Tag Archives: Robbie Deans

Tri-Nations Guest Post: ”If You Want to Run With the Big Dogs, You Have to Lift Your Leg”

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Guest Post

If the Springboks’ two heavy defeats in New Zealand gave their ‘bonkers’ coach Peter de Villiers cause to believe his team were the victims of some form of conspiracy, their third consecutive Tri-nations defeat, this time to the unfancied Wallabies … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: Stayin’ Alive

Posted on September 7, 2009 by Duncan

Thanks to an astonishing form turnaround from the Wallabies, and the familiar traveling woes of the Boks, the All Blacks find themselves in a position where, despite their own struggles this year, they are still in contention to win the … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: The Cavalry Arrives (Too Late?)

Posted on August 29, 2009 by Duncan

It was a win born of necessity, rather than of the All Blacks’ tactical and physical supremacy, but in the context of this year’s Tri-Nations, it will just about do, and the obvious glee with which Graham Henry greeted the … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: Dance of the Desperates

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Duncan

This week’s Bledisloe showdown in Sydney is shaping up as a huge matchup, in which a number of reputations may be salvaged or irreparably damaged – not least of which those of head coaches Graham Henry and Robbie Deans. Both … Continue reading →

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Tr-Nations 2009: Only McCaw Can Save Us Now

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Guest Post

The Iveco series came and went with much gnashing of teeth from the Great New Zealand Rugby Public. Stephen Donald was hung, drawn and quartered for the grievous sin of not being Dan Carter (one wonders how his Mum might … Continue reading →

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