By Paul Williams Why can’t our southern hemisphere coaches coach the southern hemisphere way? We, in the northern hemisphere, want to play rugby like the southern hemisphere. The quality of…
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Wales: Five things we learnt v France
The wonder of winning ugly, Mr Consistent Taulupe Faletau and areas for Wales to address
Wales: Five things we learnt v Scotland
The dilemma of winning v progressing Despite beating Scotland by 27-23, Wales find themselves in a difficult and rather weird position. They are winning, but maybe not progressing as the…
Six Nations: Five things we learnt about Wales
The most ‘drawy’ draw, in the history of draws. Ireland 16 – Wales 16. You would think that those numbers alone would adequately define a draw. 16 – 16 would…
Five talking points from rugby in January
The Rio dream, not as easy as some thought. January saw Sonny Bill Williams make his debut for the New Zealand Sevens team in Wellington. Despite being part of the…
Five things we learnt about rugby – December
Tepid Bath Bath lie eighth in the Aviva Premiership with a squad that could and should be league contenders. This is a club that splashes the cash like Michael Jackson…
Five talking points from November
Jonah Lomu – the man who changed rugby November saw the passing of the most devastatingly effective player in the history of rugby union – Jonah Lomu. Never has there…
Five talking points from the last month in rugby
Burgess – one bad decision led to dozens more A single decision dictated the entire outcome of Sam Burgess’ career in union – was he a back or a forward?…
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
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,…