Welcome back peeps after some IT issues last week which stopped me from publishing my worthless drivel. I hope you all had a safe and enjoyable pagan festival and a happy new year. Much to look forward to this year with the Soap dodgers touring and the Super Rugby season whatever that looks like going […]

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Dust off the boots, because The Dropped Kick-Off is back in 2022. This week, Nick, Natho and Jack sit down to talk about their rugby resolutions we'd like to see for Australian rugby this year!

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Welcome back peeps after some IT issues last week which stopped me from publishing my worthless drivel. I hope you all had a safe and enjoyable pagan festival and a happy new year. Much to look forward to this year with the Soap dodgers touring and the Super Rugby season whatever that looks like going […]

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Wednesday’s Rugby News sees Beale circling the Tahs for 2023, Welsh hard-case Jamie Roberts join the Tahs for 2022, 39-year-old Matt Giteau to play on in 2022 for the Los Angeles Giltinis and two Super Rugby pre-season matches axed due to Covid. Beale eyes 2023 Waratahs season Pravda reports that Waratahs coach Darren Coleman is […]

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Welcome to another week of GAG news, folks! I trust your livers have recovered sufficiently for the upcoming 6 Nations, soon to be followed by the inaugural Super Rugby Pacific! This week, we’ll have my preview of the Six Nations and how team are likely to go, the referee appointments for the matches, some Sevens […]

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Not the Hoss starting this year. Thought I’d also add a Referee Corner piece so see how it goes. NZ Assigns Referees to Super Teams A referee has been assigned to each of the five NZ franchises this year and will train alongside the team. The referee assigned to the team will not officiate any […]

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Wednesday’s Rugby News sees Aussies set to rule the 2022 Six Nations, Wallaroos establishing their culture, Japanese foreign vs domestic talent issues and Pommy updates. Australians to referee Six Nations Damon Murphy, Nic Berry, Angus Gardner and Brett Cronan been appointed to the 2022 Guinness Six Nations in Europe according to Pravda. Joining a team […]

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Tuesday’s rugby news looks at, Australia’s sevens squad for Spain, and big changes for Ballymore. Sevens Squads 28 lucky Aussies are off to Spain for the Malaga and Seville legs of the World Sevens Tour. The Aussie Women’s Sevens will look to claim their third-consecutive Sevens World Series title for the second time, last achieving […]

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Welcome back to Monday’s Rugby News, GAGRs! I must say that the return to the column has definitely snuck up on me. Here I was thinking I had another week or so… then the reality hit! I’ve posted a bit early as I’m prone to waking up on a Monday and completely forgetting my responsibilities… […]

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The referee occupies a unique position on the field. Tasked with managing the game, and let’s be fair; without the referee no game would be played, by law he has the right to make any decision in accordance with the laws of the game. The law that gives him this right (6,5.a) also requires him/her […]

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Hello Cobbers, Well we have arrived at the penultimate point in this mendacious meandering about the rugby field and the folk we may meet on it. And in this instance, penultimate is a well-suited word. Most folk think penultimate means peak, or the pinnacle, or something similar to reaching the top. They are to be […]

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Hello Cobbers, For a few weeks now I’ve been updating my concoction of caboodled connotation and curlicue, tac-welded together from my 5 odd decades of lies, deceit and lucky escapes playing the wonderful game in some odd spots around the world. And, oddly enough, through that time & space I’ve listened to many of the […]

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Hiya Cobbers In this round of Rugby Positions Revisited I am focusing on No11’s & 14 – the Wingers – and their contribution to our wonderful game. It is too easy, some may say obtuse or droll, to insist Wingers contribute nothing. Facta non verba, even though numbers 11 & 14 are officially listed by […]

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Hey Cobbers, So here we are, continuing the ambling continuum of a Prop pondering the Pixies and meandering among the inexplicable. Today we consider the First-Five, Five-Eight, Fly-Half, Outside-Half… or the guy tagged with any one of a plethora of other nonsensical terms, that when conjoined mean even less than one of a single anything. […]

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This little Prop just could not sleep, because his thoughts were way too deep. His mind had gone out for a stroll and fallen down the rabbit hole… Continuing the discourse of the folk we meet when charging down the street with your local rugby team, today we discuss the Half, also known as Scrum-Half, […]

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Hail Well Met Cobbers, Again we continue the anti-climactic meandering by the never-was-so-can’t-be-a-has-been in attempting to explain the personalities that inhabit the average mud-luvin rugby team around the world. And today we are turning to discuss the enigma closing out the back row, tailing the rear of the lineout and locking the back of the […]

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Hey Cobbers, And so the revisionist journey of rugby positions, and the folk who stereotypically inhabit them, continues… This time we contemplate the numbers 6&7. Originally called Wing-Forwards, the denizens of the 6&7 jerseys developed a complex about being conjoined in name with Backs. And so they approached the Rugby Illuminati and agitated for a […]

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Hey Cobbers, For those with lives and thereby not paying attention to recent posts, and are now wondering WTF this is all about, well during our mutual festival of rolling Corona-meets-Christmas shut-down I’m revisiting, plagarising and updating my previous observations on the various attributes of the folk one may meet on the a-typical rugby park. […]

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Hello Cobbers, Last post, we rediscovered the resident pontificators of the whole show; Props. Now we split the difference and chat about the glue holding The Row together – the ubiquitous No2. Hanging between the twin philosophers of 1 & 3, the bearer of the no2 – The Hooker – is the undisputed scary weirdo […]

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Hello Cobbers. Some years back I reflected on the types of folk I have met playing rugby. So in our annual dead-spot, amid thrice-re-booked Covid weddings, betwixt Office Christmas and/or New Years parties and before pre-season comes to spoil the parties, I thought to dust those assessments off, freshen them up a little and stick […]

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