Lee Coan wrote this article.
Joe Hockey, a real tight-head
Over the last month I have watched both the Wallabies and our politicians with dismay. It seems that certain characteristics and frailties that some of our rugby players have, our politicians also share – and vice versa.
It occurred to me one night the career trajectories […]
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The politics of rugby
August 17th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: david pocock · dean mumm · Humour · Misc · drew mitchell · berrick barnes · bob dwyer · luke burgess · rugby
Wallabies v All Blacks Preview: Champs or Chumps?
July 29th, 2010 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
Has his work cut out
You can build all you like but there comes a time when you have to stand and deliver. Now is that time.
The Wallabies did deliver in Brisbane against a misfiring Springbok side who had been twice beaten up by the All Blacks in the previous […]
Tags: lote tuqiri · bob dwyer · rugby · tri-nations · Wallabies · south africa · All Blacks
A RWC Wallaby Retrospective: 1995 vs 2011!
July 8th, 2010 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
Where were we in 94:
The Boks had the Hollywood ending.
Even though the IRB rankings didn’t really come into effect until somewhere around 2003, if you apply the same formula historically, as Pick and Go does so well, you will find something rather surprising. Australia was ranked the #1 […]
Tags: al baxter · michael foley · george gregan · Phil Waugh · david nucifora · pat howard · stirling mortlock · ewen mckenzie · rugby · matt burke · john eales · bob dwyer · Fiji
Deans to date: the case for and against
June 22nd, 2010 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
No doubt sparked by the deja vu of a splintered scrum and loss to the Poms, questions are starting to be asked about Robbie Deans as coach, probably more than at any other time during his reign.
It’s a complex and emotive issue, so we thought we’d bring a couple […]
Tags: alan jones · bob dwyer · robbie deans · rugby · Eddie Jones · tri-nations · Wallabies
Melbourne Messiah and The Virgin Mary
January 16th, 2010 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
The Messiah or just a naughty little boy?
The national media have been fawning all over Rod McQueen’s appointment as the new Super 15 Melbourne Rebel’s dual-hatted Head Coach/Director of Coaching like it was The Return of the King.
This soft focus coverage has glossed over a couple of obvious facts […]
Tags: act brumbies · melbourne · British & Irish Lions · Rod McQueen · NSW waratahs · bob dwyer · Eddie Jones · rugby · Super 14 · Wallabies
Video: Wallabies Attack v Scotland
November 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
There’s been lot’s of discussion about what’s going wrong with the Wallabies attack. This video looks at a few examples that, not surprisingly, confirms what has been said on this site over the last few days.
Click here to view the embedded video.
Running The Wrong Angles
Clip 1 – From turnover ball […]
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Experts: Wallabies Grand Slam predictions
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
GREEN AND GOLD RUGBY EXCLUSIVE
It’s been 25 years since we last had a crack at a Grand Slam (why?) and won it. So can Australia do it again with the current Wallabies mob? G&GR talked to a number of Aussie rugby experts, and here’s what they came up with:
Lote […]
Tags: mongrel · bob dwyer · Northern hemisphere · grand slam · peter hewat · lote tuqiri · tri-nations · England · Wales · Wallabies · Scotland · Ireland
Learning to deal with Deans
December 12th, 2007 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article. With the appointment of Robbie Deans as the next Wallaby coach drawing inexorably closer, the reality of having a Kiwi calling the shots for the Aussie team doesn’t seem quite so bad. Amongst all the windbagging that’s gone on throughout the coach selection process, three opinions of late have […]
Tags: bob dwyer · john eales · mat rogers · wallabies coach · robbie deans