Australian rugby authorities and journalists continued their relentless attacks on Jake White and the Springboks for allegedly bringing out an under strength team to tour Australasia. (more…)
Category: General
General rugby news and discussion
Richie McCaw spoke about the All Blacks chances of winning this year’s Rugby World Cup in France. (more…)
Joe van Niekerk continues to frustrate his employers at Western Province and has now been accused of going AWOL by coach Kobus van der Merwe. (more…)
New Zealand and Australia named their teams to contest the third Tri Nations (and Bledisloe Cup) test in Melbourne on Saturday. The game will be broadcast on Supersport at 11.05 am SA time. (more…)
Naas Isaacs interviewed All Black hard-man Jerry Collins for the Sunday Times. The story was published on 24 June 2007. (more…)
Australian coach Knuckles Connolly, writing in his weekly column in the Sydney Morning Herald, stated that he believed drop goals should be reduced from three to just one point. This comes after the Wallabies were beaten by two late Frans Steyn drop goals in their opening Tri Nations test against South Africa. (more…)
Mat Rogers, the former Wallaby who played 45 Tests for Australia, returned to rugby league at the start of the season with new NRL team the Gold Coast Titans and has become their leading try-scorer this season. He spoke to the Sydney Daily Telegraph about why he has no regrets about switching back to his old code. (more…)
Wallaby legend David Campese was on the shortlist to be given the honour of handing out the team jerseys before Australia’s match against the Boks last week. He was, however, quickly rejected by the Wallaby players – probably because they have so often been the victim of Campo’s candid views on the state of Australia rugby since he became a columnist. (more…)
South Africa’s talented lock forward ‘Big’ Victor Matfield will become one of the highest paid rugby players in the world when he joins French second division club Toulon after the Rugby World Cup. (more…)
Ten rugby legends will be inducted into Rugby’s Hall of Fame in London on 9th October this year. Among them are three Springbok greats Danie Gerber, Joost van der Westhuizen and Bennie Osler. Jonah Lomu of New Zealand will also be inducted. (more…)