Based on the media response to the Sevens loss at Hong Kong, there is a collective sense of failure at the results.
The Herald made a particular point of noting that it’s been five rounds without a victory:
It means they will go without success for a fifth time in the series, leaving them with a huge [...]
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Based on the number of searches about Bendan Telfer, there’s a lot of interest in the man’s health which I’m sure is appreciated by his nearest and dearest.
As is often the case, events like this bring out raw emotions and quite clearly The Telferman is acknowledged for the contribution he makes to sport, regardless of [...]
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It’s back to the future for the Warriors after last night’s shellacking at the hands of the Broncos.
It wasn’t just the loss, but the size of the loss playing at home.
The Broncos embarassed the Warriors at home and it’s been a long time since that happened.
The deja va feeling all around Mt Smart (and most [...]
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From news reports it looks like the Maori-Boks game is back on.
On the sporting front, what could be better than the Boks fronting up to the Maori challenge at Soweto* in a 120,000 seater stadium.
The original problem was that the South African teams were not allowed to play against teams selected on racial grounds.
The solution [...]
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OK, I put my hand up and say I had a bit of fun at Jesse Ryder’s expense.
You could say I took the piss out of a pisshead.
You call also call the Jesse’s had a reputation for having a bit of fun too.
Regardless of the past, it clear that right now he is happy to [...]
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We finally have confirmation that Michael Witt is leaving the Warriors to play rugger for Otago.
There’s a number of quite intriguing aspects to this.
For a start, while the Oz rugby union have been very active in raping and pillaging the ranks of rugby league, the NZRFU has shown little or no interest in trying to [...]
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Just checked and I’ve been a little slack on the Ryan Nelsen watch front.
When we last had a look, Blackburn were struggling in the relegation zone, admittedly with a game in hand.
Since then, it has been a real battle, not just for Blackburn. While Blackburn haven’t been losing lots of games, they haven’t been winning [...]
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Been a while since we checked in our Toulon’s top man, Tana.
It looks like Toulon have been ticking all the right boxes in recent weeks and have stormed to fourth. Fourth from the bottom.
Still it sure beats being bottom two and the other big news is the $BW has signed on for more and has [...]
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Willie Lose was last week doing his best to deflect the positives from the first week of the NRL by throwing out a line about the Warriors not being a development club.
According to the gospel of Willie, the main purpose of the Warriors was to provide opportunities for local players.
And in fairness, there are currently [...]
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Another weekend and the Titanic aka NZ rugby charges further into iceberg territory.
On the one hand, we have the Super 14. A sample of some of the “highlights”:
4000 yellow cards are dished out at the Hurricanes game (OK, it was only 4 yellow and one red card but you’d be excused for losing count)
for the [...]
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