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“If Isa Was Irish”
Isa Nacewa has been selected to play his 100th game for Leinster tomorrow in the Pro12 semi-final against Glasgow. The story goes a little bit like this: “If Isa Nacewa had never been called off the...
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NZ Training Squad: Young Guns and Old Guard
Steve Hansen, NZ head coach: he’s been around the set-up for a long time, and he has previous experience as an international head coach with Wales. With so much emphasis on the All Blacks winning their...
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Match Reaction: New Zealand 42 – 10 Ireland
Israel Dagg didn’t bag a hat-trick of tries, but he was just as damaging to Irish hopes. His much-anticipated match-up with Rob Kearney was a blow-out. Ireland started their three test series against...
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New Zealand 22 – 19 Ireland: Match Reaction #1
Ireland’s tempo and intensity was where it needed to be, but the team didn’t show much cutting edge out wide. There’s room for improvement as to how we play once we have the ball. While this was a very...
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Match Reaction #2: Absent Friends
O’Connell and Heaslip: how’s about you do your job, and I do my job? It’s strange to say that somebody who’s only winning his second cap could teach somebody who has been to three World Cups and two...
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Match Reaction #3: Another One For The Reel Of Infamy
Andy Dufresne and lovely Rita. “Me? My lawyer fucked me. Everybody’s innocent in here. Didn’t you know that?” As Declan Kidney said in the aftermath, you can only control what you can control. It’s no...
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Match Preview: Ireland vs New Zealand @ Hamilton
Steve Hansen was right: New Zealand didn’t play that well in the Christchurch test. Some of that was forced on them by an aggressive, hard-nosed Irish performance, but they also made a number of...
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Losing Your Linchpin
Sure, there are a lot of moving parts in a team and they all have to do their job, but some are more vital than others. Many moons ago, when the Mole was a nipper and student transport offered only two...
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The Big 46 [Sic] Pt.2 – Then Everything Is Wrapped Up In A Neat Little Package
The idea that test matches are a neat block of matches played at one level, with Heineken Cup games forming another distinct grouping a step down from that in intensity, speed, skill levels,...
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What’s Wrong With The Wallabies? Pt.1
Robbie Deans, the former New Zealand international and current head coach of the Wallabies. It’s all his fault, apparently … except it isn’t. When Robbie ‘Dingo’ Deans announced that he’d crossed the...
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