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Last ride for RaboDirect 23 Aug 2013 | 07:51 pm
THIS SEASON is the last the Pro12 will have the title sponsor, RaboDirect. The bank have opted not to renew its sponsorship contract with the league, meaning that just as the Celtic and Italian teams ...
Diary of a new academy recruit in NZ – Part Three 23 Aug 2013 | 07:24 pm
SINCE MY last blog on my stay at the Inside Running Academy, a huge amount of things have happened in a very short amount of time: finals, gym sessions, tough fitness, friends coming and going, and a ...
England’s back-row headache for Stuart Lancaster 23 Aug 2013 | 04:47 pm
By Alan Dymock IT’S NOT long until the Aviva Premiership season starts and we’ve only just stopped nursing our British and Irish Lions hangovers. However, with the start of the domestic season come re...
Top 14: Clash of the big spenders with Toulon v Racing 22 Aug 2013 | 10:11 pm
By Alan Dymock AS CLASHES go, Toulon versus Racing Metro draws more attention that John McCririck’s wardrobe. The two superstar-stables do battle in the second round of France’s Top 14 this Friday, wi...
Rugby Championship: Minimal changes for Round 2 22 Aug 2013 | 03:52 pm
By Alan Dymock AS INEVITABLE as the front of the newspapers showing flaxen-haired teenage girls jumping for joy on school-results day, the big guns have made almost no changes for Round 2 of the Rugby...
Top 14: Toulouse coach going the way of the Gunners 20 Aug 2013 | 07:32 pm
By Gavin Mortimer IF THERE’S one man who knows how Arsene Wenger is feeling this week it’s Toulouse coach Guy Noves. Like the Arsenal manager, Noves ended Saturday afternoon with a furrowed brow and a...
RWC2015: Canada in driving seat heading into decider with USA 20 Aug 2013 | 04:54 pm
By Alan Dymock INSURMOUNTABLE IT ain’t, but the USA Eagles have a tough task ahead, overcoming the odds and qualifying outright for Rugby World Cup 2015 after losing 27-9 to Canada in the first leg of...
Beware the return of Juan Smith 20 Aug 2013 | 03:17 pm
By Alan Dymock AS RUGBY becomes more competitive, more sponsor-driven, more about the trophies than the humans involved, there is a chance that some folk could get chewed up and spat out. Folk so in l...
Rugby Championship: fly-half Injuries change All Blacks 20 Aug 2013 | 02:11 pm
By Alan Dymock THE AUSSIES have bombed the conveyer belt. After the Wallabies bumbled and bled during the Bledisloe massacre, falling 47-29 to the All Black in Sydney, they can at least comfort themse...
Rugby Championship: What the locals are saying before Round 1 16 Aug 2013 | 08:08 pm
By Alan Dymock AS OUTSIDERS we can analyse and chirp and break down what we can of the Rugby Championship from our cosy hemisphere, perhaps tainted by a little bit of northern bias. So how about some ...
