Please stop throwing good money at the Rebels
Australia has too many Super Rugby franchises, from a high-performance perspective. I doubt many people would lament the passing o…
Hamish has been an opinion and sports writer for over 20 years in New Zealand, featuring on RNZ, New Zealand Herald, Stuff.co.nz, and RugbyPass.
Australia has too many Super Rugby franchises, from a high-performance perspective. I doubt many people would lament the passing o…
Surely a man of Joe Schmidt’s track record, contacts and acumen could find a cushier role than Wallabies coach.
Featuring the best of French, South African and British rugby, the Champions Cup is of a high standard, played in front sizable cr…
It’s interesting, on a couple of fronts, to see new All Blacks coach Scott Robertson hold the door ajar to picking players from …
Cane cited South Africa, who successfully cobbles players together from Europe and Japan and churns out Rugby World Cup-winning te…
Without Richie Mo’unga, the cupboard of competent first five-eighths' back here in New Zealand is pretty bare.
Don’t air the organisation’s business in public. Don’t hire a national coach capable of going rogue. Don’t go seeking publ…
There are two reasons - which the All Blacks could learn from - which mean the New Zealand men’s cricket team invariably get a p…
If there was a journey that Ian Foster was taking the team on during his tenure, it didn’t feel as if he took that many of us wi…
Let’s not rewrite history here. Let’s not pretend this is a great side who were robbed of victory, having been expertly prepar…
And yet, in a few days’ time, the All Blacks are likely to be crowned Rugby World Cup champions.
They had ample opportunities to beat the All Blacks on Sunday and weren’t good enough to take them. At times, that was due to th…
I thought there were times in that France game when the pressure exerted by de Groot was intolerable for Antonio. At those moments…
I think under coach Ian Foster’s tenure we’ve become accustomed to defeat. We don’t necessarily accept it, but we expect it.
The tight five hasn’t been pushed around too often. Teams haven’t had their way with New Zealand at ruck and maul time.
Reports are that Hansen informed All Blacks coach Ian Foster before accepting the role, that he isn’t being paid and nor is he g…
McCaw sits among the all-time greats, while Cane will be remembered as a fine man who did his best. It’s chalk and cheese.
But if we’re looking for a bloke to bark at forwards in the way Smith so effectively does, then Weber would’ve been the next-b…
I heard a bit of talk afterwards from the team about the defence getting them back into the game. Maybe. But that ignores the fact…
It’s upsetting to see Australian rugby where it is. For much of my life, the Wallabies were almost as good - and occasionally be…