All Blacks’ slow starts make Lions favourites for the first Test
A few weeks ago I wrote that the first Test of the Lions tour of New Zealand was the tourists’ to lose. My main reason being that the All Blacks are slow starters to their season. To back up my gut...
View ArticleThe Maori All Blacks boast the world’s second-best backline
The Maori All Blacks side has just been named and glancing over the players it’s clear that any international team would kill for similar quality in the backs. While the Maori may struggle slightly...
View ArticleSonny Bill Williams: Sinner or saint?
Sonny Bill Williams is one of the most polarising athletes on the planet. Most people have an opinion about him and it’s usually either love him or hate him, there’s very little middle ground. In New...
View ArticleIs New Zealand really obsessed with rugby?
It is supposedly a fact that New Zealand is obsessed with rugby. We see it written and talked about as an undisputed fact, on any and every rugby forum. In a week when the All Blacks have lost, and the...
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The ‘lift and hangover’ effect: how RWC history is stacked towards chaos at...
The year is 1987. France play Australia in a Rugby World Cup semi-final and lift themselves to an epic win. A week later, they are heavily beaten by New Zealand in the final. The year is 1999. France...
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Rugby’s obsession with rewarding staid and mundane over creative and...
In the most spectacular moment of Saturday’s Super Rugby Pacific Final, Damian McKenzie sprinted in to take the ball on the full from a lineout, weaved at pace between two defenders and passed to his...
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