TDBA Podcast Season Two Episode Two – The Autum Internationals
Nov14

TDBA Podcast Season Two Episode Two – The Autum Internationals

This time around I give my thoughts on the Autumn Internationals: Order of discussion is: France vs NZ Ireland vs SA England vs Argentina Wales vs Australia Scotland vs Samoa ** few issues with the audio due to me recording this in bed recovering from surgery – all explained in the...

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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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The Anatomy of a Try – Bernard Foley vs ACT Brumbies July 2014
Jul28

The Anatomy of a Try – Bernard Foley vs ACT Brumbies July 2014

The Waratahs have featured quite heavily in our The Anatomy of a Try section. Folau and Beale (in a Wallabies jersey) have both touched down, and this week it's the turn of Bernard Foley. I'm a big fan of Foley, he is a talented footballer who played and captained the Australian 7's on the 2010/11 IRB World Sevens circuit. He's a classic Australian 10 sporting a great running and passing game, bags of guts and is...

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The Anatomy of a Try – Kurtley Beale Australia vs France June 2014
Jul04

The Anatomy of a Try – Kurtley Beale Australia vs France June 2014

There have been some fantastic tries scored over the course of the June Tests, Ben Smiths length of the field counter is a real favourite, but two that really caught my attention were Nick Cummins and Kurtley Beales tries in the first Australia vs France tests. The Beale try particularly stands out for me for a number of reasons. The first Beales excellent pass and then his support running, but also the fact that all the dummy runners...

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