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Look, I know we are enjoying summer at the beach, watching the cricket and haven’t turned the corner on Australia Day yet. But there is something we need to discuss: just like objects in your car’s wing mirror, which may be “closer than they appear”, so too is the start of the 2021 rugby season.
Look, I know we are enjoying summer at the beach, watching the cricket and haven’t turned the corner on Australia Day yet. But there is something we need to discuss: just like objects in your car’s wing mirror, which may be “closer than they appear”, so too is the start of the 2021 rugby season.
A late starter in rugby union and unaware of available steps to carve out an international career outside the country of his birth, it’s now fitting that Bristol-born Kevin Maggs seeks out players in a similar situation, as part of his current role for the Irish Rugby Union Football Union (IRFU).
It’s been a tough couple of years for the NSW Waratahs.
Note the date of December 4, 2020 In your rugby memory banks.
Flying out of Ireland in the second half of December and bound for the city of Clermont-Ferrand in the Massif Central of France, the Munster rugby team and support staff knew they faced a formidable task on the field a few hours later.
As a lover of cricket and rugby union, I often like to compare what the sporting codes can learn from each other.
This article has been brewing as I’ve watched rugby union as a game deteriorate to the extent that I rarely watch it, and when I do, I mostly get bored with it.
Was Hector Forsayth the best fullback never to play for the Wallabies?
The West Country is one of the prettiest parts of England.
Jonathan Sexton. No name has been more synonymous with Irish rugby over the last ten years.
Jonathan Sexton. No name has been more synonymous with Irish rugby over the last ten years.
Jonathan Sexton. No name has been more synonymous with Irish rugby over the last ten years.
I recently read the term ‘viewership’ in a Roar article and almost queried the author about why he used that term rather than simply ‘viewing numbers’.
I recently read the term ‘viewership’ in a Roar article and almost queried the author about why he used that term rather than simply ‘viewing numbers’.
I recently read the term ‘viewership’ in a Roar article and almost queried the author about why he used that term rather than simply ‘viewing numbers’.
Aussies plying their rugby trade overseas is nothing new, but increasingly it’s our young guns making the move in their prime, ruling them out of Wallabies selection.
Earlier this year, Australian rugby looked terminal.
Most Irish rugby legends are Munster legends. The great characters like the marauding Moss Keane or the mercurial Tom Kiernan.
The back three is a place where pace and agility are mixed with the ability to claim the high ball. It is a place which fizzles with electricity, and the speed of players combines with the skill of playmakers around them to score.
The COVID pandemic has resulted in businesses globally having to adapt and shift strategies in order to survive in the long term. Rugby has felt the full effects of the pandemic, especially in Australia.
The eighth efficacy look in my series puts young Irish lock James Ryan under the microscope.
I’m a big podcast-listener, so whatever I’m into I’ll usually find a few good podcasts to listen to on it.
Should Willie Le Roux retain his fullback jersey for the Springboks?
At the turn of the decade we should start to analyse and appreciate certain tactics that have become trendy recently. Tactical trends come and go, and people rarely realise that they are there.
At the turn of the decade we should start to analyse and appreciate certain tactics that have become trendy recently. Tactical trends come and go, and people rarely realise that they are there.
At the turn of the decade we should start to analyse and appreciate certain tactics that have become trendy recently. Tactical trends come and go, and people rarely realise that they are there.
Look, I know we are enjoying summer at the beach, watching the cricket and haven’t turned the corner on Australia Day yet. But there is something we need to discuss: just like objects in your car’s wing mirror, which may be “closer than they appear”, so too is the start of the 2021 rugby season.
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I’m making the assumption that with everything being up I. The air, they don’t want to confirm or spend any money on…(more)