Super Rugby Pacific
Opinion
Hurricanes vs Blues takes: Canes' pack puffed out, Godfrey NZ's best 10
The Blues earned their first win of the season in Wellington on Saturday night, finding their way past the Hurricanes with a 69th-…
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Opinion
Super Rugby Pacific
Opinion
Waratahs vs Drua takes: Tahs missed Suaalii, Drua’s season in the balance
The NSW Waratahs have beaten the Fijian Drua 29-24 to keep their unbeaten start to the Super Rugby Pacific season alive.
'No-nonsense' heroes square up for Six Nations-defining tussle in Dublin
Peter O'Mahony and Francois Cros play brilliantly effective if somewhat unheralded roles for Ireland and France.
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'Wales' challenge now is to make the effort against Ireland their default setting’
Two more big Six Nations displays might yet send Wales into the summer feeling the worst is behind them.
Super Rugby Pacific
Opinion
Super Rugby Fantasy round three: Must-haves and avoids
As you can change all 15 of your players for each week this season, here are some more “Must haves” and “Avoids” for your …
Super Rugby Pacific
Opinion
Don't get out over your skis on the Highlanders
It’s heartening, for example, to see the Highlanders have won a game this season. Even if that result says more about the team t…
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Does a crowd have the right to boo their team if they're not being entertained?
When Alex Mitchell lofted another kick into the heavens, the Twickenham crowd groaned. Do they have a right to complain about the …
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Six Nations
Opinion
The thing that irritates Nick Mallett about Italian rugby
The former Azzurri head coach was left aghast at Italy's 73-24 capitulation at home to the French in Rome last Sunday.
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PWR
Opinion
Local rivalries set to be reignited in thrilling PWR play-offs
While the regular season might be finished for Premiership Women’s Rugby, with Gloucester-Hartpury sat atop the table, the bigge…
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Super Rugby Pacific
Opinion
It's not clear what the Force will get out of signing Leon MacDonald
I’m delighted Leon MacDonald has got himself a job. I’m just not sure what’s in it for the Western Force, at this stage.
Regrets, a renaissance and a rout
Round Three of the Six Nations delivered in spades as Wales looked reborn, France put on a show and England laboured to an unlikel…
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Six Nations
Opinion
Three England A players knocking on the door of a Six Nations call-up
England find themselves in a strange position heading into the final two rounds of the Guinness Six Nations.
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