount of 🏉 in him!
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game
He was very good in the last win. Yes, the final kick was another’s but he led the team to big points
Five surprises, five disappointments and five things to figure out as Super Rugby 2024 reaches the end game