The sublime and the disappointingly familiar crashed head-on over semi-final weekend, illustrating all that is great and all that is ailing Super Rugby. An excellent contest in Wellington seemed to pack an awful lot into eighty minutes; mostly to the delight of Chiefs’ fans, as their side showed remarkable skill and tenacity to overcome the […]
Michael Maguire’s new-look Blues for Origin II certainly have more strikepower but they face a substantial task in a sub-optimal amount of time to strike up cohesion. Maguire has tried to strike the happy medium between the cliche of “wholesale changes” and the risk of sticking solid to the players who were on the field […]
The NRL is faster than it has ever been, the six-again rule adds to fatigue, head injury assessments (HIAs) are now commonplace and quite often a team will go down to a three-man bench, and need to activate the 18th man. The game has sped up, but it’s left the interchange system dragging behind. Cast […]
Larrakia Country was graced by the presence of the Supercars championship, as the premier Australian touring car category once again celebrated its Indigenous Round in the country’s top end. From a maiden pole-sitter, to the champ returning to the podium and a weekend of domination for a championship hopeful, here are the talking points from […]
I am not a Victorian by birth or inclination. I am a migrant to Australia and for this I am forever grateful. My wife and I have been lovers of rugby union for many decades. When the Melbourne Rebels ‘arrived’ in Melbourne we were pleased to join fourteen years ago and have remained as members […]
