By Matthew Burke, Sun Herald Click on the Auckland website and and you will quickly learn the city’s catchcry is “The Show Never Stops”. That just about sums it up for teams when they take on the All Blacks at Eden Park. Next weekend the Wallabies will be the next team to attempt to scale […]
By Peter FitzSimons, Sydney Morning Herald The Bledisloe? I thought you’d never ask. As a matter of fact, I hoped you wouldn’t ask. But seeing as you have, let’s get to it. I predict, we’re going to lose, horribly. Disaster. CatastroFFe, with two ‘F’s for FAIL. It’ll end up 60-0 to them if we’re lucky,
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One of Australia’s greatest sporting triumphs will be re-lived this November when The Fordham Company orchestrates the 30th anniversary of the Australian Wallabies 1984 Grand Slam. The celebration lunch will be held on Friday, November 14, at The Westin Hotel in Sydney. Alan Jones, who coached the team to historic victories against England, Ireland, Wales
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By Matt Burke, The Sun Herald The time for hoping and wishing is over. This is the year the Wallabies can win back the Bledisloe Cup. In years gone by the Bledisloe series brought with it an air of hope, and sometimes desperation. This year presents itself differently. To hold aloft the Bledisloe Cup takes
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Peter FitzSimons revisits a story he wrote 20 years ago. By Peter FitzSimons, Sydney Morning Herald The ”Race of the Century” was 60 years ago on Thursday. But already we’re a little ahead of ourselves. For you see, a little over three months before that, our own great distance runner of the time, John Landy,
Article by Sydney Morning Herald Western Force skipper Matt Hodgson capped off an outstanding Super Rugby season by winning the franchise’s Nathan Sharpe Medal. Hodgson was the runaway winner of the best-and-fairest award, with his 343 votes easily eclipsing Ben McCalman (248), Sam Wykes (181), Dane Haylett-Petty (158) and Sias Ebersohn (144). The Nathan Sharpe
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By Peter FitzSimons, Sydney Morning Herald Be wewy wewy quiet. I’m hunting wabbits. Well, at the very least, hunting Crusaders here in Christchurch, the home city of the champion team just about to leave for our own Sydney Town for the final of the Super Rugby on Saturday night at the Olympic Stadium. As if
MELBOURNE has received some outstanding news on Monday, with Paul Roos committing to the club for a third year, meaning he will coach the Demons until the end of the 2016 season. Roos, who was appointed Melbourne coach on September 6 last year, initially agreed to a two-year deal, with an option for a third
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Western Force captain Matt Hodgson has been chosen in the 32-man Wallabies squad for the 2014 Rugby Championship. The squad, minus those players participating in the Super Rugby Final, will assemble on Sunday August 3 to begin the Qantas Wallabies’ week-long Bush2Bledisloe regional road trip across Dubbo, Orange, Bathurst and Penrith. Members of the Qantas
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By news.com.au IT’S 3.47am and a make-up free Sylvia Jeffreys is tearing through the Channel Nine carpark with wet hair and ugg boots. It’s pitch black outside and freezing cold. The Today host’s day has already started while most of us are still tucked up in bed deep asleep. But despite the fact that not even the
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