Watching the first three weeks of international rugby downunder it was great to see the French, Lions and Sth Africans use the mual. The ELVs by default had removed it from the game, now its back and good to see as an option of forward power. See blog villians for those that dont understand rugby [...]
What this blog prefers to happen in the NZ rugby world.
ELVs watered down – DONE !
SANZAR becomes NZAR – work in progress.
Super rugby is limited within the Asia Pacific time zone ( AU, NZ, Asia, Pacific) – work in progress.
No night rugby in NZ in June and July – hard rock to move !
No Rugby [...]
Ali Williams was suspended for 6 weeks after being found quilty of illegal rucking.
Rucking is deemed to risky for the attacking team due to the above consequence.
Extract: Law 16.3 Rucking
16.3 RUCKING
(a) Players in a ruck must endeavour to stay on their feet.
Penalty: Penalty Kick
(b) A player must not intentionally fall or kneel in a ruck. This is [...]
Laurie Mains, along with Wynne Gray (NZ Herald Senior Rugby Writer) have said it out loud “BRING BACK TRADITIONAL RUGBY RUCKING”…
Source: Laurie Mains in laws plea - Richard Knowler
THIS ARTICLE DESERVE A FULL REPRINT
A frustrated Laurie Mains has slammed rugby’s lawmakers and pleaded with them to stop changing the rules.
He also despaired that “PC crap” [...]
Source: Big calls needed over Super 14 impasse – Marc Hinton
Extracts..
New Zealand and Australia could split from South Africa, form a new alliance for franchise rugby, bring in Japan, possibly a presence in the Pacific Islands and start again with a blank canvas. Design the perfect season, with a heck of a lot less travel [...]
Wynne Gray – Senior NZ Herald Rugby scribe.
Source: Time to ditch SA from Super rugby – Wynne Gray
The words in this article are sourced from heaven. They should be placed on a stone tablet.
Excerpts
The tyranny of travel and time difference in this Super rugby series is one of its greatest downfalls while the seasonal [...]
Source: Republic threatens to split SANZAR- Greg Growden
SARFU says hands off Currie Cup! So will SANZAR split ?
Good on ya SARFU stick to your guns. NZRU and ARU may just find out how small and isolated they really are, this was a stark reality after I read this statement.
South Africa has retaliated by saying [...]
Source: Two-pool idea looms as plan B Tony Robson
Mr Tew on SANZAR future
“We’ve made it clear we respect their desires around the Currie Cup, but you are either in a joint venture or you’re not and you are prepared to make some compromises or you’re not.”
Source: ELVs make Super 14 a big turn-off: O’Sullivan – [...]
Source: O’Neill calls for end of ’sunscreen rugby’
O’Neill set off on Monday for a Sanzar board meeting in Dubai where he will bring up the heat issue and also move for an expanded competition.
“Personally, I think we start Super rugby too early and that’s one of the things on the agenda for the Sanzar [...]
*****I refer you to a post by Wynne in May 03, 2008.*****
Source NZHerald : Wynne Gray: Forget the world, let’s make it more interesting at home
Extract..
Let’s consider a few alternatives and start with the World Cup, which is not going to disappear. That event is scheduled quadrennially for September and October.
So in the other three years [...]
Source : South Africa ‘threatens’ to quit Super 14 – Neil Reid
I know for a fact the late and great John Drake would be pleased with this outcome, he would promote a true Australasian Cup. That would be 12 teams from NZ and 6 from Aussie going through 18 rounds of games with a 4 [...]
Source: Super-sized comp is at broadcasters’ mercy: O’Neill- Greg Growden
The ARU has no, zip, zero domestic competition that can get a TV audience. Therefore it must create one, that will compete with rugby league for advertising revenues and sponsorship, and all round media time.
NZRU and SFRU don’t have this problem, NZRU problem is however a small market, [...]
The ‘Mile High’ Stadium : Capacity 80,000, home to the AFL Denver Broncos.
Is this where the ABs will stave off recession concerns, [Note: the fact that the NZUSD is now $0.51 @ 20090205 so that the Adidas payments are twice as large]. But we must also consider the ARFU and they are in deep financial poo, [...]
The guy with his head in the sand is the NZ rugby loving public.
The good of 2008 for the ABs and NZRU.
The winning percentage
Andrew Hore, Conrad Smith, R McCaw
Jimmy Cowan showed us hes a stroppy little sh*t and wont back down, not ever !
NZRU will make a profit with out forex hedging tricks. Even though [...]
Q: One painting is by the famous artist Jackson Pollock, the other is by an elephant, one is claimed as a master piece, the other is not. Which is the master peice?
A: Here.
The divergence of spin with the view points of these painting is amazing, ranging from the fantastic art performance of Pollock to absolute ridicule for the elephant. To [...]
Why so gloomy.
Imagine a NZ economy where unemployment is over 8%, the housing market has fallen 30% and peoples disposal income as dried up. If you dont think the current credit crunch will get us there, then you havent read the latest RBNZ economic report.
With other rugby markets wanting our players, by paying good money and not the NZD [...]
Source: The British don’t understand rugby, and don’t understand the ELVs – Spiro Zavos
My Comments: I am not going to post the article here, but its typical of the claim and counter claim with no formula to target an end result, I mean the desired format for rugby union, a blueprint. This blog is about [...]
Rugby union is like chess and rugby league is like checkers.
Checkers is a game where the checker piece does the same thing.
Rugby league is a game where all the players do the same thing, they take the ball up, on the tackle they put the ball thru there legs and start again. Rugby league scrums are [...]