The mightiest tree in the forest has fallen
By Scott MacLean The passing of Colin Earl Meads after a battle with pancreatic cancer this morning leaves a larger-than-life void in the national game. I’m not of an age[…]
Category: Rugby
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Missing the important stuff
Yesterday the story about Jerome Kaino’s alleged affair broke and he went home to pick up the pieces. That followed a few Aaron Smith stories during the week. And they[…]
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What chance Wallabies?
By The Spotter With the unwelcome re-emergence of the Smith sex-capades and following as it does closely on the heels of their recent failure to deal to the B & I Lions, the AIG-moneyed[…]
Sporting pictures of the Week :- 18 August
The end of an era. Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam competes in the javelin discipline of the women’s heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships. Nobody likes a plastic fan, and this is[…]
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Attention to Detail
The Terms and Conditions around media accreditation for the Rugby Championship is a big thing at the moment. There was the ban on rugby reporting by Fairfax this week, but[…]
SANZAAR Selection Shocker
By The Spotter Regarding that ‘Team of the Year’, the outcome reads like another one of those decisions from SANZAAR that seems like a bad practical joke; the only problem being that it’s unfortunately and most definitely not. Yes, you[…]
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Sir John was one of the Best
By The Spotter Someone whose opinion he must have respected told D.J. Graham around the mid-1960s, “Graham, you should give it away- you’re looking too old and slow”. Upon hearing that damning[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 4 August
The Crusaders are in Johannesburg preparing for their Super Rugby final. What a week of training for Owen Franks. Stuart Broad had an interesting commute to work during the week.[…]
Genial Coaches and Does Razor Have the Right Stuff?
By The Spotter ‘There is so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes’. So said once the great football coach and people polariser extraordinaire,[…]
