A last look at the World Cup. Superb memories. The Final What a fantastic game. The All Blacks played with flair and imagination. Australia doing their damndest to stay in the game. It will forever be Dan Carter’s final, though. So calm and composed in the Aussie fightback, tackling his way to the top of … Read more
This is amazing. SBW gives his medal away to a young boy who’d run on to the field. Watch Messam give his hat away too and Uncle Steve gives him a hug. Brings tears to the eye.
via GIPHY Six incredible rugby filled weeks have boiled down to this. Seemingly the greatest final there could have been as the two best teams before the tournament began have made it to Twickenham. So who’s going to win? In the spirit of the AB Enquirer, we have to go for The ABs. Australia are … Read more
STOP Burger Win the breakdown Be first to the ball Don’t drop our passes No scrums Take our catches (looking at you K Read) Get the ball to Mulder Sculley and Julian Put pressure on du Preez so he can’t kick us round the park Ben at the Back catch every ball and join into … Read more
What’s red and green and croaks?A frog invited to the quarter final of the RWC. Having chosen to try this game, the ABs turned up and sliced, diced, cut, hacked, smashed, and eviscerated the Frogs in a worldwide first, the live vivisection of a rugby team. Superb stuff and you couldn’t take your eyes off … Read more
Our final game in Pool C was against Tonga and as follows every game we’ve played so far in this tournament was a very difficult watch. While there’s no doubt that the teams outside the top 10 have improved hugely since the previous word cup, that doesn’t explain the highly elevated amount unforced errors. We … Read more
For most of this game it was 22-10. Despite not looking like scoring at all, Georgia hung tough, played hard, tackled their lives out and generally upset our rhythm and balance. 18 handling errors says it all, after we threw hospital pass after hospital pass through the backs and the forwards couldn’t catch a cold. … Read more
1 min – early pressure from Argies as they kick to Savea’s corner.2 min – holding in the ruck allows us to clear our lines. Dan smashes it upfield. All good.3 min – peno from Wayne Barnes. Dan should be able to slot this. But I’ve seen him miss from in front before, so we’ll … Read more
Here’s the second part of the Ultimate Guide to the Rugby World Cup. Read and enjoy. Pool C OUR POOL – plus some other blokes. New Zealand– Talent all round the field of course and decent results (42 of 47 tests won) in the intervening years between world cups. The hiccup against the Aussies in Sydney … Read more
Here’s the first part of the guide to the Rugby World Cup. With just days to go, you would have thought this would have been completed a month ago, but well you know, stuff to do and things. First up, let’s do a run-down of the teams in Pools A and B and how The … Read more