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Short Arm. Short Shrift. Good Riddance.

December 26th, 2009 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
'No more experimentation Gareth'
There are not many occasions where I’d agree with Stephen Jones, The Times doyen of rugby writers, but this is one of them.
The ELV ’short arm’ sanctions were not adopted by the IRB this season after a vociferous campaign by the northern unions and journo fellow […]

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Tags: queensland reds · western force · Heineken Cup · Barbarians · NSW waratahs · act brumbies · Top 14 · British & Irish Lions · Northern hemisphere · melbourne · Super 14 · rugby · Japan · Italy · France · England · Argentina · All Blacks · south africa · Scotland · Wallabies · Wales · Ireland

G&GR Wallaby Tries of the Decade #4

December 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
Ahhh memories.
I am a bit of a believer in the Recency Factor when it comes to many things, but particularly when it comes to sporting memories. The Recency Factor is basically that you (or is it just I?) tend to overlook events or players that have happened more recently […]

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Tags: act brumbies · melbourne · NSW waratahs · queensland reds · Heineken Cup · western force · drew mitchell · Northern hemisphere · Adam Ashley-Cooper · Andrew Walker; Wallabies; Try; Springboks · Top 14 · British & Irish Lions · Misc · Barbarians · berrick barnes · Argentina · All Blacks · Japan · Italy · England · France · Wales · Wallabies · matt giteau · Super 14 · rugby · south africa · Scotland · Ireland

Wallaby Blind Side Flanker of the Decade

December 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
He was Samo player!
The Blind Side Flanker position has been an interesting one for Australia, not only over the last decade, but in the last few decades. Whereas we’ve usually gone for out and out poachers at Open Side; Strong running Number 8s; Ball playing inside centres, and big […]

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Tags: Northern hemisphere · Misc · Phil Waugh · British & Irish Lions · mark chisholm · peter kimlin · NSW waratahs · act brumbies · george smith · melbourne · Top 14 · richard brown · Mark Connors · Matt Cockbain · Owen Finegan · Radike Samo · John Roe · Daniel Heenan · dean mumm · hugh mcmeniman · toutai kefu · queensland reds · western force · All Blacks · Wales · Wallabies · Scotland · Argentina · Japan · Rugby World Cup · England · France · Italy · Eddie Jones · south africa · Super 14 · Barbarians · Heineken Cup · jim williams · david lyons · matt burke · tri-nations · rugby · rocky elsom · Ireland

Wallaby Open Side Flanker of the Decade

December 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
Pocock - the future or the now?
Wow. Only five players have worn the Number 7 Wallaby jersey in the last 123 tests.  That’s quite a record.  It is the same sort of record as scrum half and in both scenarios the position is dominated by a test centurion.
The list […]

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Tags: melbourne · Northern hemisphere · george smith · act brumbies · queensland reds · NSW waratahs · Misc · david pocock · David Wilson · David Croft. · Top 14 · British & Irish Lions · Phil Waugh · western force · Heineken Cup · Argentina · All Blacks · Japan · Italy · England · France · Wales · Wallabies · Super 14 · Barbarians · rugby · south africa · Scotland · Ireland

Video: Baa Baa’s black sheep shaggers

December 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
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Tags: Barbarians · All Blacks

Baa Baas Habana sinks arrogant All Blacks

December 6th, 2009 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
Line & length. Gladstone Small?
Barbarians 25 All Blacks 18
You get what you deserve when you treat a game like this as a ‘development’ match and turn up with your 2nd XV expecting to easily roll a scratch Baa Baas side.
It wasn’t always like this. The history of All Blacks […]

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Tags: andy powell · Corey Flynn · Stephen Donald · Justin Marshall · Rodney So'oialo · British & Irish Lions · jamie roberts · Anthony Boric · Mat Giteau · WP Nel · John Pullin · Jacques Fourie · Brian Habana · Gareth Edwards · Luke McAlister · Northern hemisphere · Richie McCaw · south africa · Wallabies · Wales · Italy · All Blacks · rugby · rocky elsom · drew mitchell · stephen moore · george smith · Barbarians · Victor Matfield · Schalk Burger · England

