From Tasmania to Twickenham, it’s been open season on Eddie Jones this week as the rugby family has piled in to lambast the man who presided over Australia’s great World Cup calamity. In Britain, old sparring partner Clive Woodward slammed Jones’s “pathetic” comments after quitting his Wallabies’ job while former England player Ugo Monye smelled […]

With the Finals over and the November 1 contract deadline passed, we can officially declare the NRL’s silly season open. Into the morass of gossip and conjecture, we will bring sanity, with the relaunch of Smart Signings, our dissection of where clubs are weak, what they need to improve and where they might find it. […]

It’s the kind of thing players say when they’re down to the last motivational trick in the kitbag and Joe Root was clearly clutching at straws by claiming England were a better team than Australia.  With the Stuart Broad as chief protagonist era officially over, Root stepped up to try to put the Aussies off […]

Remember back to the 2003 World Cup when opponents facing Australia had to see off Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie in the opening spell and if they were still standing, they then had to face the thunderbolts of Brett Lee and the accuracy of Andy Bichel… and if that wasn’t enough they had to endure […]

One thing’s for sure after the Rugby World Cup in France: many fans aren’t going to see their sport in the same light again, thanks to the bunker. No, not the bunker mentality, of the England kind, to eke out wins, but the TMO’s high-tech man cave. Like it or not, TMOs will come into […]