Auckland’s decision to move Roger Tuivasa-Sheck onto the wing last weekend against Taranaki has not gone down too well with former All Black John Kirwan. After initially being named at No12, the 29-year-old started in the No14 jersey in Auckland’s 38-24 win, to which Kirwan said on The Breakdown this week that it must be down to […]
Bragging rights were shared among brothers Henry and George Bell this week, as while George’s Canterbury triumphed over Henry’s Otago at Forsyth Barr Stadium, Henry won the personal battle between the two. The 23-year-old Otago hooker, Henry, started in the No2 shirt on Saturday, and got a chance to go head to head with his […]
The last few months have seen a rise in tries scored by players that pulled up with injuries, and we have now seen the dangerous result of those tries. We first saw it in the NRL in July when the Sydney Roosters’ Joey Manu pulled up with what looked to be a calf injury, only […]
North Otago’s Ben McCarthy deserves a medal for having superhuman levels of concentration after managing to slot a touchline conversion on Saturday, all while a naked man ran in front of him. The streaker ran right in front of his line of vision as he took the final kick of the match, but that did […]