Wallabies vs Baa-Baas player ratings

June 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article. 1. Benn (two n’s) Robinson 7 - Didn’t show any of the flashy stuff he produced in the Super 14 but you get the feeling this wasn’t part of his brief for the game. The scrum looked good which is his job, he did it well
2. Squeaky Moore 8 […]

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Tags: Barbarians · rugby · Wallabies

Video: Wallabies vs BaaBaas

June 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article. Here’s an alternative version of the highlights from the weekend. All in all I thought it was a great start.
Yes, the BaaBaas were knackered, but as Phil Waugh said afterwards, the Wallabies  never really took the foot off the throat through the fantastic positional kicking from Gits, Barnes and […]

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Tags: video highlights · Barbarians · Wallabies

Video: SBW vs the Wallabies

June 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article. Following all the media hype, I was shocked to see that there was anyone else other than Sonny Boy Williams playing for the Baabaas on Saturday. Anyway, I managed to edit most of those other guys out and here’s the result:
How’d he do? Along with the rest of the […]

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Tags: sonny boy williams · sbw · video highlights · Barbarians · rugby · Wallabies

Wallabies vs BaaBaas Live Score

June 6th, 2009 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article. Live scoring and wanging on will start 7.15 AEST
Wallabies vs Barbarians live score & wanging on, SFS 2009
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Tags: live score · Barbarians · Wallabies

Video: Wallabies vs BaaBaas 1984

June 5th, 2009 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article. To whet the appetite for the game tomorrow even further, here’s something they showed on Foxsports’ The Rugby Club this week.
I too made a mazy run like Campo’s in a game of touch once, years ago. No joke.
A question - what’s the point of the forwards kneeling in the […]

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Tags: video highlights · Barbarians · Wallabies

The BaaBaa’s Unplugged

June 4th, 2009 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article. Some interesting facts about the Baa-Baa’s squad to play the Wallabies tomorrow.
1 - Clarke Dermody (New Zealand)
Clarke is from Southland stock. His grandad is the Southland’s highest capped player wtih 124 games played. His old man played 62, and Clarke has run out 91 times for Southland.
2 - Sebastien […]

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Tags: Justin Marshall · Martin Corry · Iain Balshaw · Greg Somerville · Glen Jackson · paul tito · Schalk Brits · Sonny Bill Williams · Serge Betsen · Seilala Mapusua · Sebastien Bruno · Geordan Murphy · Clarke Dermody · Chris Jack · rocky elsom · rugby · Jerry Collins · Barbarians · Luke McAlister · BJ Botha · Ben Blair · Phil Waugh · chris whitaker · Wallabies

The BaaBaa’s Unplugged

June 4th, 2009 · No Comments

Juan Cote wrote this article. Some interesting facts about the Baa-Baa’s squad to play the Wallabies tomorrow.
1 - Clarke Dermody (New Zealand)
Clarke is from Southland stock. His grandad is the Southland’s highest capped player wtih 124 games played. His old man played 62, and Clarke has run out 91 times for Southland.
2 - […]

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Tags: Justin Marshall · Martin Corry · Iain Balshaw · Greg Somerville · Glen Jackson · paul tito · Schalk Brits · Sonny Bill Williams · Serge Betsen · Seilala Mapusua · Sebastien Bruno · Geordan Murphy · Clarke Dermody · Chris Jack · rocky elsom · rugby · Jerry Collins · Barbarians · Luke McAlister · BJ Botha · Ben Blair · Phil Waugh · chris whitaker · Wallabies

Ask Bakkies - The moral outrage!

June 4th, 2009 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article. Dear Bakkies,
What a month I’ve had!
I’m the CEO of the national organisation for a certain football code on the east coast of Australia, and the media have created a number of mountains out of molehills recently. You’d think none of these journos had never had group sex in front […]

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Tags: ask bakkies · Misc · Barbarians · rugby

Wallabies vs Barbarians preview

June 4th, 2009 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article. Never has a game of rugby been more of a dress rehearsal for higher representative honours that this one. On both sides of the ledger there are players who have reason to go at the game with all the fury that only the motivation of being left out in […]

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Tags: Barbarians · rugby · Wallabies