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.
The All Blacks, as they’re constructed now, aren’t good enough to win the next World Cup. They need new players and new ideas.
The Black Ferns seem a shadow of the team that won the last Rugby World Cup, our secondary schools’ team just got tipped over by…
You wonder if Beauden Barrett will ever own the All Blacks at a Rugby World Cup. They should have been his team in 2019. Probably …
But, really and truly, much of the match would’ve been a sobering experience for fans on both sides of the Tasman.
In that period between 1998 and 2002, when Australia were last Bledisloe Cup holders, the games were often phenomenal
They weren’t manhandled at the breakdown or annihilated in the set pieces. Far from it, in fact. The All Blacks’ pack performe…
The All Blacks, having excelled in the touch footy that suffices for Super Rugby these days, they remain completely ill equipped t…
I just think a siege mentality will be sufficient to see the All Blacks rise to the sort of level we’ve seen so infrequently in …
As we plot a path towards the 2027 Rugby World Cup, I remain unconvinced New Zealand will veer away from players.
You could be forgiven for thinking New Zealand sent a bunch of boys out on a man’s errand, against Argentina in Wellington.
So I’m encouraged that the All Blacks are having a look at Plummer. How much he plays - if ever - remains to be seen.
Mains basically said new All Blacks coach Scott Robertson is exceptional, that the players are already emotionally invested in the…
It will be nice to see him play for Moana Pasifika next year - albeit on All Blacks-managed minutes - but then he’s back off to …
I can’t say the performances of the All Blacks, nor the utterances of their attack coach Leon MacDonald, have filled me with eno…
I think the All Blacks should beat England’s rugby team by 20 points, in Auckland on Saturday night. Just as I thought they woul…
It’s not until the All Blacks meet the Springboks in South Africa in September that we’ll be able to judge if this coaching gr…
We’re so short of locks that there ought not be any questions about his place in the side, as there always was with Sam Cane. Ba…
But that doesn’t diminish the fact that putting All Black interests over and above every other facet of rugby has not served New…
The decline of trust in the media won’t have been arrested by the recent ambushing and vilification of Crusaders coach Rob Penne…
Either way, if the NZR chief executive can’t rally the provincial delegates, then what place does he have running the outfit at …
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