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Two Aussies, three games - a beer fuelled roadtrip through New Zealand provincial rugby
On the final weekend of the provincial rugby season, two footy mad boys from the heart of Brisvegas came to New Zealand. It was the best four days of the rugby year.
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@kiwimurph saw that on Twitter this morning, cool story!
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@mn5 said in Good Rugby Reads:
@mikedogz said in Good Rugby Reads:
Sounds like there were two Mac McCallions. The guy in the herald article looks too nice to be the former counties coach.
Yep definitely a different bloke. Amazing coincidence though.
Turns out the other guy is Wayne McCallion, his brother.
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Excellent book, one of the (if not the) best rugby book I've read.
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@nzzp said in Good Rugby Reads:
Sumo Stevenson is rapidly becoming my favourite sports writer and commentator. What a top bloke. Just go and read this
48 hours drinking with rugby’s greatest losers
Scotty Stevenson spent the weekend in the company of rugby players who'd just been on the receiving end of heartbreaking losses, and he loved every minute of it.
Superb. Cheers.
That is awesome , I would love to do that.
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Interview with referee Angus Gardner
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Not rugby but cool all the same
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@crucial said in Good Rugby Reads:
<p>I'll put this one here as well from another thread.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/international/gordon-d-arcy-burgess-is-blunder-that-could-bury-england-1.2371821'>http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/international/gordon-d-arcy-burgess-is-blunder-that-could-bury-england-1.2371821</a></p>
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<p>Gordon D'Arcy's view on the Burgess experiment</p> -
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@jegga this is particularly true of most sports clubs these days, not least the bar take was always a huge part in keeping the places running.
Not so much of an issue in the cities where public transport or carpooling is an option.
You can’t ignore the fact that alcohol plays a big part in proceedings. You can’t deny the fact, also, that attitudes to, and more specifically policing of, drink-driving laws has torn away at the social tissue that connected rural rugby clubs to the wider community.
During the centenary celebrations, Dean Cup stalwart David Walter wrote: “In earlier days the drinking ritual was manly and mandatory, smoking was almost compulsory and drink-driving was a highly recommended activity. Panelbeaters got quite a surge of winter activity following a Dean Cup challenge.”
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Two good articles from Rugbypass:
'All I ever wanted to do was be an All Black. And then it all gets taken away'
Suncorp Stadium was teeming on 13 May 2012, but slumped deep in the innards of the ground, Richard Kahui had never felt more alone.
'When I was skinny as a rake, I wasn't very filled out so everyone would want a fight with you if you were in a nightclub'
It's 7 years since giant-like Dominic Bird was last capped by the All Blacks but he is now performing to the peak of his powers at Racing.
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'I couldn't see myself ever going back': How New Zealand Rugby nearly lost its next big star to the NRL
Jacob Ratumaitavuki-Kneepkens hardly let the ink on his final high school exam dry before his professional rugby career took off, but it could have taken a drastically different turn had an NRL club had its way.
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@Stargazer
Have to wonder how many high level school-aged players are lost to NRL and forgotten by most of the rugby community. -
@mofitzy_ said in Good Rugby Reads:
@Stargazer
Have to wonder how many high level school-aged players are lost to NRL and forgotten by most of the rugby community.There's only so many places in SR and ITM squads, so heaps I'd imagine
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@mofitzy_ said in Good Rugby Reads:
Have to wonder how many high level school-aged players are lost to NRL and forgotten by most of the rugby community.
Here's a recent example:
A World in Conflict: The Global Battle for Rugby Supremacy: Geoff Parkes: 9781925635744: Amazon.com: Books
Deadspin | Blackhawks Play 36-Year-Old Local Accountant As Emergency Goalie
Dean Cup
