We all love a good contest when there’s silverware on the line. but there are times when one team is simply too good. In the 2009 super rugby decider at Loftus, the bulls blew away the Chiefs 61-17. but even that demo job was not as devastating...
seventy years on, the memories of the much-hyped boks tour of new Zealand are visceral and vivid for Phil Gifford. In 1956, the rest of the world was riveted by the loss of british control over the Suez Canal. In Melbourne, they were...
The late All blacks loosie’s name lives on in a scholarship at his alma mater st peter’s College in Auckland. Dylan Mika was a leader. Not a vociferous, tub-thumping leader, but a quiet leader who led by example on the field, and carried mana...
Campbell Burnes examines why the humble dropped goal is now an endangered species of scoring. When researching this feature, my first thought for the heading was: A Dying ART? In the end, I didn’t bother with the question mark. Dropping a...