Super Rugby Round 11: You ‘twos’, you lose…
Twos all round last week, as this crazy year of Super Rugby found yet another way to punish the tipping panel.
Twos all round last week, as this crazy year of Super Rugby found yet another way to punish the tipping panel.
The NSW Waratahs have every confidence their emerging young prop Harry Johnson-Holmes will handle the heat coming his way, as he prepares for his first Super Rugby start against South African opposition.
The Aussie starred in Leinster’s Champions Cup semi-final win.
At some stage in the next week or so Israel Folau will discover his fate. But if it’s this week, it’ll be late in the piece, primarily due to Easter.
That was the quote from veteran centre Adam Ashley-Cooper after the Waratahs had come from behind to beat the Rebels 23-20 at the SCG last night.
For the last seven decades of watching and covering rugby, there have been five outstanding schoolboys who have shone like beacons – Ken Catchpole, Brian Allsop, Jim Lenehan, Mark Ella, and Kurtley Beale.
The Israel Folau ‘Hell Awaits’ saga has revealed a lot about many people, including the likelihood that Michael Cheika has already forgotten who now selects the Wallabies team and some inconsistency over who he thinks deserves another chance.
Waratahs coach Daryl Gibson has opted to move Kurtley Beale into the fullback position vacated by exiled Wallaby Israel Folau.
Well, there may be no better illustration of how crazy Super Rugby is going this year than considering this crazy little circle of craziness that was completed last weekend.
While the Crusaders and Hurricanes might be running away with the competition at the moment, the battles for the other finals spots are really hotting up and over the coming weeks teams are going to be desperate to find that form and momentum that gets them into business end of the season.
Late last year I wrote an article titled ‘The Aussie Super Rugby teams should not ruin the 2019 Super Rugby season by resting Wallabies’.
The whispers around the All Blacks starting fly-half position for the defence of their World Cup title are beginning to grow more boisterous with each passing Super Rugby round.
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Will Miller has spoken about what it means to captain the Tahs as the countdown to the Super Rugby season continues.
If you happen to know anyone who still questions whether rugby players are tough – although surely these people no longer exist – Josh Pray is here to help you silence the doubters.
It is a given that national unions strive to improve and maintain the ranking of their Test sides, because they (rightly) assume that fans want World Cup success, and teams that play competitive, attractive rugby in the years in between.
It is a given that national unions strive to improve and maintain the ranking of their Test sides, because they (rightly) assume that fans want World Cup success, and teams that play competitive, attractive rugby in the years in between.
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