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Nicholas Bishop

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Nicholas Bishop

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Coach’s Corner Issue 30: How Tolu Latu can get even more from Taniela, and Eddie's big decision

Thanks once more to all who contributed a question, or helped develop one at the call-out stage!

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Jonesy said Roar Rookie

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When McCaw was 23, he was just about the best player in the world! Curry was fantastic at the last WC, admittedly I have…(more)

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Coach’s Corner Issue 30: How Tolu Latu can get even more from Taniela, and Eddie's big decision

Nicholas Bishop

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Nicholas Bishop

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Coach’s Corner Issue 30: How Tolu Latu can get even more from Taniela, and Eddie's big decision

Thanks once more to all who contributed a question, or helped develop one at the call-out stage!

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Nicholas Bishop

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Nicholas Bishop

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Coach’s Corner Issue 30: How Tolu Latu can get even more from Taniela, and Eddie's big decision

Thanks once more to all who contributed a question, or helped develop one at the call-out stage!

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Oliver Matthews

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‘Give him the keys to grandpa’s car’: Why England’s obsessed with the kid on a Quade Cooper collision course

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Brett McKay

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The Thursday rugby two-up: Standout players of TRC

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Tony Harper

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'I was sinking, it was rock bottom': Perese's brutal honesty after Rennie's call changes his path

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'I was sinking, it was rock bottom': Perese's brutal honesty after Rennie's call changes his path

Tony Harper

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Rugby World: What SBW owes to Mundine and Wilkinson, McMahon out of Japan clash, Faf's woe

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Oliver Matthews

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‘Give him the keys to grandpa’s car’: Why England’s obsessed with the kid on a Quade Cooper collision course

Marcus Smith is in the middle of the biggest year of his rugby life. It’s been hugely successful already and even bigger prizes await. It seems like nothing is going to stop the 22 year old fly half from cementing his position as one of the very best players in world rugby right now, and […]

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Brett McKay

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The Thursday rugby two-up: Standout players of TRC

For one last look at The Rugby Championship for 2021, I thought it was worth getting the panel to have a bit of a think about some of the individuals who made the tournament what it was this year.

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Tony Harper

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'I was sinking, it was rock bottom': Perese's brutal honesty after Rennie's call changes his path

Last week, when Dave Rennie named the 34 players who departed Australia on Wednesday to join three overseas based Wallabies on the spring tour, he had some fatherly words about some of his flock.

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Tony Harper

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Rugby World: What SBW owes to Mundine and Wilkinson, McMahon out of Japan clash, Faf's woe

Welcome to Rugby World, a new weekly column looking at issues and stories from home and abroad. Sonny shining Sonny Bill Williams is everywhere right now. A permanent fixture of Stan Sport’s post-match punditry, he didn’t awlays sparkle, but did deliver the best interview moment of The Rugby Championship with that heart-felt exchange with Quade […]

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Brett McKay

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Club World Cup a decent idea on paper, but no chance of finding room in the calendar

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Geoff Parkes

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The Wrap: Why Sam Cane and Kieran Read are poles apart and why it matters

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The Wrap: Why Sam Cane and Kieran Read are poles apart and why it matters

Tony Harper

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'We're trying to bring them home': Everything Rennie said on Euro star strategy, brutal youth cull and Kurtley call

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'We're trying to bring them home': Everything Rennie said on Euro star strategy, brutal youth cull and Kurtley call

Tony Harper

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WALLABIES SQUAD: Skelton returns, Perese gets another shot, Noah left behind

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WALLABIES SQUAD: Skelton returns, Perese gets another shot, Noah left behind

Brett McKay

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Club World Cup a decent idea on paper, but no chance of finding room in the calendar

For our part of the rugby world at least, these few weeks we’re currently in represent the part of the season where we start searching around for our rugby content, with The Rugby Championship done but the Spring Tours not quite ready to check boarding passes.

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Geoff Parkes

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The Wrap: Why Sam Cane and Kieran Read are poles apart and why it matters

On Saturday, All Black captain Sam Cane made his debut appearance for King Country, in the lower depths of New Zealand Rugby’s Heartland Championship, playing 57 minutes in their 13-48 loss to Whanganui.

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Tony Harper

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'We're trying to bring them home': Everything Rennie said on Euro star strategy, brutal youth cull and Kurtley call

Dave Rennie said he was still uncertain if the Wallabies’ would have their three Japanese-based stars, including starting No.10 Quade Cooper, available for the opening match of the spring tour, as he named a 37-man squad for the four Tests on Friday.

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Tony Harper

Editor

WALLABIES SQUAD: Skelton returns, Perese gets another shot, Noah left behind

Dave Rennie’s transformation of the Wallabies from a youth group to a hardcore line up of seasoned pros under further relaxation of the Giteau Law continued Friday when he named Will Skelton among three overseas-based players for the spring tour.

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Nicholas Bishop

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Nicholas Bishop

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Is Taniela Tupou top of the props?

On the eve of the titanic two-match tussle between the Wallabies and Springboks in the recently-concluded Rugby Championship, the ex-Reds and Wallaby wingman Lote Tuqiri was part of an event on the Gold Coast advertising Australia’s bid to host the 2027 World Cup.

