The Anatomy of a Try: Jonny May vs Australia October 2019 Pt 2
Oct21

The Anatomy of a Try: Jonny May vs Australia October 2019 Pt 2

Much of the talk before this England Australia game was around the midfield, England opting for a starting 10-12-13 of Farrell, Tuilagi and Slade. Australia opting for Lealiifano, Kerevi and Petaia.Part of Englands decision was to nullify Kerevi (and Petaia) but there was never much in the way of deception around how England would in turn play, it was about going forward both in attack and defence, brute forcing the Australians.Of the...

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Anatomy of A Try: Jonny May vs Australia October 2019
Oct20

Anatomy of A Try: Jonny May vs Australia October 2019

As Australia found out knock out Rugby is a cruel mistress. You can have all the ball, try to play all the rugby. But if you aren’t accurate, don’t put the points on the board when they are on offer. Well, then you simply aren’t giving yourself much of a chance, are you? Knock out Rugby changes peoples mentality. The temptation is to play 100mph for 80 minutes with the intention of blowing your opponents out of the water. But the...

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The Anatomy of a Try: Marika Koroibete – Australia vs Fiji
Sep21

The Anatomy of a Try: Marika Koroibete – Australia vs Fiji

This years World Cup has got off to a scintillating start.  Argentina and France battered each other for 80 minutes, scoring a bunch of brilliant tries along the way.  Russia were certainly no push over for a strong Japanese side in the opening game and Fiji nearly caused the upset of the tournament by running Australia closer than the score suggests (yes, I know there’d only been one game at the time but even so). Fitness was...

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Anatomy of a Try – Nick Cummins vs Australia November 2014
Nov04

Anatomy of a Try – Nick Cummins vs Australia November 2014

#458236394 / gettyimages.com The Wallabies vs Barbarians game was always going to be a game that could have gone either way – dire or great. Thankfully this was an occasion were both teams took the Barbarians ethos to heart and slung it about. How much we read into the Australian team from this is still to be determined, it was far from test match Rugby, but two Australian players that stood out for me on the day were...

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