Philanthropy award of the World Cup – Sonny Bill Williams Good old Sonny Bill. In a career where he has been accused of putting his own ambitions before the team,…
Wales
Skinstad: Boks have reasons for optimism
Even though the Springboks bowed out in heroic, agonising circumstances to the All Blacks in the World Cup semi-final last weekend, their 2007 World Cup winning backrow, Bobby Skinstad, says…
Wales v South Africa: Five things we learnt
The work-rate of Sam Warburton, the ability of Dan Biggar, solid scrums and lots of whistleblowing feature in this Wales analysis
World Cup 2015: South Africa 23 – 19 Wales
A 74th-minute try from veteran scrum-half and skipper Fourie du Preez took South Africa into the semi-finals of the World Cup and broke Welsh hearts, as, until then, Sam Warburton‘s…
Joel Stransky backs HITZ and the Springboks
Joel Stransky knows a thing or two about winning the Rugby World Cup and the former South Africa fly-half believes Wales’ quest to do exactly that will end this weekend
Fourie du Preez – the comeback king
Of course, the fact that du Preez has the talent to play in the latter stages of a World Cup is not in question – he won the thing in…
World Cup 2015: Who makes our Team of the Pool Stage?
15 Ben Smith (New Zealand) Japan’s Ayumu Goromaru went close but how can you not go with this immensely likeable All Black? Smith has made eight clean breaks from his…
Wales v Australia – Five things we learnt
It is possible to play well, and lose Rugby is a notoriously complicated game. Yet with laws that sometimes require the use of IBM’s ‘Deep Blue’ computer to decode them,…
World Cup 2015: Wales 6-15 Australia
The first-half was cagey with penalties being trades by both sides, before Dan Biggar had his first miss of the tournament late on in the half to leave the Wallabies,…
Warren Gatland backs Stuart Lancaster after ‘media assassination’
Warren Gatland has shown his support to his embattled England counterpart Stuart Lancaster, saying the coach as been through an ‘assassination by the media’. A number of journalists and former…