Let Her Play
By Scott MacLean It takes a fair bit to get my blood really boiling, but this nonsense this morning out of Hawkes Bay did. Briar Hales has been effectively excluded[…]
Category: Rugby
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Exit Interview: The Blues
The first in a five part series of writers from the various New Zealand Super Rugby franchises giving their season ending exit interviews. Naturally The Blues are up first. By[…]
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The Tew Era
By Scott MacLean New Zealand Rugby supremo Steve Tew has announced he’ll step down as CEO later this year, ending a stint in rugby administration longer than the professional game[…]
Sporting pictures of the Week :- 2 June
What’s on your head Safraz Ahmed? The Captains got a trip to Buck Palace for a photo. Ignoring Kohli’s short trousers, aren’t the taller people meant to go in the[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 24 May
Cricket World Cup corner. Kane Williamson; why are you looking so awkward here? And nobody messes with Virat’s personal space, and his own chair. Flashback to the corresponding photo in[…]
Swinehound Quiz #7
By The Spotter The 7th Swinehound via sportsfreak.co.nz is centred on Rugby Union and ‘The Mighty Quinn’; NZ’s commentating royalty, Keith Quinn. It is his lines of commentary that have settled permanently into the[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 18 May
Tiger Ball at the PGA. He didn’t even make the cut, but he still attracts the phones. A Cricket Match by LS Lowry fetched a million pounds during the week.[…]
Leave the Preaching at the Altar
By The Spotter It’s high time to do away with religious dogma and associated preaching in sport. It’s an affront to me to literally brainwash people with attitudes that originated a couple of thousand[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 28 April
Those whacky Crusaders players. Here they are dressing up a super heroes to commemorate Anzac Day. Rugby World Cup hosts the Brave Blossoms have a new sponsorship deal. OK, it[…]
Sporting pictures of the Week :- 12 April
So here is a Frenchman dressing up as a caveman, singing a Scottish anthem in China. Back in the grass roots, Rugby 7s is kind of quite big in Fiji.[…]
