Lee Coan wrote this article.
The NSW Waratahs managed to make the finals of Super Rugby again, but with the form they showed in their first two and last two games of the regular season, 2011 will go down as another season of lost opportunity. Let’s not forget they gave the 2011 Super Rugby […]
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2011 Super Rugby NSW Waratah Player of the Year
July 14th, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: Sitaleki Timani · tatafu polota-nau · David Dennis · Super Rugby · Dave Dennis · Phil Waugh · benn robinson · kurtley beale · rugby · NSW waratahs · luke burgess · drew mitchell · review
2011 Super Rugby NSW Waratahs Player of the Year
July 14th, 2011 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
The NSW Waratahs managed to make the finals of Super Rugby again, but with the form they showed in their first two and last two games of the regular season, 2011 will go down as another season of lost opportunity. Let’s not forget they gave the 2011 Super Rugby […]
Tags: Sitaleki Timani · tatafu polota-nau · David Dennis · Super Rugby · Dave Dennis · Phil Waugh · benn robinson · kurtley beale · rugby · NSW waratahs · luke burgess · drew mitchell · review
Dwyer’s View: Aussie teams off pace, but squad firming
May 1st, 2011 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
All five Aussie franchises played in the Super Rugby tournament on the weekend and only one of the five had a win – and that against another Aussie team! Not a very reassuring thought, perhaps, but there were still plenty of positives to be taken.
For a start, Berrick […]
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Super Rugby Round 3 Review
March 8th, 2011 · No Comments
MrTimms wrote this article.
Round 3 of the 2011 Super Rugby season was a tough one for Australian Rugby fans. OK, fine, the Reds won. But it was at the expense of the Brumbies and the game was hardly one to showcase all that is great about rugby. Meanwhile… the Tahs? Smashed. Rebels? Smashed. […]
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Super Rugby Round Two Review
February 28th, 2011 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
Round Two of Super Rugby, 2011 style, saw two more local derbies for the Aussie teams. The first was an emotional last minute win by the Rebels over the Brumbies, whilst the second was a clinical take down of the Reds by the increasingly impressive Waratahs. So to the […]
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Welcome to first grade son. Tahs v Rebels Match Review.
February 18th, 2011 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
The Melbourne Rabble, sorry Rebels, have started their season in the worst way possible – a 43-0 drubbing at the hands of the Waratahs.
Not a happy return to Super Rugby
Before I get too carried away with the Rebels, let me first speak of the Tahs. Wow. What a holistically […]
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G&GR Wallaby Player of the Year: Domestic Test Series
December 12th, 2010 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
As we say adieu to the Wallaby season following our massive win over France, we can start to look back at the year and reflect. Looking at our win percentage alone, we’re getting better. In 2009 we could only manage six wins from our fourteen tests. This year we […]
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Wallaby Player Ratings v. France (Paris)
November 29th, 2010 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
For the second year in a row the Wallabies have ended their season with an absolute ball-tearer. Last year it was in Cardiff when the George Smith–David Pocock double act blew the Welsh out of the water. This year it was in the city of love, and these Wallabies […]
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Wallaby Player Ratings v England (Twickers)
November 14th, 2010 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
I wish I was rating the Pommies. I’d find it a hell of a lot easier. A couple of 9s on the wing, another at scrumhalf and a few in the pack. Throw in some 8’s in the midfield and at the back, as well as on the side […]
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Hong Kong Phooey – bugger all changes to Wallabies
October 27th, 2010 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
Robbie Deans has steered clear of any dramatic changes to his Wallaby side to take on the All Blacks in yet another Bledisloe dead rubber this weekend. There are two solitary changes to the team that were run down by the All Blacks in their last encounter. Drew Mitchell, who missed […]
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Do we know them….yet? An ARC retrospective.
October 19th, 2010 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
With the Tri-Nations over, and the domestic competitions finished, Australian Rugby is left with a notable gap in the market. A fact obvious by the complete lack of content in the papers at the moment. Hell, even we here at Green and Gold Rugby have slowed down a little. […]
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Do we know them….yet? An ARC retrospective.
October 19th, 2010 · No Comments
Austin wrote this article.
With the Tri-Nations over, and the domestic competitions finished, Australian Rugby is left with a notable gap in the market. A fact obvious by the complete lack of content in the papers at the moment. Hell, even we here at Green and Gold Rugby have slowed down a little. There’s […]
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Analysis: Quick Ruck Ball and the Wallaby Halfbacks
September 23rd, 2010 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
Good defence relies on a number of aspects, not the least of which is maintaining a good structure with all defenders moving together and no defenders getting isolated. Maintaining a good structure relies on players quickly realigning each phase so that the attacking team doesn’t achieve an advantage in numbers.
The […]
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TN8 Statistics: Wallabies v Springboks
September 7th, 2010 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
What a game! Absolute dominance by the Wallabies in the majority of the first half and then it all turned around with the Springboks taking control for most of the second half until the Wallabies found a way to come back.
Whilst I’ve seen comments that both sides played […]
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The politics of rugby
August 17th, 2010 · No Comments
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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