Hamish has been an opinion and sports writer for over 20 years in New Zealand, featuring on RNZ, New Zealand Herald, Stuff.co.nz, and RugbyPass.
I wonder who else remembers that game. You should do, given how much we bang on about the All Blacks’ run of unbeaten games at E…
If Ardie Savea has a personal or family issue to attend to, fine. The birth of a child, good as gold. But if the All Blacks captai…
What’s more, after the really strange and underwhelming Scott Robertson era, I think these players actually want to be coached a…
The All Blacks are two games into a new coaching era. They’re embedding a new first five-eighth and trying different combination…
The All Blacks’ explosiveness and athleticism enabled them to overcome the French and I’d be disappointed if that obscured the…
The All Blacks are relevant again. People will watch, and people will get back on the bandwagon, having kind of given up in disgus…
Everyone wants winners and losers out of any team naming. Frankly, when the net’s cast this wide, those kinds of categories are …
I think we’d all agree that Beauden Barrett will be in the first All Blacks test squad of the season. Just as, we’d also have…
I now have some confidence in New Zealand Rugby being able to consistently make good decisions, and I also have a strong belief th…
Rob Penney needed to go as Crusaders head coach. It was right that the franchise stood by Penney after a poor start to his tenure,…
One of the consequences of Super Rugby’s evolution into a one-game comp, is that it’s premature to properly evaluate Hurricane…
New Zealand Rugby and All Blacks head coach Dave Rennie are doing things that make sense and engender confidence.
Rugby in this country becomes significantly weaker when we lose seasoned Super Rugby players or All Blacks of recent vintage.
Super Rugby can work, provided everyone’s happy to take a significant haircut. We pay athletes too much money. Not just here, bu…
Gilbert Enoka gets the All Blacks. Heck, he's as much a part of the culture of that team as some of the great men who've worn the …
As long as Ardie Savea spends a few months playing in New Zealand next year, I don't really care where it is.
Brodie Retallick would be one of the better All Blacks I’ve seen. Rugged and skillful, he was everything you could possibly wan…
And exactly what we need in order for rugby and the All Blacks to be viewed with the kind of affection that’s currently reserved…
Sure, it was probably inevitable that Neil Barnes would join Dave Rennie’s All Blacks coaching group, but it’s welcome news no…
In a rugby sense, Rennie will have his hands full. His entire repertoire of people skills are going to be required to cajole the p…
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