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JG's Round-Up
Our undercover man’s weekly round up of news from around the rugby world, this week featuring: Springboks Captain Fan...
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Deep dives on the modern game from The Rugby Site's contributors and coaches.
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How the All Blacks are becoming a typical Dave Rennie team on exit counters
Current New Zealand supremo Dave Rennie has brought the same principles to the running of the All Blacks that he espoused in the Waikato ...
Set Piece
Is the new maul law working out as intended?
A minor, apparently trivial change can trigger an unforeseen set of consequences within the same system, and a major chain reaction furth...
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Reason's Round-Up
Our resident journo’s weekly round up of news from around the rugby world, this week featuring: Johnson’s decisions, ...
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Pitch Size Matters
Can someone please tell me why there is a maximum pitch size but no minimum size. In recent years both the Osprey and...
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Reason’s Round-Up
Our resident journo’s weekly round up of news from around the rugby world, this week featuring: Shane William’s belie...
Leadership & Management
The Four Basics
In this short video by All Black Captain Richie McCaw he describes the four simple things he thinks he needs to do we...
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The Best in the World
It’s always interesting to select a World XV heading into a World Cup and then see how much it might have changed by ...
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Reason’s Round-Up
Our resident journo’s weekly round up of news from around the rugby world, this week featuring: USA looses key World ...
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What's bugging Wayne Smith?
Laws that promote negative play make a lot of coaches want to throw rugby’s rulemakers under the deck of a scrummage ...
Leadership & Management
Alignment
Language changes over time and one of the new buzz words in the All Blacks coaching set-up is ‘alignment’. Once upon ...
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The Red Rose in Black?
You have probably heard that the RFU have announced that England’s ‘away strip’ for the Rugby World Cup will be ‘all ...
Leadership & Management
Leadership
There is no point in trying to be a captain if you are not worth your place in the side. Maybe once a century, someon...
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Where did the All Blacks go so horribly wrong?
24 years and counting – that is how long it is since the world’s greatest rugby side has won the World Cup. Surely th...
