Forget the power merchants. Forget those who tell you the only way to win matches is by brute force. That is the long and winding route to oblivion for the game of rugby. Speed, and more accurately speed of thought, kills. Six of the nine teams to have won a World Cup have been based […]
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Forget the power merchants. Forget those who tell you the only way to win matches is by brute force. That is the long and winding route to oblivion for the game of rugby.
Speed, and more accurately speed of thought, kills. Six of the nine teams to have won a World Cup have been based squarely on it. A seventh – South Africa in 2007 – hired it on their coaching staff in the form of Eddie Jones, just before the tournament began. They had the on-field brain they needed, with Fourie du Preez a world-leading intellect at scrumhalf.
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It’s taken but 35 seconds for the Highlanders to serve up a reality check for Australia’s Super Rugby hopefuls in a crushing win over the Queensland Reds in the Trans-Tasman tournament opener in Dunedin. Triumphant over the Brumbies only six days ago in a thrilling Super Rugby AU final, the Reds came crashing back to […]