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After last weekend’s entre of Super Rugby action from South Africa, we eat the first main course of the season with sevens matches televised live around the world. The first match of the season in Bloemfontein between last year’s fifth…
Super Rugby 2014 – Week 1 Preview
The long and ‘agonising’ wait is finally over as Super Rugby returns this weekend with a taste test of two matches coming to us live from South Africa. Over the next six months, the biggest, fastest, most skilful and exciting…
Super Rugby Preview 2014
The long, painstaking wait of the southern hemisphere rugby offseason is almost over with the 2014 Investec Super Rugby season beginning this weekend with two matches coming live to us from South Africa. As The Profits resident rugby union writer,…
RBS 6 Nations 2014 Week 2 Preview
After a mixed bag of matches last weekend, the RBS 6 Nations is well underway with Wales, France and Ireland gaining the early momentum. Heading into round one, I wasn’t overly excited with all six teams only scoring 35 tries…
RBS 6 Nations 2014 Preview
After two months break, International Test match rugby returns this weekend when the superpowers of northern hemisphere rugby clash in this year’s RBS 6 Nations. Wales are the reigning champions and having won the 2012 tournament as well, they will…
Autumn Internationals – Week 5 Preview
The 2013 International rugby season will come to a close this weekend with Wales hosting Australia in Cardiff and Twickenham will see running rugby at its best when the Barbarians face the flying Fijians. Last weekend, the Springbok brick wall…
Rugby Autumn Internationals Week 4
This weekend marks the end of the 2013 season for a number of teams with only Wales to play Australia and the flying Fijians to take on a star-studded Barbarians outfit next week at Twickenham in London. Last week got…
Autumn Internationals – Week 3
480 minutes of hard-hitting international rugby was played last weekend and the gap between the southern and northern hemispheres was once again exposed as Australia, New Zealand and South Africa all claimed victories over Italy, France and Wales respectively. This…
Autumn Internationals – Week 2 Preview
The Autumn Internationals are in full swing this weekend with six matches to preview between the northern and southern hemispheres. Last weekend, an experimental New Zealand ran in eight tries in a scrappy match in Tokyo to beat Japan…
Autumn Internationals – Week 1 Preview
The international rugby season winds down this month with a number of pulsating fixtures involving both tier one and tier two nations. The Autumn Internationals kick off this weekend with three fixtures when the almost unbeatable All Blacks travel to…