Warren Gatland has announced his inaugural team for the first warm up game of the tour. Sam Warburton will be assuming captaincy duties from the first whistle, as he has been given the nod to lead the way in the opener against the NZ Provincial Barbarians. It should come as no surprise that the majority …
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Take off for ‘suicidal’ Lions Tour
Later today 41 players from four different nations will board a plane from London to the other side of the world, down under to New Zealand, for the start of the Lions tour. Six intense weeks and ten grueling games await them, in a crazy schedule which has been derided by many pundits. The former …
State of Origin for Dummies
When I first got to Brisbane and wandered around the city centre one of the first things I noticed (besides the outrageous lack of kangaroos hopping around) was the amount of maroon plastered across everything. Bars, shops, billboards even buses are covered in the colour all promoting the Queensland Maroons. I'm a rugby union man …
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