If Australia losing is good for international rugby league, then today was a great day. The Kiwis didn’t just beat the Kangaroos, they thrashed them, outplaying and outenthusing the world champions en route to a 30-0 victory in Waikato. It was the final that the… Read More »Madge-ic: Maguire’s masterclass helps Kiwis inflict record defeat on battered Kangaroos
Afghanistan skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi dedicated their win to the plight of his nation’s millions of refugees after they kept their hopes of qualifying for the World Cup semi-finals alive after beating the Netherlands by seven wickets in a low-scoring group game. The victory on Friday… Read More »‘My family is in pain’: The refugee tragedy driving Afghanistan to glory as World Cup semis beckon after defeating Dutch
From Tasmania to Twickenham, it’s been open season on Eddie Jones this week as the rugby family has piled in to lambast the man who presided over Australia’s great World Cup calamity. In Britain, old sparring partner Clive Woodward slammed Jones’s “pathetic” comments after quitting… Read More »‘Who cares?’: Eddie has no regrets about Wallabies disaster but takes swipes at RA and media
With the Finals over and the November 1 contract deadline passed, we can officially declare the NRL’s silly season open. Into the morass of gossip and conjecture, we will bring sanity, with the relaunch of Smart Signings, our dissection of where clubs are weak, what… Read More »Smart Signings: Fonua-Blake is leaving the Warriors – but it might open a path for them to get even better
It’s the kind of thing players say when they’re down to the last motivational trick in the kitbag and Joe Root was clearly clutching at straws by claiming England were a better team than Australia. With the Stuart Broad as chief protagonist era officially over,… Read More »How about no, Joe: Any way you look at it, this all talk, no action England team not ‘man for man’ better than Aussies