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Congratulations to Warren Gatland & Leigh Halfpenny

Warren Gatland named ‘Coach of the Year’ and Leigh Halfpenny finished 2nd at the Sports Personality of the Year awards

Coming Soon - Eric Rush: 7s Defence

Eric Rush demonstrates how to build a defensive structure for 7s, from scratch.

Europe's loss will cause England pain

Could the English club’s desire to secure their long-term future have jeopardised long-term future of the game in England?

Kicking Clever

The All Blacks’ have developed kicking skills throughout their backline which allow them to exploit any space or mismatch. Mark Reason discusses how Rugby League’s influence is setting the standard the ABs are following faster than any other union side.

Hemispheres Apart

Hallers says that the Northern Hemisphere teams still lack the attacking skill to make the World Cup final

Five lessons from the autumn internationals

As the dust settles on the end of year internationals, Graham Jenkins reflects on what the latest inter-hemisphere clashes have taught us

Looking for Mismatches

Murray Kinsella admired the way Quade Cooper and Israel Folau found the weak link in Scotland’s defence and says vision can be taught

Coming soon - Eric Rush: 7s Conditioning

7s legend, Eric Rush takes a 30min conditioning session which will make sure you hurt on the grass and not the scoreboard

Begorrah

A curious incident at the end of the Ireland v New Zealand match saw Aaron Cruden get two goes at his final kick. Was Nigel Owens’ involvement in this incident a decisive factor in determining the outcome of this match?

2013 - the year of the All Blacks

Ireland pushed the All Blacks as close as anyone has in 2013 but the ABs weren’t to be denied their piece of history.

Quade Cooper responds to some love

Ewen McKenzie says that Quade Cooper is an enigma who should be cherished

Trust

The All Blacks trust each other implicitly, while the English showed that they still lack that instinct. Mark Reason writes that this was one of the key factors which determined the outcome on Saturday at Twickenham.