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While NB writes of his tackle %ge, why is the number of tackles he made not documented ?? Please provide the figures Ni…(more)

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Nicholas Bishop

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Nicholas Bishop

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Is Taniela Tupou top of the props?

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Nicholas Bishop

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Nicholas Bishop

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Is Taniela Tupou top of the props?

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Nicholas Bishop

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Nicholas Bishop

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Coach’s Corner Issue 29: Do the All Blacks have a soft centre?

A big thank you to all those who contributed a question, or helped develop one at the call-out stage!

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adam smith said Roar Rookie

You’re not wrong there either Winston 😊

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Coach’s Corner Issue 29: Do the All Blacks have a soft centre?

Nicholas Bishop

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Nicholas Bishop

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Coach’s Corner Issue 29: Do the All Blacks have a soft centre?

A big thank you to all those who contributed a question, or helped develop one at the call-out stage!

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Nicholas Bishop

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Nicholas Bishop

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Coach’s Corner Issue 29: Do the All Blacks have a soft centre?

A big thank you to all those who contributed a question, or helped develop one at the call-out stage!

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Brett McKay

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The Thursday rugby two-up: One bio-bubble too many for the ‘Boks and Pumas?

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Nicholas Bishop

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How the Wallabies are building cohesion towards 2023

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How the Wallabies are building cohesion towards 2023

Brett McKay

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Kellaway’s bolt from nowhere highlights Wallabies sudden rebirth

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Kellaway’s bolt from nowhere highlights Wallabies sudden rebirth

Geoff Parkes

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The Wrap: Rugby Championship rediscovers its DNA and ends with a thriller

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Brett McKay

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The Thursday rugby two-up: One bio-bubble too many for the ‘Boks and Pumas?

The Rugby Championship has been run and won for another year, and the results and upsets and comebacks added a proper unpredictability about it all that tells us rugby in the southern hemisphere isn’t in too bad a place at all, generally speaking.

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Nicholas Bishop

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How the Wallabies are building cohesion towards 2023

The introductory mission statement for the company co-founded by ex-Wallaby prop Ben Darwin, Gain Line Analytics, reads in part as follows:

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Brett McKay

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Kellaway’s bolt from nowhere highlights Wallabies sudden rebirth

He was quick to dismiss two of his three tries against Argentina as really only needing to fall over the try line, but Andrew Kellaway’s first try on Saturday night instantly became the poster-moment for so many great developments in the Wallabies’ winning home season.

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Geoff Parkes

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The Wrap: Rugby Championship rediscovers its DNA and ends with a thriller

It was a near run thing, but we got there in the end. Defying delta, trans-Tasman spats, a captain’s photoshoot missing 25 per cent of the captains, a team tagged as the most boring in the history of rugby, pommy referees and an ill-advised sojourn to a Byron Bay day spa, the 2021 Rugby Championship […]

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Matt Cleary

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Walkin' on Sunshine: From fearless kids to resurgent veterans there's so much to love about these Wallabies

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Geoff Parkes

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Seven Wallabies, five All Blacks and three Boks in our Team of The Rugby Championship

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Harry Jones

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Belief, brutal strength, bloody-mindedness: The Boks are bloody back, baby!

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Belief, brutal strength, bloody-mindedness: The Boks are bloody back, baby!

Stirling Coates

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MATCH REPORT: Springboks edge All Blacks in one of the GREATEST Tests

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MATCH REPORT: Springboks edge All Blacks in one of the GREATEST Tests

Matt Cleary

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Walkin' on Sunshine: From fearless kids to resurgent veterans there's so much to love about these Wallabies

One day, and it was a few years ago now, I was at Bonville Golf Resort just south of Coffs Harbour where the Wallabies were hosting their annual golf day with local business folk.

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Geoff Parkes

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Seven Wallabies, five All Blacks and three Boks in our Team of The Rugby Championship

Last year’s international season had a huge, South African-sized asterisk attached to it. This year, despite another bunch of Covid generated asterisks, the four SANZAAR nations, against overwhelming odds, somehow managed to cobble together a meaningful tournament, with a great conclusion.

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Harry Jones

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Belief, brutal strength, bloody-mindedness: The Boks are bloody back, baby!

Two Tests between number one and two on neutral ground. A kick at the death both times.

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Stirling Coates

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MATCH REPORT: Springboks edge All Blacks in one of the GREATEST Tests

South Africa have inflicted New Zealand’s first loss of the Rugby Championship, with an Elton Jantjies penalty goal after time had expired sealing a thrilling 31-29 win in an instant classic.

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Rob Smith

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Rob Smith

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'Immense, never-say-die spirit', 'Quite brilliant': SA and NZ media react to Boks' triumph

The Springboks rebounded from a crescendo of criticism over their three straight defeats to inflict the All Blacks’ first loss in The Rugby Championship and stamp their authority as world champions.

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winston said Roar Rookie

The kiwi coach didn’t make an hour long YouTube video blaming the ref so I guess that’s an upside

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'Immense, never-say-die spirit', 'Quite brilliant': SA and NZ media react to Boks' triumph

Rob Smith

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Rob Smith

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'Immense, never-say-die spirit', 'Quite brilliant': SA and NZ media react to Boks' triumph

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Rob Smith

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Rob Smith

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'Immense, never-say-die spirit', 'Quite brilliant': SA and NZ media react to Boks' triumph

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