If you had offered Robbie Deans a Tri-Nations title decider against the All Blacks with one game spare before the competition kicked off, he would have bitten your hand off.
Yet this is the situation that the Wallabies coach is in, despite having to play the Springboks twice in a row in their own back [...]
There’s just over a week left until the new Guinness Premiership season starts with a bang at Twickenham, and everyone at The Rugby Blog is getting excited.
We are putting the finishing touches to some preview articles, with details of each club’s transfer activities and prospects for the new season.
In the meantime though, here is an [...]
Extraordinary success at the Olympics at Beijing has set the bar high for sports like football, cricket and rugby.
No longer is the British public satisfied with honourable defeat - the new winning mentality will catch on, and as the women’s quadruple sculls team indicated, second place is not good enough.
As we look forward [...]
The 19-0 loss to the All Blacks two weeks ago was a wake up call for the Springboks, but more importantly to coach Peter de Villiers.
The Boks have got an amazing team, full of world class players. They’ve just won the world cup. They’ve proved that they are a global force in world rugby [...]
Richie McCaw reminded the world yesterday why he is the most effective flanker in the game. He stifled the game to such an extent that the Springboks ran out of ideas and could not score a point.
He led the defensive line expertly, making a huge number of tackles and thwarting nearly every attack made [...]
New Zealand’s impressive defeat of Australia in the last round of the Tri-Nations unearthed a new aspect of their gameplan - their tactical kicking was phenomenal from Dan Carter and Jimmy Cowan in particular.
Springbok coach Peter de Villiers has recalled scrum-half Fourie du Preez to help fight fire with fire - his kicking out of [...]
Our friends at ‘Our Rugby Club’ have organised a free rugby predictions game for this season’s Guinness Premiership, and they are even giving away a 42″ plasma TV!
In typical fashion, I have set up a pool for The Rugby Blog and I will sort out a prize for the winner of that pool - enter [...]
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