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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By Peter FitzSimons, Sydney Morning Herald Ah, can’t you just feel the excitement? That wondrous buzz – coast to coast, to all ships at sea, and across the five continents – that a great sporting champion is about to make his long-awaited return to the main arena? Don’t we all just tingle with excitement, knowing
By Lucille Keen and Vanessa Desloire, BOSS AFR Paul Roos I think there is a trust component to meditation: you just have to trust that it works. It’s not like if you run, then you can time yourself, 10 seconds better around the Tan [Track in Melbourne’s Botanic Gardens] today, or you go on a
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By Matthew Burke, The Sun-Herald Given the task of building a championship team, there is one simple question: do you load up on good players or do you use some of the cash to fork out for a top coach? Do good players make the coach or the coach make good players? My opinion varied
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By Peter FitzSimons, Sydney Morning Herald Let’s have a look at other times in the history of sport, when the home team, in no less than a World Cup, has gone down by a margin where their opponent has scored SEVEN times the number of points/goals/tries than they have. No, I can’t think of any