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Super Rugby 2012 - Round 12 NZ Teams

May 13th, 2012 · No Comments

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Tags: super 15 · ruggerblogger infographic · Super Rugby 2012 · chiefs · highlanders · blues · hurricanes · crusaders

Preview: Reds give A Faingaa to the Blues

April 26th, 2012 · No Comments

Brumby Jack wrote this article.
Anthony Faingaa is back! I’ve been hearing the rumours for days but I wasn’t getting my hopes up until I saw his name on an official team list. Well the QRU media release just hit my inbox and there he is at 22. The Starch in the Reds defencive […]

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Tags: Anthony Faingaa · tony woodcock · Super Rugby · Provincial Rugby · Blues V. Reds · digby ioane · craig joubert · rugby · preview · beau robinson · queensland reds · super 15 · Eden Park

Kiwi Super Franchises

February 9th, 2012 · No Comments

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz wrote this article.  Let’s be honest: the New Zealand Super teams are made up entities. They were constructed out of thin air, mashed together from provincial catchment areas in 1996, to allow true professional rugby to run free across the land. In doing SANZAR created a top tier of domestic rugby where the […]

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Tags: Super Rugby 2012 · super 15 · New Zealand

Rugby Advertising 101

December 8th, 2010 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
How good was the rugby this season? The new laws made the rucks cleaner without losing the contest for possession and as a result we saw more quick ball, more breaks, more tries and less pointless kicking. All in all I’d say our on-field product is as good as […]

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Tags: Misc · super 15 · rugby advertising · advertising · ARU · rugby · Super 14 · Wallabies

2011 Super 15 Draw Released

September 12th, 2010 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
The new Super 15 Competition will kick off on the weekend of Friday 18 February in 2011 and feature a host of innovations to provide the ultimate goal of more rugby content!
The highly anticipated new draw was released today by SANZAR and features a number of adaptations to […]

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Tags: melbourne · super 15 · qld reds · Melbourne Rebels · act brumbies · NSW waratahs · Super 14 · western force · queensland reds · rugby

The Best of the S14 in 2010 (Aussie-centric)

May 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
Yeah ok so there is still a week to go in the Super 14 season but this site is about content. So this is as good a time as any to look back on the season that was and check in on ten of the real highlights, from […]

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Tags: scott staniforth · quade cooper · drew mitchell · super 15 · Phil Waugh · julian huxley · digby ioane · peter hynes · ben alexander · george smith · western force · kurtley beale · Super 14 · queensland reds · NSW waratahs · rob horne · act brumbies · rugby

At my signal, unleash hell!

March 8th, 2010 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
So were the inspirational words spoken by Russel Crowe as Maximus, one of cinema’s greatest ‘Rebels’, in the Oscar winning moving “Gladiator”.  Rod McQueen could hardly be confused for Crowe, nor a Gladiator, and it would be unfair to suggest that he had ever planned to ‘unleash hell’ on […]

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Tags: david pocock · super 15 · richard brown · scott Higginbotham · ezra taylor · christian lealiifano · will genia · stephen hoiles · wycliffe palu · adam freier · mark gasnier · richard kingi · hugh mcmeniman · peter hynes · digby ioane · morgan turinui · john mitchell · stirling mortlock · beau robinson · berrick barnes · Super 14 · ewen mckenzie · matt giteau · cameron shepherd · melbourne · mark chisholm · benn robinson · peter kimlin · nathan sharpe · james horwill · drew mitchell · rocky elsom

All that glitters is not gold in new SANZAR deal

December 21st, 2009 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
Reports have surfaced that the much awaited SANZAR broadcast deal post 2010 is set to be announced in the coming weeks with three SANZAR nations to receive roughly $US100M each over the five year term of the deal. This figure excludes broadcast rights to both the NPC and Currie Cup […]

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Tags: Super 14 · super 15 · rugby · tri-nations · Wallabies · south africa · All Blacks

Ooo Ahh, it’s KooGa

December 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
KooGa; a better brand than TiiGa
After last week’s successful launch of the Reds new kit, Australian sportswear manufacturer KooGa have scored another big name with the Brumbies releasing their new KooGa designed kit today in Canberra.  When you add to this the company also recently announced it had teamed […]

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Tags: Misc · super 15 · kooga · melbourne · act brumbies · rugby · queensland reds · Wallabies

Exclusive: Melbourne S15 bid document

November 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
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Tags: super 15 · melbourne · rugby

Melbourne Rebels Super 15: Recruitment

October 6th, 2009 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
Brent Cockbain Melbourne's John Wellborn?
The good news for the proposed Melbourne Rebels Super 15 franchise is that the two main parties, VicSuper15 and the VRU Rebels, have formed a partnership and the third is now sniffing around looking for an opportunity to participate.
This is now happening […]

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Tags: chris whitaker · Greg Somerville · super 15 · george gregan · scott staniforth · brock james · craig gower · sam cordingley · toutai kefu · peter hewat · hugh mcmeniman · digby ioane · michael cheika · john mitchell · robbie deans · laurie fisher · john muggleton · rugby · Stephen Larkham · david lyons · Jake White · pat howard · australia A · stirling mortlock · dan vickerman · chris latham · Mark Gerrard

J’ON: evil genius, or very evil genius?

May 20th, 2009 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article. Well, it looks like the negotiation tactics as outlined in My Week - By John O’Neill, have worked a fucken treat. With all the kerfuffle over the SANZAR negotiations, I kept re-reading the Super 15 outcome thinking “So where’s the Aussie compromise”? Answer: there isn’t one, as long as […]

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Tags: Super 14 · sanzar · super 15 · john o'neill · rugby · Wallabies · south africa · All Blacks

JO’N: evil genius, or very evil genius?

May 20th, 2009 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article. Well, it looks like the negotiation tactics as outlined in My Week - By John O’Neill, have worked a fucken treat. With all the kerfuffle over the SANZAR negotiations, I kept re-reading the Super 15 outcome thinking “So where’s the Aussie compromise”? Answer: there isn’t one, as long as […]

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Tags: Super 14 · sanzar · super 15 · john o'neill · rugby · Wallabies · south africa · All Blacks

JO’N: evil genius, or very evil genius?

May 20th, 2009 · No Comments

Gagger wrote this article. Well, it looks like the negotiation tactics as outlined in My Week - By John O’Neill, have worked a fucken treat. With all the kerfuffle over the SANZAR negotiations, I kept re-reading the Super 15 outcome thinking “So where’s the Aussie compromise”? Answer: there isn’t one, as long as you […]

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Tags: Super 14 · sanzar · super 15 · john o'neill · rugby · Wallabies · south africa · All Blacks