Well, to steal a quote from Mrs Hoss on my birthday: ‘thank fudge that’s over’. Today let’s confine the past to the past & free ourselves of the depressing shadow of that match featuring those sea faring mammals & a group of underperforming marsupials. It’s time to turn our attention to the future with ‘The [...]

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Hey Cobbers! Konnichiwa & Talofa and all that. Welcome ye all to this Pool D clash between the Bureibu Burossamuzu (Brave Blossoms) of Nippon and Manu of Samoa. Before the Samoan’s give their Siva Tau and we rip into the 18th installment of this Pacific rivalry, some background is always useful for context… History: Rugby [...]

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Preview Good Morning GAGRs, Reds and Wallabies Fan here, helping out as a guest writer for the World Cup. It’s been a tough week as a Wallabies fan, and plenty has been said/spoken about the Wallabies performance and the decline of a great rugby nation.   So I think that the best way to get [...]

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Happy Thursday Comrades. Welcome to the first week of the rebuild of Australian Rugby. Remember it is always darkest before the dawn. Either that of the light at the end of the tunnel is the oncoming train. As always this is a fan run site and any contribution is always welcome feel free to reach [...]

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When you’ve been knocked down and out, what do you do? You pick yourself up. On Australian rugby’s darkest day, Nick W and Natho come together to discuss the Wallabies loss to Wales and forthcoming departure from the World Cup.  We are joined by GAGR legend and writer of the Chewsday Chew, Nutta, for an [...]

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Good morning fellow GAGRs it’s midweek, time to put last weeks disappointments behind us, or if you’re Eloise the successes, and look forward to what the weekend will bring. Yes things seem bad, but I woke up and got out of bed without falling over, the sun came up and life goes on. Now I’m [...]

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Apparently comparisons are being drawn between the France team of 2019 and Australia of 2023 in terms of youth. No doubt with the inference of “and look where France are now, serious contenders to win their home World Cup.” I want to thank AllyOz for doing a lot of the heavy lifting with collecting the [...]

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It is with great pleasure we post the following opinion piece from G&GR stalwart, legend and frustrated Rugby Fan, Mr Huw Cavill. Take it away Huw Opinion. ‘There’s an old saying that people like to roll out at times like this: the night is always darkest before the dawn. But I’m here to tell you [...]

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Hello Cobbers, I write this in the aftermath of our 40-6 humiliation by Wales in RWC-2023 to officially make this Bill our worst on record. And while part of me is heartbroken, part of me knew this day was coming. In-fact, part of me WANTED us to be sent home from the pools as I [...]

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Well well well! Here we go now. And no this isn’t a jump on the sack Eddie bandwagon article because we lost the Wales game! Most of you GAGRs will know that I am no fan of Hamish or Eddie and his appointment. As evidenced by here and here! No this is Bris coming off [...]

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Please rank your top 5 Australian players in a 5-4-3-2-1 format for the Australia v Wales game. Voting closes 11:59pm Tuesday 26th September. Results will be announced shortly after.

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Live Chat. Monday, September 25: Wales v Australia, OL Stadium, Lyon (5:00 AM) Wales (15-1): Liam Williams, Louis Rees-Zammit, George North, Nick Tompkins, Josh Adams, Dan Biggar, Gareth Davies, Taulupe Daletau, Jac Morgan (c), Aaron Wainwright, Adam Beard, Will Rowlands, Tomas Francis, Ryan Elias, Gareth Thomas Replacements: Elliot Dee, Corey Domachowski,  Henry Thomas, Dafydd Jenkins, Taine Basham, Tomos [...]

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The Match Game starts with the usual pleasantries. Scotland come out well against an energetic Tongan team. Both teams did well in the early exchanges. While the Tongans made some thunderous hits in the first half the they ultimately missed 23 first half tackles which allowed the slick Scottish backline more space than afforded by [...]

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Well happy Monday GAGRs and what an exciting Round Three of RWC. Some great matches out of this round, and potentially we saw a preview of the World Cup grand final. Also, some massive injury news could greatly affect the hosts’ chances. A couple of cricket-score-type games balanced out a few of the nail-biters, to [...]

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Another early morning report from your Tasweigian correspondent. I get all the plum jobs. Hardly a surprise but it’s all change for the SDs with the majority of the A team rested in anticipation of a much tougher encounter next weekend against Samoa. Owen ‘de milo’ Farrell  comes back in at 10 and leads the [...]

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The Match First Half Georgia came into this match as formidable veterans with a brutal scrum. Portugal had never won a Rugby World Cup game or beaten Georgia. At 1:12 Georgian winger Akaki Tabutsadze opens the scoring with a cracking TRY off the back of some keep-the-ball-alive play. ჩვენ აქ არ ვართ ობობებთან სექსით is [...]

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Anyone with even the remotest interest in Pool B would have pencilled in this clash some time ago: defending World Champs and all-round enforcers the Springboks up against the No. 1 ranked side and arguable tournament favourites Ireland. Both came into the match having earned two wins apiece, with Ireland edging the Boks into the [...]

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Sunday, September 24: South Africa v Ireland, Stade de France, Paris (5:00 AM) South Africa (15-1): Damian Willemse,; Kurt-Lee Arendse, Jesse Kriel, Damian De Allende, Cheslin Kolbe; Manie Libbok, Faf de Klerk; Jasper Wiese, Pieter-Steph Du Toit, Siya Kolisi (capt); Franco Mostert, Eben Etzebeth; Frans Malherbe, Bongi Mbonambi, Steven Kitshoff Replacements: Deon Fourie, Ox Nche, Trevor Nyakane, [...]

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The Preview Hiya Cobbers, Welcome aboard for a southern hemisphere extravaganza of aggression and big hits as the world-ranked 10th Falkland Island Silver Medallists (FISM – Argentina) meet world-ranked 11th Manu Samoa in this Pool D fixture at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard in Saint Étienne. The pea is to be blown at 1745hrs local (0145hrs Saturday [...]

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A review of today’s game between France and Namibia in the Rugby World Cup. Team News France have reverted to the big guns for this match, although Aldritt had a knock to his knee in training and is replaced by Jelonch. Nutta’s prejudices aside, this is hardly a step-down in quality. Baille and Danty also [...]

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