Hamish Bidwell
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3 weeks ago |
rugbypass.com | Hamish Bidwell
I won’t bore you by trying to explain the Super Rugby Pacific playoff system. I’ll just say that scheduling the Brumbies’ clash with the Hurricanes on Saturday night is about as peak Super Rugby as you can get. By the time those two teams meet in Canberra, the results of the preceding playoff matches might very well mean the Brumbies and Hurricanes have qualified for the semifinals regardless. I mean, there are occasions when you feel like watching Super Rugby is pointless.
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3 weeks ago |
theroar.com.au | Hamish Bidwell
For rugby in Australia to have relevance, it has to actually develop its own players. In my years observing the game, it would be a stretch to say Tim Horan was a pot-stirrer or an exaggerator. Horan’s comments always come across as measured, rather than hyperbolic. So if he as he did this week – is flying a kite about Penrith Panther Nathan Cleary potentially coming across to rugby, you have to take that statement seriously. Or at least try to.
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1 month ago |
theroar.com.au | Hamish Bidwell
I’m ready for the All Blacks’ season to start. Super Rugby Pacific is surely all over, bar the shouting. If the Chiefs don’t win, that’ll represent a monumental failure. As I look at the All Blacks, the first order of business ought to be the captaincy. It won’t be, obviously, because for all New Zealand Rugby’s huffing and puffing about diversity, they actually don’t have the stones to make Ardie Savea skipper. I’m not sure what it is that dissuades them. Perhaps Savea’s too much his own man.
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1 month ago |
rugbypass.com | Hamish Bidwell
mens super-rugby-pacific Copied to clipboard 0 You can’t dream it, if you can’t see it. With all due respect to Moana Pasifika, I doubt many aspiring professional rugby players have dreamed of pulling on their jersey. Until now, that is. The merit of having Moana Pasifika and the Fijian Drua in Super Rugby Pacific has never been in dispute. At least from my point of view.
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1 month ago |
theroar.com.au | Hamish Bidwell
The growth that rugby in New Zealand seeks won’t come from the women’s game. At least not for a decade or two. First XV schoolgirls’ rugby remains in its infancy, but will flourish over time. It’s at that point where we will see women’s rugby not only pay its way, but become a genuine revenue generator. So far, it seems that it’s individual schools, driven by the increasing demand of pupils, who are driving the development of the game at that level.
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