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Quade Cooper? Quade Cooper! Quade! Bloody! Cooper! Well, how about that. Starting in the ten in Sunday’s Test match, dear old Quade Cooper. Insert Zimmer frame gag here. Or don’t. And revel in it. And gawk through splayed fingers at the possibilities, good and ill. For there was a time Cooper was the funkiest, hot-stepping […]

After the Trans-Tasman wake-up call, Scott Robertson lamented the gulf between NZ and Aussie rugby. That casts the mind back to Rassie Erasmus’ acceptance speech as world coach of the 2019 season when his biggest compliment was to the ten-year All Blacks legacy under Steve Hansen. He said everybody aspires to compete and match the […]

Merciless attack on "pensioner" Alun Wyn Jones and his squad of "nobodies" while coach Warren Gatland also cops a blast.

Rugby: South African and Irish media slam Warren Gatland's Lions squad as rivalry heats up 11 May, 2021 02:30 AM 4 minutes to read Crusaders glory, Kiwi Supercar driver takes 1st place and all the weekend’s results in 90 seconds. Video / NZ Herald Crusaders glory, Kiwi Supercar driver takes 1st place and all the weekend’s results in 90 seconds. Video / NZ Herald NZ Herald The rivalry between the British and Irish Lions and South Africa is heating up ahead of the Lions' tour next month, with one South African rugby writer suggesting Warren Gatland's team is "a joke". Gatland announced his ...

It’s time referees step up to the hot seat By Opinion By Mark Keohane CAPE TOWN - England rugby coach Eddie Jones refused to answer the question about referee Pascal Gauzere’s obviously incorrect decisions that resulted in two Welsh tries. England had lost and Jones said that if he answered the question he would be fined and he still wanted to put food on the table for his wife and food in the bowl for his dog. He may have been joking about not having enough in the bank to feed his family and pet but he wasn’t joking about the fine.